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Welcome Vision Statement Just Looking Sundays Mid Week Children and Youth What's On Church News Mission Partners Crosslink El Shaddai ICE Mothers Union Relief Fund TearFund St Petrock’s AWM Contacts Find Us	Missionary organisations and Charities supported by St Mary's Church, Whimple Tearfund Tearfund, Whimple Church’s charity for August and September is a Christian organisation passionate about overcoming global poverty, bringing justice and transforming lives. Their 10 year vision is to see 50 million people released from material and spiritual poverty. Through local churches they are addressing a wide range of issues including HIV, water and sanitation, reducing the impact of disasters, economic injustice and climate change. The local church is central to the work of Tearfund. The Bible asks Christians to ‘act justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with your God,’ (Micah 6:8). So part of being Christian is standing up against the injustice of poverty - the grinding reality for so many people around the world today. Tearfund connects people in the UK with people in need around the world. They work in 70 countries with over 500 church-based organisations. And by getting involved, Tearfund supporters in the UK and Ireland have been part of a miracle – enabling local churches to make unexpected things happen: drought resistant crops feeding villages when the rains refuse to come; a newly planted forest diverting waters away from the villages when the floods come. “We’ve seen many amazing and unexpected things happen (what the dictionary terms ‘miracles’) because local churches have refused to accept poverty”. Look up http://www.tearfund.org/About+us/ to learn more about the issues we deal with, our vision for the future, and what the local church is doing to help.
July 6, 2008

Missionary organisations and Charities supported by St Mary's Church, Whimple

Tearfund

Tearfund, Whimple Church’s charity for August and September is a Christian organisation passionate about overcoming global poverty, bringing justice and transforming lives.

Their 10 year vision is to see 50 million people released from material and spiritual poverty. Through local churches they are addressing a wide range of issues including HIV, water and sanitation, reducing the impact of disasters, economic injustice and climate change.

The local church is central to the work of Tearfund. The Bible asks Christians to ‘act justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with your God,’ (Micah 6:8). So part of being Christian is standing up against the injustice of poverty - the grinding reality for so many people around the world today.

Tearfund connects people in the UK with people in need around the world. They work in 70 countries with over 500 church-based organisations. And by getting involved, Tearfund supporters in the UK and Ireland have been part of a miracle – enabling local churches to make unexpected things happen: drought resistant crops feeding villages when the rains refuse to come; a newly planted forest diverting waters away from the villages when the floods come. “We’ve seen many amazing and unexpected things happen (what the dictionary terms ‘miracles’) because local churches have refused to accept poverty”.

Look up http://www.tearfund.org/About+us/ to learn more about the issues we deal with, our vision for the future, and what the local church is doing to help.

July 6, 2008