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Celebrate our borough in Worship, Prayer and a look at activities already happening in our borough, and a message from Rt Revd Dr Rosemarie Mallett, Bishop of Croydon.

St Dunstan, Cheam will offer a special memorial service for those who have suffered the loss of a baby or child, on Saturday 12th October at 4pm.

The service will be suitable to all, without payment or booking. Families and children will be welcome. Refreshments will be provided. For further information, and to say you will be there, please email beth@cheamparish.org.uk.

Holy Trinity Wallington will be hosting Artless Theatre’s Production of “If Prison Walls Could Speak” on 20th October at 6.30pm — a true and gripping story from the persecuted church about Petr. Its a brilliant performance that will both challenge & encourage the believer, but we will be using it to invite non-christian friends along to so they may hear a reason for where is God in the midst of suffering. A trailer video can be found here.

Tickets are £7, and are priced not to make a profit but to cover costs of the production; our aim is that this brilliant story might change lives in and beyond the story. Tickets can be bought here.

Food Shop Restocking Volunteer
The restocking team play a vital role in ensuring food is ready to be given out at the Community Food Shop.
Based at the St Nicholas Centre in Sutton, the restocking team meet on Wednesday and Friday lunchtimes (on a rota basis) to help restock the shop ready for the sessions in the week.
Using your time and energy in this way makes a huge difference.

Full details can be found here.

The Forge 2024 is a 24-hour gathering for men from 1pm on Saturday 14 September to 1pm on Sunday 15th at New Lodge Farm, Carshalton SM5 4BY.

See the flier for details. Printed fliers are available from phil@beechesbaptist.org.

The Charities Act 2022 introduces changes that may affect churches. A summary is available here.

Crisis Cafe is for people suffering with mental health, near Belmont railway station. Information can be found in the leaflet, online at suttoncrisiscafe.org.uk, or phone 0800 012 9082.

Trinity church is hosting an International Coffee Club, in partnership with Refugee and Migrant Network Sutton (RMNS). We meet at Trinity Church on Monday mornings in term time between 10.00am and 12.00 to give people from around the world a chance to practise their English and meet new friends. There's free coffee and biscuits and a rota of volunteers, some with English as a first language and others from abroad who join in the conversations. It is purely social with no formal language teaching - that is available at RMNS on Wednesday mornings.

Fuel Hardship Fund
Sutton Community Works has set up an opportunity to give directly to a hardship fund using an online giving platform. Alternatively you can donate by BACS to Sutton Community Works Hardship Fund admin@suttoncommunityworks.org.

Sutton Foodbank and Community Foodshop are seeing significant increases in demand and use due to Cost of Living Increases and the welcoming of Ukrainian Refugees. Alongside this food donations have decreased. We are seeking donations with a remaining shelf-life of at least three months of the items listed below: Donations would need to be dropped off at the Big Yellow Storage facility any day 9–5pm.

We have seen the use of the community foodshop triple over the last year and a great way to get the food we want is via Bankuet — church members can donate financially online via Bankuet and we can arrange for the food items we need to be delivered direct to the shop; see flier and link https://www.bankuet.co.uk/communityfoodshopsutton. You can use Bankuet to donate financially to the Foodbank so we can buy food items we need.

Sutton Community Foodshop also seeks more volunteers to re-stock the shop on Wednesdays:

Sutton Foodbank also seeks more volunteers to serve shoppers:

The Welsh Presbyterian church in Lind Road, Sutton has a prayer meeting at 11am every Saturday, followed by tea/coffee at midday.
All are welcome, and you don't need to speak Welsh to participate.