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CHURCH NEWS
Weekly Prayer Roster
Each week during the year the Churches, in their prayers, remember the residents of particular streets in the vil-
lage, those who work in the parish and village organizations. Those to be remembered this month are:
3rd May School Lane, Buckden Primary School (pupils, teachers and teaching assistants, governors,
volunteers, midday supervisors, lollipop lady, all support staff)
10th May Scouts, Cubs and Beavers, Guides, Brownies and Rainbows, Playgroup and Day Nursery,
Buccaneers after school club, Buckden Towers Youth Retreat Centre
17th May Mayfield, Springfield Way, The Osiers, Stirtloe
24th May Vineyard Way, Burberry Road, Swan End, Lark End, The Library and its librarians
31st May The churches of the village: St Hugh’s, St Mary’s, Buckden Methodist Church, also Offord and
Perry Baptist Churches, members of home groups from these and other local churches, min-
isters and all who make our churches welcoming and worshipful places
STUDY LUNCH
The regular monthly study lunches continue on Monday 11th May 2015
Methodist Church Hall 12.30 pm to 2.00 pm
Contact: Ann Brittain on 812012
Thought for the month
Just as the Church has been described as an organisation that exists for the benefit of non-members, so Christian
Aid is a charity run to help people of all faiths and of none, and its primary objectives are the elimination of poverty
and of injustice wherever they may be found in the world.
Among the many vital needs that CA addresses daily are such diverse issues as tax-dodging, malaria, gender
inequality, climate change, HIV, human rights, and, of course, emergency relief. High on the current agenda are
fighting Ebola in Sierra Leone, providing relief from the floods in South Asia, and trying to bring help and hope to
those suffering the appalling humanitarian crises in Syria, Gaza and Iraq.
Naturally, relief cannot be provided, nor change effected, without the provision of goods and services. Some of
these are offered as charitable acts of giving in their own right, but there remains a vast balance for which money
must be provided.
During this month, between the 10th and the 16th of May, you may notice people wearing red T-shirts and carrying
red buckets, collecting money wherever crowds gather; you may be invited to attend a coffee and cake morning or
you may be moved to sponsor some act of endurance or bravado; and all in the great cause of helping to make a
difference to the plight of the poor and the oppressed.
This, then, is Christian Aid Week. Not ‘Aid for Christians’, but aid for all of the weak, helpless and suffering millions
who have touched the hearts of Christians with an echo of the pain with which their Saviour’s heart has ached and
bled for two millennia.
Baptist Church.
CHRISTIAN AID COFFEE MORNING Friday 8 TH May 2015
10.00am in the Methodist Church Hall.
By supporting this event you are helping some of the world’s poorest
people. There will be no house-to-house collection for Christian Aid
week but envelopes for individual donations will be available from each
of the churches and at the coffee morning.