Focus on Five

Each year St John’s Church gives a proportion of its income to five carefully selected Charities. We normally support each Charity for between 2 and 3 years.  The Charities are also regularly supported in prayer.  Information and regular updates come from its sponsor and these are passed on to the wider community in the Windlesham magazine, Church services and leaflets in St John’s Link.

These are the Focus on Five Charities for 2010:

The York Road Project

The York Road Project runs a hostel for single homeless people in Woking and the surrounding area. As well as offering food, shelter, showers and laundry facilites, York Road gives people practical help ad advice for moving on.

Barnabas

Barnabas is the Bible Reading Fellowship’s Children's Ministry. It provides a growing range of resources for church leaders and primary school teachers who work with children u p to the age of 11. Alongside it’s books and online resources it has a professional and experienced team to help in practical ways. Today, fewer and fewer children are growing up with any real knowledge or understanding of the bible or the Christian faith and, indeed, most have very little exposure to it.  Through their ministry in schools and churches Barnabas are trying to do something about this, bringing the Bible alive for children under 11 and enabling them, and the adults that work with them, to explore Christianity creatively.

St Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace

St Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace seeks to inspire people of different faiths to live in harmony with each other. It offers a place for people to meet and explore their differences as equals, and hosts events from many inspirational speakers as well as providing support resources on its website.

Starfish Greathearts Foundation

Starfish Greathearts Foundation aims to bring life, hope and opportunity to every single child in South Africa, who has been orphaned or made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS. By providing support and care to more than 35,000 children,they aim to give these children a future in their own communities.

The Mityana Charity

The Mityana Charity is a Christian charity dedicated to helping the people of Mityana,in Uganda. It aims to improve its local infrastructure, education and training opportunities, give assistance in setting up self-supporting revenue generating projects, and provide other resources along with a sharing of the Christian faith.

Talk on Mityana Project - 21 February

On Sunday 21 February, Debbie Harris will be coming to St John's to speak at both the 9am and 10.45am services, to give us an update on what is happening in Mityana, and how the money St John's gives is being used.

Sponsoring a Charity

If you have a favourite charity that you’d like to nominate and Sponsor all you have to do is talk to Andrew Hill who Chairs the selection team. Find out more about becoming a sponsor.