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Text Box: Outreach 2008

 Our Mission at St Andrew's is to challenge injustice and deprivation and to work with other churches and outreach partners locally, nationally and internationally to enable individual and community life to flourish.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Text Box: This web page gives you information about the outreach work at St Andrew’s Church, and the organisations we support. To find out more, or to talk to someone about our work, please e-mail carolwood51@hotmail.com, or contact us via the church office.

 

 

 

Text Box: Volunteers from St Andrew’s Church participated in the national Christian Aid collection campaign again this year, visiting houses in the parish, leaving and collecting envelopes, to raise money for this worthwhile national charity. Thank you to everyone who collected or donated. For more information about Christian Aid, visit www.christianaid.org.uk
 All proceeds went to Christian Aid (UK charity number 1105751, company number 5171525).
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Text Box: Outreach Sunday
2008
This year, Rev Canon John Tibbs came to speak to us on Outreach Sunday, telling us about the schools project in Swaziland. We collected a number of “useful” presents to send to the schools  - pencils, rulers and crayons (not the wax kind – they melt in the heat!), and several people wrote personal letters and messages to the children and staff in the schools. 
 
 
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Outreach Sunday here: 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Text Box: OUR OUTREACH PARTNERS
Every year we support a number of charities with our donations and our prayers. Here you can find details of the organisations we are currently supporting, along with links to their websites. We ensure that our funding is split between national, local and international charities. We welcome more suggestions for worthy organisations from members of the Church Family – please contact Carol Wood on carolwood51@hotmail.com

 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Text Box: Hope and Homes for Children is a charity working in central and eastern Europe and in Africa. It gives hope to the poorest children in the world –those who are orphaned, abandoned or vulnerable – by enabling them to grow up within the love of a family and security of a home, so that they can fulfil their potential. 
See www.hopeandhomes.org
 
Text Box: The Camphill Village Trust offers homes for people with learning disabilities, where they can study and learn real-life skills. The organisation’s philosophy is that every person has a valuable contribution to make and plays an important part in community life.
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Text Box: Christian Family Care is a Bedfordshire-based organisation, which provides a wide range of front-line services in partnership with the statutory agencies, to protect and support some of the most vulnerable people in the community. Their website is:
www.christianfamilycare.org.uk
Text Box: The Ormiston Trust is a national organisation which exists to promote the wellbeing of disadvantaged children. Locally, a branch manages the visitors’ centre at Bedford Prison, where support is given to children of prisoners. More information about the Bedford project can be found on the main Ormiston Trust website:
http://www.ormiston.org/timeforfamilies/opus25.html
 
Text Box: Bedford Area Schools Christian Support Trust is a Scripture Union organisation, which supports Christians who work or study in schools.
 
Text Box: Tools with a Mission (TWAM) is a Christian charity sending gifts of good tools into many countries. It enables those who receive them to earn a living and change their world. 
Website: http://www2.globalhand.org/data/tools-with-a-mission-twam/ 
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Text Box: Christian Solidarity Wordwide is a human rights organisation which specialises in religious freedom, works on behalf of those persecuted for their Christian beliefs, and promotes religious liberty for all – a “voice for the voiceless”. See www.csw.org.uk
Text Box: The Tilla Association for Women Living with HIV is a community based association in Ethiopia, which aims to reduce the impact of HIV and AIDS on women. Their programmes include prevention and community awareness, home-based care and income generation. More information can be found on Healthlink Worldwide website: http://www.healthlink.org.uk/projects/hiv/pa_partners.html
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Updated June 2008

 

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