ADVENT ART, DECEMBER 10TH 11.30AM – 5.00PM IN THE OAK ROOM A day a biblically inspired art (no talent required!) involving demonstrations, lunch, resources and a passage of scripture. All resources and refreshments provided Suggested minimal donation £5 If interested or want to know more please speak to Rev’d Alison.

The Well FoodbankParticularly needed right now are tinned vegetables of all kinds, especially tinned potatoes, tinned fruit, rice pudding, any other tinned puddings, rice and pasta sachets, toiletries, large size nappies. Other tinned or dried items also welcome. PLEASE AVOID out-of-date items, opened packets & fresh foods, as these cannot be used. If you would like to help please add your donation to the trolley at the back of church and it will rapidly find its way to someone in need.

For more information http://thewellwolverhampton.co.uk

Wolverhampton City of SanctuaryThank you all so much for your donations which are always appreciated and much needed.Always needed are kitchen and household items, children's clothes and toys, toiletries and sanitary products.Special request this week please for a hoover, double buggies, dining chairs, blenders and shopping trolleys.Please do not deliver to Church.Please contact Annette Souter on Tel: 07952 777998 or annette_souter@hotmail.com  Thankyou very much for your ongoing support. 

THE ALMSHOUSE CHARITY OF RAPHAEL & ANN SEDGWICK  We have an Almshouse available at the moment. If you are interested and meet the following criteria: Have a connection with Penn or Pennfields, are on income support or housing benefit and own no property, please contact either: Jill Fieldhouse 01902 620149, Julian Hollington 01902663180,or Revd Ben Whitmore. Please note that these dwellings are only suitable for one person.

Bart’s Butterflies: will not be meeting this week as it is half term. Please join us next Thursday at 1.45pm in the Lady Chapelfor lots of singing, stories and fun. All are welcome.

Shoe Box Appeal: St. Bart’s is supporting ‘Operation Christmas Child’ again this year – sending gifts abroad to children who would otherwise receive nothing for Christmas.  If you wish to create a ‘shoe box’, please bring it to the Parish Office byMonday 21^st November.

The Friends of St Bart's and St Anne's would like to thank everyone who came to the quiz on Saturday 8th October. We had a lovely evening of quizzing and fish and chips and good company. Thank you especially to our 3 quizmasters - Pauline, Julian and Robert. Thank you also to everyone who helped on the day. We made a profit of just over £100 which is great. All funds raised by the Friends go to maintaining our beautiful buildings and supporting our choir. Please continue to support us.

Thank you, Anne Edwards.

Christmas Newsletter

The Christmas Newsletter is planned to be available early December. If you wish to submit an article etc. for inclusion in this newsletter, please contact the editor Sarah Slade at newsletter.stbarts@gmail.com

Final date for inclusion 7th November 2023. If you wish to enquire about advertising in the Newsletter, please contact Jon Norden at ads.stbarts@gmail.com

School Admissions for St Peter’s Collegiate School 2023

If you are considering St Peter’s Collegiate School for your child for admission in September 2023 you will need to:-

1 Complete a Supporting Evidence Form

2 Personal Statement, pattern of worship/length of time attached to St Bart’s etc.

3 A telephone number to contact you

Without all of this information we can’t complete and sign the form.

Closing date for St Peter’s – Monday 5^th December

CHRISTMAS FAYRE DONATIONS.

We always welcome donations towards the Christmas Fayre. Please put all donations into small bags or boxes clearly marked ‘Christmas Fayre’and leave them under the large table in the Oakroom Foyer.

Thank you for your contributions.

DONATIONS OF BOXED CAKES, SWEETS, FOOD ITEMS OR ALCOHOL.

Please could these be dropped off at the Parish Office until25th November – Monday to Friday between 10am and 12noon only, or left outside the office door any other time up to 6pm in sealed boxes clearly marked ‘Donna’. (Please do not write on the boxes what is in them). During the weekends please pass your donations directly to the Church Wardens.

Could all donations of fresh cakes and mince pies please be delivered on Friday the 25th November from 12 noon or early on the fayre day -Saturday 26th November.    Thank you.

EVERYDAY WITNESS, a journey of sharing faith. This new CofE course will run for 10 weeks with a break for half term and Ash Wednesday. Venue- Lady Chapel starting Wednesday 11th January 7pm - 8 30pm. Cost- approximately £5 for reflective journal. There are activities for large groupsinc. congregations, small groups and individual bible reading notes. We are all called and sent as witnesses of Jesus. “Everyday witness takes this as truth and then sets us on our way in living it” Archbishop Justin Welby. Please speak to Rev’d Alison or leave your details at the office.

The Church Hall is open for parties – for further details, please contact Donna Williams on 07546 527300.

Please Pray for: Those for whom extra prayer is needed:

Brian Hopson,  Jeanette Saunders,  Wendy Carly,Jackie Evans,Paul Challenor,Jane Turner,  Christine Plowman,Thomas Griffiths,  Vi Bayliss,Julia Bishop, Dave Charles,Dennis Pitt,

Jill Dodd,  Bishop Steven Abbarrow, Megan Pickering,  Rose Ferrier,  Judy Bates,  Florian Tushi,

Lin Vawer, Andrew Bailey,  Alice Corbett,  Grace Simkin.

Please pray for: The family and friends of those who have died:

John Knowles,  Patricia Butlin,  Audrey Derry,  Ivy Turner.

The flowers in Church this weekend celebrate the lives

of Ronald Owen and Joan Tayler