Benefice of Atworth with Shaw and Whitley

05/06/2026

🧡Sunday 7th June🧡

✨ 10am at Christ Church, Shaw
An all-age service, including BLASCT (Bible Learning Atworth & Shaw Children Together).

✨ 10am Morning Prayer at St Michael’s, Atworth
A welcoming service where we gather to worship and pray together.

Everyone is welcome — families, children, individuals, regulars and visitors alike.

Hope to see you there

03/06/2026

Genesis 9:13-16
New International Version - UK

13 I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. 14 Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, 15 I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life. 16 Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth.

Photo taken this evening in Bath 🌈

29/05/2026

Can you hear that?
That's the sound of Four Across warming up for your entertainment 🎶

Can you smell that wonderful aroma?
That's the cakes and savouries ready for the interval 🍰

Tonight's the night!
Christ Church, Shaw is the place to be
7.30pm

Hope to see you there

27/05/2026

Not long to wait now!

The excitement is building
The tickets are selling
4 Across are ready to entertain

You won't want to miss this!!

Ticket info as per the poster

24/05/2026

We like faith
when it stays manageable.

Neat. Quiet. Contained.

A candle lit gently.
A prayer whispered softly.
A hymn sung the way we’ve always sung it.

But Pentecost arrives
like the windows have been flung open
without warning.

Wind rushing through frightened hearts.
Fire dancing above ordinary people.
Voices rising louder than fear.

And suddenly
disciples who’d hidden away
are in the streets
speaking about Jesus
like the story matters too much
to keep to themselves anymore.

Not scholars.
Not the powerful.
Just ordinary people
set alight by the Spirit of God.

People who’d doubted.
People who’d failed.
People who’d run away when things became costly.

Yet God chose them anyway.

Because the Spirit doesn’t wait
for polished people
with perfect words and unwavering confidence.

The Spirit comes to real people.
To anxious people.
To weary people.
To people who still carry grief in their bones
and uncertainty in their stomachs.

And through wind and fire
and trembling voices
the good news travels.

Across languages.
Across barriers.
Across the spaces
we keep trying to divide into us and them.

Because the peace of Christ
isn't something to hide away
behind locked church doors
or careful conversations.

It moves.

Through kindness shared freely.
Through courage that surprises us.
Through invitations spoken awkwardly
but honestly.
Through people willing to say
this story changed me
and I think it might change you too.

Pentecost isn't a festival of standing still.

It is wind.
It is movement.
It is hearts catching fire again.

And in the noise and wonder of it all
God is still there
breathing life
into tired people,
and sending ordinary disciples
into the world
carrying the love of Christ in their hands.

© E Hamilton 2026

24/05/2026

24/05/2026

Join us this morning to celebrate Pentecost Sunday

Joint Holy Communion Service
10am
St Michael's, Atworth

A warm welcome awaits

21/05/2026

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18/05/2026

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