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Upcoming social events taking place in and around St. Mary’s Woodchester in Nov & Dec 2026
The ‘Teacher’s Gospel’
Over the last few months, we have been focusing on Jesus’ teaching in Matthew’s Gospel (his teachings on his calling, the mission of the church and more generally on community life together) and we will be concluding these readings before Advent starts, at the end of November……
Rev Peter Francis
Our new link church in Tanzania
The Diocese of Gloucester is linked with the Anglican Diocese of Western Tanzania, a large and mainly rural diocese.
As part of this relationship a direct link has been formalised between St.Mary’s, Woodchester and St.Paul’s church, Muyama in Western Tanzania……
While most in our community welcome the sound of the church bells we realise the need to limit ringing times, so no one living nearby starts to think they are getting too much of a good thing!
We’ve taken a couple of steps recently to help with this……..