Shaw Church

Welcome

We are the Church of England parish of St Mary’s Shaw cum Donnington – just to the north and east of Newbury.

Our purpose and focus is Knowing Jesus, Sharing God’s Love, Caring for People.
You can read more about it here.

We meet every Sunday at 10am, as well as at other times during the week.
Everyone is welcome to join us.

Word for the Week

• Shipman Head Down27 September 2025

  The sea is not calm today. A fresh south-westerly breeze has blown Over a hundred Atlantic miles of Ocean, Ripples making wavelets making waves making bigger as the swell comes in Crashing onto rocks that would stand imperious Spilling and boiling, plunging and surging Wave after wave, persistent, continuous. The left bishop light stands up, stands out Marking the way, warning the stray, To stay away, keep away, from Hell Bay.

  One Matthew in awe watched waves stilled Another saw ebb as the drowning of faith But the waves keep coming – keep flowing And faith did not drown – it lives, it breathes And the rocks keep standing, keep withstanding But the incessant waves probing, eroding, Dissolving, wearing – will win, will always win.

  The wind moved upon the face of the waters And there was light and there was land And there was life and there was rest. And the wind still moves, the waves still fanned The sea is not calm There is power, there is peril, there is purpose, Shall I stand in the way, or walk in The Way. Today.

  Raymond