Cogges Parish

From the Crosstalk newsletter

Life is precious...

By the time the Sweeneys have finished watching 'Strictly Come Dancing' on a Sunday evening I know the weekend is almost over and I'm left thinking, where on earth did the time go?

I wonder how quickly the weekend passes for you? For that matter, I wonder how quickly life passes for you? The trouble with life is that it simply doesn't have a rewind button -- every day, every second, carries with it its own finality. Time is our one indisputable non-renewable resource. My mother, who is seventy nine, commented the other week how she still feels fifty inside, that is until she catches a glimpse of herself in a shop window!

At the end of every day, one more box on the calendar has been shifted from the future column to the past column, from possibility to history, and all of its moments can be celebrated or regretted, but can never be retrieved.

Making Christ known by word and deed

Cogges is an evangelical parish on the east side of Witney in West Oxfordshire.

The parish is in the Benefice of Cogges and South Leigh which is in the Deanery of Witney, in the Diocese of Oxford.

The church forms a thriving Christian community with extensive links into the parish and the wider Witney area. The life of the church in Cogges revolves around worship of God and celebration of His love for us. A range of modern and traditional services, together with a flourishing children's and young people's work, offer opportunities for celebration and for sharing the good news of Jesus Christ - "the same, yesterday, today and forever".