Margaret and All Hallows, Orford

The Church of St Margaret and All Hallows at Orford near Warrington struck me as entirely ordinary and predictable. A late-Victorian building in leafy grounds, it is built of brick in a 'blended gothic'. It has a decent online presence and the array a services which one might expect of an active, Anglican church. Nothing at all struck me as extraordinary. The website reports:

Worship has been offered here for over a hundred years. At St Margaret's we are committed to sharing the Good News of Jesus Christ; that all people may come to know Him as the Way, the Truth and the Life.

I cannot vouch for the truth of this statement but I commend it in good faith. Ordinary people in an ordinary place doing something utterly extraordinary: worshipping the Living God and bringing others to Him through His Son. If St Margaret and All Hallows is true to its word, then this standard-looking ecclesiastic building is where heaven meets earth, where lost sheep are found by the Eternal Shepherd.

A D