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 PLEASE AVOID out-of-date items, opened packets & fresh foods, as these cannot be used.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

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 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.

THE ALMSHOUSE CHARITY OF RAPHAEL AND ANN SEDGWICK 

Pennwood Lane, Penn, Wolverhampton

May 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.

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.

WhatsApp Prayer Group

This group has been running successfully for the past 6 months and has helped us to share prayer requests for people and situations, and to pray in an informed and timely way when a need arises. We have created a private group using WhatsApp on our mobile phones, in order to share prayer requests via text message. Group members commit to praying for the needs mentioned, which remain confidential.

If you would like to be added to the group, or have a request for prayer, please text me on 07981 142866. Thank you. Janet Shackleton.

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:

Brian Hopson,  Jeanette Saunders,  Jane Green,Robert Farmer,  Pauline Hollington, 

Wendy Carly,Linda Harris,Julian Hollington,  Paul Challenor,  Stella & Bluebell, Tricia Gee, 

Doreen Hickman,  Hilda Rawlins,  Jacqueline Mclean,  Sonia Mclean,  Maggie Perry, 

Katrina Jones,  PaulLengkong.

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

Albert Evans, Hazel Clayton,  Don Sharp,  Lloyd Simmonds,  Ken Plant.