St Mary’s Barton - Serving Barton, Sandhills and Barton Park

The picture above shows St Mary’s congregation before we moved out of the church building - sadly a number of the folk pictured there have passed away or moved on however,…………..

We are a church in transition, ready to welcome a new vicar in September, out of our building whilst a major renovation takes place and thinking through how we can move forward to love and serve our parish.

We’d love to welcome you to join us each week as we meet in Barton Neighbourhood Centre at 10am each Sunday and get to know us and share in our life, worship and join us in following Jesus.

Good news!!

We are very pleased to announce that the Bishop of Oxford has approved the appointment of Revd Erik Heemskerk as the next Vicar of St Mary’s. 

Erik (with a ‘k’!) is married to Rosemarie and has a young family.  He is currently completing his curacy at Cranleigh in Surrey whilst helping his church to manage a vacancy.

Erik is no stranger to Oxford, having trained at Wycliffe Hall and completing a year’s placement at St James’ church in Cowley.  His passions include sharing the good news of Jesus and equipping others to live out their Christian lives in the community.  For him this is undergirded by prayer, study and being visible in the community.  He said that the profile description of the parish ‘made his heart sing’! 

It is hoped that he will start in September and more details will follow but thanks be to God for the appointment of our new vicar.