Welcome to the Hartland Coast Mission Community website. We are a team made up of individual parishes each with its own worshipping community, together seeking to serve the people who live, work and visit here. Each is a lively community with much going on, and as our web site develops we hope you will find all the details of what is currently on offer.
We normally have a whole variety of worship services within the team (but see below for changes due to Covid-19). We aim to provide a worship menu with something to suit everyone, with many parishes trying new forms of informal worship alongside other more traditional services. For further details please check the individual parish pages.
We have a ministry of welcome to all, if you come and find a welcome please tell your friends, if you come and don’t find a welcome please tell us!
You will find the latest copy of the 'Hartbeat' magazine on the News page via the menu at the top of this page. The latest copy, which has just been published, is number 4-5. A sub-menu item on the News page provides a link to the Readings for the nearest Sunday.
Here is the clickable link to the advice from the Diocese and the Church of England to minimise the spread of Coronavirus (Covid-19) in the forthcoming months:
https://www.churchofengland.org/more/media-centre/coronavirus-covid-19-guidance-churches#na
Unfortunately, following current firm 'advice' from the authorities, we have been obliged to shut and lock all the churches in the Community, and some other places such as the Church Rooms in Hartland. Be assured that the work of the Churches continues for you all, as you can see from these pages. The doors to all of the churches will be opened as soon as we are allowed. You can see the 'Services during virus restrictions' item in the menu at the head of this page which gives details of the arrangements in the meantime. You will see there in particular a poster for the PRAYERLINE to help you spiritually with these difficult times.
Andrew Macwilliam has provided a helpful reflection for the 4th Sunday in the Trinity season (5th July)
Safeguarding
"... means the action the Church takes to promote a safer culture in all our churches. In order to achieve this, we need to do a lot of hard work. We will promote the welfare of children, young people and adults. We will work to prevent abuse from occurring. We will seek to protect those that are at risk of being abused and respond well to those that have been abused. We will take care to identify where a person may present a risk to others and offer support to them whilst taking steps to mitigate such risks."
The above paragraph is quoted from the Parish Safeguarding Handbook which is available here:
In our Mission Community, with its nine parishes, there are Safeguarding Officers responsible for each parish. These can be contacted as shown in the list below. Alternatively please contact the Team Rector or the Team Vicar both of whose contact details can be found via the Contacts page clicked from the menu at the top of the page.
Parish Safeguarding Officers
Buckland Brewer Dave Watson bucklanddave1953@btinternet.com 01237 451437
Welcombe Diana Holdaway panddholdaway@googlemail.com 01237 431788
Bucks Mills, Faith Butler faitheve4@gmail.com 01237 451627
Woolsery,
Parkham
Alwington Hilary Dodge hilary.dodge@mail.com 01237 451643
Hartland Joy Cooper joycooper43@btinternet.com 01237 441500
Clovelly Sue Curtis tomsuecurtis@btinternet.com 01237 431398
Lundy Andrew Wilby andrew@wilby.me.uk 07803 295042 (Andrew does not live on the island )
Diocesan Safeguarding Officers
Safeguarding Adviser: CHARLES PITMAN charles.pitman@exeter.anglican.org Tel 01392 345909 or 07889 542640
Assistant Safeguarding Adviser: PHILLIP PARKER phill.parker@exeter.anglican.org Tel 01392 294969 or 07809 339501
Assistant Safeguarding Adviser: JAMES MAY james.may@exeter.anglican.org Tel 01392 345910 or 07889 542626
Data Privacy Notice for each of the 9 Parishes, as amended 8/18:-