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Today's Daily Prayer from Common Worship

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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 this week at St. Andrew's Church Taunton

Sunday 14 January

2nd Sunday of Epiphany

8.00am: Holy Communion

(said)

A quiet and reflective start to Sunday

10.00am: a service for

all ages -

worship, a Bible reading, a talk and of course some hymns and songs. A warm welcome awaits you at this informal service. We hope that you will stay for a chat and refreshments afterwards.

Wednesday 17 January

10.00am: Holy Communion (said)

Sunday 21 January

3rd Sunday of Epiphany

8.00am: Holy Communion

(said)

A quiet and reflective start to Sunday

10.00am: Parish Communion

this is 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.

6.30pm: Taunton Churches Together Service for Week of Prayer for Christian Unity

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For the readings at our services please click here

and to see all of our events in January please look at our calendar.

Quote of the Week

"I have been told that I need to believe in Jesus. Which is a good thing. But what I am learning is that Jesus believes in me.

I have been told that I need to have faith in God. Which is a good thing. But what I am learning is that God has faith in me.

The rabbi thinks we can be like him."

Rob Bell: Velvet Elvis

During our interregnum please join with all of us at St. Andrew's in praying this 'Vacancy Prayer':

Lord Jesus Christ, our friend and saviour, you promised to be with us always, until the end of time.

We thank you for being with those whose vision led to the founding of St Andrew’s Church.

We thank you for being with the men, women and children who, since then, have filled the church with prayer, praise and thanksgiving.

Be with us now as we live out today’s chapter in the story of your people at St Andrew’s.

Be with all those who carry the responsibility of leadership in our parish life, especially Stephen and June, our Wardens, and all members of our PCC. Help each of us to play our part; to love and serve each other and, above all, to serve you in the heart of this community.

We pray for all involved in the process of appointing a new incumbent and for the person you are calling to join us.

Help us to face the future with faith and courage; to keep alive the vision that brought this church into being and to become the people you want us to be.

Lord Jesus Christ, help us to trust in your love and faithfulness and to serve you with joy and thanksgiving now and always.

Amen.

This week's

features

Special event -

St. Andrew's hosts

Taunton Churches

Together celebration

of the Week of Prayer

for Christian Unity

Hot topics -

Global warming:

should Christians care?

first in a new series

by Janet Fulljames of

St. Andrew's Taunton

Church News -

Another full church

at our Crib Service

by Tricia Anderson

Church News -

Julian licensed as

Priest in Charge of

St. Thomas Wells

with Horrington

Church history -

Picture of Rowbarton

in 1904 by Harry Frier

added to history pages

Forthcoming event -

Commissioning service

for new Headteacher

Paul Sheehan

Colour Supplement -

Gliding down the

runway... or slip

sliding away?

More musings from

webmaster Adrian

Colour Supplement -

Henry's Goat's Blog

New! Part 3

Colour Supplement -

So you want to read

the Bible? PART 4

(Video) with

'real live preacher'

Gordon Atkinson

Colour Supplement -
Don't look away:
Brian Draper of LICC
reflects on the hanging
of Saddam Hussein

Looking

back

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editions of our
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See previous weeks'
editions of our
Colour Supplement

FWIW Archive -
Musings of our

webmaster

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