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Charities (Last Updated 18/11/2009)
Friday 29 January 2010 is SOS Day - the RNLI's biggest fundraising day. With just over 2 months to go, they are asking people all around the UK and RoI to get involved
www.rnli.org.uk/sosday/home Tell Brown to make Copenhagen count
The UN's Copenhagen climate summit in December will set out how the world tackles global warming.
Our (Christian Aid) Countdown to Copenhagen campaign is about making sure it delivers a fair and effective deal, especially for people already feeling the impact of climate change: the world's poorest.
This is our best chance yet to secure a fair global deal on climate change. Tell Gordon Brown to be there in person and help deliver climate justice for the world's poor.
Rich countries are most responsible for causing the climate crisis.
Yet it's people in the world's poorest communities who are suffering first and worst from its effects.
At Copenhagen, rich countries must sign up to obligations that commit them to:
- achieving at least a 40% cut in domestic carbon emissions by 2020
- ensuring developing countries have all the support and resources they need to reduce their emissions, develop cleanly and adapt to climate change.
We want climate justice.
Britain - and the prime minister - can help achieve this.
Email Gordon Brown today Christian Aid - fighting for a world free of poverty and injustice Zimbabwe appeal
5000 Women, 500 Empty Acres.....
50,000 Fed at Harvest
Support those living
In poverty this Harvest
Chandramma's story
Chandramma was born a 'weeder' and belongs to the dalit class formerly known as 'the untouchables' in India, she has worked most of her life in others' fields in exchange for meagre handouts.
But all that changed when she joined a women's group supported by Christian Aid. Working together, the women used traditional farming methods to turn a wasteland in a drought-hit region of India into rich farmland.
Read the full story and watch Chandramma's video.
Raise £10 this harvest
To continue to support women like Chandramma we need your help. Spread the story in your church and local community. Start a collection or host your own fundraising event.
Take inspiration from Chandramma's story and host a dinner party or barbecue event this harvest and aim to raise ten times the amount you spend organising it.
Find more fundraising ideas and a host of resources to help multiply your impact at our website.
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Prayer is vital in everything Tearfund does - which is why for us it's such an important part of campaigning for justice. Let's be creative, says Ben Clowney.
'This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us - whatever we ask - we know
that we have what we asked of him.' (1 John 5:14-15)
Prayer works. We have a God who listens and responds to the cries of his people. We also have a God who is passionate about trade justice, halting climate chaos, stopping
the spread of HIV and seeing people lifted from poverty.
Yet we so often struggle to involve God in our campaigning.
Why is that? Is it because the issues feel too big? Or maybe action feels more measurable? Maybe we even find it tedious.
Using creativity can help bring our prayer times to life, making it easier to engage in the vital work of praying for those living in poverty. Tearfund have put together five suggestions to start us thinking.
1 Take a prayer walk
Let your prayer be inspired by the world around you. Gather a group or go it alone, taking a walk through the areas of your community where poverty is most evident. Stop at various intervals to pray, or make notes and pray when you get home. Another option is to pray around places of power near you. Get ideas from the "Blow the whistle" creative prayer walk around Westminster
Pray through the news
Buy a few different newspapers and cut out articles and pictures related to poverty. Add these to any articles that you can find online - the Tearfund website is a good
place to start for relevant news and prayer points. Lay these out or stick them on a wall and use them as prompts to pray.
Visit News or Prayer for up-to-date news and prayer requests.
3 Use objects
Sometimes looking at or holding an object can stimulate our prayers. For example,when praying for the issue of water and sanitation you could look into a glass of dirty water and imagine having to drink it. Or if you are praying for a specific area, a world or country map could help to provide context. Try reflections on trade, climate change, AIDS and water from Campaigning/pray
4 Express your creativity
From drawing to writing, painting to sculpting, we all have the ability to be creative. Why not spend some time creating something that will remind you to pray for those in
poverty? It could be as simple as sticking large pieces of paper on the wall for people to scribble their prayers on.
Send us any photos of the result and we'll stick them up on the website.
5 Join in Tearfund's Global poverty prayer week
Tearfund is inviting you to become part of a Global poverty prayer chain - connecting with Christians across the world to pray for those in poverty. You can add your prayers
to the online prayer wall and from 12 to 18 November there will be a Global poverty prayer week to get your church involved in.
Find out more and add yourself to our prayer map at bepartofamiracle
'When two of you get together on anything at all on earth and make a prayer of it, my Father in heaven goes into action.' (Matthew 18:18, The Message)
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