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29 Apr
[01-02-10] A New Year. A New Decade
At the start of a new year and a new decade Rich Wilson shares something of God's heart for Open Heaven.[04-12-09] Grace for Growth
Growth begins and ends with grace.[02-12-09] God and Dualisms
At the leaders' weekend earlier in the year, we heard quite a lot about how dualistic thinking works in our lives.[01-12-09] A Big Thank You
Over the last few weeks we referred to Nov 22nd 09 as the day we would come together to raise thousands and thousands of pounds.[06-05-09] Stories from Encounter
The Encounter Weekend continues to be one of my highlights in the year.[01-05-09] Imagine a church that...
The unusual thing about the theme for this term is that I knew a couple of years ago (April '07) that we should do this theme in about two years time – which is now! I don’t think that process has ever happened before in the choosing of a term’s theme.[29-04-09] Well Done You’ve Made It!
You’ve made it to the end of lent and gone without whatever it was you chose to give up.[03-04-09] Study War No More
The global arms trade is wreaking havoc around the world.[08-12-08] Chocolate Traffic
Fancy working 80-100 hours a week for little pay? If so the chocolate trade is for you.[11-11-08] Update on our 08-09 Goals
We've been pursuing our strategic goals for 08-09 for over two months now, so I thought it would be good to update everyone on how they're going.
Well Done You’ve Made It!
You’ve made it to the end of lent and gone without whatever it was you chose to give up. Thank you for making the sacrifice. It will make a difference to someone you’ve never even met.
The money we raise will go to the Kick for Life Orphans and Vulnerable Children scholarship scheme. The aim of the charity is to educate youth around how to avoid HIV infection and to diminish the stigma and discrimination around HIV/AIDS.
The scheme we are supporting gives selected children a chance to have a secondary education, providing funding for fees, uniforms and books. Through the delivery of other initiatives, K4L is able to identify, select and then regularly monitor each child’s progress throughout their education, supporting them through to employment. Each child is expected to regularly assist as peer leaders with delivery of the K4L Curriculum throughout the duration of their scholarship. In their final year of school each scholar must complete the Kick for Life Fit 4 Work programme which supports the transition to employment or further education with sessions on route planning, CV writing, interview techniques and interpersonal skills.
This is all stuff we take for granted, yet for more than half the worlds population it’s out of reach; one of the main reasons for this being the high prevalence of HIV/AIDS. Hopefully, Luxuries for Life made you think. Hopefully, it was more than just the small sacrifice of giving up something of your choice for a short time and it reminded you how rich we are in this country and how much we have to give. Let’s not stop here though, God calls us again and again throughout scripture, and in the example of Jesus, to stand up for injustice and do what we can.
Remember to bring the money you saved back to the Sunday gathering this week, or drop it in to the office over the next few weeks. If you are a tax payer please fill in the Gift Aid form.
If you’d like to learn more about injustice and what you can do why not come along to Overflow - see the facebook group or talk to Caroline Harmon or Mel Cave.
Posted by: Chloe Nicholson on Wednesday Apr 29th, 2009
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