Stop, reflect and pray...

From The Manse.....As we move into October having enjoyed some glorious weather through September, our thoughts as usual turn towards harvest.Like so much of this year, we will not be able to celebrate or to do what we have customarily done in the past.Smaller numbers in church, (where open) donations for food-banks to be isolated for 72 hours and those great harvest hymns internally hummed...

Alan and June Grunwald offered to run a quiz as part of the celebrations for Wantage 175 anniversary on Sat 26 Sept, which was when Rev Martin Smithson (former Minister and a quizzer) was due to come and preach. Martin will be preaching at the usual zoom morning service on 27 Sept. Alan and June have worked out how to hold a quiz on zoom which will be held on Sat 26 Sept at 7.30 pm. The quiz...

Saturday Sept 12th was a lovely day for Oxfordshire Historic Churches Trust annual fundraising event "Riders & Striders". The weather was ideal for walking or cycling around Oxfordshire's churches. June and Alan Grunwald walked with Alison Brown and Heather Wells, starting off in Wantage and then walking along the old canal to East and West Challow churches. They then visited the...