On the Sunday after Christmas a lot of people, including many clergy are away. St Paul’s and St Peter’s therefore joined together at St Peters to celebrate Communion. The service was led by Canon Chris Oxley who also preached. He spoke about the importance…
An excited congregation met at 10.00 Christmas day for the family Christmas Communion service. Bright Christmas sweaters were much in evidence. And many had brought Christmas presents they had already opened. Steve (our rector) asked people what experience they had had of celebrating Christmas…
At 11:30 PM just over 30 people met at St Pauls to celebrate the birthday of Christ, Christmas. With Christmas readings and carols we celebrated that first event, concluding with a celebration of Holy Communion at which we remembered the purpose of Christ’s coming…
We had a full church this evening (Sunday 22 December) for our service of carols by candlelight. In it we remembered the Christmas story – of how the God of creation became a baby in Bethlehem to share in our experience and then to…
Apart from today’s service having a multicultural theme, it was also a gift service. Presents of about £15 had been bought for nearly 70 children who will spend this Christmas in mother and baby homes, and women’s refuges, near to the church. Those who…
Every month we offer “Breakfast at Barneys,” a breakfast, including a full cooked breakfast, at a very reasonable price in the Barnabas centre. Today was the last such breakfast before Christmas. In addition to the usual food, the tables were decorated with crackers and…
At the invitation of Sainsbury’s, Oadby, near Leicester, a group from St Paul’s sang Christmas Carols to the shoppers for an hour this morning (14 December 2019). We sang most of the well-known Christian carols and also added “We Wish You a Merry Christmas”…
A nearly full church enjoyed the 2018 carols by candlelight service. Although the format is similar year by year, details change. Many thanks to all who had rehearsed, took part or helped set up the event. The service took the form of Bible texts…
At this time of year an enormous amount of hard work is undertaken by many members of the church in getting ready for Christmas – and we would like to thank everyone of them. The pictures below are just examples of some of that…
A sizeable group from St Paul’s met in the entrance hall of Oadby Sainsbury’s on Saturday (15th). We feared that the group might be diminished in size by the horrendous weather (freezing cold, wind and rain) but there are a good group of hardy…
