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As well as meeting each Sunday we have lots of other ways to get involved and be a part of the church. Pilots is a children's club with games, craft, Bible stories and refreshments. It's open to all children between the ages of 5 and 11. We meet on Wednesday evenings at 6.00. The Guild meet twice a month on Tuesdays. The Wednesday Evening Group meet monthly. Click here for the programme. The House Groups are an important time of fellowship and Bible teaching. They comprise a wide variety of people who wish to learn more about the faith we share and the Bible on which it is based. We also endeavour to learn more about each other and our own personal faith journeys. Dates and times for the groups vary; currently there are three groups running. The Choir meet to rehearse on Friday evenings at 7.30pm. |
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• Christian Aid Two of our members ensure that Christian Aid’s
ongoing projects are kept regularly in our minds, and also that
we respond to international emergencies as they arise. • Wheatfields Hospice (Headingley, Leeds 6) We host an annual fund-raising concert on behalf of Wheatfields — Leeds’s first hospice. Since one of its founders belonged to our church family, we continue to take a special interest in its well-being. • “Caring for Life” (Cookridge, Leeds 16) This farm-based, evangelical Christian organisation which looks after needy people both at the farm and in two small local homes, is supported both by means of periodic appeals to the congregation and by individual church members. Click for the Caring for Life website. |
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| • Lent Appeals
We alternate between a home-based charity one year and an overseas charity the next, usually raising some £1,000. (Lent 2006 we supported Leeds Simon Community. In 2007 it was for AIDS victims in Zimbabwe, particularly for the United Congregational Church at Njube, Bulawayo, See “Zimbabwe update” below!) |
| • And regular giving to The Friendship Fund (Ministers’ widows), Retired Ministers’ Housing, Samaritans, Leeds Industrial Mission, The Bible Society. |
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Universities Chaplain (April 2008) We look forward with much pleasure to welcoming the Revd Cecil White as the next URC Chaplain to the Universities of Leeds in succession to the Revd Dr Gwen Collins. He is currently working in Ipswich. Prior to that he worked in Sheffield so he has good experience of Yorkshire. He and his wife plan to take up residence in the Beckett Park Manse during June. |
| Zimbabwe update Vuli Mkandla writes (Dec 2007): I have just spent several weeks in Zimbabwe and found it to be in a catastrophic state with regular failure of water and electrical supplies causing considerable hardship to ordinary people who have no means to improvise in these situations. Empty shelves in supermarkets said it all about the shortage of food supplies caused by the collapsed economy and exptempore price controls. On a more positive note, my visit to Bulawayo was part of a successful funding application by the Zimbabwe Educational Trust, a UK-based charity set up in 1987 to help young Zimbabweans come to Britain to undertake higher education. Because of the deteriorating situation, alternative methods of helping inside Zimbabwe were sought. As a result, a structured Bulawayo-based study has been set up to examine the feasibility of developing a project to enable primary school children, excluded by the effects of HIV/AIDS, to undertake mainstream education. The work is being led by the Regional Director of Zimbabwe's Open University; the resulting business plan will be submitted by April 2008 and, if accepted, funding will be available for five years. |
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