Please note:  Tea and Coffee will not be served after the 10.00am Services on Christmas Eve or New Year’s Eve.

The Well Foodbank

As Advent progresses please remember the work of The Well foodbank; as it gets nearer Christmas we include those extras to make mealtimes more enjoyable for individuals and families. We are desperately short of everyday toiletries, household cleaning products and then in our Christmas parcels, items like crackers, selection boxes, gravy granules, sauces, Christmas puddings, custard, mince pies etc. Thank you so much for your ongoing support - 'It is in giving we receive' - Kay Stokes

The Well food trolley is located at the back of the church by the door leading to the Oak room.         http://thewellwolverhampton.co.uk

Painting in Penn will commence its next intake for new budding water colour artists on Tuesday 16th January 2023 at 2.00pm. Please contact Ron Mottram at

ron@rjmottram.co.uk or the Parish Office on 01902 576809 for further details. 

There are no vacancies for the Wednesday Evening Class.       Ron Mottram.

Prayer with anointing during Advent

We are pleased to be able to offer prayer on a one to one basis, accompanied by anointing with oil, following Sunday 10.00am services (and some Saturday 5pm services) leading up to Christmas. If you would like one of our ministers to pray with you, either for a specific need, or a prayer for God’s presence and blessing on your life, please come to the Lady Chapel at the end of the service. You only have to share what is comfortable to you, and confidentiality will be respected. 

Prayer changes things!

 Applications for St Bartholomew’s Primary School

For 2024 Admission

If you are looking for the church to support your application for a school place you will need to:-

1 Download the Supplementary Information Form from school website

2 Complete Section 1

3 Pass the whole form to us, in the church office, and include a potted history of your worship at St Bart’s

4 Let us have telephone number where we can contact you to either discuss more, or tell you when the form has been completed

The forms will be dealt with as they come in

The PCC has approved the following donations proposed by the Transforming Communities Committee, that as part of our tithing, St. Bart's will donate £1000 to The Well

Paul Beeston

Transforming communities Champion

The Church will be floodlit on the evening of 28th December

in loving memory of Graham Turner

The Church will be floodlit on the evening of 2nd January

in loving memory of Les Batchelor

From all of us here at

St Bartholomew’s and St Anne’s

We wish you a very Happy Christmas and New Year.

ALPHA COURSE 2024

Starting 11th January

Please contact the Parish Office  

01902 576809 

or 

stbartspenn@googlemail.com 

or 

email Revd Ben

vicar@stbarts.org.uk 

or 

by Facebook Messenger.

Thursdays at 8.00pm in the Oak Room 

The course will also be online hosted by a zoom call

If you would like to be Confirmed or just wish to learn more about the Christian Faith, please join us with this year’s Alpha Course.

Course dates for your diary -  

11th January Christianity-boring, untrue and irrelevant?

18th January    Who is Jesus?

25th January Why did Jesus die?

1st February How can I be sure of my faith?

8th February Why & how should I read the Bible?

22nd February How & why should I pray?          

29th February How can I resist evil and why & how should I tell others?

7th March How does God guide us?

14th March What about the Church? 

21st March How can I make the most of the rest of my life?

Date to be confirmed    (Saturday) Holy Spirit Day

The course is totally free of charge and ‘easy come, easy go’. If, after a couple of weeks you are not enjoying it feel free to drop out and that is fine. 

God bless you!