Please note that until further notice all meetings of church clubs and groups, are suspended.
While the current restrictions apply on account of the Covid19 (Coronavirus) pandemic, the church will remain closed. We will however be posting on this site services, reflections and prayers which we hope you will find helpful during this time when we are unable to gather together in church. Do check back regularly to see what is new and join us in prayer and worship. A Family Service for Palm Sunday will be posted this weekend and there will be more during Holy Week and for Easter.
This is a short service of prayer reflection from Sunday 29th March. The next available service will be our Palm Sunday Family Service at 10am on Sunday 5th April.
Worship at St Oswald's
At St. Oswald’s you will find a range of service formats, ranging from traditional to contemporary, formal to informal and from the active to the contemplative. Music ranges from well-known hymns, accompanied by organ and robed choir, to modern worship songs accompanied by the church music group. We hope that amongst these different services you will find a style of worship you find accessible and helpful. In the main, our worship follows the order provided in the Church of England Common Worship book, although the Family Services and regular"Spotlight" services are at least in part devised by ourselves.
There is currently no weekly notice sheet, due to the current situation with Covid-19. Please keep checking back for when one returns. Suggested prayers for the times can be found here.
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Do you subscribe to our Parish Magazine?
If not, and you would like to, why not contact the team at subscribe@stoswaldschurch.org.uk
or pick up a sample copy at church.
From 2020 it will be produced every other month, and will cost £3.00 for the six issues each year; it contains much of interest to all, not just churchgoers, as well as the diary of services and events.
Should you wish to place an article in the Magazine, or publicise a church event, please use the email contact above. |
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Easter will soon be here -
click on the picture for a 'taster'!
"TEEN CHURCH", is held in the church hall at 10.00 a.m. for younger teens, every 2nd and 4th Sunday. If you, or someone you know, are in Y7-10 we'd love to see you; please just turn up or contact Jenny Bartlett (details here).
Sunday Morning Services
Sunday Evening Services
These take place from time to time, regularly on the first Sunday in the month but also on other dates, usually at 6.30 p.m. except during the winter months when it is at 4.30 pm. (It reverts to 6.30 p.m from April onwards). They include Choral Evensong (a traditional Book of Common Prayer service accompanied by the choir), less formal Songs of Praise and a variety of other services. Details of times and type of service will appear on the website calendar.
Weekday Services
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Short reflective mid-week Communion services are held at 11.30 a.m. every first and third Thursdays of the month |
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Weddings, Funerals and Christenings
If you need more information on weddings, christenings or funerals, please click here.
Feast Days
For services on major Feast Days, please take a look at our 'What's on' calendar.
In the main we follow the Church of England Common Worship orders of service (with robed clergy and choir) , although the Family services and regular Contemporary services are at least in part devised by ourselves and presented in informal dress.
Children are of course welcome, and in the church hall we provide a crèche for babies & toddlers, and Sunday School for 31/2 year olds upwards. After communion, they are welcomed into the congregation and join them for the rest of the service.
Members of the congregation are closely involved in many aspects of all services, whether (amongst other roles) singing in the choir, reading lessons, or devising and leading the less formal services.
