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The Open Doors London Team are inviting you to an informal gathering with other local church leaders to meet Sulieman who will be sharing about the persecution of Christians in West Africa. Please come, be informed and be ready to pray for Sulieman and the region.
The meeting will be at Holy Trinity Church Wallington on 8th May 2024 from 1–3pm (light refreshments from 1pm, meeting starts at 1:30).
RSVP: markl@opendoorsuk.org (for numbers for refreshments)

Suliman is from a family of former Muslims who turned to Christ. As he grew up, he experienced a stream of insults, discrimination, and even beatings because of his faith in Christ. Suliman joined Open Doors’ field work in West Africa in July 2001 and has since served in various leadership capacities. He has travelled extensively across West Africa for ministry purposes. And has also travelled to many countries abroad to speak on behalf of persecuted Christians in Nigeria and the wider West Africa region to churches and other role players, sharing stories about believers and the impact of Open Doors work in their lives. He passionately believes in the power of prayer and compassionate action to provide hope for those who are severely persecuted for their faith.

Trinity Church Sutton is organising a
Celebration with words and music for Christian Aid on Saturday 18 May 2024 from 10am to 12 noon.
Enjoy music, poetry, meeting people, tea and coffee — and an opportunity to give to Christian Aid.
Full details can be found here.

All Saints Carshalton church school seeks a Deputy Head Teacher and invites applications from suitably qualified candidates. Please see the documents for details:

• Job advertisement
  
• Job description and person specification
  
• Application form
  (also available in
  Word format)

The closing date for applications is Friday 3 May 2024 at 12 noon. Interviews will be held on Friday 17 May 2024.

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

Local and General Elections are imminent so Churches Together has created a special website at https://churcheselection.org.uk/ containing resources to help churches encourage their members to vote, and to make sure they understand the requirement for voters to register and to show photo identification. The content of the web page will be updated from time to time. The Anglican Diocese of Southwark (of which Sutton is part) also has a special election resources web page here.

Are you passionate about making a difference in our borough?
Sutton Community Works are hosting an event on Tuesday 9th July at 7.30pm for church members to come and find out how to make a difference through faith in action projects; addressing social justice issues and supporting vulnerable people.

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.

Onside Soccer is a Christian-based charity based in Carshalton which supports football coaching academies across the world (and in Carshalton!). We have found it an excellent vehicle to build community, often in challenging settings, to show God's love and share God's Word.

Over the last few years, we have been expanding into new countries and new projects. Our Academy in Carshalton has also grown (details on the attachment). We now have over 100 boys, girls and young people attending each week on Sundays and Tuesdays. We have also run summer camps and overseas playing tours. Through this we have exciting opportunities to not only develop better players but also develop better people using our Christian-based core values, and sharing Bible verses and characters.

If you are interested in knowing more about Onside Soccer or how you can become involved, support or even set up your own Academy, see the website or email Richard Beales at beales999@aol.com

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.