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The NEW Southampton District website can be found at www.southamptonmethodistdistrict.org.ukAre you planning a camp in Swanage with BB, GB, Scouts, Guides or a youth group?
Visit Swanage Methodist Church website and find out about their Church on Tour.
2010 DIARY DATES
Sunday 25th July at Gosbrook Road, Rosemary Fletcher & James Rowley share their experiences of Sri Lanka. Talk 3.30pm followed by tea and 6.30pm worship service.Sunday 5th September, 4pm, Welcome Service for Ruth Whittard and Chris Evans with Andrew Wood at Tadley Common (NOT Main Road).
Tuesday 21st September, 7.30pm, Circuit Meeting.
Please pray for;
- Newbury and Hungerford Methodist Circuit and Andover Methodist Circuit as they join together in September
- Children sponsored through Compassion UK
- Andrew and Naomi Emison and the children as they embark on a new stage of their life
- Reading Street Pastors
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Have you heard of Compassion UK?
Compassion is an international organisation that sponsors children who are poverty stricken and who are from a variety of Religious backgrounds. The children are educated, have health checks, receive food daily, and attend a 'church based centre' where every child in a compassion programme hears the good news about Jesus.By helping one child in a family the burden of feeding that child is lifted from the rest of the family - so that means more for the rest to share. It also means the child will bring good health care back to the home for all the family to share. The child, receiving any gifts, eagerly shares those gifts with the family, especially the 'Good News' about Jesus.
Each Centre is CHURCH BASED. (This in turn has meant some churches increasing their congregations from 50 or so members at the start of its involvement with Compassion, to 300 after a while as the people see Christ at work in their community). The Mottos of Compassion are 'Christ Centred, Child Focused, and Church Based', and "One child at a time".
Compassion works in many countries. South America - Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil and Bolivia. Also Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua. Haiti and Dominican Republic. African Countries - Burkina Faso, Ghana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda. Also India and Bangladesh, Indonesia, Philippines and Thailand.
Christ Church Woodley have adopted Compassion UK for their Church Project in 2008. This involves them in fundraising and praying for the work as well as receiving news direct from the children.
The Leadership Development Programme supports those children who have the potential for University but their individual sponsors cannot afford to pay. To find out more about this Visit the Compassion UK Website.
Half way through the year Christ Church had collected almost two thousand pounds. They still have a few fund-raising events lined up for the rest of the year culminating in a visit by the Reading Male Voice Choir on December 13th