St Martin’s Church, North Nibley

Welcome to St Martin’s pages. This page acts as our focus and summarises our events and activities, providing links to more details about them, about our church, our people and how to contact us.

OUR WEEKLY RECORDED SERVICES CONTINUE.  The church is open during the day and the churchyard is always open and provides a place for quiet reflection and prayer – with benches. Please do make use of it.

We send out a weekly email regarding forthcoming services and events and giving relevant updates. To subscribe, please see this document and send us an email

The latest changes to these pages:
*Blog for 9th March 2024 has been added.   Please see the latest blog for details of services and forthcoming events, the recorded service and some links we hope you will find useful.

Thanks to Christian Eley for the wonderful sunset picture.

Summary of Regular Services

The church is now open daily for visitors and private prayer

The monthly pattern of services in St Martin’s is as follows:
Week 1.  Service specifically for families and children  at 0930
Weeks 2 and 4. Communion at 09.30
Week 3. varied types of service at 09.30 – not communion
5th Sunday, A  service for the whole benefice in one of its churches

Every Sunday – a recorded service is available on this website.

 

Forthcoming ‘Events’

Fri 7th March 2025 – World Day of Prayer – in the Chapel at 3.45pm

Sun 30th March- Mothering Sunday
Benefice communion service at 11am at Alderley
Round the Font informal service in church at 4pm

18th April 2025 – Good Friday –
Walk of Witness from chapel to church for hot cross buns. Time to follow
2pm in church – Hour before the Cross

Saturday 19th April – There will be a pilgrimage walk over the weekend starting from Coaley Peak at 10am and arriving in North Nibley for an overnight stay at around 5pm. There will be a option for a shorter walk by joining at Cam Peak. There will be an evening meal in the chapel followed by a talk by Andrew Hope who is an authority on the life of William Tyndale.   On Sunday, after the sunrise service, the walk will continue via Tortworth church and St James church in Charfield to Kingswood Abbey, where there will be a chance to visit the gatehouse and listen to Cello music. A meal will follow.
If you are interested, please contact Jill Stephens. For obvious reasons, this pilgrimage is for adults only without dogs.

20th April 2025 – Easter Sunday – Sunrise service on the knoll at 6.30 am. There will be transport from the bottom of Wood Lane if the weather permits. Bacon Butties will be served afterwards in the chapel. All are welcome!

 

 

The Church of England web site gives more information and will signpost Christian resources available on line.

Donations to St Martin’s can be made via the link in the QR code below. Thank you!

About us

The Benefice
The parish of North Nibley is part of the Tyndale Benefice.   We are  delighted that Rev Lesley Hewish is now licensed (22 May 2022) as our Priest-in-Charge  for a period of 4 years. The Benefice Profile gives an overview of the churches, their aspirations and the environment in which they reside.

Churches Together
We work closely with the Chapel in the village, sharing services and other events throughout the year

‘Life Events’. Please contact the benefice office in the first instance. We have produced a leaflet about weddings in St Martin’s and one specifically related to flowers.

Music
We have a dedicated choir which sings at all the 9.30 communion services, as well as at ‘special’ services. It is always keen to welcome  new members.

The church has excellent acoustics for musical performances

Bells
The bellringers are looking for new ringers!

Village School
We have very close links with our village C of E primary school, which holds many services in the Church, as well as ‘experience’ events, supported by members of the congregation. We help with ‘open the book’ and hold joint fundraising events with the Friends of the school – FONNS.
We also work with the village nursery and playgroup.

Safeguarding
Please see our safeguarding page for more information and the policies page for formal documentation

Sunday 26th July 2020

This week, we have a service with music.

There is a pew sheet and an order of service.

I am sorry I cut Peter off in the middle of his blessing last week and will try not to do that again!

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Appointment of a new Vicar

 

On behalf of the Tyndale Benefice, we are delighted to announce the appointment of the Reverend Rachel Cook as Vicar (Designate) of the Tyndale Benefice, subject to the usual legal processes.

Rachel is currently Station Chaplain at RAF Waddington Lincolnshire.

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Sunday 19th July 2020

This week, we have ‘ramblings’. prayers and a song by Rev Peter Marsh. The video is now available – please do listen to the notices.

The pew sheet is here

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Sunday 12th July 2020

We have a service with music this week.
Here are the pew sheet and order of service.
This is another lovely reading of the Parable of the Sower 

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Sunday 5th July 2020

It is ‘ramblings’ this week by Rev Peter Marsh and this is the pew sheet.
Peter makes reference to the Childrens’ page of this web site…..
Last week’s sermon about Abraham and Isaac is worth reading – whether or not you heard it last week!

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Sunday 28th June 2020

We have a service with music this week.
This is the pew sheet and the order of service.
This week, there are slides showing the words to the hymns and music.

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Sunday 21st June 2020

We have ‘ramblings’ by Rev Peter Marsh this week.

The collect, readings etc are here.

This is the  pew sheet .

The recording this week has a varied video content, displaying pictures of thoughts about the Holy Trinity as requested by Peter in his last ramblings.→

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Sunday 14th June 2020

This week, we have a full service with music.
The order of service is here.
The pew sheet can be found here, and the lectionary for the day here
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Trinity Sunday 7th June 2020

The collect, readings and psalm are here.

This week we have Rev Peter Marsh’s ‘ramblings’ – an informal service.

The benefice pew sheet is here. It contains more information than usual as it is not constrained by having to print on one sheet

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Sunday 31st May 2020 – Pentecost

We have a recorded service for you, and this is the order of service
Apologies to anyone who tried to listen before about 6.30pm on Saturday. Technical gremlins repeated a short section in the middle of the service. 
The collect, readings and psalms are here

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