Welcome to St. Oswald's Church!
Bidston, Merseyside
We invite you to celebrate, sing, and reflect on the meaning of Christmas as we gather together for our Nine Lessons & Carols service at St. Oswald’s. We will be meeting on Sunday, 21th December at 4:00pm in our beautifully candlelit church to hear readings about the real meaning of Christmas and sing together about the coming of Jesus. All are welcome to come and join us!
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Come join us on Thursday, 11 December at 6:30pm to celebrate Christmas with some beautiful carols at St. Oswald’s Church! Led by both the Salvation Army brass band and our very own Bidston Village Primary school singers, come sing as we bring in the beautiful Christmas season with some festive music. We would love to see you there! All proceeds go the Salvation Army. Please get in contact with Rev Joe if you have any questions.
Exciting news has just landed — St. Oswald’s Church is going to have our mid-week communion begin again on Tuesday mornings at 11:45am after the Ladies Fellowship.
Come along on Tuesdays to spend time with both God and others in our church community as we engage in Holy Communion. See you there!
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An exciting event is just around the corner to kick off this years Christmas festivities! We are going to be beginning this Christmas season with a Fair celebration at St. Oswald’s Church on Saturday, 29 November, 2024 from 11:00am-3:00pm.
There will be loads of fun for all the family: a bake stall, tombola, a brilliant raffle, goodies to purchase, light refreshments, children’s stalls, live music and plenty more! No need to book in advance — just come on out and enjoy the festivities with us. All our stalls take both cash and card so no need to check the sofa for loose change!
Looking forward to seeing you all there to celebrate the beginning of the Christmas season!
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St. Oswald’s church will be reflecting on those we have loved and lost during the All Souls Service on Sunday, 2 November at 6pm. If you have lost a person dear to you and wish to commemorate their memory, please feel free to come and join us as we celebrate in their lives collectively through quiet reflection, song, and a contemplative reading of their names. We will have the opportunity to light a candle to remember them, and give thanks for their lives.
If you would like to add your loved one’s name to our list to be read out, please contact Rev. Smith. Alternatively, you are welcome to add the name yourself on the night of the event.
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On Sunday, 9 November, St. Oswald’s will be celebrating a Remembrance Day service. Beginning at 10am, the event will occur as part of our Sunday morning worship and we will take time, in accordance with the rest of the Church of England, to stop and reflect on our freedoms and the sacrifice made for us by those who have historically and actively risk their lives in conflict.
Join us as we commemorate those who have given so much for us.
Please note, we move from the Church building across the road to the cenotaph at the end of the service, but if you wish to stay within the building, the audio will be available.
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We know it’s only the beginning of November, but before we know it, Christmas will be around the corner. It has been another crazy year; so much has happened both globally, within the UK, and even in our own parish and in order to slow down to reflect on the brilliance of the Christmas season, we will be taking part in an Advent course to help prepare ourselves for the most wonderful time of the year.
This course will be four weeks, matching with the Advent season, and will lead towards Christmas. This year we will be looking at the BBC’s drama on The Nativity and discussions will be focused upon this.
At this time we have two available Advent Course options: the first is every Monday evening at St. Oswald’s, starting at 7pm; the second is every Tuesday evening on Zoom, starting at 7pm.
This course will be running until the 21 December; please come along to either course — we’d love to see you there!
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Sunday evenings offer a different pace to Sunday morning worship. Come along to a slightly more informal gathering where we will be exploring a number of different methods of worship. We hope to journey in everything from a basic Evening Prayer format to Compline, Taizé-style meetings to contemporary worship.
Each week we will be meeting at 6:00pm on Sundays for reflection, worship, and spending time in God’s presence. Look forward to seeing you there!
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How exciting is it to have children be a part of our church? We love welcoming all ages, and stages to St. Oswald’s and hope to provide something for everyone. We do need more volunteers for our Sunday morning Kids Zone and Crèche activities, however!
If you are interested in giving a hand to get this back up and running, please either speak with Rev. Joe or Christine & Arthur; they’ll be in touch and chat next steps with you!
Thank you in advance.
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Calling all volunteers!
We are hoping to establish a regular cleaning rota in our beautiful church and are looking for some extra people to lend a hand to keep our beautiful building… well beautiful! We hope to establish (ideally!) two different cleaning teams to give the church a fortnightly tidy — the more people able to give a hand, the merrier!
If you would be willing to help support us with this, please either get in contact with Rev. Joe or see Val after our next morning service.
Thank you every one!
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Welcome to St. Oswald's Church!