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This weeks Messy Sermon Group Activity is exploring Trinity Sunday
What is the Holy Trinity ? What different sides are there to who you are ? Use this weeks Messy Sermon Group Activity Pack to explore The Holy Trinity. There are stories, prayers and fun activities for the family to share together. Messy Sermon Activities for Trinity Sunday We would love to see some of…

Thank you from Thy Kingdom Come 2020
We hope you have enjoyed and benefitted from this year’s Thy Kingdom Come. The organisers have been moved by the various ways churches, families and individuals have engaged, especially at this time. We hope and pray that the wave of reflection and prayer, nationally and internationally, will result in more people coming to know the…

Messy Sermon Group Activities for Pentecost
So this weeks Messy Sermon Group Activities for families to share are all about Pentecost. These activities include stories, crafts, quizzes and colouring. You could begin with the story and then do as many or as few of the activities as you like, in any order. We would love to see some of your colouring…

The sun is shining – why not head outside for a prayer scavenger hunt!
The Bible tell us that we should be searchers – seeking to know God better and draw closer to Him. Why not practice searching by looking for these items in your garden or on a daily walk and using them to inspire your prayers…
March to May – Spring Blossom at the Vicarage 2
Here is the second set of photos of this year’s spring flowers and blossom at St. Oswald’s Vicarage. The first set is HERE. We hope you like them and that they will bring some joy at this sad time…

Thy Kingdom Come
Join us on our daily Thy Kingdom Come web page for the next 11 days. Thy Kingdom Come is a global prayer movement that invites Christians around the world to pray from Ascension to Pentecost for more people to come to know Jesus. Since its start in May 2016, just three and a half years…
March to May – Spring Blossom at the Vicarage 1
Here are some photos of this year’s spring flowers and blossom at St. Oswald’s Vicarage taken just before and during the first part of the lockdown. Another set will be this time next week. We hope you like them and that they will bring some joy at this sad time. …

20 learning apps for children
Here are some more usesful apps, as recommended by the Guardian. Click here…

War Memorial Flowers
In late 2018, Joseph Morris, St Oswald’s gardener, cleared out the planter around the listed war memorial. It was solid with weeds, poor plants and exhausted soil. So he started again by removing everything, laying a new drainage layer and introducing new soil and plants. He wanted the replacement Spring planting to echo the red…
