For Safeguarding information click here
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Contact Us
All bookings and other enquiries (funerals/baptisms/weddings) should be made first via the Parish Office please.
We have a dream…
On the evening of Sunday 4th August, a far-right demonstration took place on New Road between St. Alphege and the Ramada Hotel. Our church notice boards were covered over with messages of hate, and photographs taken which quickly appeared on social media. At the same time there was a very unpleasant Islamophobic demonstration on Hermitage Road outside the Hub (Deen Central). Whilst both the national and local picture have significantly calmed, we should not underestimate the distress caused to many in our Solihull community, and nor should we be under any illusion that there remains a minority who, through truth-twisting and the dissemination of lies, continue to stoke fear with the aim of causing division. Against this background we are called to witness to the Gospel we proclaim, to the surpassing love of Christ which demands us to welcome all without discrimination and always to care especially for the most vulnerable and the refugee.
To see full article by Revd Nick Parker please follow this link.
Solihull Parish Christmas Cards 2024
Available from the Bookstall or Parish Office
Tel: 0121 705 5350 Email: admin@solihullparish.org.uk
£5 for a pack of 10
What’s Happening
This week in the Parish:
Wednesday lunchtime recitals: 16th October 2024 – with Emilija Karaliute, kankies (lithuanian harp)
Recitals start at 1.10pm with tea/coffee and cake available from 12.30pm. Entry is free with a retiring collection held in aid of The Friends of St Alphege Music. All welcome. A full listing of upcoming performers can be found here.
Morning Prayer. Beginning each day with God:
Monday, Thursday, Friday – 9.00am at St Alphege Church.
We will enter by the choir vestry door and ordinarily will meet in the Chantry Chapel. If you would like to come but would find the stairs difficult, please contact the Parish Office so that we can arrange for the service to be held in the choir stalls. All are very welcome.
Tuesday – 9.00am at St Helen’s Church, 6 St Helen’s Road, Solihull, B91 2DA
Wednesday – 9.30am at St Michael’s, Oak Cottage, Bryanston Road, Solihull, B91 1BS
Monthly Bible Study Group – Second Saturday of every month – next session will be on 12th October, 10am, St Alphege Upper Chapel – All Welcome
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St. Alphege
Thursday 17th October – 10.30am – Said Eucharist
Sunday 20th October – Twenty- first Sunday after Trinity
8.00am – Said Eucharist – President & Preacher: Revd Canon Andrew Hutchinson
9.15am – The Junction OBH
10.30am – Sung Eucharist – President: Revd Simon Marshall & Preacher: Revd Canon Andrew Hutchinson
5.00pm – Evensong – Officiant: Revd Sue Chandler & Preacher: Revd Simon Marshall
St Helen’s – 10.00am – Holy Communion
St Michael’s – 10.30am – Eucharist
Noticeboard
Project Turnaround
Below are four documents to download for those wishing to understand the detail of the next phase of Project Turnaround. Everyone is encouraged to give feedback. Click here to see the congregational presentation on Sunday 29th September. What do you like, and is there anything you are less keen on? Please email turnaround@solihullparish.org.uk
Job/volunteer vacancies
Parish Safeguarding Coordinator
District Safeguarding Coordinator
Poppy Drop-off Points: You may drop off your knitted poppies to one of the following addresses:
Solihull Parish Office, Oliver Bird Hall, Church Hill Rd, Solihull B91 3RQ Opening hours: Mon-Thurs 9 – 1pm; Friday 9-12noon.
Listers/Audi, Shirley 790-820 Stratford Road, Shirley, B90 4BQ
The Greville Arms Elmdon Heath Cornyx Lane, Solihull, B91 2RB
Arena Hair and Beauty, Elmdon Heath 51 Yew Tree Lane, Solihull, B91 2NX Closed Sunday and Monday
John Lewis, Touchwood Shopping Centre, Homer Road, Solihull B91 3RA (Customer services, with the option of dropping them off at the Customer Collection Point for those with mobility issues/ in the car etc)
Sat 2nd November – Churchyard tidy up session – 1000 – 1300hrs. Can you help, if only for an hour? Tasks suitable for all ages. Everybody welcome, including children. Refreshments provided
SMBC Support – every first Tuesday of the month, Kerrie and Natalia from the Community Development Team will be sitting in the foyer of the OBH from 12noon till 3.00pm. For more information please click on the link here: SMBC Support
Useful Documents to download
Join Us Online – Sunday 13th October
Link to join 9.15am All Age Worship from St Alphege
Link to join Project Turnaround presentation