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27/06/2020

You can join in Sunday worship tomorrow in a number of ways:

Our parish church service takes place on Zoom at 4.00pm: contact [email protected] for the Zoom code.
Radio 4s Morning worship takes place at 8.10am with John Bell and the Iona Community
BBC1 has Sunday morning Stories with Kate Bottley at 11.45am and Songs of Praise at 1.15pm
You can find the CofE's Livestreamed worship from 9.00am on the Church of England website

18/06/2020

I’d like to say a huge ‘Thank You’ to everyone who has worshipped alongside us over these past months. If you have caught up with Sunday’s service you’ll know that David and I have decided that now life is easing its way back to something a little more normal that we are going to draw our recording of regular worship to an end.
Life isn’t yet remotely normal for us as David is in the clinically extremely vulnerable group and we are still strictly shielding until at least the end of July but now as we begin ‘Ordinary time’ in the church year seems a good point to change things.
We will continue to pray for you all and I’ll keep this page open for prayer requests and so that should you feel you wish to, the videos we’ve already uploaded will all be available to view.
There are lots of opportunities available to us all for online worship and now might be a good time to explore options ...here’s a reminder of ideas I posted previously...

we've probably (especially those of us in rural communities) never had so much choice about when and how we pray and praise.

There are lots of resources on the CofE Church Online website and there is a live streamed Sunday worship anytime from 9am - this is the link for that and lots of other resources
https://www.churchofengland.org/more/media-centre/church-online

You can join the St Mary's Barnard Castle with Whorlton Sunday and Wednesday services on Zoom (that's a good opportunity to 'see' folk from our regular congregation and say hello) to join that you need to be 'added' by the Vicar or Curate so you need to email
[email protected] or
[email protected]

There are also services regularly 'broadcast' by Bishop Paul and from Durham Cathedral - you can find more details on the Diocesan FaceBook page Diocese of Durham and the Cathedral FB page Durham Cathedral

I might even suggest that there has never been a better time to explore the huge variety of styles of worship out there on the internet - you might just be surprised by something unexpected.

Keep safe - Keep well - and Keep Praying 🙏

Join in with online services and access digital resources from the Church of England.

14/06/2020

What Sarah said...

To all our Buisness’s around the Dale starting to open up again ...and please don’t forget all the wonderful places that have been open for our Community’s during all this .. they will need your support more than ever ....

14/06/2020

Spiritual Communion for those in isolation from those in isolation

13/06/2020

Worship for the First Sunday after Trinity 2020.
In preparation for our 10:30 morning service of Spiritual Communion tomorrow (available here from 10:15am tomorrow) here is the service order and readings which you might like to use to follow along and join with the responses.
The image is by Edvard Munch "Corn Harvest" painted in 1917 and sadly not on public view.

06/06/2020

Tomorrow is Trinity Sunday.
I've posted here the service order and readings and an image - a painting by Henri Matisse 'La Danse', 1910 The Hermitage St Petersburg. This image speaks to me of the one-ness of God and of the human family.
I will speak into the brokenness of that image in these troubled times in my reflection...

02/06/2020

A huge ‘thank you’ to William Peat Butchers for the reassuring message in with the meat delivery I received this morning advising that their free home delivery service will continue even as lock down measures are eased. (Online at www.castlebankbutchers.co.uk through FaceBook or Insta and by phone - the Barney number is 638123 other branches are listed on the website).
This is great news for all those of us who are still shielding or in any way unable to shop.
Thank you to another brilliant Teesdale business - many of us really would have struggled with the practical implications of the situation without you. 🙏

31/05/2020

Spiritual Communion for those in isolation from those in isolation