The West Midlands Concert Band welcomes you

for an evening to celebrate the revival of live music.

Saturday 14th May 2022 at 7:30pm

St. Bartholomew's Church

Tickets: £5 (Adults) and £2.50 (Children age 16 & under)

Tickets include refreshments

and will contribute to the church hall's fundraising.

Tickets available on the door

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 PLEASE AVOID out-of-date items, opened packets & fresh foods, as these cannot be used.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 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 requests this week please for a children’s desk, a small radio,hoover, fridge and a microwave.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. 

SCOTTISH DANCERS ARE BACK WITH US IN THE HALL

IF YOU WOULD LIKE SOME LIGHT EXERCISE,

MAKE NEW FRIENDS AND LEARN SOMETHING NEW,

SCOTTISH DANCING IS FOR YOU!!

WHEN?? 26^TH APRIL

HOW OFTEN?? EVERY TUESDAY EVENING

TIME??8PM – 10PM

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT DONNA ON 07546 527300

 Bart’s ButterfliesPlease join us at St Bart’s Church Thursdays at 1.45pm for lots of singing, stories and fun. All are welcome.

Call to prayer from the Archbishops of Canterbury and York:

As Christians, our response to a crisis must always be rooted in prayer. And so we invite you to join with us in praying most earnestly for an outpouring of the Spirit of God, that the world may once again choose peace, strengthening those international bodies that enable us to work and live together as one humanity inhabiting one world.

We lament with the people of Ukraine, and we pray for the innocent, the frightened and those who have lost loved ones, homes, and family.

We pray for those in Ukraine who suffer grievously, for all who take decisions around the world, and for the people and leaders of Russia too.

PRAYER MINISTRY We would like to start to offer prayer ministry once more and are looking to build a team. We all need extra prayer at times- over an issue or a situation, just as a “spiritual boost”, or perhaps we are struggling to pray. If you feel this is something you could offer please either fill in a volunteer form, or speak to Janet or Alison. Training will be provided. DBS required as part of the safe recruiting policy.

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 5/4/2022, 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 £100,000 (including donations for the heating system), so a massive thank you to all who regularly give to us, in what has been again 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.

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

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

Councillor Celia Hibbertwill be doing  a Drop-in Council Surgery in the Oakroom from 5pm until 6pm on 28^th April.If you have any concerns, need information or just a chat about local developments in the area drop-in for a one-2-one private chat with Celia.

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

Brian Hopson,  Jeanette Saunders,  Jane Green,  Wendy Carly,Jackie Evans,  Sue Perry,

Naomi Williams, PaulChallenor,  Jude Aston,Jane Turner,  Christine Plowman,  Stan Yates,

Thomas Griffiths,Arran Amoroso,  Martyn Dowling,Vi Bayliss,  Elisha Bailey,  Julia Bishop,  Jill Owen, Ann Norman,  Bob Seymour,  Phil Skitt,  Dave Charles,  Judy Watkins,

Alice Corbett, Grace Simkin,  JuttaDougan,  Lucy Harris,  Deryk Vernon.

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

Baby Olivia Hope Owen, Sandra Clifford,  Joyce Martin,  Monica Heath.