Friday 14th April – Good Friday (No hangings) ‘Pews News’ 11.00am Easter Garden Lay February/March 2017 (followed by an Easter Egg Hunt) 11.00am Easter Garden Lay 2.00pm Vigil Chacombe Lay Seeking To Make Christ Known 7.30pm Vigil Middleton Cheney Lay The Church of in Chacombe, Greatworth, Marston St. Lawrence, th Sunday 16 April – Easter Sunday – White Middleton Cheney, & Warkworth 9.00am Holy Communion Thenford JD 9.00am All Age Chacombe Lay 10.30am Holy Communion Middleton Cheney PF Going Forward Together …. 6.00pm Songs of Praise Greatworth TBC As you may now be aware, our Rector, Rev. Charles Jefferson, has rd recently been appointed Vicar of Balderstone, Mellor & Samlesbury Sunday 23 April – Easter 2 – White in the Diocese of Blackburn and will be moving to Lancashire. We 9.00am Holy Communion Chacombe VB wish Charles and Cath well in their ministry there. 10.30am Holy Communion Middleton Cheney WA As a result, the search for a new Rector and ‘House For Duty’ Priest 10.45am Holy Communion Warkworth TR for the Chenderit Benefice has begun. 10.45am Holy Communion Marston St Lawrence VB In the coming weeks, our Churchwardens will be working with th Diocesan staff to make those appointments. In the meantime, we’re Sunday 30 April – Easter 3 – White working as a team to make sure services continue during the 10.30am Benefice Communion Middleton Cheney JD Vacancy. CB – Chris Bazeley; JD – John Duncan; PF – Paul Franklin; SP – Stuart Pascall; TR – Terry Richards; VB – Viv Baldwin; WA – Will Adams. So this issue of ‘Pews News’ features service details for the next 3 ______months including Easter (thanks to Dave Scott for his work on this). Our next ‘Pews News’ will be in April. Weddings, Funerals, Baptisms … contact The most notable change is that all Sunday services at All Saints, Rev. Simon Dommett, Rural Dean Middleton Cheney now start at 10.30am. There are other changes, Email: [email protected] which are worth double-checking before you set off to church. Phone: 01869 810903 Post: The Rectory, Croughton Road, Aynho, , OX17 3BD. As part of our service pattern, we are also excited to welcome ______Archdeacon Richard Ormston, who will lead our Benefice th Communion service on Sunday 19th March at St Peter & St Paul’s Articles for ‘Pews News’ - deadline 15 March for April issue Church, Chacombe at 10.45am. David Barber 01295 713652 / [email protected] Please pray for all those involved in running the Chenderit Benefice And for the latest Benefice updates and news, you can connect with our during the Vacancy, and for the continuation of God’s work here in website - http://chenderit-c-of-e.org the months ahead.

Services February 2017 Sunday 12th March – Lent 2 – Purple Sunday 5th February – Epiphany 5 – Green 9.30am All Age Marston St. Lawrence Lay 9.00am Holy Communion Chacombe TR 10.30am All Age Middleton Cheney CB 10.30am Saints Praise Middleton Cheney SP 10.45am Holy Communion Greatworth WA Sunday 19th March – Lent 3 – Purple

Sunday 12th February – Epiphany 6 – Green 10.45am Benefice Communion Chacombe RO (lead by Archdeacon Richard Ormston) 9.30am All Age Greatworth Lay 10.30am Holy Communion Middleton Cheney PF Sunday 26th March – Lent 4 – Purple

Sunday 19th February – Epiphany 7 – Green 9.00am All Age Chacombe Lay 10.30am Holy Communion Middleton Cheney PF 9.00am Holy Communion Chacombe TR 10.45am Holy Communion Warkworth TR 10.30am All Age Middleton Cheney CB 10.45am Holy Communion Marston St Lawrence JD 10.30am Coffee & Praise Greatworth Lay ______(Refreshments from 10.00am)

10.45am Holy Communion Thenford TR

Sunday 26th February – Last After Epiphany – Green

9.00am All Age Chacombe Lay 10.30am Holy Communion Middleton Cheney JD 10.45am Holy Communion Warkworth TR Services for April 2017 10.45am Holy Communion Marston St Lawrence WA

______Sunday 2nd April – Lent 5 – Purple Services for March 2017 9.00am Holy Communion Chacombe VB 10.30am Songs of Praise Middleton Cheney SP Wednesday 1st March – Ash Wednesday – Purple 10.45am Holy Communion Greatworth VB 7.30pm Imposition of Ashes Middleton Cheney PF

Sunday 5th March – Lent 1 – Purple Sunday 9th April – Palm Sunday – Red 9.00am Holy Communion Chacombe JD 9.30am All Age Marston St. Lawrence Lay 10.45am Saints Praise Middleton Cheney Meth Meth 10.30am All Age Middleton Cheney CB 10.45am Holy Communion Greatworth JD