1/ SHOUT Helps those who are really struggling to feed their families and the homeless. If you can spare an extra item from your shopping, please donate it to SHOUT Worthing – Soup Kitchen There are boxes for food donations at the church entrances of St Mary’s. Holy Family also support a similar charity http://www.worthingsoupkitchen.co.uk
SHOUT have opened a new charity shop at 147 Montague Street, Worthing, supporting the most vulnerable in our community.
2/ LIVE SIMPLY Tip of the Week Change your method of transport. How about walking or cycling for repeated errands, choosing one day a week to walk, cycle or take public transport to work where you are able to.
3/ Parish Projects. The parish is donating to a number of charities both home & abroad with money that’s tithed from the weekly collection during this financial year. In the next few weeks information will be given about each one.
We have given £500.00 to the Knights of St. Columba to help with the new lectionaries for the diocese secondary schools. One of the schools to benefit will be Oscar Romero
4/ Meeting with Dr Beccy Cooper MP for Worthing West Members of our Justice & Peace group, together with members of the Deanery group had a meeting with Beccy Cooper to discuss the following issues:
Money being spent on a new nuclear power stations
Selling arms to Israel
CAFOD campaign to cancel the international debts
Why the Overseas Development Fund has been reduced to put money into armaments and defence.
The answers to these questions can be found here on the parish website, St Mary of the Angels & Holy Family Lancing Justice & Peace Group Facebook, St. Mary of the Angels Parish church Worthing Facebook