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The Ewelme Benefice comprises of the Parish of Dursley and the Parish of Uley with Owlpen and Nympsfield. Our churches are St James the Great, Dursley; St Giles, Uley; Holy Cross, Owlpen; St Bartholomew, Nympsfield.
This website has been redesigned - if you find any problems, please contact Tony King or the Benefice Office - see Contacts page.
Services for 17th March 2024 - Fifth Sunday of Lent - No Live stream today.
8am at St James, Dursley, Said Holy Communion
10am at St James, Dursley, Worship on the theme of St Patrick
10am at St Giles, Uley, Parish Holy Communion
Our weekly notice sheet/pew leaflet is available here
For news about the vacancy, please scroll down
Future live streams are on 24/03, 31/03 and 21/04. Normal first and third Sundays after that.
During Lent we shall be live streaming the Churches Together joint services from the Methodist Church, Dursley at 6pm Sunday evenings. The link for Sunday 17th March is here
Also during Lent we are running a Zoom Lent course on Wednesday Evenings at 7.30pm starting on 21st February. This will use our 'Recurring Meeting' setting - the link is here.
For Sundays when we are not streaming, or when things go wrong, we suggest you use the Cathedral service instead. The Sunday Eucharist from Gloucester Cathedral is available to live-stream from 10.15am. To join click here You may need to click the play button (a right pointing arrow) to start the stream.
Printed Service booklets for the live streams: There are A4 printed service booklets available for our Holy Communion services.. The St James version for Lent is here. The St Giles version (used throughout the year) is here.
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Our churches
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Current Information
These booklets can be printed at home where possible - for double sided printing, flip on short edge.. If you would like a printed version sent to you, please contact the Benefice Office – details here or on the Pew Leaflet. We will include the words for the hymns when resources allow.
Vacancy News - we interviewed candidates for the post of Rector on Wednesday 21st February. We are still waiting to hear the outcome - Bishop Robert advises us to be patient!
Evening Prayer via Zoom on Wednesday evenings at 6pm. The link can be found here - or go into Zoom using Meeting ID: 893 3298 0143 Passcode: 899154
Morning Prayer is said at 9am Thursday in person in St James and at 9am on Wednesday via Zoom..NB There will be no Zoom MP on 13th and 20th March, 2024 The Zoom link can be found here - or go into Zoom using Meeting ID: 893 3298 0143 Passcode: 899154
Churches open for private prayer.
St Bartholomew's in Nympsfield and St Giles in Uley are both open during the week for private prayer and reflection. Holy Cross in Owlpen is also usually open or a key can be obtained from the Estate Office. Following further vandalism, St James in Dursley is normally only open between 9.30am and 12.30 am on weekdays and for scheduled services and events. From 18th to 21st December 2023 it will be open from 9.30am to 3pm. During school holidays we may have to keep the church shut, but it may be possible during mornings to ask the Administrator in the Office in the Parish Centre (behind the east end of the church) to have it unlocked.
Details of services and events can be found on the Calendar.
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Calendar
Morning Prayer via Zoom
Margaret Simpson's funeral at St James
Evening Prayer via Zoom
Dursley PCC meeting
Lent Course- Via Zoom - Act on Poverty
Morning Prayer in St James
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