Dear Friends,
Annual Appeal: Make Room at the Inn this Christmas
Can you help us make room at the inn this Christmas?
Dear Friends,
Annual Appeal: Make Room at the Inn this Christmas
Can you help us make room at the inn this Christmas?
Huge numbers of people will be displaced and on the move both at home and abroad. But there will be no room at the inn for too many – whether it is refugees fleeing wars, families forced to move due to the benefit cap, or the disabled who are unable to afford the bedroom tax. A potential backlash against migrants follow the tragic events in Paris and possible increased military action in Syria, could make the situation even worse.
We are a small think tank with big ideas. In the year ahead we would like to help create a habitable nation and planet where all displaced people have a place. This will include:
- Publishing our research on the work capability assessment,
- Producing a book on Christian responses to the UK housing crisis,
- Promoting the rights of refugees and migrants,
- Continuing to work for peace through promotion of alternatives to Remembrance and developing peace chaplaincies,
- Running events on housing, welfare and sexuality,
- Promoting understanding and dialogue between Christians and Muslims,
- Challenging the churches to make the oikoumene, “the whole inhabited earth” the focus of their mission.
To do this we urgently need your help. We have set ourselves an ambitious fundraising target of £5,000 this Christmas so that we can carry out this work. We are 4% of the way to our goal, can you help us get to 20% by the weekend?
- 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.
We are very appreciative of your support, which is vital to keep the work of Ekklesia going.
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.
Many thanks
Jonathan Bartley (co-director), Simon Barrow (co-director), Henrietta Cullinan (administrator), Virginia Moffatt (chief operating officer)
Your Ekklesia Team