For 4 days at the end of October, Malmesbury Abbey was transformed into a starship!  With about 45 children and adults and a cafe for good measure, the Abbey was full of music, games, drama and my personal favorite, alien snot (aka yucky dip). This was Starship Discovery Holiday Club, and it was amazing fun.  Roy Windle and The Space Cadets lead the music with such classics as Tiny Little Me. Clair Cork ran the Birdcage Cafe with her waistline busting cupcakes, there where volunteers who ran games, crafts, and …

On Sunday October 10th Malmesbury Abbey will be beautifully decorated for harvest with pumpkins and carrots and old bicycles. The Abbey is working with local charity bikes4africa to help turn old bikes into usuable bikes for African schoolchildren who currently face extremely long daily walks to school from often remote villages. They will also be collecting books for the bikes4africa project and mobile phones for wateraid.
Helen King from jole rider who run the bikes4africa project said “We’ll hope to get about 50 bikes from this collection. That might not sound …

STARSHIP DISCOVERY Holiday Club
Malmesbury Abbey
28 to 30 Oct 2010
10am-12 for a FREE fun-packed,gungey type of Holiday Club for 5 to 11 year old in Malmesbury area.
To register with the STARSHIP DISCOVERY holiday club, you can download the form HERE or just turn up!
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SCROLL TO BOTTOM FOR UPDATE Neill, the vicar here at Malmesbury Abbey, is in Uganda on a two-week trip from September 9th-24th with a small team from the Diocese of Bristol. ‘I’m there to represent the Abbey and as Area Dean the wider church in North Wiltshire, and particularly to build links with the Diocese of Kigezi staying in Kabale on the Rwandan border, just south of the equator. It’s gorilla and primate territory, so I should fit in quite well. Kabale has an astonishing story of physical and …

On Wednesday 8th September at 7.30pm the spectacular African’s Children’s Choir are back at Malmesbury Abbey for a vibrant concert of African and Gospel music. Tickets are available from the Abbey Bookshop for £6 (adults) and £4 (children and students) and all proceeds for this event go to the choir.

The African Children’s Choir™ is made up of some of the neediest and most vulnerable children in their countries. Many have lost one or both parents to poverty or disease. The Choir helps these children break away from the everyday cycle of poverty and hopelessness. While touring …

This June we began our summer teaching series from Genesis 37-50 —Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dream-life. If you want to go deeper with this material we suggest you buy R.T.Kendall’s ‘God Meant it for good’ which is on sale at the back of the Abbey. You can also catch up on sermons you missed on our website.
For those of you who are curious as to what is coming up in our future Abbey series a sneak preview of what is provisionally planned: This autumn we hope to study 1 …

Across the Church of England the end of June and the beginning of July is associated with the ordination of deacons and priests – this is linked to the feast day of St Paul, June 29th. This year there are four people to support or remember in your prayers who have a strong Abbey connection; three ordinations and one licensing. Rev Lee Barnes, curate at the Abbey will be ordained priest on Saturday July 3rd at Bristol Cathedral at 3.30pm. Members of the Malmesbury & Upper Avon group are …

The charity Music in Country Churches is returning to Malmesbury Abbey for three concerts on Friday May 21st & Saturday May 22nd 2010. The concerts will be of international calibre and will be raising money for repair and maintenance at Malmesbury Abbey and Little Somerford Church.
On the 21st the Kings Concert perform Purcell, Vivaldi and Handel at 7.30pm; on Saturday at 11am the Russian violinist Sergey Krylov performs unaccompanied Bach and Paganini; and then on Saturday at 7.30pm the London Chamber Orchestra, with Krylov, perform Mozart and Haydn in the …

Loads of pics on the Malmesbury Abbey Skate Facebook page.  You dont need an account to access it.

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Well done to the young people of TRAX, FNT and Piepline who baked cakes and sold them at the Abbey last Sunday to raise money for the Haiti Earthquake appeal. £267 was raised and it will be banked tomorrow morning in the DEC’s bank account.
Reports of the earthquake in Haiti this week have left us all with the deeply shocking news that tens of thousands may be dead and approximately 3 million lives affected. As international relief teams continue to arrive in Port-au-Prince it’s good to remember that we can …