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Some of our churches are now open for short periods during the week for private prayer only. Please check with your parish church.
Welcome to the Benefice of the Lavingtons, Cheverells & Easterton.
West Lavington, Market Lavington and Easterton Churches are open on Wednesday afternoons 1 pm to 4 pm only and Sunday Morning 9.00 am to 12 noon.
Great Cheverell church is open everyday 10 am to 4 pm subject to cleaning and maintenance.
Please follow the clearly displayed instructiona and restrictions which are ther to keep everyone safe and healthy.
Important Notice
While our churches are shut in respect of Sunday Services, which now take place on Zoom, our churches are still be open for private prayer. Please contact churchwardens if you are unsure of open times or go to our web site for updates. We will continue to serve in our villages where we can and pray daily. And of course, we would love to see you on Zoom at our 10.00am. Sunday Mornings.
During this period we are holding a Sunday service via Zoom at 10am every Sunday. This short service will be followed by a time of small group fellowship.
The link will remain the same for all zoom services.
If you would like to join us please follow this link:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7192406094
We are five church communities in the villages of
Market Lavington, West Lavington, Great Cheverell, Little Cheverell & Easterton.
Please continue to pray for Marion, the ministry team and the churchwardens as they work together in our local communities.
From the Rector
Tell me, have you started to change? Are you growing extra skin?
Is there wedding between your toes? Or is it just a very wet week?
These are some of the questions my father would ask when we had had a lot of rain and I was getting restless being stuck inside the house. I spent many hours watching the rain drops run down the windows, bumping into each other until flowing down to pool with all the other droplets that gathered in the dimples of the uneven surface of the outside windowsill.
Tom was an American who, for many years worked for IBM in Bracknell and lived in one of the houses at the bottom of our crescent. At a bar-b-que that we held for the residents in the top field behind the houses, we got talking about the differences between our two similar but very different peoples. At one point he said “I didn’t get why you Brits went on about the weather so much, I thought it was just your way of being polite and avoiding any awkward silences. But it’s not that, you actually do have a lot of different kinds of weather and you can have it all in one day!”
Paul Gauguin, who spent several months visiting friends in England, was reported to have said that England had more shades of grey that any other country he had visited.
What am I trying to say? Have you had enough of the RAIN?
Prayer Diary https://lavingtonchurch.org/prayer-diary/
Check out the Noticeboard for policy documents relating to all the churches in the Benefice.
The Benefice churches take their responsibilities surrounding the safeguarding of children, young people, and adults who may be at risk very seriously, and work in partnership with the Diocese of Salisbury to ensure that we work in accordance with best practice at all times.
Our Parish Safeguarding Policy can be downloaded here.
benefice-safeguarding-policy-2019
If you have any Safeguarding questions or concerns you can contact our Parish Safeguarding Officer, Anji Scofield on email : anji@dauntseycourt.plus.com
Alternatively you can contact the Diocesan Safeguarding Adviser, on 07500 664800 or email heather.bland@salisbury.anglican.org
For Weddings, Funerals and Baptism enquiries and pastoral concerns please contact
Rev Marion Harrison on
01380 816963 or lavingtonrector@gmail.com
The Benefice Office at The Vicarage, 25 White Street, West Lavington will be open for routine administration on Monday and Wednesday 9.00 am to 1 pm (Beth will be working from home during the lockdown)
Beth Warren 01380 816963 churchlavington@gmail.com
