Category: News
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Online Tenebrae Service for Holy Week 2020
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Tenebrae is Latin for darkness or shadows, and Christians have long marked Holy Week with this deeply moving, reflective service. Many of you will have gathered together with Cumnor URC to mark Maundy Thursday with readings, hymns and the gradual darkening of the building as candles are extinguished. This is…
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Upside-Down Lives
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In the first of what I hope will be a regular feature, Eve Lockett has written a thought for the day for us. Upside-Down Lives It’s more than likely that you are feeling as if the world has gone a bit topsy-turvy at the moment. Teenagers are being told to…
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Parish News for April 3rd 2020
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Dear friends, I don’t know about you, but I’ve long been something of a news junkie. I love to know more about what’s going on and trying to make some sense of the world we live in. And that’s a good thing, after all I think it was John Stott who talked…
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Cumnor C.E. School Easter Assembly
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If you want to see the video Jonathan made for the School Easter Assembly online, you can check it out on their website: https://cumnorprimaryschool.co.uk/covid-19/videos/songs-and-assemblies-videos/ There’s also a great Easter song with lots of the teachers joining in from home! It looks like they were having really great fun!
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Parish News for March 27th 2020
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Dear friends, In common with the rest of the country, it’s been a strange week here in the Vicarage, as we try to get used to these extraordinary times. Everything seems to have changed in such a short space of time! Watching the wonderful service from the Cathedral on Sunday…
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Latest News
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Following the announcement from the Government yesterday, St Michael’s Church building is now closed with immediate effect. St Andrew’s and St Mary’s were closed last week when worship was suspended. Although we can’t meet together, the church is still in business! We each are the church in our own homes,…
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Coronavirus COVID-19 Update – 20/03/2020
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In line with the latest guidance on limiting the spread of the Coronavirus COVID-19 the following additional precautions are now in place: The administration of the chalice as well as physical contact during the sharing of the peace, blessing or “laying on of hands” has been suspended. This means:…
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Community Fun Day
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St Andrew’s is having a Community Fun Day on Saturday 5th October from 12-3:30pm, to help raise money for our rebuilding, but also as outreach to local people. Barbecue, tea/coffee and cakes, produce stall, free children’s activities, football. Please note the date and come and join us! We’d be delighted…
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Cumnor Festival of Performing Arts
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Cumnor Festival of Performing Arts– is bigger, better and back on Sat June 15 at Hurstcote, Appleton Road, Cumnor OX2 9QL. Over 200 top class professional bands, singers, dancers, actors etc are lined up for the occasion. Look out for our special ‘Conversation with Erika James’, an interview with the multiple…
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Vacancy
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The Bible Reading Fellowship (BRF) currently have a vacancy for a Key Relationships Coordinator. We are looking for someone who can support two key relationships (major donor) executives with well-written proposals, analysis and research, utilise a wide range of stories and data, who is highly organised and with a passion…