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:-  May  June

SERVICES IN THE BENEFICE THIS WEEK:
The services in the Benefice on Sunday 25th May, the Sixth Sunday of Easter, are:-
11.00  (Stoke Hammond)  Service in the Community Centre
11.00  (Little Brickhill)  Family Service
18.00  (Bow Brickhill)  Evensong

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

The readings for Sunday, 25th May:-
Acts 16: 9-15;   John 5: 1-9

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

RECTOR'S
NEWSLETTER

This is The Way 

May 2025

Dear Friends,

Later this month I will celebrate what feels like a significant birthday. It is a time to celebrate, and also to pause and reflect.

At times like this it is good to look back, and reflect on the way we have travelled. My life over the years that I have been here has certainly included challenges and sorrows that I would never have expected, but there is also so much that I am thankful for, in the ways that God has blessed me, often through the care and support of friends and neighbours.

And this is also a time, whatever our age may be, to look forward, because the Christian faith always calls us to live in hope. There is much that we do not know about the future, but we are called to trust in God’s loving purposes, and that the best is yet to be, as we seek God’s guidance for the way ahead.

As I look back, and look ahead, I often return to the promise of these words from the Old Testament:
    Whether you turn to the right or the left,
    Your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying,
    ‘This is the way; walk in it.’  (Isaiah 30. 21)

Revd John Waller