Wishing you all a blessed Easter!
PEW SHEET, week beginning 12th April 2026 Click HERE
PEW SHEET, week beginning 5th April 2026 Click HERE
WEDDINGS, BAPTISMS, FUNERALS, etc:-CONTACT THE CHURCH OFFICE - email Carron stoswald.office@gmail.com for a convenient appointment time during the week if you need to meet up. Emails are monitored daily and responded to within twenty-four hours (usually)...or ring 01691 652861 and leave a message.
Confirmation Sunday 31st May with Bishop of Shrewsbury. Any candidates wishing to be confirmed please see Muriel Jones - Church Warden
ELECTORAL ROLL will be on display from SUNDAY 19th April on the table by the main (south) door Please check that your name is shown on the Electoral Roll. If you have changed your address in the last year please contact Andrew Clarke email acsclarke@yahoo.com. There are forms on the table to complete if you are not on the electoral roll and would like to be.
Sally Wright is doing a sponsored pilgrimage from St Mary’s Church Whalley to Manchester Cathedral approximately 36 miles. Monies raised will go to St. Oswald’s Church Oswestry. There is a form on the table in the South aisle if you would like to sponsor her
PCC, LAY READERS AND ASSOCIATE CLERGY ARE REQUESTED TO ATTEND A PRE SECTION 11 MEETING ON TUESDAY 21 APRIL AT 7.30 P.M. IN THE PARISH CENTRE. THE ARCHDEACON WILL CHAIR THE MEETING. This will start the process of finding another vicar.
The Mission and Ministry Team have set up seven prayer points around the church, using an idea from Stephen Cottrell’s book entitled “The Things He Carried - a journey to the cross:” Please visit these prayer points if you are able. They will be in church until the first Sunday after Easter.
Olive Morris will be taking part in the 10k sponsored walk for the Derwen College on 18th April. A sponsor form will be on the table in the South Aisle for donations. Thank you.
CHURCH OFFICE - June will be spending her Friday mornings in the Church Office so if you need to have a chat or just want to pop in to say hello, she would be delighted to see you.
PLACE OF WELCOME Tuesdays in the Parish Centre 10.30 - 12.30 for coffee,
company and chat. Everyone welcome.
RECYCLING FOR GOOD CAUSES – 1 Empty Printer Ink Cartridges
You’ll all be pleased to know that on the 1st May I sent off our first full box of empty printer ink cartridges to Recycle4Charity.
Our account with Recycle4Charity shows that the contents of our first full box of used ink cartridges raised £44.50 for Hope House, our chosen charity.The company accepts all makes of printer ink cartridges e.g. Brother; Canon; Epson; HP; - both branded originals and remanufactured. Their value to our chosen charity ranges from as little as 10p (for the remanufactured varieties) to as much as £1.75 for some of the Canon cartridges – but most of the branded varieties which would otherwise end up in landfill are worth at least £1.00 each so please encourage your friends and neighbours to save them for you to bring into church –
Let’s see how soon we can fill our second box!
Here are some facts to encourage you –
45 million cartridges end up in landfill each year, in the UK alone
Cartridges take up to 1,000 years to decompose so it makes sense to re-use them as many times as possible.
Well done everyone - keep up the good work!!
RECYCLING FOR GOOD CAUSES – 2 Postage Stamps
Yes, we are still collecting used stamps, and they are still being passed to Mary Beaman, who gathers stamps from various sources in the Oswestry area, sorts them and trims them before sending them on - but - I don’t think we’ve ever explained where they send them on to!
They are sent to an organisation called 'The Stamp Fellowship' which began life in 1946 by collecting used stamps to sell to collectors in order to raise money for Mary Lovell’s Home for Blind Girls in Jerusalem.
Today the Fellowship is still going strong and in the last four years alone has raised £21,000 for the Embrace charity which supports education projects across the Middle East. The ‘Embrace the Middle East’ charity is 170 years old this year.
The Fellowship has been run for the past 20 years by volunteer Gordon Young, who singlehandedly uses his expertise to both sort and sell the stamps to a network of collectors. His ‘Embrace Thrifty Fifties’ packs of fifty stamps based on a country or a theme are particularly popular
Needless to say they don’t make much money out of UK stamps these days, both foreign and themed stamps are worth far more, but as the saying goes ‘every little helps’ – so please carry on collecting. The stamps don’t need to be trimmed just make sure you leave as much space as possible around them.
If you want to know more or if you are a stamp collector who would be interested in buying stamps from The Stamp Fellowship, please go to -embraceme.org/stamp-fellowshipChris. Abram
CHURCH PRAYER BOOK – is kept in the church office as before and names can be added to it personally when the office is open, or by posting names/prayer requests in the prayer box in church. The prayer box is opened ahead of the main Sunday service
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SUPPORTING THE FOODBANK - You can check the Foodbank website https://oswestryandborders.foodbank.org.uk/give-help/donate-food/ for up-to-date lists of their urgently needed items. |
If you are unable to get out to make a donation of food, please consider a Standing Order to the Foodbank. Here are the bank details:-
Bank: HSBC
sort code: 40-35-32
Account number 11785451
name; Oswestry and Borders foodbank.
Visit our page at :-
St Oswald's Parish Church, Oswestry.