Dear Fellow Members of St Bartholomew’s Margaret and I are literally just back from our annual tour in the motor caravan, I say annual but we didn’t have one last year. On returning home I’m trying to sort through the piles of emails which generally get ignored when I’m away, so apologies if something I should have been attending to has got…
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September 2021 Dear Friends, So now we are in an interregnum (vacancy), which can be very challenging for all of us but also a period for reassessment, steady growth and development. Some of us may be experiencing something of the pain, joy, challenge, loss and gain that comes with an interregnum. Please be reassured that we intend to keep Ducklington church life…
UPDATED PROTOCOLS AS AGREED AT THE PCC MEETING THURSDAY, 22nd JULY, 2021 It has been agreed by the PCC that for safety reasons we will continue to ask people to wear masks, use hand sanitizer, social distance and not have any communal singing. We will continue with the singing group. Holy Communion will be offered in one kind only. The PCC decided…
Dear Friends, it has nearly come to that “time to say goodbye” and Nicci and I hope our departure from Ducklington will leave the church and village in good heart and voice as society begins, slowly, to open up again to a post-pandemic normality. As I look back over the five years that I have been in post as rector, I hope…
Ordinary time – or extraordinary time? Bishop Steven asked a question last Sunday, on Pentecost: “how much help do we need to live the Christian life?” God has given all of us a commission to help to change the world. The mission of the church is the mission of Christ to proclaim the good news of the Kingdom. God has entrusted us…
GB21 Update Tue 4 May 2021 Dearest Greenbelters, We’re absolutely heartbroken to tell you that we need to cancel Greenbelt for a second year. We have spent the last few months hoping and praying that the government would step up and provide festivals like ours with the insurance protection we need to go ahead. It is clear now that we…
Dear Friends This Christian Aid week we need to do things a bit differently because of Covid-19 hence this e-envelope. Despite the pandemic there is still huge need across the world due to the Climate Change Crisis having a devastating impact on communities. Right now families struggle to survive without a reliable water source. Every day, they walk further, dig deeper and…
We look forward to Bishop Gavin attending our service on the 16th May but it is particularly important that you let Sue Fenn (709814 or fennsue@aol.com) know if you would like to be in church on Sunday, 16th May as there is a cap of 45 persons to meet the safe distancing requirements. Please advise Sue Fenn by ‘phone on 01993-709814…
Dear friends at St. Bartholomew’s, It was going to happen sometime… the main question was when! My time as rector was always to run between 5 to 6 years so Nicci and I began to explore possible areas for our new home over recent months as I approached my eighth decade. It is interesting that we have been drawn back toward the…
Dear Fellow Members of St Bartholomew’s Firstly, a tremendous thank-you to all who helped and supported us in our very restrained Fritillary Sunday. The meadow was beautiful, probably the best display of fritillaries I have seen, and special thanks to Robin for organising the plant stall on the churchyard wall. From the meadow and the plant stall we raised nearly £500 for…