Letters of thanks

Below are some letters acknowledging our Charity giving; they show how grateful the charities are to receive funds in these hard times and what Christians are prepared to suffer for their faith even in the 21st century.
Linda Wainwright, Charities Treasurer

Wateraid

Thank you for the donation of £281 raised during your church harvest celebrations. Your support will help WaterAid give some of the world’s poorest people access to long lasting safe water, sanitation and hygiene education. In doing so, your church has helped them take their first steps out of poverty.
“The new water from the tapstands is very good. I am free to collect as much water as we need from the tapstands now. With the new water we have much more time to work in the fields and we can earn more money. We grow sunflowers, millet and sorghum, which we can send to town to sell.” - Hawa Mohammed Manguanjuki in the Singida District of Tanzania.

Thank you once again for the difference that you have made to people like Hawa. At this time of thanksgiving we are grateful that you have chosen to support some of the world’s poorest people by giving water for harvest and water for life.

Samaritans

Thank you very much for the cheque for £222.73.

It is extremely thoughtful of the Church to hold a collection in our favour and we shall ensure that the congregation’s donations are spent wisely.

We receive no State or Local Authority funding and rely heavily on the financial goodwill of the public. Donations such as yours, therefore, help greatly in ensuring that we continue to provide the Samaritans round the clock helpline service in Portsmouth and surrounding areas 365 days a year. Please convey our grateful thanks to the Clergy and parishioners of St George’s.

Barnabas Fund

Greetings in the Name of our Lord Jesus.

We do appreciate the kind gift of £75 to the Barnabas Fund to help Christians who are suffering for their faith. We are so glad that you share our concern for these needy brothers and sisters. Gifts made through the Barnabas Fund make a real difference to people who often have nobody else to help them.

Would you remember in your prayers the Christians in South Sudan, northern Uganda, the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo who are being targeted by the rebel movement which calls itself the “Lord’s Resistance Army”. This movement, backed by the Islamic government in North Sudan, has attacked many villages and churches in recent months and is causing immense destruction and fear. It often kidnaps children, whom it brutalises and use as child-soldiers within its own ranks. Some days after an attack on six people in Sudan in August, their bodies were found nailed to pieces of wood fastened to the ground. Those who discovered the bodies likened it to a grotesque crucifixion scene. Pray for our Christian brothers and sisters that they will be protected, and for those who are ministering to the child-soldiers who have been rescued from their ordeal.