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
- Q&A
When there is a serious disaster, like a plane crash or a pandemic, we often demand to know what went wrong – so we can avoid it happening again. It’s made many things better: safer air travel, more successful medicine, buildings that don’t fall down.
Public Inquiries and Royal Commissions are good when there is a well-focused question, but how do you answer the “What went wrong?” question in the biggest context?
The Bible doesn’t shy away from the truth in all its bleak reality. In many ways the Bible exists to ask, and then answer, the very core question: What went wrong?
So what did go wrong? What led to the situation we find ourselves in – a world of selfish people, of wanton destruction, of conflict, of violence, fear and malice?
The Bible doesn’t hesitate to answer, and the ‘what’ comes right at the beginning in Genesis 2. Adam ate an Apple. And he ate it because he thought there was something more important than doing what God said.
And the Bible also tells us what God’s response is: Jesus. Adam disobeyed, Jesus obeyed: “by the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous” Rom 5:19.
How shall we respond? We could follow Adam, but my advice would be to follow Jesus.
Raymond