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.

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 PLEASE AVOID out-of-date items, opened packets & fresh foods, as these cannot be used.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

Zoom Choir Practice Friday evenings – if anyone is interested in joining the choir, please speak to Ben.

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.

The Church will be floodlit on the evening of

28th December

in loving memory of Graham Turner on his birthday.

Saturday 2nd January is the Golden Wedding Anniversary of Jon and Ros Norden. We rejoice with them and offer them our love and congratualtions. The church will be floodlit on that evening and the flowers will reflect this special anniversary.

There will be a short spoken service of communion at 10.00am on New Year’s Day to start 2021 with prayers and sacrament. This may be a lovely opportunity to say goodbye to 2020 and welcome 2021 in God’s presence.

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 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.com

or speak to Anne Edwards 01902 337478

or contact the Parish Office on 01902 576809

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

Alice Corbett, Brian Hopson, Grace Simkin, Darren Westwood, Jeanette Saunders,

Jutta Dougan, Robert Farmer, Jane Green, Pauline Hollington, Wendy Carly, Lucy Harris,

Thomas Griffiths, Andrea Bradley, Deryk Vernon, Keren Anthony.

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

Bob Smith, Peter Evans, Judith Morton, Joan Gamble, Hazel Wilkes, William Bird.