As you may have heard, our dear friend Beryl died yesterday afternoon shortly after 2 pm. Please remember her in your prayers. Beryl has been a dedicated member of St Oswald’s for many years and has been our Verger for the last ten. She did a huge amount of work for St Oswald’s behind the…
We need to have a big clear out at church, especially of the balcony which is full of accumulated stuff much of which needs throwing away. All our friends from church and community are welcome to help out at our big clean up on Saturday 21st July between 10 and 2. Please come for some…
EMBRACE, a Christian charity working in the Middle East, asks us to pray for Gaza and, if possible to write to our MPs and ask them to take action. Here is what EMBRACE is saying: ‘It is not possible to witness the horror of innocent protesters, including children, being shot, killed or maimed by trained…
The work is finished and the Hall is looking fab! This morning Phil, Imi, Emma and Team 90 handed the hall back to us – this will make our service to the local community even better – somewhere smart and welcoming for children and adults alike. Each team member made a speech – a really…
This week’s assembly thene is ‘Noticing a Need’ so I chose to talk about Mother Teresa of Calcutta: she noticed, when her Order had sent her to Calcutta, how many people (including children) were living and dying on the streets. The street people were hungry, cold, often sick, sometimes dying – and, of course, homeless…
Our Messy Sermon Group (Trendy All Age Sunday School) has been raising funds to twin our three church toilets – the £180 raised will be used to build three new village loos in Africa. You can read more about it here: https://www.toilettwinning.org/ The idea arose from learning about ‘the water of life’ – Jesus’ encounter with…
Apologies to anyone who has been trying to get in touch over the past couple of weeks but has had problems getting through on the church phone (01254 698321). We’ve been having a problem with our phone; this has now been fixed. The church is always open on Wednesdays from 6-7 p.m. – this is…
A big THANKYOU to Canon Michael and Mrs Carol Ratcliffe who have arranged for our Messy Sermon Group to have their own processional cross. They bought it from the shop at Southwell Minster (Nottingham) an persuaded a neighbour to add the carrying pole. Here is Autumn, carrying the cross at Sunday’s all All Age Worship…
The remains of an Anglo-Saxon church have been discovered on the Holy Island of Lindisfarne in Northumberland. A community excavation has uncovered a church nave, chancel and an altar base built of sandstone blocks on a ridge called the Heugh and experts think that it was part of the long lost Celtic abbey where St. Aidan raised a wooden church in A.D. 635. Accounts…