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.

• Boys Brigade
  1st Newbury Boys Brigade are meeting at Shaw Church. Wednesdays 6:15 – 7:45, starting on 11th September 2024.

Word for the Week

• Choose This Day5 September 2024

  Someone told me a couple of weeks ago that I can’t have tuna on my pizza. But I like tuna on my pizza – tuna and pineapple. Am I wrong? Have I missed something? It’s not as if you physically can’t put tuna on a pizza; and yet am I supposed to feel guilty if I do?

  Perhaps it’s just an opinion expressed as a moral value. Perhaps my accuser has an inner need to exercise power and influence. I know sometimes I must do things ‘just so’ or risk being out; and our confusing world demands that I ‘do my own thing’ and that ‘my own thing’ fits in.

  Being able to make ‘my own’ choice is an important part of being human. My choices say something about who I am, and yours you.

  A man called Joshua once challenged the people around him: “Choose this day whom you will serve, … as for me … I will serve the LORD.” He had made his choice and hoped and wanted them to make the same choice. It wasn’t an order, but an appeal: choose to do the right thing. And they did (see Joshua 24)

  I choose like Joshua. I hope you will too.

   

  Raymond.