On Easter Sunday 2023 Mike Plant preached his last sermons as our pastor and on Saturday 15th April we held a farewell service to say goodbye to Mike and Margaret. They have now completed their move to Middlesbrough and have begun a well-earned retirement. After over six years of faithful service in Honiton, we will miss them and they will miss us. The church commenced the search for a new pastor some time ago and this process continues. Our weekly meetings continue as normal. Mike and Margaret have particularly asked for prayer that they may settle into their new life in Middlesbrough: they will be attending a local church that is new to them and taking up some new activities. Likewise we would value prayer as we work through this period without a pastor and seek God's help in the search for the right man to take up the task. We give thanks for the ministry of Mike and Margaret and for God's goodness to us during those years, not least during the exceptional challenges of Covid. The church's verse for the year of 2023 remains very apt - "Till now the LORD has helped us".