Community Projects
As Christians, we have a God-given desire to serve other people in our community, particularly those who need some help to cope with life's issues.
Of course, God always has a much bigger picture of who that is than we do, so although there are people we serve and get alongside in Rochdale (mostly unseen and unsung - the real heroes!) , there are also others we serve in other countries, and for that we need to work with other organisations in order to be most effective.
For instance, we are committed to helping some families, particularly widows and orphans in a town called Mbeya in the south of Tanzania, in Africa. They have many problems with malaria and aids, and are very poor. Even the little we can do helps a lot. We work alongside a Christian charity called Grassroots to do this. - we have "Coppers for Kids" boxes that allow our children to put their contributions in. Some of our church travelled as part of a team to Tanzania in November 2007 - we registered 150 more children into the scheme taking the total being helped up to 1500. You can help by sponsoring a primary school child for £3.50 a month. Call us!!
We have some other people we help in Medellin in Colombia, South America. They are in the middle of on-going civil war and gang warfare, again leaving many women and children without much food or money and no education. We support "Familia en Accion" creating employment for the mums and education for the children in a little village called Alta Vista on the outskirts of Medellin.
As part of our committment to work closely with the whole community, both secular, Christian, and other faiths, we are members of FAITHWORKS, whose charter defines the way we have chosen to interact with our community.