SUNDAY SERVICES
Paignton (Palace Avenue) Methodist Church offers a variety of worship styles and service times.
See Sunday Morning activities for children and young people
Sunday Service Times
Main Service - each Sunday: 10.30
First and Third Sunday: 09.00
Second Sunday: 18.30
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Service Styles
One service each month either at 09.00, 10.30 and 18.30 will have a different 'flavour'.
These services help us appreciate that worshipping God is a wonderfully creative and imaginative experience and that worship comes in many forms. The ideal is that we recognise that every moment of every day we are in the presence of God and therefore that worship is actually a seven day a week affair!
Every Sunday will offer at least one traditional and occasionally another of a different style.
Traditional Sermon and Communion
The first Sunday each month will normally include a traditional sermon and communion.
Morning Worship with Communion
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We serve Gluten Free and Wheat Free Bread alongside non-alcoholic wine at our Communion Services.
Informal Worship
Normally the third Sunday of each month will be in a less formal worship style. Worship style means things like All Age Worship, Praise and Celebration, Taizé, Healing etc .... The aim is to offer a wider experience of worship in our main service so that we can appreciate some fresh ways of worshipping God.
On all other Sundays the service will be led by local preachers and other Circuit or retired ministers.
Children
We will endeavour to provide activities for children of all ages when required.
After joining with everyone for the first part of morning worship there are various groups for children and young people. Appropriate children's activities will be included in our different worship styles.
See also Sunday Morning activities for children and young people
Music and Drama during "All Age Worship"
Corporate Worship
We worship together in church but we worship individually when we are at home, out shopping, watching TV or reading, working in the house or garden ..... there will be differently flavoured times of corporate worship.
Alternative Services
09.00 Service
The monthly, mainly traditional, communion (normally on the third Sunday) will continue but there will be another service (normally the first Sunday) in one of the different worship styles outlined above. There will be a slightly wider variety of styles used because this service is attended by smaller numbers which makes greater flexibility possible.
18.30 Service
There is just one 18.30 Service per month, normally on the fourth Sunday in the Café Praise style. This service is more informal and is normally held in the church hall at the rear of the church building.
Combined Services with other Paignton Churches
When there is a fifth Sunday in a month, we join with other local churches for a Christians Together in Paignton United Service. This is held at a different Paignton church each time.
Services and Preachers
| Date | Time | Service Style | Preacher |
| 05 February 2012 |
09.00 10.30 |
Worship (Meditation) Worship |
Revd Dermot Thornberry Mrs Irene Cochran |
| 12 February 2012 |
10.30 18.30 |
Worship with Communion Café Praise |
Revd Dermot Thornberry Revd Dermot Thornberry |
| 19 February 2012 |
09.00 10.30 |
Worship with Communion Worship with a difference |
Revd Dermot Thornberry Revd Dermot Thornberry |
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26 February 2012 First Sunday in Lent |
10.30 | Worship | Revd Adrian Phippen |
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04 March 2012 Second Sunday in Lent |
09.00 10.30 |
Worship (Meditation) Worship with Communion |
Revd Dermot Thornberry Revd Dermot Thornberry |
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11 March 2012 Third Sunday in Lent |
10.30 18.30 |
Worship Café Praise |
Mr Ian Hills Revd Dermot Thornberry |
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18 March 2012 Mothering Sunday Fourth Sunday in Lent |
09.00 10.30 |
Worship with Communion All Age Worship |
Revd Dermot Thornberry Revd Dermot Thornberry |
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25 March 2012 Passion Sunday Fifth Sunday in Lent |
10.30 | Worship | Revd Gordon Chambers |
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We serve Gluten Free Bread alongside non-alcoholic wine at our Communion Services.
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Pages of interest
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Something To Sing About
The Story of Methodism in Paignton in the Wesleyan Tradition -
Cabbage Patch
Crafters
Meets alternate Tuesdays - Hameln Visits
Visits to and from Hameln - the town of the 'Pied Piper' (der Rattenfänger) - Useful Links
- Songs - Words & Music
- Musical
'He will take you there' - 'Carols Down the Line'
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