Happy Easter from your Church Family.

The Parish Scarecrow Trail 2025

Please come and join us this year - it is the best fun for everyone and our families love it! It is on now and ends on the 27 April. This year the theme is 'Your Favourite Book'.

The Scarecrow Trail involves about 30 scarecrows being lovingly and creatively made by local residents around a different theme each year. Each Scarecrow is displayed throughout Tutshill village in front gardens and you are challenged to guess the identity of each one! It’s a fantastic community event and helps raise money for charity; this year in addition to supporting our parish churches, we will donate to SARA and Wye Valley Greenway.

£3 entry forms are available from the Lifestyle Express Shop in Tutshill NP16 7DJ.

THIS YEAR ALSO AVAILABLE ONLINE UNTIL THE 27 APRIL - This year the scarecrow trail is available online for people who find it difficult to walk around or live just too far away - family and friends can join in wherever they live! Visit the Just Giving website - just type in "Tidenham Parish Church", copy and paste the url below or alternatively click on this link:

JustGiving for Tutshill ScareCrow Trail 2025

https://www.justgiving.com/page/tutshill-scarecrows-2025?utm_medium=FR&utm_source=CL

MAKING YOUR £3 DONATION - Please make your £3 donation to enter the competition and be eligible to win the special online prize. And don't forget to tick the Gift Aid option if you can.

PLEASE FORWARD TO YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY

Thank you and enjoy guessing the Favourite Book Scarecrows 2025 - Scarecrow Committee March 2025

Link Magazine

Click here for our Spring magazine - Summer coming soon!

OUR NEW VICAR

We are currently advertising for a new Vicar for Tidenham Parish with Beachley and Lancaut, who will also be Vicar in Charge at the parishes of St Briavels with Hewelsfield and Brockweir. Click here for the Profile which was produced by all three PCCs in preparation for this post. Advertisements will appear in the Church Times on Friday 9 May, 16 May, 23 May and 30 May with a Closing Date of 9.00am Wednesday 4 June, shortlisting Monday 9 June 2025 at 7.30pm and interviews Monday 23 June 2025. Please pray for a successful outcome.

ANNUAL CHURCH MEETINGS SUNDAY 11 MAY / OUR NEW CHURCH ELECTORAL ROLL

Our Annual Church Meetings (Annual Meeting of Parishioners and APCM) will be held at 12:00 noon in St Luke’s Church Tutshill on Sunday 11 May, after the regular church service.

This is the opportunity for our church community to elect two churchwardens for the next 12 months and one third of our Parochial Church Council (PCC) members for the next 3 years. Our current churchwardens Brian Duerden and Robin Riordan have both advised that they are willing to stand for another year. There are expected to be six vacancies for the PCC this year, and Paul Coombs has indicated that he is willing to stand for another 3-year term.

If you would like more information, please do speak to the churchwardens or to Iain Gardiner. Application forms for nominating churchwardens and PCC Members are available from Annabelle, Iain or download from this website and hard copies are available at the back of each church. The formal legal notice of these meetings has been posted on church notice boards.

The Trustees’ Report and Annual Accounts for 2024 have been approved by PCC and signed off by our Independent Examiner. If you wish an electronic or hard copy of this document or the other papers for our Annual Church Meetings, please do let Annabelle or Iain know.

Iain Gardiner Tidenham PCC Secretary: 07738 095839 iain706gardiner@btinternet.com

Creation of our new Church Electoral Roll - In advance of the Annual Church Meetings, the PCC has this year been required to create a brand new Church Electoral Roll, which has been posted on all Church notice boards.

Thanks to everyone who has submitted their forms! If there are any errors, please do let Iain know! Iain Gardiner Tidenham PCC Church Electoral Roll Officer:
Contact 07738 095839 or email: iain706gardiner@btinternet.com

Here are more exciting news items:

Please look at our new Welcome Pack
Also our latest LINK MAGAZINE is now in!
GARAS Certificate of Donation
We were recently visited by a pilgrim: click here for her fascinating newsletter about her physical and spiritual journey
And our Wellbeing Ministry has been awarded a grant from the Benefact Trust!

We are an eclectic Church of England parish in the most south westerly corner of the Diocese of Gloucester, on the Welsh border with Chepstow, between the rivers Severn and Wye; our Parish covers Tutshill, Beachley, Sedbury, Tidenham, Tidenham Chase, Boughspring, Stroat, Woodcroft or Llancaut. There are three church buildings at Tutshill, Tidenham and Tidenham Chase, offering Sunday worship services ranging with traditional Eucharistic worship, Common Worship and the Book of Common Prayer and more informal modern worship. We are also active during the week and we are proud to say our churches support Fairtrade! Please come and join us, whether you live in the Parish or further afield - we offer fellowship, support and fun!

Please take a look at our News section to find out up to date information - the briefing, sermons and upcoming events.

Click here for the Tidenham Parish online Worship You-tube link

Our Parish motto ‘where the river flows everything will live’ (Ezekiel 47:9) reflects our vision within the local and global environment. Our Parish vision of ‘Living Life Together in the Flow of God’s Love’ complements the Gloucester Diocesan LIFE vision and we have a strong emphasis on 'doing relationship well' through transforming worship, authentic discipleship, building up capacity, loving community and engaging mission. This is embedded into our lay ministry, pastoral care and engagement within the community.

Feel free to get in touch with us via email or phone, or visit us in person.

Tidenham Parish Church is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All post holders and volunteers are expected to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to acceptable pre-appointment checks, including a satisfactory DBS Check where applicable.