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OUTREACH (OVERSEAS) COMMITTEE
This year we have extended a warm welcome to Pat Cuzner
and Sarah Farr as new members of this committee. Sadly
Sarah has been out of action for much of the time due to
ill health and we look forward to the day when she can
be back with us. It may be
worth mentioning that we felt some concern at
discovering that although Pat is on the
electoral roll and a regular worshipper, she had no idea
about the link between St
Andrew's church in Dominase and our own St Mary’s. This
may well be due to the deserved high profile of the
Village to Village group but it alerts us to the danger
of
taking it for granted that relative new comers,
especially any who live outside the village,
somehow do acquire an
understanding of all aspects of our church life.
This said, we also want to emphasise that the role of
this committee extends beyond
Dominase. Of course we will always consider the needs
there but this year our request
to
the PCC was for a grant of £200 to the International
Ministry for Children, which
supports street children in Columbia, South America .
This charity is run locally by Joan
Thraves, who is known personally to two members of the
committee who can vouch for
the splendid work done.
We have also been gratified to learn that when
Archbishop Rowan
Williams recently visited Jerusalem, the West Bank and
Gaza, the Palestinian
president singled out
for mention the work done by the Anglican St Luke’s
Hospital in
Nablus, which we supported last year, for its
outstanding contribution to community
relations, serving as
it does members of all races and faiths, whether Jews,
Muslims or Christians.
Monica Ditmas (264414) |