Family Events and Celebrations
It is a privilege for the church community to host people when they come to celebrate and commemorate the important events of family and community life.
Whether you are wishing to celebrate the gift of new life through Baptism, or your marriage, to commend a loved one at the end of their life, or to commemorate or celebrate any event or achievement, you are most welcome to contact us about it.
Wherever you are on Life’s pilgrimage, we can assure you of our prayers.
Initially, please contact the Parish Priest.
Priest's Letter February 2026
From the Parish Priest
I write this letter just after our Epiphany celebration.
I do hope that you all had a wonderful Christmas and New Year. We were very happy to see so many of you join us for our services across the Mission Community. It was a really good sign of people wanting to join in the worship and celebration the Church offered over the Christmas season.
Worshipping God should be enjoyable, and I have always found it so. However, it should also be able to challenge us as to how we live our lives.
This month sees the start of Lent, the season when we are challenged to think about how our lives reflect the life and love of Jesus.
The North Tamar Mission Community includes St Mary the Virgin, St Nicolas, St John the Baptist, St George, and St Peter, serving Kelly, Bradstone, Lifton, Broadwoodwidger, Stowford, Thrushleton, and Lewtrenchard.
This is not, as many suggest, a hard and painful thing to do, but an opportunity, supported by the whole Church, to reflect on how we live our lives as Christians.
So do please come and join us on our journey through Lent, starting with our Ash Wednesday service at St Mary’s, Lifton, where we can all support each other as we live and grow in Christ Jesus.
With love and prayers,
Philip