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Craft Sale – This Sat

Musing on Mark – Mysterious Power

Musing on Mark 4, 26 to 34 This week we have 2 of Jesus parables of the Kingdom. What do you make of the first (26-29)? Is God the sower and reaper? Is the ground us? What represents the kingdom of God? Or is it simple illustrating that the kingdom of God is about the mysterious power ...

Musing on Mark

Musing on Mark 3, 20 to the end family matters When I told my mum that I was giving up my architectural practice and entering the ministry full time, she thought I was mad to give up  the ‘safety’ of a profession (this quite overlooked that this ‘safe’ profession had been through a period of over 50% ...

Messy Church – 13th June

This Sunday Messy Church will be back at Chearsley Village Hall (outside).  We still can’t offer you food, but if you bring a picnic and blanket, we would love to sit and eat “together” at the end. Our theme is “Toilet Twinning” so we will be doing lots of crafts and games based on toilets! Can you ...

Musing on the Pentecost readings

John 15, 26 to 27 and 16, 4b to 15 The Spirit of truth and conscience. It’s a long time since I’ve read any Dom Camilo books, but the abiding image in my mind, rightly or wrongly, is of a priest with two small people, one on each shoulder, whispering in his ear, good thoughts from one ...

Thy Kingdom Come Day of Prayer 17th May

Our commitment as a Benefice is to pray as a community continuously for the 12 hours 07:00 – 19:00. This year we are opening a “virtual prayer room” for bookings, using the 24/7 Prayer site. There is no actual online “room”, those praying promise, by booking a “slot”, to pray during the period they have booked, in ...

Christian Aid

Lent Appeal

Lenten Giving With schools once again closed due to the pandemic, it is clear that many students still do not have access to a computer, laptop or data, and this lack of access to digital technology for all pupils, is demonstrating existing inequalities in households. You can go a little way towards helping some of our ...

News on Services

Hello everyone. It is with heavy hearts that we have taken the decision to suspend our regular Sunday Services in church as we enter this new national lockdown. I acknowledge that this will be painful and costly for those of you who’ve been in a position to attend services in church since July, but I sincerely believe ...

Happy Christmas!

Unto us a child is born Unto us a son is given