Wychwood
Benefice
A benefice of three rural parishes in the Cotswolds
Read the Church News here: Church News 19 and 26 February 2023
Services are as follows:
SUNDAY 19 FEBRUARY – SUNDAY BEFORE LENT
9.30am Milton United Benefice Holy Communion livestreamed
6.00pm Shipton Choral Evensong
ASH WEDNESDAY 22 FEBRUARY
10.30am Milton Midweek Holy Communion
7.30pm Fifield Holy Communion
SUNDAY 26 FEBRUARY – LENT 1
8.15am Shipton BCP Holy Communion
9.30am Milton Worship for All
11.00am Idbury BCP Holy Communion
11.00am Shipton BCP Morning Prayer
Read the Church News here: Church News 5 and 12 February 2023
Rev Karen Rizzello our new Associate Priest
I have been asked to write a few words to introduce myself to the Wychwood Benefice. I have recently moved from the Benefice of Lyneham with Woodhill in Wiltshire. I was house for duty priest there until November 2021 and since then I have been commuting into the benefice from Milton-under-Wychwood. Quite a long drive and becoming increasingly expensive.
I will be beginning my ministry in your Benefice of Wychwood in the new year. I am very grateful to Geoffrey your Vicar and the rest of the team for being so welcoming to a new person joining them in this place.
I am married to Peter who I met at university in Leicester many years ago. We would have liked to have had children but sadly IVF treatment was unsuccessful and so our lives have taken us along a different path.
We spent some time in Canada early in our marriage and travelled a fair bit. I became a minister after many years of working in Information Technology, a career which took me all over the world and offered some wonderful opportunities to work with lots of talented people.
I enjoy reading about everything from biographies to science to all types of fiction. When I get a chance I enjoy the theatre, festivals and concerts.
I went to church as a child and Sunday School was a regular feature in my life. As I grew to be a teenager like many young people I no longer attended church regularly and I was someone who returned to regular church after joining an Alpha class some years later. After that I served in the church as Church Warden, on PCC’s, Synods, and had the honour of being invited to be a member of the College of Canon’s at Salisbury Cathedral before answering the call to Ordination.
In closing, I have always felt that God has played a major part in my life, at the worst of times and at the best, in the background and sometimes front and centre. I feel very blessed to have God’s gift of faith and grace guiding my life.
I am looking forward to getting to know you all as I begin my ministry in the Wychwoods. God Bless, Karen.
Come and meet Karen on Sunday 19 February after the 9.30am United Benefice Service in Milton. Let’s give her a special Wychwood Benefice welcome!
Read the Church News here: Church News 22 and 29 Jan 2023
Download poster here: Monthly poster Feb 2023 (1)
Sunday 5 February
11.00am United Benefice Holy Communion in Shipton livestreamed
Sunday 12 February
9.30am Holy Communion in Milton
11.00am Holy Communion in Shipton
11.00am BCP Morning Prayer in Fifield
Sunday 19 February
9.30am United Benefice Holy Communion in Milton livestreamed
6.00pm Choral Evensong in Shipton
Wednesday 22 February – Ash Wednesday
10.30am Holy Communion in Milton
7.30pm Holy Communion in Fifield
Sunday 26 February
8.15am BCP Holy Communion in Shipton
9.30am Worship for All in Milton
11.00am BCP Morning Prayer in Shipton
11.00am BCP Holy Communion in Idbury
Sunday 5 March
11.00am United Benefice Holy Communion in Shipton livestreamed
Our popular Prize Draw raising funds for St Mary’s, Shipton continues in 2023
The monthly prize draw starts at just £36 a year for one number (12 x £3) you can sign up to as many numbers as you like. Each month there will be a £100 prize.
If you would like to sign up to our prize draw download the application form here.
Shipton Prize Draw application 2023
download the church news for 8 and 15 January here: Church News 8 and 15 Jan 2023
Sunday 1 January 2023 – New Year’s Day
11.00am United Benefice Holy Communion in Shipton livestreamed
Friday 6 January – Epiphany
10.30am Holy Communion in Milton
Sunday 8 January
9.30am Holy Communion in Milton
11.00am Holy Communion in Shipton
11.00am BCP Holy Communion in Fifield
Sunday 15 January
9.30am United Benefice Holy Communion in Milton livestreamed
Sunday 22 January
8.15am BCP Holy Communion in Shipton
9.30am Worship for All in Milton
11.00am BCP Morning Prayer in Shipton
11.00am BCP Morning Prayer in Fifield
Sunday 29 January
9.30am United Benefice Holy Communion in Milton
Sunday 5 February
11.00am United Benefice Holy Communion in Shipton livestreamed
Wednesday 10.30am Mid-Week Holy Communion in Milton
(not on 4th January 2023)
From everyone at the Wychwood Benefice we wish you a very Happy Christmas!
You can read the Christmas issue of the Church News here:
Bellringing Have a Go Taster Course, St Mary’s, Shipton
Always wanted to try Bellringing, or are a lapsed ringer? Here’s your chance.
Shipton Bellringers are looking for people to join their team.
An introductory, 4-week course on Saturdays 10am-12noon, January 7th-28th 2023.
Suitable for ages 11 and up, gentle light exercise, you need to be able to stand and raise arms above your head and climb the tower stairs.
Suggested donations to church restoration fund £40. Concessions available.
Under 18s to be accompanied by an adult.
Enquiries to Geoffrey 01993 832514, Chris Seers [email protected] 07715522353 or Mike Brooks [email protected] 01993 830014.