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

• What do you know?11 October 2025

  Benjamin Franklin made popular the saying that in this world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes. And we could probably come up with some other things that we find hard to avoid (like struggle and pain) and some that we wouldn’t want to avoid even I we could (like a mother’s love).

  But I wonder if we might dare to broadened our horizons and consider things that are not entirely ‘of this world’, and be equally sure of them.

  By gathering in a church to worship, we are saying something about God – that He is there, and that our relationship with Him matters.

  By bringing children (or coming ourselves) to be baptised, we are saying something profound about God and about ourselves.

  About ourselves: we are recognising the gap between God’s holiness and our unholiness – a gap that should fill us with fear – because we can’t fix it;

  About God: we are recognising that Jesus came to make us holy, bring us to God, take way our fear, and give us life.

  We are baptised into Christ’s death – so we can be raised like him.

  Jesus said “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” Matthew 11:28

   

  Raymond.