Christmas Charities
We are glad to announce that the collection from our Carols by Candlelight services (22nd December) and Christmas Day service this year will be donated to Tearfund and Rainbow of Hope.
Tearfund is a Christian charity that partners with local churches and Christian organisations to find new, innovative ways to reduce poverty, and to offer their communities material and spiritual hope. With over 50 years' experience of responding to natural and national disasters and crises around the world, Tearfund also works with partners to influence powerful decision-makers to implement laws which help alleviate global poverty. At the heart of Tearfund is a vision for all people to alter their own lifestyles as a way to love their neighbours as Jesus taught and showed.
Rainbow of Hope is a Cardiff-based charity reaching out to the homeless and disadvantaged, including asylum seekers and refugees. Their mission is to relieve people’s suffering caused by poverty and distress – particularly the homeless in Cardiff, by providing or assisting in the provision of food, shelter, clothing and grants of money, and also by offering support and advice. We are very grateful for our own Homeless Run volunteers from Highfields who partner with Rainbow of Hope, and who go into Cardiff City Centre every fourth Sunday to provide food and clothing for Cardiff’s homeless.
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, ... it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.
Like many people of my generation I grew up in a loving home where church was an important part of life. As a student I drifted from those early roots and God seemed irrelevant, but in 1974 my beloved Dad died suddenly and I started to think about the meaning of life and death.
Growing up in Pakistan, the thought of living without a faith was impossible to imagine. On moving to the UK for university, my love for the new luxuries available meant that I no longer saw a need for faith in my life. However, God hadn't given up on me.