Welcome to Beaminster Area Team Ministry Website

The Beaminster Area team Ministry covers fifty square miles of West Dorset and shares borders with Devon in the Diocese of Exeter and Somerset in the Diocese of Bath and Wells. The Beaminster Team is made up of 14 individual parishes plus the chapel in the grounds of Mapperton House, the home of the Earl of Sandwich. We are part of the Lyme Bay Deanery in the Diocese of Salisbury, England. The Area team is made up of myself, the Team Rector, the Team Vicar, 4 Partner Priest's, 4 Licensed Lay Ministers and our Team Administrator. We are wonderfully supported by our Lay Pastoral Assistants and Lay officers.

Our worship shows a wonderful variety of styles ranging from services from the Book of Common Prayer to child centred worship led by lay members of our churches. Music is a very important part of our worship and we have a team of Organists who play across the churches and there are choirs at 6 of our churches they will form a team choir for team services and for weddings and for special services they are augmented with members from the many choirs in the area.

I hope that you will enjoy your visit to our site which contains information about each Church including their history, local contacts, times of our worship, events taking place across the team, articles from the team and our monthly Team News. You will also find information on Baptism, Confirmation and Christian Marriage as well as ways of exploring the Christian faith.

We would be delighted to welcome you at one of our churches or maybe all if you can stay the pace!
If you would like to contact us please do so through the Contact us page.

David Baldwin, Team Rector of the Beaminster Area Team Ministry

Saturday 17th December 2011 - Team Vicar Appointment

We are pleased to announce that the Reverend Jo (Joanna) Neary has accepted the appointment as Pioneer Priest (Team Vicar) in the Beaminster Area Team Ministry.

Jo trained for ministry at St John's College Nottingham having previously worked as a Primary School Teacher; she undertook her Curacy in the parish of St Joseph the worker, Northolt in the Diocese of London and presently is a Non-Stipendiary Associate Minister in the Charminster and Stinsford Benefice.

We have preliminary date of April 24th set Jo's licensing by the Bishop of Sherborne.

Please give thanks to God for this appointment and remember Jo and her family in your prayers, as they prepare to join us in ministry here.

David