Support for Others

Shanklin United Reformed Church

High Street, Shanklin, Isle of Wight. PO37 6LA
Registered Charity No. 1130459

A member of the Evangelical Alliance

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Support For Others

We Support

We seek to give away at least 10% of our income to other Christian work. The main things that we regularly support are:

	The 'God Bus' street outreach team on the Island.
	Isle of Wight Youth for Christ working among local young people
	The Reformed Presbyterian Church of Uganda (see Kalasa below).
	The Evangelism and Renewal Advocates (Revs Andrew and Sally Willett) employed by GEAR to promote renewal in the Holy Spirit and evangelism around the United Reformed Church. See GEAR
	The work of Tearfund.
	Fairtrade - all the tea and coffee we use in Church is fairly traded, along with other items, and we sell Fairtrade items in our Bookshop.
	Christian Aid week

James in his Shanklin Town Youth Brass Band uniform In addition, we frequently support other organisations, e.g. our Christmas 2008 collection was donated to the hospice on the Isle of Wight in memory of Ray Smith, one our members who passed away during 2008, and our Christmas 2009 collection was donated to the Cystic Fibrosis Trust in memory of James Sparks, a young man who worshipped at our church but sadly passed away in June 2009 at just 17 years of age.

Cystic Fibrosis is one of the UK's most common, life-threatening, inherited diseases.

The CF Trust has a unique way of remembering those with Cystic Fibrosis who have died.

Families who have lost a loved one can choose a special day and they will be allocated a star. On that special day, their star will twinkle on a special page of the Cystic Fibrosis Trust website. James' special day is the 19^th October - his birthday.

Each person has a unique star and by clicking their star, you can see a photograph and read a memory for each person. James is remembered in the constellation of Cassiopeia and his star is in grid D5.

http://www.cfstarsinthesky.org.uk/cassiopeia/cassiopeia.htm

You can see a selection of photos from James' life at his father's Flickr page

Kalasa, Uganda

Brian Harley, our Minister, visited Kalasa (a village about an hour's drive north of Kampala) Reformed Presbyterian Church in October 1997, April 2002 and November 2006 during team ministry trips from the UK to encourage the various new congregations of this new and growing church in Uganda. The building in the pictures below was roofed with the help of gifts from Shanklin and was subsequently named 'The Shanklin Block'.

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The Shanklin Block at Kalasa - classrooms at the church school which were begun in May 2002 during the visit by our minister who took with him gifts for this work.

The building, which they also use as a school for orphans and five classrooms, has now been built alongside. Meetings end when it gets dark around 6.00pm as there is no electricity. Pastor Rev Martin Sebbugo and his wife Gertrude visited Shanklin in 1996, which led us to start sending regular gifts to help with their work and mission.

Sarah Harley visited Kalasa church and school in April 2008 during a six week visit to Uganda as an extension to her nurse training. She shared with the school children about health issues and also visited the church plants in two other local villages at Bukekete and Namakata.

Photo of Sarah at Kalasa. Click on the picture for larger version

Information about supporting the work in Uganda, and also in Malawi, Ghana and Zambia, can be obtained through Rev John Hall, a URC Minister who runs The Romans One Eleven Trust to facilitate such on going contacts.

Page Last Updated 29 July 2010