Wychwood

Benefice

Shipton church update 23 November, 2020

Lang the building specialists will be starting to work in the church on Monday 30^th November. To begin with they are just doing the preparation work which should take until the beginning of January. Lang’s have indicated that they hope to complete the work in March 2021.

We hope the church will remain open for this first stage of the work and services will continue as planned.

Help us raise funds!

We have just launched a Monthly Prize draw: Details can be found here: https://wychwoodbenefice.org.uk/sign-up-to-our-monthly-draw-100-prize-each-month-and-help-raise-funds-for-shipton-church/

We have a “silent aution” planned to raise funds for Shipton Church with some excellent items on auction, from Hampers to Holiday Lets to a skip! More information very soon.

Watch Sunday’s service from Shipton here:

• Individual prayer
  Our churches can remain open for individual prayer, which is defined as a person or household entering the venue to pray on their own and not as part of a group, led prayer or communal act.
• Congregational prayer and worship
  Collective or congregational prayer and regular scheduled services are not permitted.

For more details on the current guidelines please visit:

https://www.churchofengland.org/resources/coronavirus-covid-19-guidance-churches

Read the latest Church News here: Church News 22 November 2020 final

Here is the order of service to use with Sunday’s pre recorded online service: Kingdom season HC

November 2020

We are currently in another lockdown but even when services are again permitted we appreciate that not everyone is able to come to church at the moment.

We aim to post a service online each Sunday. This is posted to the facebook page on Sunday morning:

https://www.facebook.com/WychwoodBenefice

You can also watch it on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpnWCSzeOm2futnYBw6P7Ig

It will also added to the website each Monday.

When services are taking place in our churches again we will continue to record one of the Sunday services each week and post this online.

There are also services available to watch from the Dicoese:

https://www.oxford.anglican.org/coronavirus-covid-19-2/livestream/

Let’s pray
a month of prayer for our nation

This November, churches across the land will be praying for our nation every day at 6pm

Read the open letter from our Archbishops and find simple resources to help you pray each week here.

https://www.churchofengland.org/sites/default/files/2020-11/20201104%20Joint%20letter%20ABC%20ABY%20to%20the%20nation.pdf

Resrouces can be found here:

https://www.churchofengland.org/resources/call-prayer-nation

There is still time to do a shoebox. These can now be dropped off in Shipton or Milton church before 22 November.

We are once again collecting shoeboxes on behalf of the charity Teams4U. This year there is also the option to sponsor a shoebox. Leaflets will be available in the churches and the benefice office. For details of what to include and to download labels or the leaflet, please have a look at the website: http://teams4u.com/

https://teams4u.com/shoebox-appeal/

You can read the latest Church News here: Church News 15 November 2020 final

Here is the order of service to accompany the online service on Sunday 15 November:

Kingdom season HC