
Into 2021
Into 2021… Grant Forrest, Business Manager at Lee Abbey Devon led community prayers on New Year’s Eve. Our reading was 1 Kings 3:4-14. The eve…
Into 2021… Grant Forrest, Business Manager at Lee Abbey Devon led community prayers on New Year’s Eve. Our reading was 1 Kings 3:4-14. The eve…
We are delighted to introduce a fun experience for families to discover more about themselves and each over over the October Half Term. Tuesday 27th…
As the country joined weekly to clap for our Key Workers, here at Lee Abbey Devon, we wondered, how might we bless Key Workers as…
Dear Friends I am delighted to let you know that Revd Gordon Crowther has been appointed as the next Warden of Lee Abbey Devon. He…
We loved having Malcolm Guite with us last week unpacking the seven I AM sayings of Jesus from the gospel of John, referencing his sonnets…
When you’re an 88-year-old widower following a marriage of 63 years, you may not consider yourself in the dating market, but you do “know what…
Because she’s a housewife and 21 years old with two children and another on the way, she hasn’t had time to learn English. Mariam is…
Next week, Baroness Caroline Cox, member of the House of Lords and CEO of the Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust (HART), will join us at Lee…
The word ‘health’ is derived from the same Indo-European root as ‘heal,’ ‘whole,’ and ‘holy’. “To be healthy is literally to be whole,” says Christian…
Alfredo’s mother called him after one week of being at Lee Abbey. She asked about his first impressions and his answer was, “Everything is very…
The numbing shock of the sea surged around him. Jim Barker’s baptism in the North Devon water was an unexpected event. With a mother who…
A choir composed of past-addicts came to perform in Jane Willis’s church. In a village beneath the South Downs, Jane says this group served the…
Witch doctors converted, demons cast out, cripples healed. It’s a crazy life in Burundi, one which can be dangerous – but God calls us to…
Berit is eighteen years old and will begin university in Switzerland this autumn to become a doctor. Most of us on community think of her…
Every morning this season, we wake to hear the dawn chorus of spring. “The church has an opportunity to say, ‘enough is enough’ and do…
“I wrote to Lee Abbey on a scrap of a piece of paper, saying I’ve left my abusive alcoholic husband in Portugal, I don’t have…
DAILY BLOGS FROM THE TEAM Thu 10th May: Day 1 We have reached our first destination of Lee Abbey Knowle West Small Missional Community. Our…
“Just get there. Don’t worry about the program – just book a bed.” Dave Revell’s friend said this to him over twenty years ago, encouraging…
Claudia’s hometown is known for the “Fachwerkhaus,” or half-timbered houses. From southwest Germany, near the Black Forest, Claudia grew up in Esslingen, a hilly town,…
It’s 1954 in London. You’re a young soldier going to hear Billy Graham speak in Harringay with over 11,000 others. It’s a buoyant horde of…
Waqas is a 4th generation Christian from Pakistan, saying, “You become the salt of the earth. We are free and we should be able to…
A crowded choir of sheep “baa-ing,” the fresh squeak of a newborn, its bristly wool drenched by mom’s licks, its bow-legged brother with his rear…
If you’re lucky, you may have seen a pigeon dance. Plamen, a current community member from Bulgaria, says, “When I was a kid, I had…
How do you best remember the power of a story you’ve experienced? Are you taken back by an image, a photograph, or do words have…
It’s 9pm. You’re twenty-two years old, riding a British train with a girl you just met. You’re on the way to a retreat center where…
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