Welcome Tom Cox

After a short lapse, Churches Together in Oadby again organised a “Pulpit Exchange” or more accurately, a “Preacher Exchange.” While Steve went to preach at Oadby Baptist Church, this Sunday, we were privileged to welcome their minister, Revd Tom Cox.

Tom was interviewed during the service as to how God had led him to come to Oadby, from his early Christian life in the Wirral and through training in London and Oxford. Hugh James, who was leading the service then prayed for Tom.

We are currently involved in a sermon series “Everyday Supernatural” and the theme for today was “God’s Power, Our Weakness.” Tom preached a powerful sermon, demonstrating that it was not our abilities that God could use, but our weaknesses and inadequacies and our dependence on Him..

Thank you, Tom, for your visit, and we look forward to working with you and Oadby Baptist Church, seeking  extension of the Kingdom of God in Oadby.

Tree Down!

Worshippers who arrived at the midweek communion service at St Paul’s on Thursday 18 January were amazed to find a large ornamental cherry tree
which had stood on the corner of the church site, snapped off at its base and lying in the road.
Many people have been kept awake by the high , winds the night before, but the snapping across of the 30 cm trunk a little above its base showed just how strong those winds had been. Happily other trees on the site, some of which seemed more frail than this one, were not affected. Apart from the rector’s garden fence, none of the buildings on the site were damaged.

Thank You to the Firefighters

Back on 25 November 2017 (click to view) we held our Christmas Fayre at St Paul’s. As is customary, we didn’t raise monies for ourselves, but for outside charities

The two we chose were the mayor’s charity, for the Children’s Hospital in Leicester, and, the other, the Firefighters’ Charity, which supports sick, injured and traumatised firefighters, and those in need

The mayor kindly visited us and received a cheque for for £600 for her charities some weeks ago. Now it was the turn of the firefighters, as Karl Anderson, a firefighter based at Wigston, visited our morning service. He expressed thanks for the cheque for £600 for the firefighter’s charity.

It’s good to be able to express our gratitude for all the hard work that the firefighters do. Let us never take it for granted.

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 Happy New Year! Welcome to the start of 2018.

As we begin a New Year so we begin a new sermon series called 'Everyday Supernatural'. Based on the excellent book by Mike Pilavachi & Andy Croft which is subtitled 'Living a Spirit-Led life without being weird'! I was massively impacted by the trip with our young people to Soul Survivor last summer and have been aiming to give more space to the Spirit in our worship' since then. My hope and prayer is Oat this series will allow us to build on that as we open ourselves up to the work of the Holy Spirit and learn together how to live in the power of the Spirit day by day.

At the end of this term we celebrate the work of Jesus on the cross as we recount the Easter story and seek to live as resurrection people.

Yours In Christ,

Steve.

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