Welcome to St. Thomas Werneth, Oldham

 

 

 

Hello,

 

Dear Friends

 

I'm Andrew Dawson. I'm the Priest in charge at St. Thomas'. That's me in the above photo, with Bishop Nigel of Manchester during St. Thomas' 150 years celebrations in 2005, with the Mayoress of Oldham, Councillor Kay Knox and our wardens.

 

We are proud to be an active part of the Church of England, and we also welcome people of all faiths for fellowship.

 

As well as our regular services, we have two weekly worship house groups, where we learn about our faith through working together. You will find the times of these on the calendar.

 

The upcoming events of the week, together with news and prayer requests and thanksgiving can be found on our weekly notices page, with additional detail in Monthly Magazine and Events.

 

Fairtrade Fortnight – 22^nd Feb to 7^th March 2010

 

This year we are being encouraged to swap our normal purchases for fairly traded alternatives. We all know about tea, coffee and sugar. Some of us may be aware of chocolate (including Cadbury’s dairy milk!), bananas and some other fruits but … did you know that you can get toiletries such as body butter and cotton wool balls?  You can give that special treat with beers, ales and wines or say it with fairly traded flowers!  You can get socks, pants and T-shirts that are fairly traded as well as olive oil and rice. Now there are so many more options available.

The slight increase in price hides a wealth of benefits for the producers such as a fair price for their labour and a say in how they work. The workers are also entitled to a safe working environment without being exposed to harmful chemicals. A small premium is paid to benefit the whole community and is improving the local infrastructure so that schools, roads and medial facilities as more readily available. The whole community have a say in what their priorities are.

So during this fortnight we are asked to consider changing one item in our shopping baskets … or may be more and if we can’t find what we want we are asked to ask the store manager to stock it by completing the card at the back of the Little Book of Swap.

Biddy Dawson 

 

Latest addition to the site. Take a look at the Church Windows pages. This has been completely revamped with higher quality images replacing the existing pictures and many new windows now included.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Imam Shakir addressing parish members and visitors

 

     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Visitors chatting with parishioners

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We've recently added some more photos to our gallery section, why not take a look?

 

 

 

How to find us

 

We are at point 'A' on the map