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Event summary:

Second Saturday (at Langridge Village Hall) - please see below for further information

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May 11th
June 8th
July 13th
No Second Saturday in August
September 14th

 
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Upcoming events
 
  • Sunday 24th March - Coffee & croissants will be served at the back of the church after the 0930 service.
  • Tuesday 2nd April - PCC AGM and Friends AGM (Langridge Village Hall @ 1930).
  • Saturday 4th May – Quiet Day, details TBC
  • Saturday 11th May - Church and churchyard cleaning; please do come and help out if you can (start time 1030).
  • Sunday 19th May - the morning service will be at 1100 and we will be having an informal lunch at the Hare & Hounds pub afterwards.  Everyone is invited.  Please email if you'd like more details.
  • Monday 27th May – there will be another “Three Churches Walk” on 27th May (Bank Holiday Monday), which this year is the day after Rogation Sunday when parishioners traditionally “beat the bounds” of their parishes.  The walk starts from All Saints Weston car park at 1030 am.  The route will probably be similar to the 2018 route.  Further details TBC.
  • Sunday 16th June – Bath Welcomes Refugees will be talking at our morning service (0930).
  • Saturday 29th June – Bishop Richard Fenwick will be giving another one of his wonderful organ recitals at 630pm.  Further details TBC.
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Lent Course

This year we have a Lent Course, jointly with North Stoke and ASW, made up of four Thursday evening meetings at 7:30.  The topics are from Living Fruitfully, published by Embrace the Middle East.  The dates and venues are:
 
March 14th:       Stonecroft, North Stoke BA1 9AS (Mike Roberts)
March 21st:        Fleetlands, Weston Park BA1 4AL (Penny Faux)
April 4th:            Stone Cross, North Stoke BA1 9AS (Peter Durman)
April 11th:          52 Purlewent Drive BA1 4AZ (Tony Davies)

Please email Tony if you'd like more information.

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Gideons UK

On January 20th Alan Dickson, Ian Argyle and Adrian Rubie joined our morning service to tell us about the work of Gideons UK – the British part of the International Gideons organisation.  Alan, who is chairman of the Bath branch, explained that the Gideons’ mission is to take the word of God and make it available to all people (at a time when only 3% of Britons go to church, and only 1% regularly read the bible).  
The Gideons work through four main activities:
  • Giving scriptures - the Bath branch gives 6,000 to 7,000 scriptures each year, mainly to Year 7 school pupils (including 75% of Bath secondary schools) and to university ‘fresher’ students;
  • Placing scriptures – in hotel rooms, care homes, hospitals, prisons, cruise ships – any place where people might pick it up and read it;
  • Sharing personal testimony;
  • Prayer.
 
Gideon Bibles are available in over 200 different countries; and the Gideon Bible ‘app’ is free, easy to download to any smartphone or tablet, and it offers both text and spoken scriptures in 1,300 languages.
 
Why does Alan himself do this?  He told us he sees reading the Bible as vital to being a Christian, and the strongest evidence of God and of the reality of Jesus as Saviour of the world.  Alan gave us four examples of people, in different age groups and walks of life, whose lives have been turned around through reading the Bible.
 
For anyone moved by his talk, Alan offered three steps for them to take:
 
  • Read the Bible more;
  • Become a Friend of the Gideons;
  • Become a Gideon.         
       You can find out more at  https://gideons.org.uk
 
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Second Saturday @ Langridge Village Hall, 10:00am - midday

Second Saturday is an opportunity to relax with a cup of (decent) coffee or tea, fresh pastries and the Saturday papers.  Have a chat.  Do you have too much fruit or veg, have you made too many jars of jam?  Do you make things?  Do you want to swap a book?  Bring them along and either swap them for something else or sell them

All refreshments are free but donations are very welcome



Second Saturday @ Langridge is supported by:
* St Mary Magdalene Church, Langridge
* Friends of Langridge Church