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Celebrating our Group of Churches of Group Celebratingour Together in Faith Faith in Together Worship and and Living Worship copyright copyright

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Common Common Worship:Times Seasons and Archbishops’ The Council2002, 2006.

of Words hymnsare reproduced with permission.

materialfrom which is includedin this serviceis Teign Valley & Haldon Hill Group of Churches Teign Valley & Haldon Hill Group of Churches Group Mission Action Plan

Our Group Mission Action Plan was developed in accordance with the Our Vision Exeter Diocese’s Programme of Moving On in Mission and Ministry (MOiMM), based on the conviction that every human community in Devon should have a praying, worshipping and witnessing Christian presence I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly. promot ing Christian faith, worship and ministry in our communities. (John 10:10)

In November 2004, the parish churches of In response to God’s love revealed in Jesus Christ Ashton, Bridford, Christow, Doddiscombsleigh, Dunchideock and Dunsford formed a provisional Group of Churches in the area of the Teign Valley and in the power of his Holy Spirit, and have grown in their commitment to work together we seek to promote Christian faith, worship and living as the Church in these villages and parish areas. in the villages and parish areas of

In 2008 all six of t he P arochial Church Council s expressed themselves ready Ashton, Bridford, Christow, to formalise the Group and to prepare for a Celebration of their status. Doddiscombsleigh, Dunchideock and Dunsford

Work began on the development of a Group Mission Action Plan • by the existing Group Council of Clergy, Readers and Churchwardens , Our priorities are to: assisted by t wo members of the Archidiaconal Ministry Development Team . ~~~~~~~~ promote Christian faith ~~~~~~~~ In June 2009 an Open Consultation Meeting was held. • The ideas of the 40 parishioners present were collected and considered by deepening our personal commitment • by a further meeting of the Group Council through offering our gifts, talents, time and abilities • in order to identify the priorities for action over the next 12 months . by giving a high priority to prayer and Bible study • This forms the basis of our Group Mission Action Plan. by seeking to develop, strengthen and grow the local Christian community

A copy of Our Vision is printed inside the back cover. ~~~~~~~~ promote Christian worship ~~~~~~~~

• by providing a full range of formal and informal church services and events

• by effective communication Heavenly Father, we praise you for your mercy and faithfulness to us. • Thank you for calling us to serve you with our lives. by seeking to provide accessible and acceptable places of worship As we can do nothing without you, we ask you to equip, empower and strengthen us by your Spirit ~~~~~~~~ promote Christian living ~~~~~~~~

to worship you, to seek your will • by serving one another and the people in our communities and to deepen our personal commitment to you. • by expanding our pastoral ministry of care and nurture Enable us to share with others the good news of Jesus Christ, • by welcoming all into our churches and help us to live generously, boldly and faithfully for you. • Through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. by responding to the needs of others locally and in the wider world

Sending Out Welcome to Worship Closing Prayer and Blessing Our service this morning Please sit or kneel celebrates our growing together

Bishop On our head and our homes as a Mission Community of the All the blessing of God. Teign Valley & Haldon Hill Group of Churches

In our hearts and minds Together in Worship All the peace of God. Hymns and Words of Praise In our living and believing Bible Reading All the love of God. Confession

In our coming and our going All the arms of God to welcome us and bring us home. Together in Faith The Story of the Man who fell among Thieves And the blessing of God almighty, A dramatic presentation of the story the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, from St Luke’s gospel be among you, and remain with you always. Prayers All Amen. Faith Journey Hymn Together in Living Please stand Bible Reading You shall go out with joy Celebration of the You shall go out with joy and be led forth in peace, Teign Valley & Haldon Hill Group and the mountains and the hills shall break forth in singing. Mission Community by Bishop Bob There’ll be shouts of joy, Act of Thanksgiving and Dedication and the trees of the field shall clap, shall clap their hands; and the trees of the field shall clap their hands, Sending out and the trees of the field shall clap their hands, Receiving the Blessing of God and the trees of the field shall clap their hands, and you’ll go out with joy. You are invited to stay behind afterwards

Collection for ‘Families for Children’

- 12 – Together in Worship All Heavenly Father, we praise you for your mercy and faithfulness to us.

