Dear Friends,
Annual Appeal: Make Room at the Inn
Dear Friends,
Annual Appeal: Make Room at the Inn
Last Wednesday, the House of Commons voted to conduct air strikes over Syria. Within an hour of the decision RAF jets were sent on their first bombing mission. In the view of many, both inside and outside of Parliament, such actions will do little to relieve the misery in Syria and may increase the number of refugees fleeing the region.
Ever since Ekklesia began we consistently argued that violence solves nothing and that we have a responsibility to care for those on the margins of society. This Christmas we continue to make those arguments, as we remember, in particular, those forced to flee their homes in Iraq and Syria because of our bombs.
To carry on with this work, we need your support. Can you help us?
To run the Ekklesia office costs us £85,000/ year, less than half of which comes from grant funding. Your donation can make a real difference to us and this year we urgently need your help to keep going. We have set ourselves an ambitious fundraising target of £5,000 for our Annual Appeal. So far, we have raised nearly a £1,000. Can you help us double that this week?
- A £10 donation pays for a week’s phone bills, or a month’s worth of stationery.
- £20 covers a week’s web maintenance
- £50 will help fund the refreshments for an event.
- £100 pays for speaker’s costs
- £250 will contribute to the printing of a report
- £500 will pay for half a year’s website maintenance, or quarter of a researcher’s fees.
- £1,000 would pay for 1/5 of the monthly staff salaries.
You can help the work of Ekklesia in by sending a donation, marked “annual appeal” to Ekklesia, Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, 235 Shaftesbury Avenue, or by donating via our PayPal account.
If you are unable to make a donation at this present time but shop on-line, why not sign up to The Giving Machine? You can ensure that the commission on every purchase you make goes straight to Ekklesia, without costing you an extra penny.
Thanks to you for all your support and encouragement which means a lot to us.
Jonathan Bartley (co-director), Simon Barrow (co-director), Henrietta Cullinan (administrator), Virginia Moffatt (chief operating officer)
Your Ekklesia Team