BREAKING NEWS
Thanks to two unexpected donations our Christmas Lights total has now risen to £4054!
So some figures:
For the first few years, 2003 -2005, we displayed the Christmas lights as a gift to the community without fundraising. Then members of the community wanted to donate and so we began collecting.
During the next 12 years, from 2006 -2017 we raised £20,000 which we donated to Save the Children.
Then in 2018, we decided we wanted to become more involved in ensuring the donated money went directly to transforming people's lives, with none being siphoned off into U.K. charitable administration etc.
During 2018, 2019 and this year we will have raised over £35,000 and by the end of the year, working with the amazing charity, Water for Africa, will have installed bore holes, solar powered water pumps, water towers and multiple standpipes to 3 villages in The Gambia.
So some figures:
For the first few years, 2003 -2005, we displayed the Christmas lights as a gift to the community without fundraising. Then members of the community wanted to donate and so we began collecting.
During the next 12 years, from 2006 -2017 we raised £20,000 which we donated to Save the Children.
Then in 2018, we decided we wanted to become more involved in ensuring the donated money went directly to transforming people's lives, with none being siphoned off into U.K. charitable administration etc.
During 2018, 2019 and this year we will have raised over £35,000 and by the end of the year, working with the amazing charity, Water for Africa, will have installed bore holes, solar powered water pumps, water towers and multiple standpipes to 3 villages in The Gambia.
ARCHBISHOP JONATHAN BLAKE - MY LIFE - PART ONE
ARCHBISHOP JONATHAN BLAKE - MY LIFE - PART TWO
I AM PROUD OF MY WRITING, FOR JESUS’S SAKE, THAT HAS HAD ME FOUND INNOCENT IN HEAVEN, BUT TWICE A CRIMINAL ON THE EARTH. THE FIRST IN 1990 WHEN I WROTE A BIBLICAL TEXT ON THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT IN PEACEFUL PROTEST ABOUT THE BOMBING OF YOUNG IRAQI RECRUITS DURING THE FIRST GULF WAR. THE SECOND, IN 2016 WHEN I WROTE ON MY BLOG, TO ALERT THE PUBLIC ABOUT A PAEDOPHILE, AND WAS SUCCESSFUL IN FORCING THE AUTHORITIES TO STOP HIM HAVING ACCESS TO CHILDREN. THERE WAS ALMOST A THIRD! IN 1997, WHEN I WAS ARRESTED FOR NAILING MY PROPOSALS FOR REFORM OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND ON THE DOOR OF CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL. WORDS ARE POWERFUL MESSAGES THAT CHALLENGE CORRUPTION, CONFRONT THE WICKED AND CREATE A BETTER WORLD. JESUS IS THE WORD OF GOD AND HIS FOLLOWERS ARE CALLED TO COMMUNICATE HIS WORDS, IRRESPECTIVE OF THE COST.
"You brave, courageous and wonderful man. To stand up for the truth in the face of suppression and oppression is truly an act of a pure heart."
posted by Bishop Jonathan Blake | 2:30 PM
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