Author: stpetrock1

It’s the first Saturday in June coming up, which means we invite all willing helpers to assist in a monthly 2 hour session to help take good care of our churchyard – Saturday 7th June from 10am for 2 hours. You only need to bring gardening gloves and the tools you need, to work together in a spirit of cameraderie and achieve more together than we can individually, and help tend this ancient tranquil space. We remove the waste afterwards for you. Thank you to our regular helpers, and of course new volunteers are very welcome!

Marion and Kate

Our thanks go to everyone who helped in any way to make the village events of last Saturday 31st May be so successful. You are too many to mention but you all know who was involved and so generously gave precious time, enthusiasm and financial support in a spirit of friendship and community to make this a day to remember. Kate and I are enormously grateful to the PCC who helped plan and choreograph a pretty tightly timetabled day as we had not only the bbq and other family events in the church field, but also a stunning Choral Evensong to prepare for. That was a unique and spectacular service where we were equally well supported by villagers and those with a love of liturgical music who can’t readily access such music on Exmoor. It was a wonderful day for the village to come together and celebrate, in the heart of our village. The church was absolutely full with 100 people, a magnificent number, and church funds have been increased by £876 with all expenses paid. Thank you all.

Marion Jeffrey and Kate Hart – Churchwardens

In case it isn’t in your diary, please don’t forget to come along to the Church Field on Saturday for a church and village patronal festival celebration – we have a BBQ with delicious meat and vegetarian options, a licensed bar, live music from Minnie Hates the Hoover, a tombola, raffle and childrens’ entertainments. This is from 12 noon until 3pm. The weather looks to be dry and with your support, this will be a wonderful afternoon for us all.

Then at 4pm we have a Choral Evensong in St Petrock’s when a professional quartet will sing choral music performed to a high standard, so do join us and enjoy superlative singing in a historic village setting. This is absolutely free of charge and open to all to experience Evensong which has been a tradition in our churches for almost 500 years. Free refreshments are provided after Evensong.

We look forward to seeing you there – Marion and Kate