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Christian Aid
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Christian Aid Lent Lunches
(All at 12.30pm, followed by 'Pause for Thought')
Friday 19 Feb - Stoke
Climsland Methodist Church, Soup & Sweet
Friday 26 Feb - Tamar Valley
Methodist Church, Soup & Sweet
Friday 5 Mar -
Callington Methodist Church, Ploughmans & Sweet
Friday 12 Mar - Callington
Methodist Church, Soup & Sweet
Friday 19 Mar - St Dominic
Methodist Church, Ploughmans & Sweet
Friday 26 Mar - Callington
Methodist Church Ploughmans & Sweet
Booking essential
(01579 383490)
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Our Gift Day 'Home Grown'
(Groan?) concert will be held on Saturday 6th March beginning
7.30pm! Admission is free. Light refreshments
available afterwards.
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Callington
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OPERATION
SUNSHINE
...Is a Christian charity
which collects, sorts and packs
good quality second hand clothing, household goods, tools,
crafts and educational supplies to help those in great need.
At present are in need of:-
Tools
- Drills, hammers, saws, sanders, files, nuts, screws, bolts,
nails etc.,
Garden Tools -
Forks, spades, rakes trowels etc.,
Bedding
- Duvets, pillows, sheets, blankets etc., Towels.
Kitchen -
Utensils, crockery, cutlery, string, candles.
Educational
- Pens, pencils, rulers, rubbers, exercise books, clean paper.
Typewriters,
suitcases.
Sewing -
Hand/electric sewing machines, needles, threads, scissors,
buttons etc., Knitting needles and wool.
Babies
- Nappies and nappy pins and all baby equipment.
Sunglasses
- for
leprosy victims (the disease damages the nerves of the eyelid so
they cannot blink).
Medical Equipment -
dressings, disinfectants, thermometers etc., Walking sticks,
wheel chairs etc.,
Soap and toiletries
and Toys
Operation Sunshine started in 1981
to aid the refugees from the civil war in Mozambique, Operation
Sunshine has now sent 20 and 40ft ship containers to thirteen
countries mainly in Africa, but also to the Kurds in Turkey and
to Armenia, Romania and Kosova.
The
headquarters of Operation Sunshine is at Folkestone, but there
has been a branch in Tavistock for 23 years.
During the last four years,
we have sent at least twelve ship containers to Africa, two of
which were 40 feet long. In the last year alone, Operation
Sunshine has provided clothing, food, school furniture and
educational and craft equipment, medical supplies, tools and
building materials to the sick, poor and destitute in Northern
Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Rwanda.
Those we have helped
have included 1.5 million refugees from the fighting in Rwanda
and Burundi, the Liteta Leper Colony and Crisis Nursery in
Zambia, the Canaan School for abused children and other
orphanages caring for babies and small children who have been
abandoned either through poverty or because they have been
orphaned by the AIDS virus. If
you would like to help or find out more please click on
the link above to open their website.
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Each Friday morning
there is a prayer meeting in the parlour at 10.00am with a short
Communion
Service at this time, on the the first Friday of each
month.
Why not come along one Friday and
join us? The format is very relaxed, consisting usually of
a Bible reading, leading to a brief discussion, followed by a
time of open prayer. You are as welcome to come and say
nothing as to come and participate actively - so why not give it
a try? Then stay for coffee, biscuits and a chat.
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