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Holiday Bible Club
The Churches of Olney – your invitation
The Christian Churches of Olney celebrate their common faith and express their worship with refreshing diversity, from contemporary to traditional approaches, and thought-provoking Bible teaching. Come along, we’d love to get to know you.
More information is available from each church, their leaders and websites.
Welcome on our Sunday services:
Olney Baptist Church (known as Sutcliff): (meeting at Cowper Memorial URC until 2015 due to building works)
9.30am – Family Worship
6pm – Evening service
olneybaptist.org.uk, check out our Facebook page with the link from our website.
Rev Ian Field 01234 713880
Cowper Memorial URC:
Sunday, 11.00am –
Communion on first Sunday of month. Celia Dashfield – 01234 713468, contact@cowperurc.org.uk cowperurc.org.uk
SS Peter & Paul:
Sunday, 10.00am every week
8.30am (2nd/4th Sunday of the month) 5.00pm (2nd/4th Sunday of the month) 6.00pm (1st/3rd Sunday of the month) Wednesday, 9.30am every week
More information at olneyparish.org.uk. Reverend Claire Wood 01234 713308
The Catholic Church of Our Lady Help of Christians and St Lawrence: Saturday Mass at 6.30pm
Sunday: Mass at 10.30am.
Benediction 4-5 pm at the Convent Father Malcolm Bull and church administrator, Sister Rita Scott – 01234 711212
Cowper & Newton Museum
Find out the story behind a locket passed to a little girl standing in a street watching the soldiers march by. Did he hope it would bring him good luck?
Also featured is a Lusitania medal, which was given to German people to ‘brag’ about how many Britons they had killed. A soldier and father frequently wrote letters back to his daughter Eileen, from Mesopotamia. His wife, Elizabeth, had written “I would rather have a Private for a husband than a dead Officer.”
Edgar Mobbs, our local famous rugby player and war hero is remembered too. Together with Olney Rugby Club, the Cowper and Newton Museum will be commemorating his life and service in WW1 with a rugby match to be played in January 2015 (more details to follow). These are just a few of many poignant stories at the Cowper and Newton Museum to share and learn from.
The museum would like to thank Val Menzies for pulling it all together for them, Phonebox Magazine 87