Today was the preacher exchange, when each of the Oadby ministers was preaching in a different church from their own. We were due to have the priest from the Catholic Church, but as he is on leave, we welcomed Joe Dawson, a Permanent Deacon…
The charity that St Paul’s concentrates on this month is The Welcome Project. Several of our members of helpers. But what is the project?“The Welcome Project is open for all asylum seekers and is based at St. Martins House , the Leicester diocese headquarters, next…
Jean Taylor, who is one of our long-standing members of our Sunday congregation and of Thursday’s Coffee Pot, reaches the grand age of 80 tomorrow. Today, she was feted by her Coffee Pot friends with cards, balloons, cookies and a magnificent cake ( with…
This Sunday, we began the period of the Church’s year which is known as Epiphany – meaning the showing forth, or demonstration of the power, light and character of Jesus to the whole world. On this first Sunday, we remembered how a star revealed…
It came as a great sadness, yesterday, to hear the announcement of the death of Peter Cooper. Peter was an active member of Trinity Methodist Church, Oadby and was a mainstay of “Churches Together in Oadby (CTO)” which organises cooperative ventures of the churches…
The New Year is a time when many world leaders produce a message incorporating their hopes for the future. This year, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, gave his first New Year’s message. It came from his visit to a “Church Urban Fund” project,…
Happy New Year! Welcome to the start of 2014 This term we are going to work our way through the letter Ephesians and see what we can learn from Paul’s letter to the church he planted in this place. Just before we enter Lent…
We joined together in church, this Christmas morning, to celebrate this anniversary of Christ’s coming to Earth for us, at Bethlehem. There was much joyful festivity as people recounted the gifts they had received – and the time they had got out of bed…
The popular Christingle and Crib Service was held at 4.0 p.m. this afternoon. The church was packed with about 150 expectant children and parents. Excited children helped to answer Steve’s questions about the events of Christmas – what happened – what did it mean?…
Yesterday afternoon a group of helpers, assisted by some very helpful children, turned 300 oranges into Christingles, ready for our Christmas Eve Christingle service. Oranges, representing the world, were cored out at the top to receive the candles (surrounded in tinfoil for protection) representing…
