Wolverhampton City of Sanctuary: Thank you all so much for your donations which are always appreciated and much needed for Wolverhampton City of Sanctuary. Always in demand are clothes (for all ages and sizes), household and kitchen items, towels and bedding, children’s toys and books, toiletries and sanitary products.  Thank you for your ongoing support. Please contact Annette Souter to arrange for any donations to be collected or delivered to her on Tel: 07952 777998 or annette_souter@hotmail.com    Please do not deliver to Church.

Our much loved curate from 1981-4 Revd. Tim Hawkings retires from the stipend ministry this weekend. His final service at The Church of St John the Baptist Axbridge is this Sunday. Please hold Tim and Heather in your prayers as they start a new chapter in their life.

THE ALMSHOUSE CHARITY OF RAPHAEL AND ANN SEDGWICK 

Pennwood Lane, Penn, Wolverhampton

April 2021

We have an Almshouse, available to anyone who meets the criteria, applicants need to be on income support, housing benefit, and have some sort of connection to Penn or Pennfields. If you, or anyone you know may be interested, please contact either 

Jill Fieldhouse

(Clerk to the Trustees) 

Telephone – 01902-620149Mobile – 07710435572Email –jill.fieldhouse@outlook.comOr Revd.Preb. Ben Whitmore

Thank You Very Much

I am pleased to tell you all that I have been able to complete the claim for repayment of tax for the year to 5/4/2021, the total for the year which HMRC will repay to us is over £23,000! As you can imagine this helps enormously with our costs. Over the tax year the giving (Banker’s Orders and envelopes and one off donations) was over £94,500, so a massive thank you to all who regularly give to us, in what has been a very difficult year.

Each year we commit to giving away 10% of our income, and we have done this- the charities are varied- some local, some national and some international.

God is Good, and He is moving in this place.

Thanks so very much.

Barbara Edwards Gift Aid Secretary

PS if you need an individual letter for tax purposes please contact me.

Prayer shawls bring the wearer warmth and affection both in times of sorrow and in times of celebration. They make ideal gifts for comforting and celebrating important stages in life.

The making of a prayer shawl is a spiritual practice which embodies our thoughts and prayers for the receiver. It is a gift made in prayer and freely given. The shawls are passed on hand-to-hand and heart-to-heart.

Prayer shawls are prayerfully and lovingly knitted, sometimes with a person in mind or as part of a supply when a need is identified. They can be given to people who are ill, hurting or in a time of transition.

We have given them to people following ~ bereavement ~ during illness ~ to new students ~ for new beginnings ~ to new mums ~ going through a tough time ~ just because.

If you would like more information or if there is someone you would like to give a prayer shawl to, please let me know. They do not need to be a member of this or any other church.                        

Saskia    On behalf of the knitting ministry at St. Bart’s

Email Saskia.poller@gmail.comor speak to Anne Edwards 01902 337478

or contact the Parish Office on 01902 576809

There is now a defibrillator located outside St Bart’s Church Hall. Training will be arranged when restrictions allow us to do so.

The Well Foodbank:Particularly 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

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

Alice Corbett,  Brian Hopson,  Grace Simkin,  Jeanette Saunders,  Jutta Dougan,  Jane Green,

Robert Farmer,  Pauline Hollington,  Wendy Carly,Linda Harris, Thomas Griffiths,

Keren Anthony,  Julian Hollington,  Paul Challenor,  Stella & Bluebell,  Norman Schofield,  Doreen Hickman,  Lucy Harris,  Deryk Vernon.

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

John Bloxham,  CharlesEccleshall,  John Wright,  Ken Jarrett,  Patricia Lea,  Jean Thomas.

Church Floodlighting:If you wish the Church to be floodlit in memory of a loved-one or to celebrate a special anniversary, birthday etc, please contact the Parish Office on 01902 576809. The cost is only £15 and the Church is lit from dusk to midnight.