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Wednesday Lunch Club    12.30pm Every Wednesday

Weekly hot lunches are provided for people in the neighbourhood who live alone or who are lonely or disabled. Those who come, look forward to the regular outing, the good food (always freshly cooked) and the fellowship they share. Transport can usually be arranged where needed.

The club is run by 40 volunteers working on a once a month, or fortnightly basis. Help is always welcomed – cooks, drivers and general helpers.

Contact – June Paddock 0121 705 2767.

Bereavement Fellowship Group  more....

1.30-3.00pm Usually 4th Monday each month

This is a group for recently bereaved people which meets in the chapel. It aims to support and encourage them and to reduce the sense of isolation felt by many who have suffered bereavement.

Contacts – Sheila Cross 0121 705 2052 or Sally Derry 0121 743 9592

Caring for Others

We seek to be a caring church, concerned for the needs of one another and of those outside our church community. Please tell our Vicar or one of our Readers if you need help yourself, or are particularly concerned about someone else. A pastoral visit may be appropriate or other practical help may be needed. They will also be pleased to hear of ways in which people are able to offer help, e.g. by giving lifts to and from St Helen’s, or by visiting those who are lonely or alone.

Giving to Others

Through the charity Educaid Africa, we are currently sponsoring two students in Kenya through their education.

A good number of St Helen’s congregation give voluntary help on a regular basis in the community and the Wednesday Lunch Club is a good example of this. Others are involved in the local Marie Curie Hospice, Solihull Stroke Club, Acorns Children’s Hospice and in organisations helping the homeless, together with the local Citizens Advice Bureau, the Town Centre Chaplaincy and many others.

ST ALPHEGE

Sundays

8.00am Holy Eucharist (said)

9.15am Parish Eucharist & Sunday Club (2nd Sunday : All-age Eucharist)

Plus on 4th Sunday 'easy' in OBH rejoining Parish Eucharist at communion

11.00am Sung Eucharist

(traditional language)

6.30pm (except 4th Sunday)

Choral Evensong

6.30pm (4th Sunday)

Congregational Evensong

Plus at 6.00pm (1st Sunday)

‘the space’ – informal parish worship

(in the Oliver Bird Hall)

Weekday Eucharists

Monday 9.30am

Tuesday 9.30am

Wednesday 10.15am

Thursday 10.30am

  1st in month - Healing

  3rd in month - Mothers' Union

  Corporate Eucharist

Saturday 9.30am

Daily Morning Prayer

Mon-Sat 9.00am

(Wednesday 8.30am in term time)

ST HELEN

Sundays

8.00am Eucharist (Book of Common Prayer)

10.00am Parish Eucharist and Sunday Club 3rd Sunday : All-age worship (non-eucharistic)

6.30pm Evening Worship in Chapel

6.30pm (2nd Sunday) Wholeness and Healing service in Chapel.

Weekday Eucharist

Friday 10.00am

ST MICHAEL

Sundays

10.30am Holy Eucharist and Sunday Club (Sharmans Cross School)

10.30am (2nd Sunday) All-age worship (Sharmans Cross School).

4.30pm (2nd Sunday) Holy Communion (St Michael's Chapel).

Weekday Eucharist

Wednesday 10.00am at Oak Cottage