Category: Children & families
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Christingle at Candlemas
Next Sunday 29th January, St Margaret’s will celebrate the last service of Christmas (before we take our decorations down) with our Christingle at Candlemas service. We’ll start at 4pm by making our christingles ready to light in the service, and then join together for a beautiful candlelit service of music and prayer for all ages.…
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Happy Epiphany!
Over the last month, our knitted nativity kings have been making their way around the parish. They have been visiting some of the homes of families who come along to St Margaret’s toddler group, Little Fishes. Here’s some photos of their adventures: I think we can all agree that they have been on quite the…
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Light Party
Here are some photos from our Light Party on Sunday. We started the evening with crafts, where we made shadow puppets and stained glass tealight holders. We then had a Hallowed heroes Treasure Hunt around the church, using brilliant instructions from Michele. I think we all learnt something new about the saints displayed in St…
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Samuel gets his Choir Surplice
Today was again a morning to celebrate for all those who love music at St Margaret’s. One of our newest choristers was presented with their surplice and welcomed formally to the choir. Samuel has been attending choir rehearsal and Sunday morning worship since before the summer holidays this year. He’s no stranger to music, having…
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Light Party
Join us for our first ever Light Party. We’ll have all the usual party games and party food, with song time and crafts. There will be a prize for best dressed, though we’re asking for nothing too scary or gory – just fun costumes. You will also need to bring a torch as we will…
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Oxford Canal Festival 2022
Oxford Canal Festival is this Saturday 17th September and looks like it’s going to be a lot of fun. St Margaret’s have been invited to run a craft session for children from 11-1pm. Eva and Daniel will be there making St Margaret’s fire-breathing dragons. Please do pop in to the children’s tent to say hello…
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Prayer Meeting at Phil & Jim School
During term-time, some of the parents and teachers meet each half-term at Phil and Jim’s School to pray for the whole school community. We have parents and teachers from many different dominations and we try to pray together in a way that is comfortable for everyone. All who have connections to the school are invited.…
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Little Fishes
We’re relaunching our Toddler Group this September with a renewed focus on reaching more families in our community. Do you know a neighbour or friend with 0 to pre-school age children that would enjoy a morning of fun every Friday of term-time in St Margaret’s Church? Or are you part of a neighbourhood whatsapp or…
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Pilgrimage Journey
It seems a little strange to be talking about endings as we look towards the start of the new school year. However, our minds are very much with the Phil and Jim Year 6 leavers as they prepare for high school in a few weeks and we just wanted to share our pilgrimage journey that…