Church Clock:  As many people will be aware there have been problems with the clock over the last year. The repairs are in the hands of our clock repairer and hopefully it will be working again soon.

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 PLEASE AVOID out-of-date items, opened packets & fresh foods, as these cannot be used.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 

Wolverhampton City of Sanctuary: Thank you all so much for your donations which are always appreciated and much needed for Wolverhampton City of Sanctuary. Special request this week please for 2 tv’s, asmall fridge, a hoover, a small wardrobe and a child’s bed. Always in demand are household and kitchen items, towels, 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.

Life group requestWe are collecting picture postcards for the charity Mission Aviation  Fellowship (MAF). The postcards are sold and money raised helps the work of this charity.  The picture postcards can be of any age, but need to be whole, not the stamps cut out of them!  There is a box at the back of the Church in which to place the donated postcards. Thank you.

MAF and its partners provide help, peace, joy and love to isolated  people across the developing world, they will provide disaster relief when devastation happens. It is an amazing charity.

HEAVENLY DUSTERS
We are seeking a voluntary team of heavenly dusters to help keep our wonderful church clean.It would only be for a few hours per month on a rota system and only light general cleaning.If you are interested please put your full details with a brief letter in an envelope addressed to Donna Williams and place in the parish office letterbox and we will contact you asap.

 Confirmation Service with the Bishop of Wolverhampton

Sunday, 18^th July at 5.30pm.

Let us pray for those who are to be confirmed

Kay Bood, Kathleen James, Robin Ling, Ross Morton, Christopher Muirhead, Julia Porter,Georgia Surtees, Darren Westwood, Gracie Bradburn,

TJ Till-Smith,  Leah Blakemore,  Richard Cowton.

THE ALMSHOUSE CHARITY OF RAPHAEL AND ANN SEDGWICK 

Pennwood Lane, Penn, Wolverhampton

July2021

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.

DVD’S

Please note that anyone who receives weekly dvd’s from Church will receive them on a Tuesday or Wednesday. 

Penn Climate Action- Plastic Free July Event

Please bring a carrier bag of washed single use plastic, to create “Penn Plastic Island” on Saturday 24thJuly, to the green space besides Warstones Library, opposite the shops on Warstones Drive. Then on Sunday 25th July people are invited to come to see Alex Van a local artist and his team from Real Arts Workshop, transform the plastic into the tail of a whale in a sea of grass. It is an opportunity to find out more about the plastic you use, and share your opinion about our proposed Community Orchard on this green space. 

Congratulations

Our former Music Director Joe Cooper is just about to become Director of Music at Bangor Cathedral. We send him our best wishes and congratulations on this exciting appointment – We can say we knew him before he was famous!

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

Brian Hopson,  Jeanette Saunders,  Jane Green,Pauline Hollington,  Wendy Carly,

Linda Harris,Julian Hollington,  Paul Challenor,  Stella & Bluebell, Doreen Hickman, 

Hilda Rawlins,  Maggie Perry,  Katrina Jones,  Baby Lilly,Paul Lengkong,  Margaret Reade,  John Dodd,  Naomi Williams,  Rob Jones,  Baby Lily Wong,  Alice Corbett,  Grace Simkin,  Lucy Harris,  Jutta Dougan,  Thomas Griffiths,  Keren Anthony,  Deryk Vernon.

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

ClaraTayoLatunji,Bob Marshall.