Welcome to Shaw Church
The Parish of St Mary’s Shaw cum Donnington
We are a community of Christians bringing the Good News of God’s love to everyone in the parish, through Worship, Prayer, Teaching, and Serving.
We invite you to come and join us as we gather to worship God on Sundays at 10am, or in any of the other things we have going on.
Shaw cum Donnington lies to the north of Newbury in Berkshire, and St Mary’s Church is in the middle of the parish, just to the East of the A339.
You can find more about us and what is going on through this website, and do get in touch with the Church Office if there’s anything we can help you with or if you would like more information.
A word for the week
- Pentecost: a revolution in our Relationship with God
Have you ever dreamed of what it would be like to be one of the disciples, back when Jesus was still on earth? For nearly two thousand years, Christians have imagined seeing Jesus’ life and wished they could have been there.
But Jesus says something astonishing in our John reading today. He says that it is to our advantage that he goes away, so that Pentecost can happen. (John 16:7) So, if anything, people seeing Jesus’ miracles first hand were worse off than us. How can that be?
There are several reasons for this in the Bible, but perhaps the biggest is the change it brings to our relationship with God. Earlier on in John, Jesus said that it’s the difference between God living among us and him living inside us. Though Jesus has ascended into heaven, he has given us a closeness to God that people before Pentecost could have only dreamt of.
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