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CTK is again holding mid-day prayers during the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. This runs from Tuesday 18th January to Tuesday 25th January inclusive. The time of prayer will be on Zoom every weekday (but not Saturday and Sunday). For details of the link needed to access the prayer time please contact webmaster.

Because of COVID constraints it has been decided not to hold a united service in-person this year. And we plan to reschedule our traditional Fellowship Meal to a more appropriate time.

5.30pm, St Mary’s Kidlington, Sunday 16th January (and every third Sunday)

Join us for this contemplative and worshipful service led by the choir and choristers. Music to include: reading responses, Wood in D canticles, Joubert “O Lorde, the maker of all thing”, Bach “St Anne” Prelude in E flat major BWV 552. There will also be two congregational hymns.

We regret to announce that we have cancelled the Tea Talk due to be held this Sunday, 9th January. We are very grateful to Sir Peter Ratcliffe for offering and preparing this talk but together have come to this decision given the current COVID situation as he thinks it  would not be possible to communicate as effectively as he would like.  We hope to rearrange for a future date when circumstances permit.

5.30pm, Saturday 11th December in St Mary’s Kidlington

‘Presence and Absence’ is a very special Christmas service where we are able to acknowledge that Christmas time brings great grief as well as great joy. It’s ok to feel down at this time of year; you are not alone. In this service we can remember those we love who are no longer with us, or all the other situations that can seem hard for us in this season. This year our theme is angels and our service focuses on the Christmas angels from our crib scene. You are very welcome.

The next talk in our series for Kidlington Theological Forum will be this coming Sunday, 21st, at 11.30am in St Mary’s Kidlington. The Rt Revd Steven Croft, Lord Bishop of Oxford will be speaking on “Artificial Intelligence: Opportunity or Threat?”

Sunday 14th November – After the Remembrance Sunday service we are having a Parish Ramble to Annie’s in Thrupp – the Parish’s contribution to the BBC’s Countryfile “Children In Need”.

Andy writes: It’s only a couple of miles and takes about an hour – so we’ll head off at 11:30 and be at Annie’s in time for lunch. For food, you can bring a picnic (to share if you want) or, of course, Annie does wonderful grub. If you aren’t in church for the service, just rendezvous with us in front of St Mary’s at 11:30 – we’ll go over to the Wight Bridge (Good people of Hampton Poyle, feel free to join us there) and then along the Cherwell, through the woodland to Thrupp. We’ll walk through Thrupp Community Woodland and then across the fields to St Mary’s on the way back, but if you don’t fancy walking, you join us there, and if you don’t want to walk back, simply walk to the end of the road and catch a bus back to the High Street.

We’re hoping the weather will be favourable, of course, but it would be wise to wear reasonable shoes or boots with good grip, and a waterproof too.  If you want to get sponsored, that would be great, and if you can’t join us, then see if there is someone you can sponsor. Well behaved dogs welcome.

On Sunday 7th November, at our service in St Mary’s Kidlington, Yo Davies, our Safeguarding Officer, gave a talk reflecting on the need for safeguarding in each of our churches. You can download her talk here. She will be giving similar talks in the other churches in the coming weeks.

If you need to contact someone regarding safeguarding, please contact Yo: 07865664451, safeguarding@kidhp.org.uk

Sunday 7th November to Sunday 14th November

All our usual services, Zoom chats and Hub sessions are running as usual this week. The extra things to note are:

• Sunday 7th November – the Traidcraft Christmas stall will be at St Mary’s Kidlington after the 10am service.
• Sunday 7th November – there will be a service of Remembrance for All Souls and Remembrance Sunday at St Mary’s Hampton Poyle at 5pm.
• Sunday 14th November – there will be the traditional Remembrance Sunday service at 10am in St Mary’s Kidlington and at 10.45am outside at the War Memorial
• Sunday 14th November – After the Remembrance Sunday service we are having a Parish Ramble to Annie’s in Thrupp – the Parish’s contribution to the BBC’s Countryfile “Children In Need”.
• Sunday 14th November – we will have a service of Holy Communion at St Johns at 10am; this will include a simple Act of Remembrance
• Sunday 14th November – the Traidcraft Christmas stall will be at St John’s after the 10am service.

On Saturday 30th October the bellringers at St Mary’s Kidlington joined with others around the UK to ring in the COP 26 Conference now starting in Glasgow.

Although it hasn’t been practical to hold our stall selling Traidcraft goods over the past months, we have arranged one for the weeks leading up to Christmas. We will be selling Advent Calendars, Christmas cards, Christmas nibbles and lots of chocolate after 10am services at:

• St Mary’s Kidlington on Sunday 31st October and Sunday 7th November
• St John’s on Sundays 14th and 21st November.

Please do come along to stock up and support Traidcraft. To make it even easier we are now taking payment by credit/debit card as well as cash or cheque.