Each
month, St Pauls highlights one of the charities it supports (See the blog for
22nd July). This coming month it will be Tearfund (website). Tearfund is a Christian relief and development fund. Teafund responds to disasters
and is a part of the Disasters Emergency Committee and it currently has appeals
for Iraq and Gaza. However, it has a much wider vision. They say of themselves:
“We're
Christians passionate about ending poverty”
We're
following Jesus where need is greatest, working through local churches to
unlock people's potential and helping them to discover that the answer to
poverty is within themselves. When disasters strike, we respond quickly. We
won't stop until poverty stops.
When
a community lifts itself out of poverty, everything changes. Poverty does more
than exhaust, starve, trap and kill people. It destroys their sense of worth,
limits their horizons, robs people of the chance to reach their full potential.
Tearfund’s call is to follow Jesus where the need is greatest. We long for new
life and a new sense of worth for people. We do whatever it takes to end
poverty and rebuild poor communities.
We work through local churches, because
they're Jesus’ body on earth, ready to care for the whole person - and the
whole community - inside and out."
Our
gifts will be put to good use. We pray that they will make a difference.
