Sunday 11th May - Christian Aid Week

 Christian Aid week begins tomorrow - their big annual fundraising time. For years I bwas one of those annoying people who pushed envelopes through people's front doors, and then came back to collect them. 

It was a task I hated! I personally disliked receiving those envelopes,  and then scratching around to find where I'd put it, and hunting for change to stuff into it when someone turned up to collect it! So I felt very awkward when it was my turn to perpetrate this annoyance upon my neighbours. No-one was actually rude to me, I'm glad to say.

I don't think we take part in this house to house collection at our church any more. We tend to go for fundraising events and plant sales, which is what is happening next week. 

My zoom church used the Christian Aid material in the service today. 

We heard about Aurelia, from a small village in Guatemala. She's mother of eight children, and a grandmother too, and spends four hours every day collecting water.

Here she setting off; her 78 year old father is behind her.

Stop there! How many grandmothers do I know who have the health and strength to do this? I certainly couldn't. She says she worries that it is getting too much for her.

Christian Aid writes

Christan Aid's local partners, Congcoop, works with the women to teach them innovative and sustainable farming techniques to help adapt to the consequences of climate change. The rivers are shrinking,  becoming narrower and shallower, and no longer providing fish for food and farming practices have cope with the drier weather and even drought.

Here's Aurelia again;

You can read more about this, and other projects on their main website.

I do urge you to support Christian Aid in the work they do all over the world, and if one of those little collection envelopes drops through your door, stuff some money in and put it somewhere handy!

Thank you for reading. 

Music

It's years since I heard a cuckoo, or watched Roger Moore, for that matter!