Category: Front Page News

  • Unwrapping the Gift of Christmas – December 7th

    Unwrapping the Gift of Christmas – December 7th

    Here’s today’s online video in which we’re retelling the stories of the Bible that lead up to Jesus’s birth and hanging a special ornament on a Jesse Tree in St Michael’s. It’s the perfect way to care for your soul by pausing to focus on the real meaning of Christmas.…

  • Unwrapping the Gift of Christmas – December 6th

    Unwrapping the Gift of Christmas – December 6th

    Here’s today’s online video in which we’re retelling the stories of the Bible that lead up to Jesus’s birth and hanging a special ornament on a Jesse Tree in St Michael’s. It’s the perfect way to care for your soul by pausing to focus on the real meaning of Christmas.…

  • Unwrapping the Gift of Christmas – December 5th

    Unwrapping the Gift of Christmas – December 5th

    Here’s today’s online video in which we’re retelling the stories of the Bible that lead up to Jesus’s birth and hanging a special ornament on a Jesse Tree in St Michael’s. It’s the perfect way to care for your soul by pausing to focus on the real meaning of Christmas.…

  • Parish of Cumnor Newsletter for 4th December 2020

    Parish of Cumnor Newsletter for 4th December 2020

    Dear friends, “Christmas may look different, but the story is still the same!” Coronavirus will make our celebrations this year look very different from usual. However, the message of the baby born in Bethlehem is still the most life-giving, good news imaginable! In one nativity play, the highlight was to…

  • Unwrapping the Gift of Christmas – December 4th

    Unwrapping the Gift of Christmas – December 4th

    Here’s today’s online video in which we’re retelling the stories of the Bible that lead up to Jesus’s birth and hanging a special ornament on a Jesse Tree in St Michael’s. It’s the perfect way to care for your soul by pausing to focus on the real meaning of Christmas.…

  • Sunday Service Online – 6th December 2020

    Sunday Service Online – 6th December 2020

    Join us as we stream Holy Communion live from St Michael’s. This week Eve Lockett is preaching. We will light the second candle in the advent crown and there are wonderful advent hymns sung by the choir including “Like a candle flame” and “On Jordan’s bank the Baptist’s cry”. All…

  • Taizé service for December 2020

    Taizé service for December 2020

    “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.”  John 1:14 Meditative singing in Taizé worship To open the gates of trust in God, nothing can replace the beauty of…

  • Eve Lockett’s Wayside Nativity

    Eve Lockett’s Wayside Nativity

    Every year around Christmas, Eve invites us into her home to visit her “Wayside Nativity”. This year, due to the pandemic, things are having to be different. This year, Eve has made a Wayside Nativity video and shared it through the parish website. It’s a fascinating and rewarding insight into…

  • Reverse Advent Calendar – 3rd-10th December

    Reverse Advent Calendar – 3rd-10th December

    Foodbanks have been in greater demand than ever this year so we’re asking everyone to help meet the need and taking inspiration from the idea of a reverse Advent Calendar where instead of getting chocolate, gin or cheese we give to help others.From 3rd-10th December there will be a collection…

  • Worship for Seniors December 2020

    Worship for Seniors December 2020

    Here is this month’s Worship for Seniors, and William Cutting’s theme this month is “Difficult Journeys”. Worship for Seniors is a new monthly resource for seniors and those in care homes. It’s a short devotional programme, with a hymn from our church choir, a short talk and a prayer. It…