BENEFICE
SERVICE INFORMATION:

** CHURCH SERVICES **
The services across the Benefice follow a four month cycle. 
Click on the relevant link below for a current PDF file of the services for:-  December (updated 13/12/24); January

SERVICES IN THE BENEFICE OVER THE CHRISTMAS PERIOD:
Sunday 22nd December:
   15.00  (Bow Brickhill)  Carol Service
   17.00  (Little Brickhill)  Carol Service
Tuesday 24th December Christmas Eve:
   16.00  (Stoke Hammond)  Crib Service
   17.00  (Great Brickhill)  Carol Service
  *22.00  (Bow Brickhill)  Holy Communion (note * change of time)
   23.30  (Stoke Hammond)  Holy Communion 
Wednesday 25th December Christmas Day:
   9.30  (Little Brickhill)  Holy Communion
   11.00  (Great Brickhill)  Holy Communion
Sunday 29th December:
   10.00  (Stoke Hammond)  Holy Communion Benefice

To download a PDF with full details for the current month's services and readings:-  Click Here

The readings for Christmas Holy Communion:-
Isaiah 52: 7-10;  1 John 4: 7-11;  Luke 2: 1-14

LATEST "PATHWAYS" EDITION:
To download the latest copy of Pathways, the magazine for the people of the Diocese of Oxford:-  Click Here

NEXT BISHOP OF BUCKINGHAM:  
The Revd Canon Dave Bull has been nominated as the next Bishop of Buckingham. Currently Team Rector of Marlow and Area Dean of Wycombe, he will take up his new ministry at the end of February.

RECTOR'S
NEWSLETTER

Real hope for our real world

December 2024

Dear friends,

Sometimes we can see the nativity, the stories about the birth of Jesus, as something nice, but unreal and detached from the world that we live in. But when we look at the gospels, and understand the setting for the nativity, we can discover that the birth of Jesus happened in strange and challenging times. Jesus was born under military occupation, in uncertain times, in the midst of the mass movement of people on the orders of their government.

The birth of Jesus was good news for the difficult times into which he was born, and it is good news for the times that we live in now. The birth of Jesus, the life he lived and the things he taught, and his death and rising to new life, assure us of the promise of God’s presence and love with us now, wherever we are, and whatever challenges we have to face.

That is what we have to celebrate in our church services at Christmas, and you are very welcome to come and join us.

Wishing you all a very happy Christmas, and a safe and peaceful new year.

Revd John Waller