Dear Friends Well it’s a great privilege to be able to write another weekly letter to you, though I am a little surprised that it was four weeks ago that I wrote the last one. Despite the lockdown it seems the weeks are going by very quickly for me. Summer will be on our doorstep soon. This week I have been…
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Thanks to many generous local donations, and with a focus to fundraise to enable The Dorcas Dress Project to set up a new sewing and craft hub, a few Mothers’ Union members were amongst a team of dressmakers local to our Ducklington branch making scrubs for GP surgeries, NHS staff and carers in our area.…
Rector’s Letter, for Sunday 10 May, 2020.Dear Friends,We are getting hints through the news that there may be some easing of the social restrictions, to be announced over this weekend! Certainly we will all be looking forward… whether with relief or trepidation, to clarity about what we will be able to do and how soon it is likely that children and grandparents…
Regrettably the Church can no longer be left open for private prayer but please pray at home for: – Gemma and Rob De Banks giving thanks for the birth of Rosie Hope, 2 years after the stillbirth of Jack. Adrian and Annie Walsh Steve, Gill Long’s brother-in law, Brenda Cook June Kirk Family and friends of Bob Fidler, whose funeral is on…
Martin has submitted this short video. He says “having been house-bound since the end of January and then under lockdown, I have just started walking again. Spring has come and I thought you might like to share the wonders of the village that you might be missing too”. Well sit back and relax and see a little reminder. All will be well.…
Christian Aid Week starts on the 10th May – the usual house to house collections won’t be taking place but you can still donate – take a look at our donations envelope here
Thank you to everyone who responded so generously with all different groceries to go to those 13 families who depend on free school meals. We were able to make up two full bags for each of them, together with bread donated by the Community Fridge
Regrettably the Church can no longer be left open for private prayer but please pray at home for: – Gemma and Rob De Banks giving thanks for the birth of Rosie Hope, 2 years after the stillbirth of Jack. Adrian and Annie Walsh Steve, Gill Long’s brother-in law, Brenda Cook June Kirk Family and friends of Gordon Etheridge and of Norman Godfrey,…
Dear Fellow Members of St Bartholomew’s Well, what a difference a couple of days can make. Last Sunday basking in temperatures of 24 degrees; by Tuesday it poured down all day and hardly got above 12 degrees. Rather like the Corona Virus outbreak. One day it’s business as usual, two days later we are in lock-down – a hard change to come…