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Serving God in the heart of our community since 1881

St Andrew's Church, Taunton

We welcome you to our website

"St. Andrew's is a community of celebration and of hope"

This is how one of our church members recently described St Andrew's, and our aim is for this website to capture that spirit online - our faith, our worship, our people, and our community. We hope that you will enjoy looking around, and will come back often, as the site is updated every week.

 

Our church is first of all a spiritual centre, a place where people can find God, be nourished in their spiritual journey, and grow in their life of faith. If you could come along to one of our services your presence would be a joy to us and to God.

 

If you have any questions or suggestions please do contact us using the 'Get in Touch' button.  You will find all of our contact details there, including access to a location map. We also love to know a little more about our web guests, and would really appreciate it if you could take a moment to sign our Visitors' Book. 

 

Again, welcome and thank you for visiting our site.

Worship at St. Andrew's Church Taunton UK
Sunday 21 October Twentieth Sunday after Trinity   8.00am: Holy Communion (said) A quiet and reflective start to Sunday.   10.00am: Parish Communion and The Railway Children An opportunity to offer the events of the past week to God, and to be renewed and nurtured in preparation for the week to come. A warm welcome awaits you at this sung Eucharist, which is at the heart of our weekly pattern of worship at St. Andrew's.   Also this week, our new activity for children will take place during this service.	Tuesday 23 October   6.30pm: Local Ministry Group Prayers at All Saints Church, Halcon. Everyone is welcome at this short service of prayer with friends from All Saints, St. Peter's and Holy Trinity churches.   Wednesday 24 October   10.00am: Holy Communion (said)	Sunday 28 October Simon and Jude, Apostles   8.00am: Holy Communion (said) A quiet and reflective start to Sunday.   10.00am: Family Communion: a warm welcome awaits you at this Service of the Word with Holy Communion, which is designed to be accessible to all ages.  Holy Communion is at the heart of our weekly pattern of worship at St. Andrew's   A Traidcraft stall will follow the 10am service   3.00pm: Holy Baptism
We're praying for you, for our community, and for our world: click here to view our Prayer Calendar - or send us your prayer request.

 

Photos of Harvest Festival 14/10/2007: click for a larger picture

 

Gospel Reading for Sunday 28 October 2007 Sunday 21 October 2007

John 15: 17-end

I am giving you these commands so that you may love one another.

 ‘If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me before it hated you. If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. Because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world—therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you, “Servants are not greater than their master.” If they persecuted me, they will persecute you; if they kept my word, they will keep yours also. But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. Whoever hates me hates my Father also. If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not have sin. But now they have seen and hated both me and my Father. It was to fulfil the word that is written in their law, “They hated me without a cause.”

 ‘When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who comes from the Father, he will testify on my behalf. You also are to testify because you have been with me from the beginning.

Quote of the Week

“The wounds of the minister are the hallmark of his humanity, and the place at which he meets the healing power of Christ.”

Angela Tilby in a tribute to Henri Nouwen: The Church Times 19/9/1997.