If you would like someone from the church to visit you at home, please contact the Pastoral Visiting Team coordinator: Joy Terry 01404 812424. Home Communion is also available and the Vicar, Rev. Mark Ward, or Curate, Rev. Howard Govier, are happy to visit you on request.

We have a variety of Sunday worship services at St. John's (3 or 4 Sundays a month) and St. Gregory's Churches (2 Sundays a month), including a service of Holy Communion every Sunday morning, Family Worship once a month and Evensong (Book of Common Prayer) four times a year. The calendar of services can be seen at www.achurchnearyou.com/tipton-st-john/ and www.achurchnearyou.com/venn-ottery-st-gregory/.

A small, informal homegroup meets on Thursday evenings in Tipton. We discuss the Bible and its relevance to our lives today, worship and pray and a separate daytime group will be starting in the New Year. All are welcome, wherever you live or worship.

Young people, of secondary school age, have two groups that meet once a month:

1^st Sunday at 7 pm Chill Out in Newton Poppleford Church; 2^nd Sunday at 5 pm TYC in Tipton Church.

BecA  prayer meeting is held in Tipton Church at 9.30 am on the second Saturday of the month

·        informal coffee, chat and prayer sessions are held in Tipton Church at 10 am on alternate Thursdays in term time

We can order Daily Bible Reading Notes for your personal use. They are produced 3, 4 or 6 times a year: a range is on display at the back of Tipton church but others can be ordered.

There are many ways in which you could get involved in our church, as little or as much as you would like:

We have a small choir, affiliated to the Royal School of Church Music, always open to new members; people who read from the Bible or lead intercessionary prayer in services, arrange the flowers in church, make things for the church to sell (crafts, cakes or other home produce), make coffee after church services or help cater for special events such as the Harvest Supper.

There are a variety of administrative jobs you could help with; or help with regular events such as Tea and Toast, coffee mornings or less frequent events such as the Shrove Tuesday pancake races. You may feel you could serve on the pastoral visiting team or contribute to a prayer team.

There are also a group of people who help to maintain the churches, including odd jobs.

To become a member of our church (only required if you wish to vote at the Annual Church meeting, or serve as a member of the Parochial Church Council) you need to join the Church Electoral Roll. A form can be obtained from the Electoral Roll Officer.

Charities this parish has supported over the last year:

Tear Fund (lent lunches), the Donkey Sanctuary, the Mission to Seafarers, the Children's Society (Christingle collection)

Samaritan's Purse: Turn on the Tap campaign and Operation Christmas Child (the gifts in a shoebox scheme)

Christian Aid (doorstep collection in Christian Aid week)

Devon Historic Churches Trust (sponsored bike ride every September)

Livability, Shelterbox, Christian Alliance Housing (Grapevine Exeter)

National Churches Trust

Heartswell (used postage stamps - box at the back of Tipton Church)

The Torch Trust for the Blind (cassette tapes (for re-recording) and portable cassette players in working order - box at the back of Tipton Church)

St. Petrock's Centre for the homeless (Exeter) - large basket at the back of Tipton Church for sleeping bags, rucksacks, men's boots and men's hats.

Traidcraft (Fairtrade goods sold at coffee mornings and after the morning services)

Fund-raising for the church

Monthly coffee morning, summer fete, Christmas bazaar

Available to at the back of Church:

Cross in my pocket

Suttons (gardening) catalogue

Christmas, Birthday and other greetings cards, many home-made

Quality jigsaws of Tipton Church and its stained glass windows