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Transforming Plymouth Together receives over £9,000 in lottery funding for Feast of Fun
Transforming Plymouth Together has been awarded £9,100 in ‘National Lottery Awards for All’ funding to support its work across Plymouth. The charity which is a joint venture between Church Urban Fund and the Diocese of Exeter works in Plymouth with the support of all the churches in the city to help tackle poverty. The Feast of Fun is a community initiative for families who find that during the summer holidays their budgets are stretched by…
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Helping the very young “start their journey of faith”
The Diocese of Exeter is pleased to announce that Clare Cooke has been appointed Mission Adviser for the Early Years (0-5) as part of our Mission and Ministry team. Clare, a former teacher and Deputy Head, is currently Vice Chair of Governors of a federation of schools. She also runs Budding Bishops, a parent and toddler group in her village where she is working to grow discipleship in this rural community. The Rev Preb. Philip…
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New role for man who inspired ‘can-do’ mission culture in Devon
Revd Barry Dugmore, the Diocese of Exeter’s Mission Enabler, is to take up an exciting new role as Archdeacon Missioner at the Diocese of Coventry. Barry has spent the last four years working with Devon’s clergy, lay leaders, congregations and mission communities to encourage confidence in sharing faith, growth in whole life discipleship, fresh expressions of church and church planting. He has set up the Mission Shed network, which now has five hubs across Devon…
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Cathedral to become treasure-trove of prayer for Thy Kingdom Come celebration
Thy Kingdom Come 2019 culminates in a special celebration service on Sunday 9 June at 6.30pm in Exeter Cathedral to which everyone is invited! Come and gather with others from across Devon and the South West for lively worship and prayer at the climax of the 11 day global wave of prayer between Ascension and Pentecost. The Cathedral will be turned into a treasure-trove of prayer for the evening, treasure-themed art installations and interactive prayer…
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Bishop of Plymouth moved by “immensely impressive” D-Day commemorations in Normandy
The Bishop of Plymouth, The Rt Revd Nick McKinnel, has described events to mark the 75 anniversary of D-Day in Normandy as “immensely impressive” and “very moving”. The Bishop was in Normandy to take part in a Royal British Legion remembrance service at Bayeux Cathedral, a wreath laying at the British cemetery there and a peace symposium in Caen, which was almost destroyed during Operation Overlord in 1944. The Diocese of Exeter is twinned with the…
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Bishops lead Crediton pilgrimage to celebrate Devon’s new Patron Saint
An Ecumenical Pilgrimage to Crediton in celebration of St Boniface, the new Patron Saint of Devon, will take place this Sunday 9 June at the Anglican Parish Church of Holy Cross, Church Lane, and the Roman Catholic St Boniface Church, on Park Road. The day will be presided over by The Right Reverend Mark O’Toole, Catholic Bishop of Plymouth and the Anglican Bishop of Crediton, The Right Reverend Jackie Searle. The pilgrimage will begin at…
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