St James Dalby - Church & Community - supporting charities
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Charitable Giving : Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
Francis of Assisi
It's not how much we give, but how much love we put into giving.”
Mother Teresa
The Hebrew word for "charity," tzedakah, simply means "justice"
and as this suggests, for Jews, giving to the poor is no optional extra
but an essential part of living a just life. Peter Springer
Charity even for one person does not make sense
except in terms of an effort to love all Creation
in response to the Creator's love for it.
Wendell Berry
“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism
or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
As a church and community we’re committed to working together, playing together and supporting one another in our local community and in the wider world.
We annually support :
Scripture Union IoM : working with our young people in schools across the Island. For more information visit: http://www.sumt.im/
Graih : a Manx charity based in Douglas in the Isle of Man seeking to love and serve the homeless. www.graih.org.im
The Leprosy Mission : bringing life back to those who have been abandoned by others. : http://www.leprosymission.org.uk/
Francis of Assisi
It's not how much we give, but how much love we put into giving.”
Mother Teresa
The Hebrew word for "charity," tzedakah, simply means "justice"
and as this suggests, for Jews, giving to the poor is no optional extra
but an essential part of living a just life. Peter Springer
Charity even for one person does not make sense
except in terms of an effort to love all Creation
in response to the Creator's love for it.
Wendell Berry
“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism
or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
As a church and community we’re committed to working together, playing together and supporting one another in our local community and in the wider world.
We annually support :
Scripture Union IoM : working with our young people in schools across the Island. For more information visit: http://www.sumt.im/
Graih : a Manx charity based in Douglas in the Isle of Man seeking to love and serve the homeless. www.graih.org.im
The Leprosy Mission : bringing life back to those who have been abandoned by others. : http://www.leprosymission.org.uk/
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Through the work of the Church and Friends we also give to 2 charities each year selected from a local Manx charity operating on the Island and a Manx charity operating overseas . We donate 10% of all our funds raised through events to support their work .
Our two charities for 2018 are : * Bridge the Gap IoM : It is acknowledged that the GAP between paediatric and adult care is too great a step for many young people, especially those with complex, chronic and life threatening medical conditions. Bridge the Gap aims to Bridge ‘THAT’ Gap by improving facilities and support for these young people on the Island. * The Koru Hospital Fund Working In Kenya: KOCEP Registered Charity 866 KOCEP is part of Koru hospital Fund and was formed in 2009 to see a way of implementing the identified primary needs of the people in Koguta Village which is situated near Muhoroni town 80 Kilometres from Kisumu in Kenya. Our aims 1. Bring people together and to work in unity and to empower them. 2. To provide the people with portable water that will help in the eradication of water borne diseases such as cholera, typhoid. 3. To provide the preschool children with a nursery school that will begin to start the social and educational development of the 3- 5 year olds. 4. To provide a health care facility that will address the primary health care needs of the Community. 5.To provide a suitable place to worship which will also serve as a community hall, and a meeting place. 6.To provide electricity for homes. 7.To offer educational information that will help to improve existing farming practices. 8.To empower the women in order to make them more independent and valued within the community. 9.To provide a suitable transport network i.e roads to make each home more easily accessible. |
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Fairtrade Island / Fairtrade Church:
Dalby Village take Fairtrade seriously, with their “Fairtrade Cupboard –shop” in the Dalby schoolrooms selling over £1300 of produce in just one year! The hard work and enthusiasm of Ann Quirk and Pamela Gorst , who are part of our Friends team at St James, keep the shelves stacked with a wide range of Traidcraft products, available whenever there’s a gathering or function in the church and schoolrooms. Traidcraft is the UK’s leading fair trade organisation. Its unique structure - a trading company and a development charity working together - gives them a distinctive perspective on how trade can be made to work for the poor. Through regularly buying Fairtrade groceries from our cupboard-shop, the community at Dalby are helping poor farmers in the developing world to have a fair price for their produce as well as improved living and working conditions...... and we get excellent coffee and tea to drink and biscuits and chocolate to snack!
Dalby Village take Fairtrade seriously, with their “Fairtrade Cupboard –shop” in the Dalby schoolrooms selling over £1300 of produce in just one year! The hard work and enthusiasm of Ann Quirk and Pamela Gorst , who are part of our Friends team at St James, keep the shelves stacked with a wide range of Traidcraft products, available whenever there’s a gathering or function in the church and schoolrooms. Traidcraft is the UK’s leading fair trade organisation. Its unique structure - a trading company and a development charity working together - gives them a distinctive perspective on how trade can be made to work for the poor. Through regularly buying Fairtrade groceries from our cupboard-shop, the community at Dalby are helping poor farmers in the developing world to have a fair price for their produce as well as improved living and working conditions...... and we get excellent coffee and tea to drink and biscuits and chocolate to snack!
Toilet twinning : Our church loo has been twinned with an enclosed loo for a community in Ethiopia. We now have a framed certificate in our loo along with an information poster on the hygiene benefits of better sanitation and clean water.
Collecting food for Griah & Women’s Refuge: through Lent and Advent we have collecting boxes in the schoolrooms for food stuffs for Griah and Women’s Refuge IoM. This is mainly tinned foods, tea, coffee, and biscuits, personal toiletries and household cleaning items. Both these collections are supported by our church and extended community with contributions coming in from a wide range of people who drop by or attend different groups and activities in the schoolrooms.
Candle orphanage : As a church that uses a lot of candles, this has proved a great way of recycling our old stub ends! The Manx Workshop for the Disabled has started up a new venture called : The Candle Orphanage. The idea is that folk donate their old candle ends for recycling and they produce new decorative candles to be sold in jars or glasses. Read more: http://www.iomtoday.co.im/…/leading-light-for-people-with-d…
If you, your church or an organisation your part of would like to support this venture donations of candles and candle ends can be made to the workshop in Douglas or dropped off at the WI Office in Ramsey for re-cycling. It's a great local scheme!
Christmas Stamps: We also act as a collecting point for the humble postage stamp throughout the year with a special promotion at Christmas to go to the all island collection for the Leprosy Mission coordinated through the One World Centre.
Awareness raising & Campaigning : we have regularly updated information and campaign cards available in the church on global issues of human justice, climate and trade justice. Current events and issues are featured regularly in the local news sheet
Candle orphanage : As a church that uses a lot of candles, this has proved a great way of recycling our old stub ends! The Manx Workshop for the Disabled has started up a new venture called : The Candle Orphanage. The idea is that folk donate their old candle ends for recycling and they produce new decorative candles to be sold in jars or glasses. Read more: http://www.iomtoday.co.im/…/leading-light-for-people-with-d…
If you, your church or an organisation your part of would like to support this venture donations of candles and candle ends can be made to the workshop in Douglas or dropped off at the WI Office in Ramsey for re-cycling. It's a great local scheme!
Christmas Stamps: We also act as a collecting point for the humble postage stamp throughout the year with a special promotion at Christmas to go to the all island collection for the Leprosy Mission coordinated through the One World Centre.
Awareness raising & Campaigning : we have regularly updated information and campaign cards available in the church on global issues of human justice, climate and trade justice. Current events and issues are featured regularly in the local news sheet