Bratton Silver Band make a welcome return to All Saints’ Church Westbury for a concert of new and familiar repertoire. All proceeds will be split between All Saints’ Church and Bratton Silver Band. Directed by Kyle Blake. More details to follow. Tickets Tickets are £10 in advance and £12 on the door. Under 16s go … [Read more…]
Fridays during Lent at All Saints This Lent you will find when you come into All Saints’ Church, that there are pictures depicting Jesus’ journey to the cross on display around the building. On Friday evenings, during March there will be a short prayer time before each of the images. This will be at 5.30pm … [Read more…]
Saturday 25 February Westbury Parish Hall 10am – 12noon Part of being an Eco Church is about supporting and promoting Fairtrade, which offers farmers and producers a fair wage for their products and helps to keep them in business. To this end, Westbury Eco Church group invites you to a Fairtrade Coffee morning on Saturday 25 February from … [Read more…]
Sunday 19 March 10am All Saints’ Church Westbury This year we will be holding an All Age Service with members of the All Saints’ Mother Union This will be a service for all ages and we shall be inviting all those whom we have welcomed at our Family events such as the Light Party and … [Read more…]
Westbury Eco church The Letter – A message for our earth I recently came across a film called The Letter – A message for our earth. It is based on a paper which Pope Francis wrote to the world in 2015 which was called Laudato Si – On Care for our Common Home. In this, … [Read more…]
Report on the Flex Programme from the Westbury Parish group During 2022, four of us representing the parish of Westbury (All Saints and Holy Saviour), attended the Flex Programme sessions in Salisbury run by the Rural Life Officers and a trainer from CPAS (Church Pastoral Aid Society – an Anglican charity which works with church … [Read more…]
Over 1700 people visited All Saints’ Church over 4 days This year’s Christmas Tree Festival at All Saints’ Church was a great success. Over 1,700 people came to see the 40 Christmas trees decorated by schools, businesses and community organisations. The Festival was opened on Friday 2 December by the Vice Lord-Lieutenant Mr Wyldbore-Smith and … [Read more…]
Eco Church at Westbury We met in November and reviewed some of our activities as we work towards the silver award. On 19 November some of us met to make some bird boxes. We also started work on renovating a display board, which we shall use to display news and information about Eco church. As … [Read more…]
Here is an update from the Westbury PCC (Parochial Church Council) who met in October and November. Finance The PCC discussed the impact of the rise in gas and electric charges for the church and Parish Hall. The increase in the Parish Share and the reduction in the total number of people giving regularly. We … [Read more…]
This month it was announced at the meeting of the PCC and at All Saints, that our churchwarden at Westbury, Beth Thomas, will be standing down as from the end of December. This is because she would like to give more time and energy to chairing the steering group for the Parish Hall Transformation Project. … [Read more…]