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:- September

SERVICES IN THE BENEFICE THIS WEEK:
There will be just one service in the Benefice on 7th September, the Twelfth Sunday after Trinity:-
10.00  (Great Brickhill)  Benefice Holy Communion
We will be having Creationtide as our theme for this Benefice service. The Season of Creation or Creationtide from 1st September to 4th October in the church calendar, is dedicated to God as Creator and Sustainer of all life. At this time many churches choose to hold special services and events to give thanks for God's gift of creation, and to renew their commitment to caring for our planet.

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

The Bible readings for Sunday, 7th September:-
Deuteronomy 30: 15-20;  Colossians 1: 15-20;  Mark 4: 26-32

LATEST "PATHWAYS" EDITION:
The Summer 2025 edition of Pathways, the magazine for the people of the Diocese of Oxford, is now available. To download the latest copy of Pathways:-  Click Here

RECTOR'S
NEWSLETTER

Want and Need 

September 2025

Dear Friends,

   Why spend money on what is not bread,
        and your labour on what does not satisfy?
   Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good,
        and you will delight in the richest of fare.
                   (Isaiah 55. 2)

In all kinds of ways, our lives are driven by what we want, what we long for. Much more dangerously, our lives can be shaped by what other people try to convince us that we want, or make us long for, because that is what they want to sell. But what do we really long for, or thirst for, in the depths of our hearts?

The passage from Isaiah speaks to people who know all about practical needs, and about being hungry and thirsty – and God promises they will be given, not necessarily what they think they want, or what other people try to sell them or convince them they ‘need’; but that they will be given what God knows they need, the good things that will meet the deepest longings of their hearts. And God’s promise to them is both practical, and symbolic – about meeting their practical needs, and their deepest spiritual needs.

If we will set out on the adventure of answering God’s call to us in Jesus Christ, then we may find that we are called to give up some of the things we wanted, or thought we needed. But we are promised that we will be blessed with every good thing that God knows we need.

Revd John Waller