Best wishes to Jill and Richard
Revd. Jill will be leaving us this week to take up an incumbency at Albrighton after taking her final Service with us at St Paul’s on Sunday 29th August.
Jill has been our Parish Priest for the last 8½ years since early 2002.
We would like give Jill our thanks for being with us during this time and to give
Jill and Richard our best wishes and pray for God’s Blessings for their future.
St Paul’s Roof Repairs
In March 2005, to raise money for new notice boards at St Paul’s & St. Luke’s a fundraiser based around the Bonus Ball in the main Saturday night National Lottery draw was devised; the basis is that folks have an allocated numbered ball in the draw and pay £1.00 each per week to be included; with there being 49 numbered balls this equates to £49.00; following the draw, the person who’s ball is drawn out receives £25.00 and the remaining £24.00 goes to church funds. The notice boards were duly purchased and installed but as a fundraiser this proved to be very popular and has continued ever since, to date raising £6,600 for church funds.
For varying reasons a few of these numbers are now available so if you would be interested in taking part, or having an additional number if you already take part, please have a word with Chris Sprules.
Samaritan’s Purse
Audrey and Colin Benbow from St Paul’s will be leading us in a new venture to help underprivileged children in Third World coutries get a gift at Christmas. Called Operation Christmas Child, the scheme asks churchgoers to cover a shoe box with Christmas paper and then to fill it with gifts. A leaflet is issued explaining what gifts are suitable and acceptable. £2.50 is given with each box to cover transport costs for the gifts which are then collected locally and distributed.
It’s hard for us here to imagine what those few gifts mean to children who never normally receive a present.. What a lovely way to show the love of Jesus Christ . A presentation will be done in church in July and the boxes collected at the end of November.
Our Website wins prize
I am pleased to report that our church website has won a prize of £100 to be used for church training resources.The competition was open to all church websites in the Lichfield Diocese and the 10 best church websites .were awarded a £100 prize. The money will be used for a suitable package of learning resources decided by the PCC.
Roger
STAYaim to provide equipment that will:
If you would like to see if there is any equipment that STAY can provide to help you, or someone you know to live more independently, please come along and see what’s available.
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Back to Church Sunday
Back to Church Sunday 2010 this year will be taking place on Sunday 26th of September
COME AS YOU ARE
The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd Dr Rowan Williams, will be making an extended visit to the Lichfield Diocese from Friday 5-Monday 8 November.
Full details about the visit and the range of events taking place – including a major diocesan-wide worship service – will be made known as soon as the details are finalised.
A range of events, under the banner Church on Fire, will take place throughout the
diocese during this time to Strengthen the Faithful, Restore the Lapsed and Find
the Lost.
Events include:
Fire Works The Stadium Suite, Walsall Football Club - Friday evening 5th November,
It's Question Time for Archbishop Rowan as he is grilled by a yet-to-be-named host.
It's an opportunity for you to ask questions of the Archbishop as he will also be
taking questions from the audience.
For further event details click on the Church on Fire logo to the right.
This story is taken from Spotlight and Chadnet
The new Alpha Course starts on Wednesday 22nd September
For Back to Church Sunday – for those you would invite, for other churches in our deanery taking part: St Matthew’s Tipton, St Bart’s, All Saints Moxley.