This week…
Here’s hoping that you had a good Christmas and are looking forward to the new year. There aren’t any C4H activities planned for this week but next week, C4H starts 2026 with the Shaftesbury Healing Café on Saturday 3rd January and the Melksham Healing Café on Monday 5th January. Please check the C4H Events List for details.
Looking further ahead…
In an attempt to keep the size of this weekly newsletter manageable, details of forthcoming events are provided as a separate C4H Events List. This can also be accessed from the team page of the C4H website (password is HOTS4075). We encourage you to update your diaries with these dates.
Events and activities planned further ahead in the future, can be found on our calendar.
Advance Notice – HOTS Training Day
Tuesday, 3rd March, 2026, HOTS Training Day at St Philip’s Church, 35 Frome Road, Odd Down, Bath, BA2 2QF (the what3 words location is enjoyable.leaves.post). You can find out more about the training day and an application form here.
Shaftesbury Healing Café, new times in New Year…
From January 2026, the Shaftesbury Healing Café will be taking place on the first Saturday in the month between 3:00pm and 4:30pm (team prayers will start at 2:00pm). Here are details for those serving on team and here are details for those who are wishing to attend for healing.
Team Page Resources…
A number of helpful resources can be found on the team page of the C4H website (password is HOTS4075). These include: recordings of talks (including Ella Onakona’s talks from the recent Winter Gathering at Lox Lane), C4H’s values for ministry; C4H’s Healing Café culture; HOTS training manuals; C4H’s Policies for Ministry; and C4H’s Data Privacy Policy.
WhatsApp Groups…
We run several WhatsApp groups in order to try and get the right information to the right people. This helps C4H to operate smoothly. Details about the WhatsApp groups and how you may join them can be found here.
- If you are involved with any of the Healing Cafés then we recommend that you join the C4H Healing Café WhatsApp group as this will help to keep you abreast of arrangements as they are made.
- If you are involved with HOTS Bath then we recommend that you join the C4H HOTS WhatsApp group.
‘Remote’ Prayer Requests…
The vision behind C4H is primarily for ‘hands on’ healing and our desire is to encourage people to attend the cafés in person, where possible. However, before each Healing Café we receive several ‘remote’ requests for prayer from or on behalf of those who aren’t able to attend in person.
If we have time, we try to minister into these whilst the café is running, expecting the Holy Spirit to bring an encounter for the person right there and then, even if they are not physically in the room (just like the Syrophoenician woman’s Daughter of Mk.7:24-30, the centurion’s servant of Mt.8:5-13 and Lk.7:1-10, and the Capernaum official’s son of Jn.4:46–54).
When the cafés are busy we find that we aren’t always able to give sufficient attention to these ‘remote’ prayer requests. To rectify this, Kath Hockley is setting up a team of volunteers who will pray and minister into these requests ‘off-line’ (so to speak). If you are interested in joining the team then please get in contact with Kath.
If someone is not able to attend a café or HOTS in person and would like us to pray for them during the time allocated please let us know the details.
New Healing Cafés…
Interest is still being shown in the possibility of starting healing cafés in additional locations in the south-west of England. Please pray.
- Chris Wilson is looking into opening a Healing Café in Chippenham (Wiiltshire), probably early in 2026.
- Edith and Graham Hardy are making plans to open a Healing Café in Dorchester (Dorset). In particular, please pray that the right venue will be found. Training still has to be arranged and provisional dates still have to be set.
Organisation…
Work is underway to establish C4H as a CIO (Charitable Incorporated Organisation).
- The online form on the Charity Commission’s website has been completed and submitted! The Charity Commission have responded by providing the second part of the application which has to be completed within 3 months. The Trustees have been working on this and are checking their responses before submitting it. Once the second part has been submitted, we are advised that the Charity Commission will take about nine weeks to process our application.
- Please pray that the application will only have to be submitted once and that it is accepted and passed promptly and without incident.
- This necessary work will incur some expense. Anyone wishing to contribute may do so via our donate page.
- Mugshots of our trustees can be found on our Charities page.
The Trustees have provided a Health & Safety Policy. Please find the opportunity to read it, especially if you are on any of our teams! Please contact Chris Wilson if you have any questions. All of C4H’s policies can be found on our team page (password is HOTS4075).
C4H is looking for a treasurer to assist the board of trustees with the recording of C4H’s finances. If this role interests you then please let us know. Book-keeping skills are required.
John and Sharon Firth are providing Paul with operational support as he further develops C4H’s ministry. In particular, they will be assisting with the growth and development of the Healing Cafés.
Prayer & Thanksgiving…
- Testimonies of some of the healings at the Bath and Melksham Healing Cafés can be found here.
- There is a C4H Intercessors WhatsApp group which is specifically for those who wish to intercede for C4H’s and Paul Skelton’s ministry. Details about how to join can be found here.
- Please also pray for those who are heading up various C4H activities. Their details can be found here.
- Please use the items contained in this newsletter as prayer pointers as you pray for Catalyst4Healing.
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