Coat of Hopes The Coat of Hopes is a patchwork pilgrim coat, on an ongoing walk through Britain. Made, worn and walked by many hundreds of people during and since the pilgrimage on which it was created, from the south coast of England to the gates of COP 26, the UN climate summit, in Glasgow autumn 2021.
The Coat is made up of pieces of blanket into which people have worked their griefs,
remembrances, prayers and hopes for the place they call home.
 

The Coat was featured in our Eco Service on Sunday 21st July and several members of the congregation tried the Coat on before it left.

Zac demonstrated that both he and the Coat had grown since 2022!

Following the Service, the Coat was walked to Wisewood Methodist Church.

Congratulations to Sophie Godber! We are so pleased to see that Sophie’s Big Picture Garden won a Silver-gilt medal at the RHS Flower Show at Tatton Park this week. The garden acknowledges the construction methods and ideals of Peak District residents past, who lived and worked sustainably as a matter of course.  
Planting is both vibrant and productive, with a profusion of home-grown produce including carrots, leeks, chard, courgette and strawberries, intermingling among richly coloured blooms in a palette of deep blues and cool violets, punchy reds and fiery orange. Sophie’s garden also featured on Gardener’s World on Friday 19^th July. The colours in the garden are fabulous! And how proud Sophie’s parents must feel!

Also a prizewinner at Tatton Park, This Garden Isn’t Finished Without You sponsored by The Methodist Church won a Gold medal. This garden creates a communal space where everyone is welcome to flourish. The floorplan of the garden reflects a typical Methodist Church with bright, colourful and diverse planting which is inspired by the diversity of people. 

Calling all singers for Sheffield Choir for Peace 

We're inviting you to join in a plan to regenerate Sheffield Choir for Peace - hooray! 
We are imagining being a group who can gather speedily together to sing for occasional one-off peace happenings.
To start with we plan to sing 2 songs at an event on Hiroshima Day, 6th August, at 1.00 pm outside the Town Hall. This will be a joint event with SCRAP (Sheffield Creative Action for Peace) and the Coat of Hopes. As well as songs, the Lord Mayor will be speaking briefly and there will be a minute’s silence for victims of Hiroshima. We will then gather in or around the Peace Gardens for a craft session and an opportunity to meet the Coat of Hopes and make a shared patch for it and for a Cloak of Peace which SCRAP is making.
We're having 2 rehearsals at St Andrews URC, 86 Upper Hanover St, S3 7RQ to learn the 2 songs:
1) On Wednesday 24th July, from 7.00 - 8.30 pm in the church (main entrance, big blue doors) 
2) On Sunday 4th August, from 5.00 - 6.30 in the church hall (side entrance, through new gate to the right of the main gate)
You are welcome to come to one or both rehearsals if you want to sing, or to the event. We will have a collection at the rehearsal to cover the cost of hiring the hall.
If you'd like to join in but can't make either of the dates there will be sound files, so you can learn the song yourself. We will send out a link to these when they are ready!
If you can't make this event but would like to come and learn the songs for the joy of it or for possible future outings - please do come.
Please share this info with anyone and everyone who you think might be interested in joining in.
If you would like to be kept up to date with sound files, and future events, please email sheffieldchoirforpeace@gmail.com with your email and we will add it to a mailing list.

City of Sanctuary Appeal  City of Sanctuary Sheffield's vision is for our city to be a place of safety and welcome for people seeking sanctuary.
The Sanctuary is a utopia in the heart of Sheffield that we are working to build as an alternative to the system. It is a beacon of light in a storm and the soil from which so much good work grows.

This summer City of Sanctuary Sheffield are moving out of The Sanctuary to make way for exciting building works on Chapel Walk. We are taking this opportunity to do some building of our own - vastly improving The Sanctuary for the approximately 1500 people who come through the doors each month. The redesign plans will make The Sanctuary: 

• More welcoming and safe for those seeking sanctuary.
• More useful for all the groups who use the centre.
• More beautiful, becoming a beacon of hope in difficult times.
• More tailored to the requirements of people seeking sanctuary and those working in solidarity with them. 

In order to make these crucial improvements, we need to raise an additional £15,000 and need your help to reach our target. Your support will help us continue to offer a welcoming, safe, and beautiful environment for those seeking sanctuary in Sheffield.

Please click here and consider donating to our GoFundMe appeal and share it with your network to help us reach more people who believe in our mission. 

Bents Green Sunday Evening Service Every Sunday evening at Bents Green Church we meet for informal fellowship and worship, which might include teaching, discussion, activities, Holy Communion and refreshments. It's from 6.30 to about 8.00 pm.
Several people already attend from different churches, and we would like to invite anyone who would like to, to come and join us.
More information from Graham Wassell, Tel: 01142350393 or Mob: 07532054968

Postage stamp collection for the Bone Cancer Research Trust  If you receive post with stamps, would you like to save them to help raise funds for the Bone Cancer Research Trust? There will be a box at church to place them or people can give them to Pat Rogers and they will then be sent off.  Apparently modern stamps are much more valuable than older ones! (Older stamps are pre 2008) Stamps need a border of a finger width (1 cm). Foreign stamps are accepted but please keep these separate. (Channel Islands and Isle of Man count as foreign.)
They will be helping a good cause and be a little bit of recycling.

SAPLC Church of Sanctuary project Following the launch by Rev Inderjit Bhogal on 17th September of the SAPLC Church of Sanctuary project, we acquired copies of his book Sanctuary: the hospitality of host, guest and stranger. Copies of the book are available in the narthex, costing £3.00 . Please buy a copy and read it to support our Church of Sanctuary project.

All We Can Loose Change Appeal

 Thank you so much for all your donations to All We Can. The collection bowl will be out during Sunday service so please bring along any small change. Thank you again.

Clifford All Saints School

Community monthly prayer group If you are unable to attend but would like to share a prayer request for the group please click here. 

The Psalter Lane building is now closed, and the whole school is at the Ringinglow Road site. The Morris School window - originally one of the pair in old St Andrew’s, of which the one in the narthex is the other - has now been installed in the Ringinglow Road building and looks wonderful. There is a photograph of it on the board in the narthex. 

The Tuesday Café The café is open every Tuesday from 2.00 - 4.00 pm in Shirley House.  The café is for those living at home with memory loss or dementia and their carers.  Hot drinks and cakes, music, memories, singing, stories and more.  For further information ring the church office (0114 2678289) or email office@standrewspsalterlane.org.uk.

SAPLC Jigsaw Library  Do you love doing jigsaws? Do you have a collection of completed jigsaws that you'll never use again? why not donate them to our Jigsaw Library and borrow a new one at the same time! - No charge but donations towards church funds are welcome!

Regular Giving to St Andrew's Psalter Lane Church  If you do not give to the church through the envelope scheme or by bank standing order, please have a word with Rodney Godber (tel 0114 266 3893) who will explain how this makes your giving to the church easier and more beneficial. If you would like to join the envelope scheme, please contact Janet Loughridge (tel 0114 258 4164)

Car Parking  If you are parking at church, please take care not to park directly opposite the yellow lines marking the path towards Shirley House and Southcroft, as this blocks pedestrian access for people coming to church from Southcroft

Calling all potential climate activists!

Action needed please!

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