Severn Vineyard's All You Can Eat Buffet

Dec 05 2024 281 ep. 26 mins 2

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Severn Vineyard is a Bristol-based church for people who are searching for hope and wanting to contribute to the well-being of other people. This podcast feed is pretty much everything we're making in audio form, from talks and discussions to meditations and music. That's why it's our "all you can eat buffet", with the whole spread in one convenient place. (Look out for more focused feeds on particular topics as we launch them if you prefer going "a la carte".) Online, we live at https://www.severnvineyard.org You'll find our live online gatherings and social chatter at https://www.facebook.com/severnvineyard And our big stack of videos is on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRqBXZtMWY1XkOXJdhJ-12A

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