Worship on Zoom - Eucharistic or a Service of the Word.
Come together on a Wednesday afternoon for tea and cake or coffee and cake and share your stories.
A time for parents and children to come together in church. Coffee and chat for families and we provide a safe place to grow, be curious, and be supported by other caregivers and the core staff. Most of all, it's a fun environment to get messy!
We meet together in St Margaret's Church every Tuesday and Friday
This violin and piano duo plays a programme of varied music. They replace the original duo who pulled out yesterday.
Charlie Lovell-Jones debuted at a sold-out Royal Festival Hall debut aged 15. He has
since soloed with orchestras including the BBC Philharmonic, English Chamber, Noord
Nederlands, Sinfonietta Cracovia, RTÉ Concert, Sendai Philharmonic and Yamagata Symphony,
broadcasting on television and radio. In 2017, BBCNOW premiered Charlie’s composition for
violin, soprano and orchestra, Cariad Cyntaf, with Rebecca Evans and himself as soloists. He has
worked with conductors including John Wilson, Edward Gardner, Sir Mark Elder, Rumon Gamba,
Peter Oundjian, Daniela Candillari, Louis Lohraseb, Ken Takaseki, Moritz Gnann, and Michael
Seal.
Charlie was the youngest-ever member of the John Wilson Orchestra, aged 14. At the
BBC Proms 2021, he debuted as concertmaster of Wilson’s multi-award-winning Sinfonia of
London (SoL), with whom he has recorded many critically-acclaimed CDs, including his debut
concerto recording of the Walton Violin Concerto, which released in February 2025. Charlie has
found success in several international competitions, including BBC Young Musician 2016, and the
Sendai 2019, Shanghai Isaac Stern 2020, and Joachim 2021 International Competitions.
Charlie was a Christ Church Prize Scholar at Oxford University, where he graduated in 2020 with a Gibbs Prize in Music. He received a Bicentenary Scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music, and graduated in 2022 with the Strings Postgraduate Prize. In the same year, he released his debut recital album on Linn Records as part of the RAM Bicentenary Series.
He won the Hattori Foundation, Harriet Cohen, John Fussell, Drake Calleja and Countess of Munster Trusts’ awards, and is a J&A Beare Violin Society Artist. Charlie studied for over ten years with Rodney
Friend MBE, and from 2022-2024, at the Yale School of Music with Augustin Hadelich.
Charlie has enjoyed masterclasses with Ida Haendel, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Vadim Repin,
Menahem Praessler, Pinchas Zukerman, James Ehnes, Leonidas Kavakos, Tai Murray, and with
Ida Kavafian at the Lincoln Center.
He has also coached with Ani Kavafian, Boris Slutsky, and cellist of the Brentano Quartet, Nina Lee.
Charlie is in regular demand nationally and internationally, and has soloed at venues
including Smith Square Hall, Birmingham Symphony Hall, the National Concert Hall Dublin, the
Snape Maltings, the Wigmore Hall and the Konzerthaus Berlin. His 2024-25 season includes
further SoL recordings and concerts, performances of Bach, Brahms, Britten, Bruch, Sibelius,
Tchaikovsky, Vivaldi, and Vaughan-Williams Concertos, and several duo and trio recitals including
his debut at the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
Charlie plays a fine 1777 Giovanni Battista Guadagnini violin, generously loaned by a
benefactor
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Nearly every Sunday at St Luke's Church there is a service. The Fourth Sunday is usually a Non-Eucharist Service.
Please join us, you will be very welcome.
During Advent and Christmas please go to separate pages for special services.
A time for parents and carers with babies to come together, have coffee and discuss. Giving support to each other helps both parties. Jan Renwick gives a lead in this group.
An open space to meet people and unpack life's big questions together
Prayer Breakfast
A simple breakfast, a hymn, Bible reading and prayer.
The themes for May will be:-
Our focus for prayer this month are:
• On the 80th Anniversary of VE Day, we remember those who fought and lost their lives.
• We pray for all those struggling with their mental health.
• We thank God for the work of Christian Aid and the Big Brekkie being held today at St Luke’s Church for this charity.
• For our Devon County Show, the show chaplains and Churches Together stand at the show.
• For all those suffering with MS and those living with Dementia
• We pray for our St Luke’s Mission link Ben & Katy Ray and their work in Tanzania and Anne Plested supporting Bethlehem Bible College
• Current affairs
All are welcome.
On Saturday 3rd May , you are invited to come along to enjoy anything from a slice of toast to a full English breakfast, with fruit juice and tea or coffee. The ‘Brekkie’ is free but donations to Christian Aid will be welcomed.
There will be two sittings from 9am to 10am and then from 10am to 11am. Please let Jill Allen know to which ‘sitting’ you will be coming. You can sign up to which sitting you would like your ‘brekkie’ on a list which will be at the back of St. Luke’s Church, or you can contact Jill by e mail [email protected] or phone 01392 877195.
Revd. Tony Raven will be our Chief Cook, assisted by his wife, Dorothy, and Ken Greedy.
This year our contribution to Christian Aid will be more important than ever, considering governments’ reduction of help to the world’s poorest people. We need to step up and do our bit!
‘Open the Story at St Luke’s Forest School’ is held in the grounds of Countess Wear Community School. A bible story is explored with lively activities planned. It culminates in discussion, prayer and a song round a bonfire. There are regularly twenty to thirty people of all ages attending, and sometimes more. The majority of these are children but it is a whole family event. It is held on the second Sunday of the month.
Held in St Margaret’s Church
On the second Monday of the month at 2.30 pm
Julian meetings are held all over the world to foster the practice and teaching of meditation and contemplative prayer within the Christian tradition.
It is a chance to still oneself from the busyness of life, to enter into deep silence, stillness. Many people repeat a word quietly to centre their prayer and as the mind may wander, come back to the word.
We start with music to steady our thoughts. This leads us into our 40 minutes of silence and then music once again to lead us out from the depths of stillness. We then finish with tea and cake and chat.
If you would like to come along and give it a go, you can be sure of a very warm welcome as we enter silence together. We look forward to meeting you.
If this has stirred your curiosity about contemplative prayer, Mother Julian of Norwich, or you would like to find out more then please do not hesitate to contact me.
Elizabeth Reed
email: [email protected]
Website: thejulianmeetings.net
The two churches come together on the 3rd Sunday of the month for a communion service. We alternate between St Margaret's Church and St Luke's Church.
