PEW SHEET, week beginning 8th September 2024, Click HERE
PEW SHEET, week beginning 15th September 2024 Click HERE
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
FESTIVAL NEWS
2024 is the 150th anniversary
of the Victorian reordering of St.Oswalds. A range of events is being arranged from June to October.
Click HERE for the Calendar of Events.
Saturday 14th September at 3 p.m. ‘Life in Oswestry in the 1870s’ - a talk by Sandy Best in the Parish Centre.
Saturday 28th September at 3 p.m 'The Impact of the Restoration on the Church Monuments' - a talk by John Pryce Jones in the Parish Centre.
The talk on 'St Oswald' on 5th October is now cancelled.
SATURDAY 5TH OCTOBER at 7.30 p.m. Celebration Concert Penybontfawr Male Voice Choir. Tickets £10 available from R. J. Christian (Jewellers) 21 Bailey Street Oswestry telephone 01691652091 or e mail stoswald.office@gmail.com.
RIDE & STRIDE 14TH SEPTEMBER 2024
(OR ANOTHER DAY IF YOU CAN’T DO THE 14TH)
A chance for YOU to raise money for our Church. Anyone can join in collect sponsors, then plan your own route - walk, bike or car - visit some churches - enjoy the day. Sponsorship forms from Sue Tansley telephone 01691652498 or from the notice board in the South Aisle. Please let Sue know if you take one.
HARVEST POEM COMPETITION - Who can write the best Harvest Poem? Please have a go, there is no prize, but a Framed Certificate will be awarded and presented to the winner, and your poem will be published in the parish magazine. All entries to be given to Father Phil in an envelope by Sunday September 28th, or email: phil.hughesshrewsbury@gmail.com The Winner will be announced on Sunday October 20th
ST OSWALD’S PRAYER BREAKFAST - Saturday September 28th 8.30 a.m. in the Parish Centre 30 minutes of prayer and quiet personal reflection followed by fellowship over breakfast. All welcome no charge.et in the Parish Centre on Thursday 12th September at 2.15 p.m. when the Speaker will be Rev. Jassica Castillo-Burley telling us about meeting her relatives in Jamaica and hurricanes!
LOOK OUT FOR THE NEW CHURCH GUIDE BOOK in the South Aisle. Special Festival Price £2.00 Pay in the wall slot or the Card machine.
Book club meeting fortnightly in parish centre. Next meeting Weds 18th September at 1930 reading "Questioning God" - Timothy Radcliffe & Lukasz Popko. . Contact Carron in the office for more info.
JASSICA'S BIBLE STUDY. September meetings Thursday 5th and 19th, 2.00 pm in St. Catherine's Chapel. Studying the Creed. Books £5.00 available in the Parish Office. ALL WELCOME. IT'S NOT TOO LATE TO JOIN!
Accessibility: the base of the font by the south porch is a potential trip hazard so the door nearest has been closed off and new signs provided by the Alzheimer’s society have been installed.
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.
HOME COMMUNION
If you have a couple of mornings a fortnight free
and would like to be involved in taking out
Communion to people unable to attend church
please contact Keith Musson in church or on
656212.
VOLUNTEERS REQUIRED to help with the
streaming of services on Sunday mornings.
Please contact Alan Neale if you are interested.
PLACE OF WELCOME Tuesdays in the Parish Centre 10.30 - 12.30 for coffee,
company and chat. Everyone welcome
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.
Visit our page at :-
St Oswald's Parish Church, Oswestry.