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

• Stories22 May 2025

  One of the things that holds a community together is the stories it tells. Stories we share about ourselves. “How did you meet?” Benjamin asked Jane and me this week. So we told the story – two slightly different versions of a school musical production 47 years ago. I hear some primary-school children are asking great-grandparents about The War. Sadly, sometimes it seems we are embarrassed by our history and choose to forget or extirpate stories without realising (or perhaps intending) that with the stories go the shared identity that holds us together.

  A Christian Community is grounded in the big stories of Creation and Fall; Jesus’ birth and death; His resurrection and the coming of the Holy Spirit.

  What are the stories of St Mary’s in Shaw cum Donnington? Do you tell the stories of the past? Are you a part of the stories of today that will become tomorrow’s stories we share?

  Jesus knew how stories can also teach by taking something known to the community’s and then going beyond it. And so his parables work – teaching through a twist in the tale: A builder, a Samaritan. “Go and do likewise”, Jesus said (Luke 10:37).

   

  Raymond