One in four children aged 11 failed to reach the expected reading standard in 2017. Illiteracy affects all areas of life. Many schools struggle to find the resources to help children who may be falling behind the rest of the class with their reading levels.

Congratulations to our Rector Revd Canon David Baldwin on his splendid run in the Yeovil Half Marathon last weekend.

The harsh reality of giving birth in Sierra Leone, West Africa, where ten women die from giving birth each day, will be brought to life when a Christian Aid worker shares stories from the frontline of maternal health in her country.

Here is the Drimpton Annual Report  for 2018.

I have recently read Becoming by Michelle Obama. Perhaps you received a copy for Christmas?

I have been moved by the response to Jesus Rocks – both in other churches picking up the idea for themselves and how people locally have responded.

For our Shepherds in the St Luke’s Gospel account of that first Christmas Eve it started as just an ordinary night watching over their flock of sheep. They had no inclination of the disturbance to their lives that was about to happen and the ‘news of great joy’ they were about to be part of.

I’ve been asked recently what the theme for Christmas this year is. Over the last few years we have knitted sheep, nativity scenes, given away angels and followed the star.

Those of you who have ever done any bible study with me will know that I often say as a first question – what jumps out at you, what makes you go hmm? For me, in this passage, it is the interesting verb in verse 24, how to provoke one another to love and good

There’s a relatively new Phenomenon on the telly in these days before Christmas. Have you noticed over the last few years, there has begun to be an informal competition for the most clever/touching/dramatic narrative Christmas advert? Two penguins competes with an extensive Christmas table from a budget supermarket and a chain stores marauding fairies and

Like an innocent child wandering by itself into the kitchen and pressing the switches that will set the house on fire, some biblical texts have been taken out of their original setting and used in ways that would have horrified the original speaker or writer. Here in this passage we have one with exactly that

Our very own Rev. David Baldwin makes an appearance on the Church of England podcast this week. “Listen to hardworking Christians working on mission and growth in rural England. To read the full rural mission and growth learning report, including helpful examples of good practice, useful ideas and approaches, resulting from the February 2018 Renewal