Seven Churches in South Oxfordshire

Church News (Page 35)

From the Rector: Sunday 4th December

Dear Friends, A very warm welcome to this service, wherever you are worshipping in the Langtree Team ministry area. A particular welcome if you are visiting us for the first time or are staying with friends and family. May God’s peace be upon us all this Advent season. Today we remember the prophets such as Isaiah and Micah, who saw into God’s…

From the Rector: Sunday 27th November

Dear Friends, A very warm welcome to this service, wherever you are worshipping this morning across the Langtree Team Ministry area. A special welcome to Archdeacon Judy who is visiting Woodcote (8am), Ipsden and Checkendon this morning, and also to James and Georgie Quinby, visiting Checkendon after their return from service with Wycliffe Bible Translators in Mali. May God’s peace and joy…

From the Rector: Sunday 20th November

Dear friends, A very warm welcome to this service, wherever you are worshipping in the Langtree Team Ministry area. May God’s peace and joy be with us all. A particular blessing for all the pets and other animals who have been brought along this morning to the Animal’s Service at Checkendon ! Our pets and animals give us so much joy, and…

From the Rector: Sunday 23rd October

Dear Friends, A very warm welcome to this service, wherever you are worshipping across the Langtree Team Ministry today. It is half term week, so please pray for all pupils, parents, staff and governors of our local schools, and thank God for the work that they all do in building up our local communities. Give thanks too, for your churchwardens, church council…

From the Rector: Sunday 16th October

Dear friends, A very warm welcome to this service, and a particular welcome if you are with us for the first time, in whatever capacity. Welcome to Alan and Margaret It is lovely to welcome Revd Alan and Margaret Gates to the Langtree Team family – this is their first official Sunday on duty. Thank you to those of you who came…

From the Rector: Sunday 9th October

Dear friends, A very warm welcome to this service, wherever you are worshipping today in our Langtree Team area. May God’s peace, and hope, be shared among us. This week sees two major extra services in our area. Firstly, this afternoon at 3.30pm there is the regional service of welcome for our new Bishop of Oxford, Rt Rev Steven Croft. This is…

From the Rector: 2nd October 2016

Dear friends, A very warm welcome to this service, and a particular welcome to you if you are joining in with your parish’s Harvest Festival celebations.  We take so much for granted in these days of convenience food, and 24 hour shopping. But before we have even left the breakfast table we have depended upon half the world. Our interconnectedness, with one…

From the Rector: Sunday 25th September

Dear friends, A very warm welcome to this service, wherever you are worshipping in the Langtree Team Ministry area this morning. The next two Sundays see many of our Harvest Festival services across the Team; please do join us for one of these as we remind ourselves of our dependence upon God’s goodness and mercy, and give thanks for His provision over…

From the Rector: Sunday 18th September

Dear friends, A very warm welcome to this service, wherever you are worshipping this morning in the Langtree Team Ministry area. May God’s grace and mercy be with us all. Please could I this week ask for your prayers for Revd James Stickings, and his family, who have recently moved into the Rectory at Kidmore End. James will be installed as the…

From the Rector: Sunday 11th September

From the Rector Dear friends, A very warm welcome to this service, wherever you are worshipping across the Langtree Team ministry area. Please can I ask for your prayers today for Revd Robert Thewsey and his family. Robert is to be instituted as the new Rector of Shiplake with Dunsden and Harpsden on Thursday. Today is the fifteenth anniversary of the attacks…