Parishes of Bickleigh and Shaugh Prior Parish Sunday 6th September 2026 – Season of Creation – Respecting all of Creation

Sunday 6th September 2026 – Season of Creation – Respecting all of Creation


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Sunday 6th September 2026 – Season of Creation – Respecting all of Creation

Ecumenical Service at Roborough Methodist Church Sunday 10.45am<!–


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Season of Creation started


Our series on Creation started on Sunday 30th August with a Combined Service for the parishes of Bickleigh and Shaugh Prior at St Edwards. In her sermon, Reverend Jo Northey encouraged us to celebrate the goodness of God’s creation and to take little steps in our daily lives such as eating less meat and switching to a bank that doesn’t invest our savings in fossil fuels. Quoting a zero waste campaigner, she said: “We don’t need a handful of people doing it perfectly; we need millions of people doing it imperfectly,


photo of Everyday Faith app iconThe Everyday Faith free bible reading app from the Church of England is currently doing a series of daily reflections about the environment which links well with our teaching series – do check it out! (Photo shows the icon to help you recognise it in the App Store).

Please book your place for the Supper following the Harvest Festival now – it’s free but places are limited. You can book with Paul Vann or Diane LeGrys in person or by email to admin @ bspchurches.co.uk
 

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Newsletter editor needed


Heather has decided to pass on the editing of the newsletter including the prayer list after nearly 2 years of faithful service. We really grateful for all her hard work, it can sometimes be a real challenge to gather all info and battle with technology! She has kept us informed and feel connected.

We are looking for a volunteer or a team as a job share who could take over. Don’t worry, Heather and I can show you the ropes! I’ll be sending out the newsletters in the interim, so anything you would like to get in there which we haven’t discussed yet, please let me know by tomorrow afternoon.

Frank Hartkopf

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Life in our churches and communities

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Season of Creation: Film screening and discussion on the
climate and nature crisis 

September’s Community Talk will be a free screening of the ‘People’s Emergency Briefing’ documentary, followed by a discussion with community leaders as part of our Creationtide series. 

In November 2025, the National Emergency Briefing brought together leading experts to present the latest evidence on the climate and nature crisis to politicians and other influential people in Westminster. The next step is to take this vital message across the UK, bringing together people from across local communities to hear the evidence and discuss how to respond.

A 50 minute film, presented by Chris Packham, is screening in communities and workplaces across the UK to raise awareness and build public support for that government-led briefing. 

I have been to a previous screening and came out inspired and with a sense of hope despite hearing the naked truth about the threats we are facing. Please come along and bring a neighbour or friend.

“What stood out most was the shared tone: frank, non-partisan, and rooted in public service. The speakers painted a picture of a country unprepared, but not incapable.”
– Royal Meteorological Society, 1/12/25

‘It was shocking, but it also showed a way forward. With immediate policy action we can still avoid the worst. The window is small, but it exists.’
– Annabel Nelson, LinkedIn

Frank Hartkopf


The 50 minute film presented by Chris Packham, is screening across the UK

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St Anne’s volunteers living on the hedge


Thank you to the hedge cutters at St. Anne’s last week, Peter and Grace! It’s looking very tidy opposite the entrance to the church and gives a lot more space on the path. 4 hours of hard work saw them get half the hedge trimmed. They plan to complete it next week, weather permitting. Thanks to Lee for supplying the trailer to take away the cuttings, and also to Rachel to help unload it at the other end. Great work, great team effort!

Photos below: Peter with chainsaw, hedge before and after.

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Quiet Spaces: Staying with


We looked at ‘staying with’ from different perspectives at our Quiet Spaces at St Mary’s Church in Plympton last Friday. Judy wrote: ‘We use the word staying in lots of different ways.  It can mean remaining, waiting, continuing, being around, residing, inhabiting.  But what might it mean to stay with?  For us as Christians, I don’t think staying with means hiding within our faith, or within our faith communities. Rather, perhaps it invites us to open ourselves to all that God has created – to people of different backgrounds, cultures and faiths, and to the natural world around us.’ Blessings

www.Quiet-Spaces.co.uk
Our next meeting will be 10.30am Friday 25 September at St Anne’s Church in Glenholt with a theme of ‘Creationtide.’ May your mind be soothed by He Who calmed the great waters.

Karen Griffiths, Licensed Lay Minister

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 Weekly Activities

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Online Prayer Group

Each Wednesday from September 11th, Rev Jo and Frank will be holding a weekly prayer meeting via Google Meet (video call via your computer’s browser, a bit like Zoom), at 9:30 to 10:00am to pray for one another, our churches, ministers and volunteers.  If you are interested in joining the meeting, please get in touch for the link details. 

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Bible Study Group

The Bible Study group will start again next week Wednesday 9th September at St Anne’s Church 7.30pm to 9:30pm. Everyone welcome, no prior knowledge required.

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Games Club

Games Club is back! Every Friday from 11th September, 2:30-4:30pm at St Anne’s Church Glenholt.

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Regular supporters needed

Thank you to all of you who are donating to our churches! Have you considered setting up a regular donation to support the life and maintenance of our church communities?  Please consider a single or monthly donation.

 Donate now for Bickleigh Parish / Donate now for Shaugh Prior Parish.

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Prayer lists

Those in need of our prayers
Julie, Sophie, Karen, Richard, Judy, Mo, Valerie, Jill, Dawn, Ray, Diana, Maureen, Mike, Mel, Don, Doreen, Lynn, Johann, Janine, Cathy

Pray for the Souls of the Recently Departed
Derek Maughan

Those whose year’s mind occur around this time
Pearl Crosby, Beryl Spence, Marcia Tremaine, Patricia Mary Wilson

Those whom we love and see no longer and those who have no-one else to pray for them

+Rest eternal grant unto them, O Lord
and let light perpetual shine upon them

May they rest in peace
and rise in glory

(please email admin@bspchurches.co.uk with updates to the prayer list)

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Sunday, 6 September 2026

14th Sunday after Trinity

 

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Collect


Help us to love creation as you love it,
to take risks to value it as Jesus did,
and draw us into the wildness and wonder
of your Holy Spirit today and every day.

Amen.

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Readings

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Job 39:1-8
 


39 ‘Do you know when the mountain goats give birth?
    Do you watch when the doe bears her fawn?
2 Do you count the months till they bear?
    Do you know the time they give birth?
3 They crouch down and bring forth their young;
    their labour pains are ended.
4 Their young thrive and grow strong in the wilds;
    they leave and do not return.

5 ‘Who let the wild donkey go free?
    Who untied its ropes?
6 I gave it the wasteland as its home,
    the salt flats as its habitat.
7 It laughs at the commotion in the town;
    it does not hear a driver’s shout.
8 It ranges the hills for its pasture
    and searches for any green thing.


               This is the word of the Lord.
               All:  Thanks be to God.
 

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Gospel Reading


               Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Matthew.

               All:  Glory to you, O Lord.
 


Matthew 6:24-34


24 ‘No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.
25 ‘Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?
26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?
28 ‘And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labour or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendour was dressed like one of these.
30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you – you of little faith?
31 So do not worry, saying, “What shall we eat?” or “What shall we drink?” or “What shall we wear?”
32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.
33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.


               This is the Gospel of the Lord.
               All:  Praise to you, O Christ.

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Post Communion


God our creator,
you feed your children with the true manna,
the living bread from heaven:
let this holy food sustain us through our earthly pilgrimage
until we come to that place
where hunger and thirst are no more;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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