Church Bulletin Board

As so few people are around on Sat 7th March, we have decided to delay the murder until Sat 11th or 25th April. A new signing up sheet has appeared at the back of the church, please indicate which dates suit you if you’d like to come. Hopefully we will get a minimum of 24 people to make the dinner feasible. We have also changed the murder to something more in keeping with spring and summer.

Coffee and Craft
Coffee and Craft meet in the Coffee Lounge Thursday 19th March 10-12 noon. All welcome.

Kitchen and Hall clean and tidy - Friday March 20th
A group of us are going to meet at 9am to look at the kitchen and the crockery cupboards to give them a deep clean and sort out. If you use anything in the kitchen, please ensure I know about it so we don't discard it. If you want to join us, we can expand the list of jobs. Ange.

Cafe Church: Songs of Praise 4pm 22nd March
Our next café church will be a Songs of Praise afternoon with refreshments and cakes.  The good news is that we now have enough songs and hymns, so no more suggestions please, but do come along and be part of this event, and invite your friends too.

Catering Crew Volunteers
I’m putting together a list of volunteers to help with catering in the church. These can be bakers, cooks, servers and helpers. It is not a commitment to do anything on a regular basis, but it is a list of people we can ask to help support the Café Church and other occasional meetings as needed. This is to make sure we don’t keep going back to the same people that did it last time. We are trying to broaden support and spread the load (particularly when people are away). So if you can help out let me know and I’ll add your name to an email list of catering volunteers – Steve Ayling

Church Website – Regulars’ Area
The church website has an area just of regular attendees with the current newssheet, current and previous church magazines and minutes of the church meetings, a phone list and the rotas (plus other useful stuff). If you would like access to this area you need an account and a password. To apply go the regulars page and follow the instructions 'Regulars Introduction'.

Summer Social – Visit to the Droitwich Spa Italian Mosaics
One of our proposed summer socials is to visit the Italian Mosaics in Droitwich Spa with lunch to follow. Details will be publicised later but for now we just need to choose a day of the week as there are no visits on a Wednesday. At the back of the church is a sheet to canvass opinion as to which days suit people and we’ll try to pick the most popular. We have to pick a day now as it’s very busy in the summer. So please tick all the days that suit you if you’re interested in going.

Future MBC Events for your Diary

• Sat 11th or 25th April, 6-9pm, MBC Murder Mystery Dinner in aid of Leprosy Mission.
• Thu 14th May, 10am-4pm Ascension Day, MBC Easter Retreat at the Wellspring, Ledbury.

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Recycling
Following the church meetig and looking at what was tiked on the sheet, Angela has signed up to a recycling programme that will give BBGA money for recycling biscuit and snack wrappers. We can recycle any brand of biscuit, cracker and cake wrappers such as digesties, rich tea etc. This includes the likes of Penguin's etc but not chocolate bars like Mars, Snickers etc, or the inside plastic tray as they are made from a diffrent material. Cardboard innards should go in household recycling. Please bring clean and dry wrappers to church and deposit in the box. We need a kg before we can send a shipment. Each kg earns 200points and we get a 1p per point.

Lyttelton Well

The Lyttelton Well cafe and bookshop is now open from 10am to 3.30pm Monday to Friday. Do come in and browse our new Hannah Dunnett stock and have a delicious breakfast, lunch or cuppa and homemade cake. Have you considered volunteering in the cafe or bookshop? We can offer you a friendly team, and an opportunity to love and serve Malvern. If you are interested in finding out more, please contact Ali Email: ali@lytteltonwell.co.uk

The trustees and managers of The Lyttlton Well are pleased to announce that The Well Counselling has reopened its waitig list and have started to receive enquiries from clients above the age of 18 living in Malvern and the immediate surrounding area, who wish to access subsidised counselling. Email: info@thewellcounselling.co.uk Phone: 07793 505832

Lyttleton Well Café:

• The Cafe & Bookshop are open Monday to Friday from 10am – 3.30pm with hot food being served until 2.00pm.
• Volunteers wanted for SWEP - at The Well (Severe Weather Emergency Protocol). Are you a people person, available 9pm to 10.15pm, at short notice, to provide a warm welcome for our homeless guests? Please email ali@lytteltonwell.co.uk or ring 01684 573702 for more details.
  
• Well Counselling Service Fundraising Quiz Night - Saturday 14th March The monthly fundraising quiz evening will take place in the Lyttelton Rooms Main Hall on Saturday 14th March. The doors open at 7pm and the quiz gets going at about 7.30pm. The cost is £3.00 per head plus a contribution for tea, coffee, squash, biscuits etc. Proceeds for the Well Counselling
• If you would like to be added to the newsletter mailing list, please email team@lytteltonwell.co.uk. If you have any questions or require further information, please do not hesitate to get in touch. We welcome your thoughts and feedback. The Well Team

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Open the Book
Please pray for a new term of Open the Book, where teams share Bible Stories with children in St Mathias, The Vale, Somers Park, The Grove and The Parish primary schools. Pray for enough volunteers to help each week and that the good news that we share will take root in the hearts and minds of the children and staff who hear it. If you want to know more about Open the Book please speak to Jean.

• LTTLE MALVERN PRIORY - Sunday 22nd March, 4.00 pm
  The Passiontide Cantata Sacrifice Triumphant by Basil Harwood (1859-1949), sung by the St. Giles Singers.  This is a rarely performed work, and choir items are interspersed with readings from St. Mark's account of the Passion, and congregational hymns. All are welcome to this devotional act of worship.
• GREAT MALVERN PRIORY - MONDAY 30th MARCH 3pm – PASSIA
  The Passion retold through women’s voices. Sung by Papagena and National children’s choir of Great Britain. Tickets: £17 (wegottickets.com). Under 16s £8 on the door.
• LIFEPATH MALVERN 22nd - 26th June 2026
  A reminder that more Volunteers are needed for Lifepath. Already 603 children are booked in. 63 Volunteers are signed up, but 90/100 are needed. If you feel able to help, there are various roles and an Application Form, which can be completed and returned to Lifepath Admin,℅ Priory Parish Office. Church House, Church Street, Malvern. Lifepath represents the unity of Christians from various denominations and areas working together, a testament of their faith.

Other for CTiM Website: https://ctmalvern.org.uk/#events

@ Wellspring Events

• SATURDAY 14th MARCH - 9.30am - 12.30pm (Plus optional lunch), FLORAL ARRANGEMENTS with Ruth Holt
• For further details and to book visit www.thewellspring.uk/events

And finally…
“Christ be with me, Christ within me,
 Christ behind me, Christ before me,
 Christ beside me, Christ to win me,
 Christ to comfort and restore me.”
(From St Patrick’s Breastplate)