With the exception of the Christmas Party all these are free and no booking or membership is needed! Friday 14th December: 5.30-8pm Children’s Christmas Party for children from Shadsworth, Whitebirk and Knuzden.. Tickets are £2 available on Wednesday afternoons at the Hall. A Very Important Person has promised to call in. Tues 18th: 6pm Christingle…
Many thanks to everyone who came along and contributed to this evening’s carol service. Here are some photos in no particular order. There are still three more services to go in our Christmas programme, click here for details. [print_gllr id=7047]…
We joined in, this week, with 50th Anniversary Christingle services in aid of The Children’s Society. We had great fun, everyone making their own Christingle during the service, singing sings and carols and hearing about the work of The Children’s Society. It was a busy service – all our chairs were full and people had…
When she heard about our need to raise money to do repairs to several large areas of plaster work at St Oswald’s , one of our children – Abigail – decided straight away that she wanted to help. So she arranged to go on a sponsored walk. Abigail and her parents did a 5 mile…
https://www.embraceme.org/sign-daily-advent-reflections Follow the link above and sign up for a daily reflection to be sent to you from December 1st. Following the path to peace on earth will lead you through 25 moments of stillness in December, as we consider a different scripture about peace each day. By signing up for these daily Advent reflections you…
A big thanks to everyone who came along and all those who worked so hard to make our Christmas Fayre so fab! We raised £1089 which is a fabulous sum that will help to keep St Oswald’s open for its local community. Here are some photos. Enjoy!…
Asia Bibi, is a Christian woman who lives in Pakistan, and the mother of 6 children; one of many thousands of Christians across the world who are persecuted for their faith. Asia was arrested in 2009 after an argument with fellow workers whilst picking berries. She was subsequently arrested and imprisoned. In November 2010, she…
Today we commemorated the 100th anniversary of the end of WWI. A quiet service at 8 a.m. started the proceedings, remembering those whose names are on our War Memorial, and praying for peace. The congregations were the first to see the seats ‘reserved’ in memory of those names – our own version of ‘Seen but…
Years ago – and some of you will have heard me talking about this before – I went to a performance of John’s Gospel at St Luke’s Church in Blackburn – just next to St Wilfrid’s School. I say ‘performance’ because it featured a solitary actor who proclaimed the whole of John’s Gospel from memory…
Our All Age Worship here at St. Oswald’s broke new ground this morning. Our PCC decided that they wanted to focus, this year, on poverty at home: this is the 350th poorest parish in the Church of England. Our harvest collection of food went to Blackburn Food Bank. We listened to the amazing Rev Pam…