CHRISTIAN AID WEEK 11 – 17 May 2008

Website www.christianaidweek.org

Christian Aid week is seven amazing days of fund-raising, campaigning and worship.   It unites 300,000 people in the UK’s biggest house-to-house collection.

It inspires hundreds of events, brings together thousands of churches and reaches millions of people with messages about poverty. And most importantly it helps people in poor communities around the world change their lives. Will you be part of this by joining the collecting team in the Offington area? Please sign up on the board in the church foyer.

The annual Christian Aid service is at St Andrew’s Church, Tarring on Thursday 8 May at 7.30pm.

SUNDAY LUNCH

There will be a lunch on Sunday 11 May at 12.30pm (all proceeds to Christian Aid ) which Betty Marris and team are kindly preparing. The cost will be a minimum of £5, (reduced price for children), if you would like to go, please give your name to the church office by 4 May or to Betty on W 262074 by Friday 9 May.

Quizaid - Calling all smart alecs

On Saturday 17 May at 7pm there will be a quiz with questions supplied by Christian Aid. Tickets will be £5 to enter the quiz and will include refreshments of quiche, cakes, tea, coffee, and soft drinks, and every name will be entered into a prize draw to win a year’s supply of Divine Chocolate. You’ll play in teams of up to 6 people. There will also be a raffle.

Please let the church office or Chris & Liz Lance (W 264602) have your name by 14 May.

This year’s Road Allocation for Offington Park Methodist Church

No. of
homes    Road    

45	Adversane Road
50	Alfriston Road
25	Alfriston Close
58	Balcombe Avenue (Odd numbers)
58	Balcombe Avenue (Even numbers)
56	Broomfield Avenue (East of Loxwood)
90	Broomfield Avenue (West of Loxwood)
88	Cranleigh Road
60	Gaisford Close
43	Gaisford Road
25	Glebeside Avenue
44	Gorse Avenue and Warren Gardens
60	Hall Av&Close, Valentine,&Alford Close
75	Hillside Avenue
60	Lavington Road (East of Loxwood)
62	Lavington Road (West of Loxwood)
56	Loxwood Avenue (Odd numbers)
56	Loxwood Avenue (Even numbers)
36	Nutbourne Road
57	Offington Av(East Offington Drive) & Court
69	Offington Av (West of Offington Drive)
90	Offington Drive (North of Offington Ave)
70	Offington Drive (South of Offington Ave)
40	Offington Gardens
64	Offington Lane (North Ashacre/Off Ave)& Park Close
34	Offington Lane (South Ashacre/Offington Avenue)
37	Orchard Ave (Even) & Clo, Stopham Close,
48	Orchard Ave (Odd numbers)
50	Poulter’s Lane (East Offington Drive/Loxwood)
50	Poulter’s Lane (West Offington Drive/Loxwood)
54	Rectory Road (East side only)
52	St Lawrence Avenue (East of Loxwood & Nutbourne)
42	St. Lawrence Avenue (West of Loxwood & Nutbourne)
40	Shermanbury Road
68	Shirley Drive (North of Offington Ave)& Shirley Close
60	Shirley Drive (South Of Offington Ave)
20	South Farm Road (West side Offington Ave to OPMC)
65	S.Farm Rd (West side  OPMC to St Lawrence)
44	Watersfield Road and Wiston Close
30	Westdean Road
50	Wiston Avenue (East of Loxwood)
56	Wiston Avenue (West of Loxwood)
39	Woodmancote Road

Door to door collecting is from 11 May to 17 May. Would you sign up to do a road in the Offington area ? The Road List will be in the church foyer from 13 April.

Every year we need extra collectors to cover the streets listed on the left. Some of last year’s collectors are not able to help us this year so if you have not collected before please contact Chris or Liz Lance who will be happy to explain to you what to do. One street allocation should take you about half an hour to distribute envelopes and two hours to collect them.

Last year I remember feeling the envelopes I was collecting and guessing I would have collected about £50 and just wondering what good that would do. Other members of our church were doing the same thing and we collected over £3,000 in donations. In Worthing as a whole this multiplied to £25,500 and as there were 300,000 other people in other Protestant churches (the Catholic church have a separate organisation) also collecting, a total of £14,100,000 was raised . It’s staggering to see how drops become a ocean.
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This week of collecting money door to door is the single most important source of income for Christian Aid and we should do our bit and make sure we cover all the roads we have been allocated so that we maximise the revenue for the charity

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