Our Vision

A caring Christian community, here for everyone.

• to be at the heart of our communities supporting each other through service
• to welcome and accept everyone
• to be rooted in prayer and worship discovering God's will as we journey together with Jesus

We welcome everybody to our churches, which are open during each day for provate prayer or just to visit.

Our mailing address is: Milborne Port Churches, Benefice Office, Church House, Bathwell Lane, Milborne Port, Sherborne, Somerset DT9 5AN.

Our Benefice and Churches

We are a community of Christians worshipping in the five rural churches of our benefice, which is on the Somerset/Dorset border and is a wonderful place to live and work. Although we worship in five different places, we are drawing closer in a variety of ways, and we aspire to work together even more closely. In this way we hope to simplify and reduce the administrative workload, to increase our fellowship as a benefice, and to do God’s will more effectively.

Worship is at the heart of everything we do, and we have a thriving worshipping community, with good regular attendance. St John’s church has a strong robed choir and an excellent organist, with a great team of bellringers on its eight bells. St Peter and St Paul’s in Charlton Horethorne also has an eight-bell peal with an enthusiastic team of bellringers as well as a fine organist.

The Benefice is in the Deanery of Bruton and Cary which is in the Diocese of Bath & Wells in the Church of England. For more information including our team and churches please click on the links on the right.