Thank you for calling us to serve you with our lives. Words of welcome, greeting and introduction As we can do nothing without you,

we ask you to equip, empower and strengthen us by Praise and Thanksgiving your Spirit to worship you, to seek your will

and to deepen our personal commitment to you. Choir: King of Kings and Lord of Lords Enable us to share with others the good news of Please stand Jesus Christ, and help us to live generously,

Minister God is Spirit. boldly and faithfully for you. Through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. All Let us worship him in spirit and truth.

Minister The Lord is with us. Hymn All Let us praise his name together. Please stand

Help us to pray to you in faith, Guide me, O thou great Redeemer to sing your praise with thanksgiving and joy, Guide me, O thou great redeemer, pilgrim through this barren land; and to listen to your word I am weak, but thou art mighty: hold me with thy powerful hand. with eager hearts and minds, Bread of heaven, bread of heaven, through Christ our Lord. Amen. feed me till I want no more; feed me till I want no more.

Hymn Open now the crystal fountain whence the healing stream doth flow; let the fire and cloudy pillar lead me all my journey through. Crown him with many crowns Strong deliverer, strong deliverer, Crown him with many crowns, the Lamb upon his throne; be thou still my strength and shield; hark, how the heavenly anthem drowns all music but its own: be thou still my strength and shield.

awake, my soul, and sing of him who died for thee, When I tread the verge of Jordan, bid my anxious fears subside; and hail him as thy matchless King through all eternity. death of death, and hell's destruction land me safe on Canaan's side. Crown him the Lord of love; behold his hands and side, Songs of praises, songs of praises, rich wounds, yet visible above, in beauty glorified: I will ever give to thee; I will ever give to thee.

no angel in the sky can fully bear that sight, William Williams (1717-1791) trans. Peter Williams (1727-1796) and others.

but downward bends each burning eye at mysteries so bright.

- 2 - - 11 – Act of Thanksgiving and Dedication Crown him the Lord of peace, whose power a sceptre sways Please stand from pole to pole, that wars may cease, absorbed in prayer and praise:

Bishop Blessed are you, Lord our God, King of the universe. his reign shall know no end, and round his pierced feet All To you be glory and praise for ever. fair flowers of paradise extend their fragrance ever sweet.

From the rising of the sun to its setting Crown him the Lord of years, the Potentate of time, your name is proclaimed in all the world. Creator of the rolling spheres, ineffably sublime. All To you be glory and praise for ever. All hail, Redeemer, hail! For thou hast died for me; thy praise shall never, never fail throughout eternity. Blessed are you, Lord God, Matthew Bridges (1800-1894) for all your blessings upon us; for our homes, our families, our friends, Bible Reading the people among whom we live. Please sit All To you be glory and praise for ever. Pilate questions Jesus about the nature of his kingship. Blessed are you, Lord God, for all your blessings upon us; Narrator Then Pilate entered the headquarters again, summoned Jesus, and asked him: for our Christian community and fellowship, Pilate Are you the King of the Jews? our places of worship, Narrator Jesus answered: for the gifts of ministry and service Jesus Is this your own idea, or did others tell you about me? distributed among us. Pilate I am not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief priests All To you be glory and praise for ever. have handed you over to me. What have you done?

Father, by your Holy Spirit, you have promised through Jesus My kingdom is not from this world. If my kingdom were from this world, my followers would be fighting to keep me from your Son Jesus Christ to lead us into all truth. being handed over to the Jews. But as it is, my kingdom is not Help us to trust you amidst all the changes and from here. challenges in our lives today. Pilate So you are a king? Bless us as we commit ourselves to a life together. Jesus You say that I am a king. For this I was born, and for this I Strengthen and uphold us as we offer ourselves came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who to be renewed in your service. belongs to the truth listens to my voice.

John 18: 33-37

This is the word of the Lord.

All Thanks be to God.

