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Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
St Nicolas church will be open between 10 and 12 noon from Monday 19 to Friday 23 January 2026, during the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. The Chancel will offer a quiet place for people’s personal prayers or for people to use the reflections and prayers provided for the 2026 theme that centres on Ephesians 4:4:
There is one body and one spirit, just as you were called to the one hope of your calling.
There may also be some prayer stations to help guide prayers. Everyone is welcome. Coffee and light refreshments will be served.
Nasio Trust Appeal
Nasio Trust supports a nmber of extremely poor villages in Kenya. It educates, feeds and teaches life skills to children aged 4 upwards.
Retired Dunmore school teacher Su Russell is an active trustee of this charity which is based in Abingdon. Su is going out in February with teenage volunteers taking wheeled suitcases filled with red school jumpers, baby knitwear and masses of other things.
What can I donate?
Good secondhand hand and new bras, including bralettes for the younger girls.
(Target is 100 bras)New knickers so that they can wear period products.
Wearing underwear signals that women and girls are respectable.
2 more scruffy wheeled suitcases to leave out in Kenya.
(Scruffy cases are less attractive to border guards.)
A box is available in the church foyer for underwear donations.
If you have a suitcase that may be suitable, please get in touch.
The volunteers can only use a backpack for their possessions. Everything in the cases will be items for the schools and medical clinics.
Fresh Perceptions of Reality
Where Science meets spirituality
Friday 23rd January - 2 - 6pm
Wolfson College Oxford
Join leading scientists and thinkers, including Bishop Steven, for a rare afternoon exploring how modern physics, cosmology and consciousness research are reshaping the biggest questions of all.
Grandparenting for Faith
Grandparents and grandparent-figures can be hugely influential in the lives of children and young people, but often it can be hard to know where to start in helping the young ones in our lives to meet and know God.
This course is full of practical ideas, encouragement, and biblical wisdom to help you share faith naturally as part of everyday life.
Join BRF on Tuesday 27 January for six weeks, as we look at how we can encourage the children and young people in their walk with God. The course will take place online, facilitated by the Parenting for Faith team.
Church in Abingdon
The Church in Abingdon is a voluntary organisation comprised of 14 churches, from a diversity of traditions, located across the breadth of Abingdon. These churches work together to bring support to the people of Abingdon in a practical way through various task groups and community projects.
Abingdon Food Bank
We welcome gifts of cereal, soup, pasta, rice, tinned tomatoes, pasta sauce, tinned meat, tinned vegetables, tea/coffee/hot chocolate, tinned fruit, rice pudding, biscuits, UHT milk, squash. Also, toiletries, nappies and household cleaning items.
You can bring donations to Preston Road Community Centre (Wednesday) or Christ Church (Monday, Friday) or use collection baskets at Waitrose and Aldi. Financial donations are also very helpful.
Trinity Learning
Trinity Learning works with volunteers to improve the quality of life, particularly relating to wellbeing and mental health, in 23 school communities in the Abingdon area. Find out what they've been doing this term.
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