PEW SHEET, week beginning 12th January2025 Click HERE
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WEDDINGS, BAPTISMS, FUNERALS, etc:-CONTACT THE CHURCH OFFICE - email Carron stoswald.office@gmail.com for a convenient appointment time during the week if you need to meet up. Emails are monitored daily and responded to within twenty-four hours (usually)...or ring 01691 652861 and leave a message.
Churches Together in Oswestry District 
Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
Half hour of prayer and fellowship at St Oswalds on Thursday 23rd January at 12 noon
led by Jassica
PARISH NEWS - Reminder that subscriptions for the forthcoming year are due by the end of January - £5 for the twelve months or 50p each month. No increase in price. Subscriptions can be placed in the wall safe at the back of the church either in cash or by cheque made payable to St. Oswald’s Parish Church. Please include name and mark your payment ‘magazine’.
THE SCHOLARS AND GENTLEMEN AT ST. OSWALD’S CONCERT - The Genius of Palestrina in Church Saturday 1st February 3.30 pm entry free with collection for the music at St. Oswald’s
JASSICA'S BIBLE STUDY, Next meeting to be announced later. 2.00 pm in St. Catherine's Chapel. ALL WELCOME. IT'S NOT TOO LATE TO JOIN!
Book Club meets fortnightly, next meeting Monday 27 January in Parish Centre at 7.30pm. We're currently reading 'The Splash of Words' by Mark Oakley, exploring faith through the power of poetry.
STREAMING OF SERVICES: Would you like to know how we stream our services on You Tube? Would you like to help? Do you have a young person who might be interested? Speak with Carron for more information.
Stewards needed for the Thursday 10.30 BCP service in the Lady Chapel. Share the weeks, by agreement.
PLACE OF WELCOME Tuesdays in the Parish Centre 10.30 - 12.30 for coffee,
company and chat. Everyone welcome
Tuesday 17th December
Hot Drinks, Mince Pies and Christmas Music with Haydn Jones at the Piano in the Parish Centre
RECYCLING FOR GOOD CAUSES – 1 Empty Printer Ink Cartridges
You’ll all be pleased to know that on the 1st May I sent off our first full box of empty printer ink cartridges to Recycle4Charity.
Our account with Recycle4Charity shows that the contents of our first full box of used ink cartridges raised £44.50 for Hope House, our chosen charity.The company accepts all makes of printer ink cartridges e.g. Brother; Canon; Epson; HP; - both branded originals and remanufactured. Their value to our chosen charity ranges from as little as 10p (for the remanufactured varieties) to as much as £1.75 for some of the Canon cartridges – but most of the branded varieties which would otherwise end up in landfill are worth at least £1.00 each so please encourage your friends and neighbours to save them for you to bring into church –
Let’s see how soon we can fill our second box!
Here are some facts to encourage you –
45 million cartridges end up in landfill each year, in the UK alone
Cartridges take up to 1,000 years to decompose so it makes sense to re-use them as many times as possible.
Well done everyone - keep up the good work!!
RECYCLING FOR GOOD CAUSES – 2 Postage Stamps
Yes, we are still collecting used stamps, and they are still being passed to Mary Beaman, who gathers stamps from various sources in the Oswestry area, sorts them and trims them before sending them on - but - I don’t think we’ve ever explained where they send them on to!
They are sent to an organisation called 'The Stamp Fellowship' which began life in 1946 by collecting used stamps to sell to collectors in order to raise money for Mary Lovell’s Home for Blind Girls in Jerusalem.
Today the Fellowship is still going strong and in the last four years alone has raised £21,000 for the Embrace charity which supports education projects across the Middle East. The ‘Embrace the Middle East’ charity is 170 years old this year.
The Fellowship has been run for the past 20 years by volunteer Gordon Young, who singlehandedly uses his expertise to both sort and sell the stamps to a network of collectors. His ‘Embrace Thrifty Fifties’ packs of fifty stamps based on a country or a theme are particularly popular
Needless to say they don’t make much money out of UK stamps these days, both foreign and themed stamps are worth far more, but as the saying goes ‘every little helps’ – so please carry on collecting. The stamps don’t need to be trimmed just make sure you leave as much space as possible around them.
If you want to know more or if you are a stamp collector who would be interested in buying stamps from The Stamp Fellowship, please go to -embraceme.org/stamp-fellowshipChris. Abram
CHURCH PRAYER BOOK – is kept in the church office as before and names can be added to it personally when the office is open, or by posting names/prayer requests in the prayer box in church. The prayer box is opened ahead of the main Sunday service
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SUPPORTING THE FOODBANK - You can check the Foodbank website https://oswestryandborders.foodbank.org.uk/give-help/donate-food/ for up-to-date lists of their urgently needed items. |
If you are unable to get out to make a donation of food, please consider a Standing Order to the Foodbank. Here are the bank details:-
Bank: HSBC
sort code: 40-35-32
Account number 11785451
name; Oswestry and Borders foodbank.
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