Dear friends
Saturday 26th September 10.45am
w/c Sunday 27th September 2026
Dear Friends,
This is my last Newsletter as your Team Rector.
What an amazing time it has been, what a privilege to minister and serve in this Mission Community.
There will be time to say more, but for now can I just say how very grateful I am to God for this time – how much I have learned from you and from Him.
And how very grateful I am to each of you for all your support, love and fellowship.
I don’t have adequate words to express how much I owe to you all.
Know that I will carry you in my heart.
We are very blessed in our Churchwardens and Ministry Team. But they need your support as you move into an interregnum.
Please do pray for them. Finally, know that you are not alone as you go into this next stage in the life of the Mission Community.
Trust this time to God and His guidance, because He is a faithful God.
I look forward to seeing as many as can come to my Farewell Service on Sept 27th at St Petroc’s at 10am followed by coffee and cakes in S Brent Village Hall.
I hope it will be a joy-filled occasion as we share memories and fellowship.
Thought for the week:
The church in Philippi was the first church that Paul started in eastern Europe.
Those who became followers of Jesus suffered persecution, but they remained a vibrant, faithful community.
Paul sent this letter to them during one of his many imprisonments to thank them for sending him money and encouragement and to encourage them.
The letter is a series of short reflections, revolving around the wonderful poem in chapter 2.
It retells the story of Jesus’ incarnation, life, death, resurrection, and exaltation.
The letter is written to show how living as a Christian means seeing your own story as a lived expression of Jesus’ story.
With Jesus we have an example of the humanness in God and God in humanness.
While we strive to do better, be better, follow Jesus as best we can and inevitably coming up short, we can be reassured that Jesus is not looking at us and shaking His head every time we falter.
Instead, He is by our side, on His knees when we are on ours, before us when we are crawling and feeling we can go no further, holding us when we feel unsteady, showing us His wounds when ours refuse to heal.
We look to Jesus whose own humility allowed others to live, who offers us freedom and love, a love beyond our understanding.
We are called to “have the same mind that was in Christ Jesus.” To view our world, others, ourselves as He views them.
To acknowledge the truth that all creation worships Him, not through coercion or fear, but because of who He is – God in human form, love personified, salvation glorified.
We are called to worship, not out of some ritualistic habit, but because we want to join with all creation is acknowledging who God is as revealed in Jesus.
To give thanks for His saving love, humility and grace. And to wonder at the truth that, because of Jesus, it is revealed to us that we are beloved sons and daughters, called to live lives that reflect Him in this life, assured of an eternity with Him in the next.
For Paul, and for each of us, there can be only one response:
At the name of Jesus every knee should bend—-every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father.
Notices and Diary
- Saturday 26th. September at 10am Dean Prior Church Coffee morning to be held in the Village Hall at Dean Prior. Cake stall and Raffle!! Please support!!
- Sun 27th Sept – Rev Gina’s Farewell Service at 10am at St Petroc’s, South Brent followed by tea and cakes in the Village Hall. All very welcome
- South Brent Methodist Church Harvest Festival on Sunday 27th September at 4pm. Donations of non-perishable food/cash to Buckfastleigh Food Bank.
- Saturday 10th October St Petroc’s Harvest Supper at South Brent Village Hall 7 p.m. Tickets £10 adult/£5 child. Available from Susan 07709165924, Emma 07727193490 or Mary 07395027479 or at church on Sundays.
Sat 26th. Sept Dean Prior Church Coffee morning 10am in the Village Hall
Sun 27th Sept Rev Gina’s Retirement Service at 10am at St Petroc’s, South Brent followed by tea and cakes in the Village Hall. All very welcome!
Wed 30th Sept St Petroc’s Morning Prayer at 8.30am
Thought for the week at 10am by zoom and telephone
St Petroc’s Parish Lunch 12.30-1.30pm
Fri 2nd Oct Morning Prayer at 9am by zoom and telephone
Sunday September 27th – special joint service at 10am at South Brent marking the retirement of our Team Rector, Revd Gina, followed by tea and cakes in the Village Hall |
Know you are in my heart and in my prayers.
Rev Gina
Friday 7th October 2022
SOUTH BRENT COMMUNITY FRIDGE
SHARE FOOD – Save waste
Have you ever wondered what to do with that spare food?
The South Brent Community Fridge has finally arrived and is installed at the entrance to the Old School Community Centre in the centre of the village.
It will open on Tuesday 18th October and will be open 24 hours a day.
Surplus and end of line food is collected by volunteers from supermarkets and local businesses who would otherwise be disposing of it, and put in the community fridge for anyone to come and take what they wish.
If you have spare food yourself, if you are going on holiday or have extra vegetables in your allotment, you can also put it in the fridge to share.
The guidelines of what food is safe to share are posted by the fridge, and the fridge will be checked daily by a dedicated team of volunteers.
It’s a win-win situation for the environment and the people of South Brent as we move into a winter when many ordinary people will be feeling the pinch.
Please use it!!!
If you would like to volunteer to help the community fridge please contact fridge@ssb.org.uk . In particular we are looking for a back up for the coordinator, Their role will be, when the main coordinator is away, to
– liaise with the driver and fridge monitor coordinators who are responsible for the day to day running of the fridge, and work with them to resolve any issues that come up
– Be responsible for the maintenance of the room where the fridge is (in collaboration with the old school Community Centre)
– Act as liaison with outside organizations.