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UK Hunger: a Church response

Last Updated: 23rd September 2016  |  First published on: 23rd September 2016

UK Hunger: a Church response. FOOD BANKS are seeing a massive rise in the number of clients relying on them for emergency food aid in Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire.


Lottery grant for Old School scheme

Last Updated: 22nd September 2016  |  First published on: 22nd September 2016

Lottery grant for Old School scheme. THE Oxford Academy has secured a Lottery Grant to develop an Old School programme.


Seeing God at work in Kimberley and Kuruman

Last Updated: 27th September 2024  |  First published on: 21st September 2016

Seeing God at work in Kimberley and Kuruman. by Catharine Morris I love unexpected opportunities - well, mostly - as long as they are good opportunities.


Pilgrimage celebrates 750 years of Abbey

Last Updated: 8th February 2022  |  First published on: 27th August 2016

The Revd Mother, Sister Victoria Mary SPB, greeted pilgrims on the way to Burnham Abbey from Goring as part of the celebration.


Helping to beat 'holiday hunger'

Last Updated: 26th August 2016  |  First published on: 26th August 2016

Helping to beat 'holiday hunger'. A FRESH expression of church in Milton Keynes has joined the national Make Lunch initiative to ensure poorer children get a decent midday meal during the school holidays.


Churchwardens 'tie the knot' in Ruscombe

Last Updated: 24th August 2016  |  First published on: 24th August 2016

Churchwardens 'tie the knot' in Ruscombe. CHURCHWARDENS Bill and Maggie Barnes (pictured right) met four years ago when Maggie was invited to the home group that met at Bill's house.


Taking the Pikachu by the big yellow ears

Last Updated: 20th August 2016  |  First published on: 20th August 2016

Taking the Pikachu by the big yellow ears. Emma Major on how can churches respond to the millions of people gripped by the Pokemon Go craze.


God in the life of... Alison Bennett

Last Updated: 19th August 2016  |  First published on: 19th August 2016

God in the life of... Alison Bennett. FROM a childhood that led to a teaching career and caring for children of her own, Alison Bennett's journey to becoming the President of the Mothers' Union, Oxford.


Response to the sentencing of the Revd Grahame Humphries

Last Updated: 11th August 2016  |  First published on: 11th August 2016

Response to the sentencing of the Revd Grahame Humphries. We were deeply shocked and saddened by the sexual assaults carried out in the 1970s by the Revd Grahame Humphries.


Churches' chance to win £10,000 in national contest

Last Updated: 21st January 2022  |  First published on: 9th August 2016

Time is running out to enter Ecclesiastical's 'Reaching out, Inviting in - Churches Helping Communities' Competition 2016.

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