The Well

Thank you, thank you, thank you for all your donations which were gratefully received by The Well this week - as a reminder we are still in urgent need of all food products except for pasta, biscuits and cooking sauces so that includes baby foods and toiletries, pet foods, adult toiletries, cereals and tinned items of every sort. If you are on your travels and stay in accommodation with toiletry freebies but won't use them, please remember they can be used by us, as can excess fruit and vegetables from gardens and allotments. Food for thought - what do you put in a parcel for an individual/family who might only have a kettle/microwave where they are staying - this is not an uncommon problem! '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

Wolverhampton City of Sanctuary 

The donations team at City of Sanctuary welcome your donations. At the moment we especially need household items of all kinds, shoes (trainers or flat shoes, all sizes), suitcases and backpacks, children’s clothes and toys, sewing machines, irons and hoovers. Thank you so much for your ongoing support . It makes such a difference to the lives of asylum seekers and refugees in our city. Please do not deliver to Church.  

Please contact Annette Souter on Tel: 07952 777998 or annette_souter@hotmail.com   

Thank you very much for your ongoing support.

LIVING FAITH     The Diocesan Discipleship Course will run for 2023/24 on Wednesdays at 7pm in the Lady Chapel. It is three terms of 8 weeks.

It follows the church year so enhances what we are hearing about on a Sunday.   No essays!

Plenty of opportunity to discuss the issues, from creation to the Trinity via incarnation and

salvation!  For anyone and everyone. For further details, please chat to Rev’d Alison, Rev’d Ben or leave your details with the Parish Office and we will get back to you.

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.

Bart’s Butterflies: Please join us on Thursdays at 1.45pm in the Lady Chapel. for lots of singing, stories and fun. All are welcome.

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

  The Mothers’ Union Monthly Meeting 

Our speaker will be Kay Starkey from the Midlands Air Ambulance Charity. Kay will tell us about how the Air Ambulance operates. She will also have some merchandise to help with the funding of this incredibly valuable service to our Community. Everyone is welcome. Please come along and support her.

Two of the Charities supported by St Bart’s

Mission Without Borders

Provide material emotional and spiritual support for people in Ukraine.They also help the millions of people who have been displaced by the war and the flood and have fled to other  parts of Ukraine and surrounding countries like Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova and Albania.

They provide food packages and run summer camps, scholarships, after school care and vocational training for children and young people.

Wolverhampton City of Sanctuary

Provide practical and emotional support for refugees from countries such as Ukraine and Afghanistan.

They run a weekly drop-in centre at SS Mary and John's hall on Snow Hill every Wednesday from 10.00 to 14.00 and would like more volunteers to help staff this event.

They offer English sessions, provide opportunities to socialise and play games along with food.

They also provide seaside holidays mainly for women and children.

Paul Beeston              Transforming Communities Champion.

Friends of St Bartholomew’s and St Anne’s

The ‘Friends of St Bart’s and St Anne’s’  are holding a Musical Social Evening on Saturday  23rd September 2023 at 7.00pm in the Church Hall.

The musical entertainment will be provided by Geoff Gooding and his friends. Many of you will know Geoff as he plays in our band in Church and also performed regularly at the Pigot Arms in Pattingham. (There is a poster in Church giving more details).

The cost of the evening will be £5.00 per person. Please feel free to bring along your own food and drink. Tea, coffee and soft drinks will be available.  We will have an interval during which time the raffle will be drawn. Please support us by buying tickets for this. If anyone wishes to donate prizes for the raffle, we would be very grateful. This event is “Pay on the Door” but if you can let us know that you wish to attend that would help greatly with seating arrangements, or if you wish to donate raffle prizes please contact either –

Sue in the Parish Office on 01902 576809, or Anne Edwards on 01902 337478. (Anne will also be able to help with any membership enquiries.)

The Church will be floodlit on the evening of Sunday 17thSeptember in loving memory of Michael Harrison