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Please sit or kneel Bible Reading

Minister When Jesus came to Jerusalem and saw the city, A teaching to early Christians in Ephesus he wept over it because the people did not recognise about the distribution of gifts in the Church.

the time of God’s coming among them. I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of the calling to Let us confess our own self-centredness which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, making every effort to maintain the unity of the Spirit in and blindness to God’s will and purpose among us. the bond of peace. All Loving Father, There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope of your calling, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above we have not loved you with our whole heart all and through all and in all. nor our neighbours as ourselves. But each of us was given grace according to the measure of Christ’s gift. The gifts We are not worthy to be called your children. he gave were that some would be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some We are sorry and we turn to you again. pastors and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until all of us come to the unity of the faith and of the Have mercy upon us, knowledge of the Son of God, to maturity, to the measure of the full stature of bring us back to yourself Christ. as those who once were dead We must no longer be children, tossed to and fro and blown about by every wind of doctrine, by people’s trickery, by their craftiness in deceitful scheming. But but now have life through Christ our Lord. speaking the truth in love, we must grow up in every way into him who is the head, Amen. into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by every ligament with which it is equipped, as each part is working properly, promotes the Bishop May the God of love bring us back to himself, body’s growth in building itself up in love. forgive us and make us whole again, Ephesians 4: 1-7 & 11-16

and bring us to his eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Celebration of the All Amen.

Teign Valley & Haldon Hill Group

Mission Community by Bishop Bob

Please stand as the Churchwardens with Clergy and Readers

present a copy of the Group Mission Action Plan to the Bishop

Choir: King of Kings Majesty

- 4 – - 9 – Prayers Together in Faith

Please sit or kneel. After each prayer the following may be used. Story Time Leader Faithful God All Lead us in your ways.

Leader As our Saviour has taught us, so we pray

All Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come; thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread. Hymn And forgive us our trespasses, Please stand as we forgive those who trespass against us. In Christ alone And lead us not into temptation; In Christ alone my hope is found but deliver us from evil. He is my light, my strength, my song; For thine is the kingdom, the power, This corner stone, this solid ground, and the glory, for ever and ever. Firm through the fiercest drought and storm. Amen. What heights of love, what depths of peace,

Faith Journey When fears are stilled, when strivings cease! My comforter, my all in all, A personal story of faith Here in the love of Christ I stand. Hymn Please stand In Christ alone - who took on flesh, Jubilate, everybody! Fullness of God in helpless babe! Serve the Lord in all your ways, and This gift of love and righteousness, come before his presence singing, Scorned by the ones he came to save; enter now his courts with praise. Till on that cross as Jesus died, For the Lord our God is gracious, The wrath of God was satisfied - and his mercy’s everlasting. For every sin on him was laid; Jubilate! Jubilate! Jubilate Deo! Here in the death of Christ I live. Fred Dunn (1907-1979) © 1977 Thankyou Music.

- 8 - - 5 – There in the ground his body lay, Hymn Light of the world by darkness slain; Please stand Then bursting forth in glorious day Christ, be our light! Up from the grave he rose again! And as he stands in victory Longing for light, we wait in darkness. Sin’s curse has lost its grip on me, Longing for truth, we turn to you. For I am his and he is mine - Make us your own, your holy people, Bought with the precious blood of Christ. light for the world to see.

No guilt in life, no fear in death, Christ, be our light! This is the power of Christ in me; Shine in our hearts, shine through the darkness. From life’s first cry to final breath, Christ, be our light! Jesus commands my destiny. Shine in your church gathered today. No power of hell, no scheme of man, Longing for peace, our world is troubled. Can ever pluck me from his hand; Longing for hope, many despair. Till he returns or calls me home, Your word alone has power to save us. Here in the power of Christ I’ll stand! Make us your living voice. Stuart Townend and Keith Getty © 2001 Kingsway’s Thankyou Music

Longing for food, many are hungry.

Story Time Longing for water, many still thirst. Make us your bread, broken for others, Please sit shared until all are fed.

A dramatic reading of Longing for shelter, many are homeless.

The Story of the Man who fell among Thieves Longing for warmth, many are cold. Make us your building, sheltering others, based on Luke 10: 25-37 walls made of living stone.

Many the gifts, many the people, Sermon many the hearts that yearn to belong. The Bishop of Crediton Let us be servants to one another, The Rt Revd Bob Evens making your kingdom come.

Bernadette Farrell (b. 1957) @ 1993 Bernadette Farrell

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