Outreach
How 10% of our giving is spent
Missions and Outward Giving
Christ Church supports a range of mission and service activities, both with money and time from members of the congregation. Of all the planned giving that Christ Church is given, ten percent is given to service and mission organisations.
Active Relationships
We aim to do much more than send cheques to a list of organisations. We want to foster support where we are developing two way active relationships, and we have a personal relationship with the organisation or activity so that people can be enthused and want to give their support.
Wide-ranging support
We ensure a mixture of financial support for service work locally (e.g. Guildford YMCA), nationwide (e.g. Church Pastoral Aid Society), and abroad (e.g. Msalato Theological College in Tanzania). We also give practical support to Make Poverty History, Traid Craft, and Love in a Box. Seasonal gifts are given to The Children's Society and Christian Aid.
In addition, the Seedcorn Programme provides support to Christ Church members with the aim of encouraging short term experience in Christian outreach work.
Champions
In order to achieve active relationships, the majority of the organisations have "champions" - people in the church family who have a heart and passion for a particular organisation, and who have enthused others to help them give time and money to that activity. Some also have small group support (e.g. home groups). We are always looking for people to help take part in the activities that are carried out by our champions throughout the year.
Local Support
Mulberry House (Christian Alliance): Provides supported accommodation for vulnerable young women in Guildford. www.caha.org.uk
No. 5: Supported housing for homeless men. Representatives of local churches form the "Friends of No. 5".
Plantation Café - YMCA: Café in Market Street that reaches out to disaffected Guildford youngsters. www.plantationcafe.org.uk
The Matrix Trust: Works in the Guildford Community, seeking to connect churches, projects and youth workers with a particular focus on youth and emerging cultures. www.matrixtrust.com
The Besom Project: Hands-on projects, as a Church, to help those in the Community who cannot manage areas of their lives for themselves (e.g. decorating). www.besom.org.uk
Guildford Community Family Trust: Seeks to encourage and enable more stable and fulfilling family life, through preventative action such as relationship education and skills training. www.gcft.org.uk
National Support
CPAS enables churches to help every person hear and discover the good news of Jesus, helping churches become more mission-focused by developing effective leaders at all levels. www.cpas.org.uk
Christian Youth Enterprises: We support Chris Adams, working for a Christian Sailing Centre which trains, evangelises and disciples. www.cye.org.uk
Anglican Ministry to the Persian Community in Britain: Bassi (our CMS mission partner) pastors Farsi-speaking Christians and seekers exiled to the UK and Holland.
International Support
Wycliffe: Provide Bibles where there were previously none, in the language of the population. Our partners with Wycliffe are Will and Judith Sawers. www.wycliffe.org
Missions to Seafarers: Anglican organisation, dedicated to the spiritual and practical welfare of merchant seamen and provision of port chaplains.
www.missiontoseafarers.org
Theological Education by Extension (Crosslinks): Programme for Carlisle College in Kenya, training evangelists for local churches.
www.crosslinks.org
Msalato Theological College, Tanzania: is an Anglican college training men and women in applied theology, some of whom are already ordained, and others who will be ordained at the end of their course. It is equipping church leaders with the skills they need to lead and teach in the Anglican church in an East African context.
Church Mission Society: Supports nearly 900 people in mission in 26 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. www.cms-uk.org
Sharing Of Ministries Abroad: Sends teams short term to bring renewal teaching, often in tough areas of conflict, to the Anglican Communion. www.somauk.org
Teddies for Tragedies: Knitted Teddies bring comfort and play therapy to small children in poverty or distress all over the world. www.teddiesfortragedies.org.uk
Tear Fund: Christian Relief and Development agency in the Third World. Also organises short-term teams, such as the Youth trip to Burkina Faso 2007. www.tearfund.org
If you want to know more about Christ Church giving, please contact Hilary Steynor.
