Walsall Circuit (28/4)

      

Wolverhampton & Shrewsbury District

       

The Methodist Church

Welcome to the web site for the
9 churches in the Walsall Circuit of the Methodist Church

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY     Circuit Notices

Minister's Letters     Visit of Rev Peter Howell Jones     Home Library Service     Youth Worker's Report     Not Ashamed - December 2010

For more information on Methodist Churches in the Walsall Circuit, click on a name in the picture below or on a link above.

Picture of circuit churches

Editorial   People   3C's   Links

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY    

Walking the Cross will take place on Good Friday in Walsall Town Centre. Meet at 10.30 am Galley Square
There will be an Easter Sunday dawn communion service on Barr Beacon at 6.15am

Changes to the National Health Service... a New Year update

Following the Government’s consultation exercise the new shape of the NHS is becoming clearer. The Black Country cluster of Primary Care Trusts is now in being, and the Walsall Primary Care Trust is being wound down. Patient advisory groups are being developed by GP practices throughout the borough as part of the transition to their commissioning of new services. Over the next two years the clusters of Primary Care Trusts will merge into regional bodies concerned with the development of policy and the establishment of regional centres of medical excellence. Ours will include the East and West Midlands and East Anglia. Hospitals that do not achieve Foundation Trust status within this time scale will have their management merged with neighbours that do.
My NHS Walsall (which currently represents about 14,000 residents and was brought into being through initiatives of the Primary Care Trust and Walsall Manor Hospital,) has moved into a formal relationship with the Manor Hospital and Community Services which are now known as Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust, but expects to have continued involvement with the development of the borough’s “Healthwatch” which will take on some of the responsibilities presently undertaken by the Trusts.
If any groups wish for further information, please contact Brian Hudson who will arrange for an appropriate speaker.

Zimbabwe

Snapshots from a recent traveller

From Naomi Jones

I am the Area Librarian, Walsall Mobile Library Service. One of the services we offer the citizens of Walsall is a Home Library Service. This is a free library service to residents who are unable to get to a library because of a disability, illness, frailty or a carer. The Home Library Service is a monthly service delivered to people in the comfort of their own homes. It provides a variety of large print books, talking books, jigsaws, music and Council information.

We would welcome the opportunity to make more people aware of this service, by talking to church groups or including the information about the Home Library Service in the Church newssheet/newsletter.

If you think some of your members could benefit from this service, please contact me for more information.

Regards
Naomi Jones

Area Librarian
Mobile Library Services
Willenhall Lane
Bloxwich
WS3 2XN

Tel: 01922 710625

Circuit Notices

Circuit Finance and GP meeting at Moxley on April 26th at 7.30pm

Representative Synod , Dudley and Netherton Circuit 28th April at 10am

Easter Offering Dedication Service : Sunday evening 20th May at 6.30pm

Circuit news

Kings Hill church (St. Andrews) is no longer used for services.

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We launched the website with ambitions to make it easy to find out what is happening within Walsall Methodism and by links to other sites, to stay well informed about others. We hope that the links already provided are interesting, and will be pleased to follow up any new suggestions. We have plenty of site capacity, and would like to build up a collection of archive photos, and of memories of times past. Anyone with stories to tell or photos should contact David Phillips who will gladly add them to the site. Watch the site for new developments.

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