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Parish Details for Oakford

Archdeaconry: Exeter
Deanery: Tiverton and Cullompton
Benefice: Washfield, Stoodleigh, Withleigh, Calverleigh, Oakford, Templeton, Loxbeare, Rackenford, and Cruwys Morchard
Mission Community: Exe Valley

Clergy in the parish

The Rev Steph GordonJeffs
Rector

The Rectory, Withleigh, Tiverton, EX16 8JQ
Tel: 01884 250417
Email The Rev Steph GordonJeffs

Churches in the parish

St. Peter (Parish Church)
Mid Devon
EX16 9ES

Parish officers

Churchwardens

Mrs Wendy Boynton
Tel: 01398 351383
Email Mrs Wendy Boynton

Mrs Dawn Williams
Tel: 01398 324035
Email Mrs Dawn Williams

PCC Secretary

Mrs Mary Elanie Shere
Tel: 01398 351154

PCC Treasurer

Mrs Wendy Boynton
Tel: 01398 351383
Email Mrs Wendy Boynton

Readers

Not listed

Silent hymns and hazard tape as Sunday services in church resume

Some churches in Devon have held their first services in their buildings since March following a change in the Government’s coronavirus guidance. At St Mary’s Church in Bickington, near Newton Abbot, people started arriving for the 9am Communion service half an hour before it started. Parishioner Michael Eveley said “We were ready for this,” and said it was a shame it would not be possible to sing hymns. Inside the historic church other changes included…

Ribbons of Remembrance

A church in Exeter has found a simple way to help people remember others and process some of the loss they might be feeling in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. St Thomas Church is encouraging people to tie a “ribbon of remembrance” on railings outside the church, which is on a main street in the centre of St Thomas. So far around 60 ribbons have been tied, some with messages or prayers written on…

Devon’s churches embrace weekend of weddings and worship

Churches in Devon are holding their first weddings and public services in their buildings since March, following a change in the government’s coronavirus guidance. From 4 July, weddings with up to 30 people present will be permitted. The Reverend Sue Astbury is conducting a wedding at St Nicholas Church in Shaldon on Saturday. “The signing of the register will go ahead but with extra precautions, for example hand sanitizer will be used on the pen…

Weddings and worship in Devon’s church buildings from 4 July

Church leaders in Devon have welcomed the news that services, including weddings, will be able to take place in church buildings from 4 July. But they have also said it would be wrong to “close the virtual door” to the growing number of people who have been attending online church services during lockdown by ceasing to produce them. The Government announced the changes to the rules for places of worship along with new guidance about…

Swapping Cream Teas and Cricket for Footie and Fried Rice

A pilot project in Plymouth aims to unify communities from different cultural backgrounds by sharing recipes, sport and life experiences. Food hampers and sports sets have been delivered across the city as part of the Unifying Plymouth initiative. Nigerian meal kits have been given to 25, mainly white, British families. They contain all the ingredients needed to make Dafa Duka (Nigerian Fried Rice), a recipe card and a magazine about Nigeria’s national sport, football. “If…

Online service to say thank you to the NHS
The Bishop of Crediton is leading an online service on Sunday 5 July to commemorate the 72nd anniversary of the NHS. The Service of Thanksgiving was filmed in the chaplaincy of the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital. It features contributions from NHS staff, including an Emergency Care Assistant from South Western Ambulance Service. There are reflections from former medics who worked in the NHS from its earliest days, including Henry Gossman, a former neurosurgeon who…
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Thy Kingdom Come Zoom Prayer Room is a Hit
The Reverend James Grier is a happy man. The Diocese of Exeter’s Mission Enabler had been worried that running a continuous 10-day, 24 hours a day prayer room on Zoom would be hard to get people to sign up to and he would end up doing the lonely overnight slots on his own. But in the end, the prayer room, which was part of the international Thy Kingdom Come prayer initiative, exceeded expectations. Over 500…
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