Notices

Parish Lunch

Sunday 2nd February after the 11.00 am service. 
Sign up at the back (though you can still come even if you don’t do that). 
We meet in the Royal Oak. Everyone is welcome. 
We book the space and you pay for your lunch out with an wonderful group of people. 
Also on the following dates 2nd March, 6th April, 4th May,1st June, 6th July 2025.

Men’s Breakfast at the Royal Oak 

9.00 am Saturday 8th February– Contact Malcolm if you need a lift 07837 886962.
Also meeting on 8th March and 12th April 2025

Brass Cleaning

Saturday 8th February 10.00 am in Church

Messy Church in Centre 

Tuesday 11th February
Volunteers needed, please, to do craft, chat to adults, and serve the food. 

Big Breakfast 

Do you think you will be exhausted after opening all your cards on Valentine’s Day? 
Good news – ‘Big Breakfast’ is back so someone else will make your breakfast the following day. Walk in at the Centre, Saturday 15th February 9.00 am – 11.00 am only £5.00 – all are welcome.

Plastic Tub Recycling

Did you receive one of the plastic tubs of Christmas chocolates (Cadbury’s Roses, Haribo, etc) please bring the empty tub to the Centre or Church or drop off at the Royal Oak as they can be re-cycled and the money raised will go to MacMillan Cancer Care. Jenny H 

The Church rota for March – May 

This will be compiled soon. Please email Fiona Austin secretary@stbarnabasbromborough.org with any dates you are unavailable. Please could you do this by 10 February 2025, thank you.
If you would like to go on the rota for refreshments, welcome, reading or prayers please also email Fiona, we really need more people to help with refreshments and people who will do prayers. Thank you.

St Barnabas Information WhatsApp group

Would you like to be part of the church WhatsApp information Group or the Prayer Group? Please text 07806608219 (my number) and I will add you. I can’t add you if you don’t have WhatsApp. Help is available to help anyone who needs to download that first. 

Centre volunteers

We are desperate for new volunteers in the Centre. Can you help? Volunteers will be asked to cover 2-4 hours on at least one day by agreement. You may be asked to make food (you will receive training) and or make drinks or deal with the till or washing up and clearing tables. Tasks are negotiable. You will not be on your own and you will have a team leader. Doing this work puts you at the heart of our weekday mission. On top of that, growing the work in the Centre is the primary way we have now of raising funds. Please speak to Jenny Hope or Thelma McGorry, or call in the centre when it is open. 

Men’s Breakfast

The next meeting is on Saturday 8th February at 9.00 am in the Royal Oak.
Contact Malcolm if you need a lift 07837 886962. 
Also meeting on 8th March and 12th April 2025. 

Women of St Barnabas – especially those who still work or are recently retired. 

I am yet to hear from anyone about this! Would you like to meet up each month? Ladies Fellowship is keen to attract a wider membership as is Mothers’ union but what else? I have only had one person suggest things. I am thinking that we might choose to meet at differing times to meet differing needs. Some daytime and some evening or weekend? What do you think? We already have a proposed event for Springtime – Prosecco (or a tipple of your choice) and flower arranging. Gill Walker and I think that between us we can have a lot of fun and laughter and you will all get to go home with a flower arrangement that you will be pleased with. But we could do other craft or book club or just a meal out. And if you would like Women’s breakfast or cake and a coffee we might do that too.  But what would you like? Please message or email and let me know. I would especially like to hear from our 28-65 age-group, believers or not. Jenny G

Church Socials and fundraisers

Hello St Barnabas. Is anyone reading this? It’s very quiet at my end of things in terms of feedback. As we are preparing the calendar for the year, we are conscious that it would be good to have some regular meet ups to firstly spend time together and secondly to raise funds. What would you like to do? Any one up for organising it? 

Ladies Fellowship

Tuesday 4th February at 7.30 pm. Ever wondered what Viking women got up to? Now is your chance to find out as that is the subject for the talk at the meeting. I have no doubt that anyone who finds this interesting would be welcome at the monthly meeting (yes chaps, even you). They are a very inclusive bunch! 

Food for families review meeting 

This is being held at 3.15 pm on Tuesday 4th February. Anyone who was involved at any level with the project over the last year is welcome. The meeting will take place in the centre. Please attend if you can. 

Calendar for 2026

People were disappointed that we did not have a calendar for 2025. I wonder, can we create a calendar of the 12 or so best photos sent in by those who are part of the St Barnabas Community? That could mean we even have a picture from Brazil, from Cyprus and from Canada (just three of the places with which we have links). 
But it might be a photo that you took of a church event or indeed our buildings or somewhere in the local area including your own garden. We will need to be putting this together ready to go on sale in September. 
If you have taken a good quality photo during the year how about sending me a copy? It needs to be original size and not made smaller and best quality. You must have taken the picture yourself or sending the picture to me on behalf of someone who has given you permission to share and use it. If there are any people in the pictures you must have obtained written permission to include them in a calendar if your image is chosen. We cannot work with photos that have been printed. They must be sent to us digitally (by email). I can’t wait to see what comes in. You can send more than one.

Send to calendar@stbarnabasbromborough.org.