Day of Pentecost - Whit Sunday

Don't let the rain dampen your spirit as we celebrate the coming of the Holy Spirit in the form of flames to the followers of Jesus.

There is just one, very special service on offer in the Benefice this coming Sunday, 19th May:

11am in Lyford: Benefice Pentecost Communion CW followed by a picnic at the Manor, Lyford

Readings for the day: Genesis 11.1-9; Acts 2.1-21; John 14.8-17 [25-27]

Christian Aid Week: 12th - 18th May 2013

This year’s collection aims to ‘Bite back at hunger’. Sadly, one-in-eight people in the world tonight will go to bed hungry. Together, this Christian Aid Week, we can help some of the world’s poorest families get enough to eat. For good.


Envelopes will be available at Longworth Church services & at the Longworth Art events, & several Benefice villages are organising house-to-house collections. Longworth envelopes should be returned to Alison Hoblyn or Joan Plumptre before the end of May; details for other villages will be included with the envelopes.

Thought for May

The request for this article arrived about the time of the death of Baroness
Thatcher; the deadline for publication coincides with the funeral. Reflections
on the lady have dominated the intervening time between these two events with
the newspapers awash with stories, summaries and letters to editors; so that
seemed to be where the focus should be. And the funeral will not be the end
– archives of her papers and a further biography will ensure that the lady lives
on for a long time yet.

Chairman's Civic Service

Thank you to all who came along to join in worship at this year’s Vale of White Horse District Council’s Civic Service on Sunday 28th April in St Mary the Virgin Church, Buckland
.

Council Chairman, Councillor Alison Thomson, was joined by local MP, Ed Vaizey, as well as several civic dignitaries & local scout groups. Buckland Church choir, including the Chairman, sang Jubilate Deo in B flat by Charles Villiers Stanford, and children from Buckland CE Primary School also sang the 'Song of Ruth'.

Faringdon East Neighbourhood Update - May 2013

This month’s update gives Police news from the area, including:

  • a summary of recent criminal activity
  • details of ongoing efforts to curb anti-scoial behaviour in Kingston Bagpuize
  • details of a successful crime prevention door-to-door event in Longworth
  • details of the next 'Have your say' & Neighbourhppd Action Group meetings.

Details are also given of how to contact the neighbourhood team & to view information about them, as well as information on how to contact the Police or report concerns to the Crime Stoppers charity.

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