[Image: Image by Nicole Dralle from Pixabay] From donating to the DEC appeal to prayers and other actions, the United Reformed Church website has published a list of the different ways you can help support those affected by the conflict in Ukraine: Christian Aid also has a dedicated page of prayers for the crisis: You […]
Sunday, 23rd May – Pentecost Sunday: Opening Doors On Pentecost Sunday, Lay Preacher Karen Smith meets our local representative from Christian Aid to tell us more about the impact of the pandemic on Christian Aid, Laura’s role and the people they serve. As we are busy planning to return to church once more the images […]
A warm welcome to worship today, whenever or wherever you are joining us. Our service this week is conducted by our minister, Revd Ruth Dillon, and Karen Smith of Beacon Hill URC. This morning’s worship marks the end of Christian Aid Week. The message explores the love that Jesus gave unconditionally, and how that love […]
Please join us in praying for Christian Aid this week – Monday God of all the nations, so many of your children are crying out to you worn down by injustice and suffering. Help us to fulfil our goal of helping to make real the vision that Christ spoke of as ‘the kingdom of God’ […]
Christian Aid continues to support those who are struggling in our world. Although there will not be any house to house collections this year, Christian Aid have set up an e-envelope fundraising campaign. Follow this link to read how you can donate to the work they continue to do for the impoverished and needy. Rose, […]
The health crisis has caused changes to Christian Aid Week this year, which is from 10th to 16th May 2020. The charity has built a virtual Christian Aid Week so that people can take part in their online communities. Worship will be livestreamed during Christian Aid Week, and the charity will also host a fun […]
Have you ever looked at a paperclip…raw material formed into a line, then bent into almost two loops, closing but not quite closed, sides touching, generally without overlapping, clipping papers together – those papers can instruct, encourage, entrust, develop and bring hope. People with one penny, one prayer, combined with other people, pennies and prayers, […]
Christian Aid Week 2017 begins on Sunday 14th May. Please support all the collectors who will be out on the streets raising money for the work that is so desperately needed. And please watch this video – it will surely inspire you…
Our Pilots and young people’s groups have been busy raising money to buy ducks for Bangladesh. Duck farming is a new type of farming introduced by Christian Aid to counter the effects of climate change in Bangladesh, where flooding caused by climate change is destroying land and crops. Ducks enjoy the wet weather and can […]
Our morning service on Sunday was led by two of our elders, Nicola Hamilton and Tamyra Sherratt, and celebrated 70 years of Christian Aid. Some of our young people enacted the story of Loko, who lives in a remote village in Ethopia and has to walk for several hours most days to collect firewood to […]
