Service of Holy Communion at St Oswald Church
We are delighted to welcome Rev Jackie Parry to our Team Ministry as an Associate Minister. Her licensing service will be held here at Sefton Church. We look forward to having Rev Jackie on our Team and wish her every blessing in her new ministry.
We welcome any willing volunteers to join us for the annual Church Clean Up day. Help is also needed in the churchyard to pick up leaves etc! We always make time for a cup of coffee/tea and a chat!
Please note: There is a fairly flat access to the altar area. Communion can be brought to your pew if requested. Hearing loop is installed.
We meet every Monday except for Bank Holidays and the Christmas and New Year period to tidy up the church and graveyard and do other simple tasks.
If you feel able to help our group of volunteers, we would be very grateful. After our hard work we always enjoy tea/coffee and biscuits together.
We welcome all baptisms of children or adults. Baptism is an outward sign of us expressing a belief in the God who loves us, it is a sign of belonging to God’s family and it is a beginning to get to know more about God.
Our service of baptism is held during our morning service (11am) on the 4th Sunday of the month. There is no charge for the service but we always welcome a donation on the collection plate.
Please join us for our special Mothering Sunday service which always takes place on the fourth Sunday of Lent. The service dates back hundreds of years when traditionally it was a day when children, mainly daughters, who had gone to work as domestic servants were given a day off to visit their mother and family and to return to their home or ‘mother’ church. It is a day when we thank God for the love of our mothers, and we thank them in person for their care for us. A small posy of daffodils will be presented to members of the congregation. We are aware of those for whom Mothering Sunday is a painful time and include them in our prayers.
Palm Sunday is the first Day of Holy Week. It is when Christians remember how Jesus entered Jerusalem riding on a donkey. It is called Palm Sunday because the people were so happy to see Jesus and knew that he was very important, so they took branches from the Palm and Olive Trees that lined the road. They waved them in the air shouting 'Hosanna' (which means 'God Saves' in Hebrew) and put some of them on the road to make it easier for the donkey to walk on the rocky road.
Please join us for our service of Common Worship Morning Prayer.
Maundy Thursday commemorates the Last Supper when Jesus shared the Passover meal with his disciples on the night before he was crucified. We will have supper together and a service of Holy Communion.
On this day we commemorate the passion, or suffering, and death on the cross of Jesus Christ.
The church is open for prayer and quiet contemplation.
Easter Day is the most important day of the year for Christians. It is when we celebrate that three days after being killed, Jesus rose from the dead -'the Resurrection'. Please join us for our service of Holy Communion. Please note: There is a fairly flat access to the altar area. Communion can be brought to your pew if requested. Hearing loop is installed.
The church will be open from 1.00pm until 4pm. There will be a cafe selling tea and coffee and a gift stall. You are welcome to just come and wander around our beautiful church. There will be help available re family graveyard enquiries and the history of the church. There are some mobility restrictions in the church. Disabled access to the church is via the lych gate on Bridges Lane. Please note there are no fully disabled toilets.