A Letter from Christians Against Poverty

During the Christmas Carol Service we took up a collection for Christians Against Poverty. We collected £60.00! To find out more goto http://www.capuk.org.

A Letter of thanks for the gift is below.

THANK YOU

Thank you for your gift!

Below is a thank you letter from one of our clients:

Dear Christians Against Poverty How can we begin to explain the difference CAP has made in our lives? Before CAP I spent every month juggling credit card cheques to pay different debts, and I felt physically sick at the thought of how I would cope. I felt so ashamed that someone like me could ever have allowed our finances to get into such a mess. I had faced three redundancies and each new job meant a drastic reduction in salary. My husband also took early retirement due to ill health so our income dropped even more. I felt an absolute failure; incompetent and unworthy of help. Since we contacted CAP we see a light at the end of our tunnel. We know that we will be totally debt free, an experience I have not known for many years. We know what we have to pay each month and we know our bills and debts are getting paid. The shame I felt about these debts has faded because of all of the wonderful people at CAP. They have shown love, support and understanding without a hint of condemnation. We believe that we were guided to CAP not just to help us find a way out of debt, but to find the loving God who really does love us as we are, debtors and all. Thank you to all at Christians Against Poverty for making it possible for us to enjoy the present and enabling us to look forward to the future. Our love and prayers are with you for your continued success, Mary x

'....and if you spend yourselves on behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday.' Isaiah 58: 10

Christmas Carol Service Talk

What would you do? Many a time you try and help and make friends with someone and they spurn your help?

What if you knew a better way to do things but you were constantly rebuffed.

Well, so it is with God! He created the world and the world turned its back on Him.

But instead of turning His back on the World, He declared His love and favour! Favour that was undeserved!

It was to shepherds the Good News was first declared. Not Kings, not nobles but down to earth, hard working shepherds.

“Glory to God in the highest heaven,
and on earth peace to those on whom his favour rests.”, was the cry of the angels. They were excited.

The Angels declared a Saviour. “A Saviour who is Christ the Lord.” He said.

When Mary was told to name this child Jesus “for he will save His people from their sins.” He would get us out of our mess.

What does favour from God to man look like? It is a gift of unmerited and constant love. Constant love when we mess up.

For unto us a Son is given. This is the gift of love. And isn’t that what real giving is all about. Giving even to what is undeserved.

And that is what God did: He gave of his very own to those who did not deserve it. I know I don’t deserve it.

The often quoted Bible verse says “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”John 3:16
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And so the offer is open to everyone. Like the Christmas story those that heard it were working class shepherds,. What was their response? Let us go, they said.

So what is our response? Shall we go and discover more about who Jesus is? There is a present waiting for us. : “He came to the world that was his own, but his own people did not accept him. But to all who did accept him and believe in him he gave the right to become children of God.