Tear Fund is a
Christian relief and development organisation that St Paul’s has supported for
many years. In particular, we are linked to projects in a church in Uganda. Today,
Charlotte Nobbs visited our morning service, to speak on their behalf.
The reading was
about how Jesus fed the crowd of 5000 men plus women and children. But to do
this, he used one child’s packed lunch of just 5 rolls and two fish. Charlotte
admitted that as we looked out at the world the needs seemed as great as trying
to feed the enormous crowd. But her challenge was to look at what we did have – what
had we got in our own hands, and make that available for God to use. Charlotte
illustrated with pictures and case histories from Uganda which demonstrated how investment
of small sums of money have been able to recreate the well-being of families.
May we respond in
generosity and prayer to all that we learned.
