Bible Week offering for Tearfund raises £4788.78!
On three nights of the Bishop's Bible Week, the offering was taken up to help Tearfund's work in flood-devastated Pakistan, raising a mammoth [if gte mso 9]><xml> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 </xml><![endif][if gte mso 9]><![endif] <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {"Cambria Math"; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;} @font-face { panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; font-:11.0pt;"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-"Times New Roman";} .MsoChpDefault { font-:10.0pt;} @page WordSection1 {:612.0pt 792.0pt; margin:72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt;} div.WordSection1 {page:WordSection1;} --> [if gte mso 10]><![endif]£4788.78! Many thanks to all who gave so generously.
Staff from Tearfund partner SSEWA-Pak are distributing food and other essential items to the most vulnerable families.
'This is one of the biggest floods in the history of Pakistan,' says Ashraf Mall, Tearfund’s Pakistan Country Representative.
Click here to view a short film showing how Tearfund are responding to the crisis in Pakistan.
Bishop Harold is a Tearfund Vice President and said, "By giving through Tearfund, an organisation that has been close to my heart for many years, we can be sure that our donations are being channelled through the local church and reaching the right people,"
Visit the Tearfund website here.