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Chilson Open Gardens
Thought for the Month
Daily Prayer
Charlbury Fairtraders
Red Cross Week
Car Parking in Church Lane
Coffee Rota
Oxfordshire Historic Churches Trust Ride and Stride

Friends of Shorthampton Church – CHILSON  OPEN  GARDENS - Sunday 27th June, 2 - 5.30pm. £5 entrance. Cream teas, Jazz and Plant Stall.   Enquiries:  Sarah Potter (01608 810388). BACK TO TOP

Charlbury Fairtraders - Traidcraft is running a post card campaign to ask the new government to show leadership in the fight against world poverty. Before the election the three main political parties committed to appointing a "groceries Ombudsman".  The campaign is to get this commitment honoured and an Ombudsman appointed within the first 100 days of this new Parliament. The Ombudsman will work to prevent supermarkets forcing farmers, abroad and in this country, to accept prices which drive them out of farming. If you would like to send a card to your MP, cards will be on the side shelf at the 8.00am service and on the Traidcraft stall after 9.45 service on 20 June. There should also be someone by the stall to answer your questions.
Ann Firkins is organising the teas for the CHILSON OPEN GARDENS next Sunday 27th June in aid of All Saints, Shorthampton.   She is making all the scones but would be very grateful to have more CAKES either Victoria Sponge, Loaf Cakes or Tray Bakes    Please deliver to Malcolm Harper at The Cottages, Church Lane, by mid-day next Saturday.   Tel. no.: 07778 450515.   If you would like free eggs for cake making please telephone Sarah 01608 810388. BACK TO TOP

Car parking for Services in Church Lane - We would encourage those of you who park in Church Lane for services, to make sure that there is enough room near the gate, for cars transporting disabled people to get into the churchyard. Thank You. BACK TO TOP

Daily Prayer: Times until further notice: Morning Prayer at 9am on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday (Holy Communion) and Thursday; Evening Prayer at 4.30pm on Monday, Tuesday (Iona liturgy), Wednesday and Thursday. BACK TO TOP

Coffee Rota - Many thanks to everyone who has been serving the coffee. Do put your name down to help in the future. Details of other helpers available, if you need someone to do it with, are in the plastic packet labelled 'coffee rota' on the shelf near the door. Thank you. More info from Heather 810799. BACK TO TOP

Friday Networking Lunch 25 June: Charlbury Baptist Church (top of Dyer's Hill) invites you to join us for a ploughman's lunch 12-2pm. A great opportunity to meet for lunch, especially for those in and around the town who work from home or run local businesses. An opportunity to share the benefit of our refurbished premises with the local community. (No sermons or hymns guaranteed!) No need to book, just come when you are able. No charge but donations welcome. Hugh Belshaw 810130 BACK TO TOP

Oxfordshire Historic Churches Trust Ride and Stride will be on Saturday 11th September 10am – 6pm.   Another record amount was raised last year and the list of grants is on the notice board, with one to the Quaker Meeting House, as well as Spelsbury and Enstone churches.   Sadly St. Mary’s only made £289 last year from a magnificent high of £1,047 in 2007.    Please consider taking part this year as half the sum you raise goes to St. Mary’s.   Sponsorship forms will be in the church at the end of July.BACK TO TOP

Thought for the month - 'Peach@thepub' ……….
Peace@thepub is not an email address. It's a real space, and it's somewhere to welcome and include everyone. It's about hope for our planet. It's about remembering that povery, suggering, injustice, and the global environment concern us all, and that there are things we are doing, and can do about them. It's about the solidarity and the power of silence.

Why not join us any time between 6 and 7 on the first Friday of each month, upstairs at the Bell Hotel?

Charlbury has many people whose concerns or whose work - paid or unpaid, full or part time - makes them acutely aware of violence, war, abuse, poverty, and the degradation of the environment. Some people are committed to local issues and action, but many are involved away from here, both elsewhere in the UK and throughout the world. Peace@the pub seeks to acknowledge the importance of all this work, and the extent of the need that is often hidden from us. It seeks to remember the people who struggle and suffer, but also to affirm all the good things that are going on to make the world a better and fairer place.

The keynote of Peace@the pub is being quiet together. There are no preconditions except a willingness to share silence, whether for a few minutes or up to an hour. For some, this silence may be meditation. For others it may be prayer. Some may just wish to be still after a busy week. Come anyway.

We recognise that there may be people who are unable to be present with us, but who might wish to join in, wherever they are, by keeping silence during the time we meet. Do let us know who you are if you'd like to so that yu can feel part of it all.

Afterwads, if you want to, join us for a drink downstairs - or get home and put your feet up.

The Bell Hotel has kindly allowed the use of the Bentley Room, free of charge, for Peace@the pub. Further information: Angela or Duncan Forbes, 01608 819121, Malcolm Harper, 01608 810464 or 07778450515, Rosalind and Roy Scott, 01608 810562. If Fridays are hopeless for you, but you'd like to come, please let us know. We will be reviewing the arrangements after a few months.

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Red Cross Week - We raised a record amount £1013.13 - Well done Charlbury! Thank you very much to everyone who gave so generously, and to all the collectors who visited nearly every house in Charlbury..   BACK TO TOP

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