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Archives for September 2016

Help us build a house

September 22, 2016 by St. Peter's

Weʼre raising £2,500 to help build a house for a single mother living in Rwanda, Central Africa.

This coming February, a team of 14 of us from St. Peter’s Church, Yaxley are heading out to Rwanda in Central Africa. We partner with the Diocese of Cyangugu and as part of our journey, one of the many projects we’ll be involved with is helping to fund and build a house for an impoverished single mother and her children.

Her name is Costasie and she lives on the island of Ishywa.

Her husband left her 15 years ago and went to live in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). At the time she had twins of 15 months old and very sadly one of them, Gatoya, drowned in the lake. Her other son is called Gatura; she also has a daughter and another son as well as two grandchildren.

A family isolated and vulnerable – All six of them live in what was the kitchen of their former house. it has two very small rooms and they all sleep, cook and eat in the larger of the two rooms. The roof has many holes in it, so when it rains they have to build a temporary shelter within the room to keep them dry. She has no work or income and very little land to grow any crops, meaning that feeding her large family can often be very difficult.

She owns the land the house is on, and when her husband was still with her they lived in a bigger house. Sadly, he knocked this down and tried to sell off the parts and the furniture. At the time, Costasie had gone to the DRC to find work, so her husband – on hearing she was not on the island – came back to sell off the house. When she came back all that was left was the small kitchen at the back that is now her home.

You can help create change – Building a house for Costasie and her family will make a huge difference. But this is going to cost money. Believe it or not, you can do this for about £2,500. We have already had some generous donations, but we still need your help to get us over the bar. If you can help us, you will certainly be part of something that will change someone’s life forever.

Please give generously by visiting our JustGiving page.

Thank you.

The Rwanda Team from St. Peter’s Church, Yaxley

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: change, children, difference, disadvantage, donate, fundraise, house, JustGiving, project, Rwanda

Triumph and disaster

September 1, 2016 by St. Peter's

I am writing this a few hours after two very contrasting events at the Rio Olympics.

Adam Peaty has just won Britain’s first gold of the Olympics in a new world-record time and by doing so became the first British man for 28 years to win an Olympic swimming gold. At around the same time, World No.1 Novak Djokovic lost in the first-round of the tennis and left the court in tears. Their contrasting emotions reminded me of the line from Rudyard Kipling’s poem, which is inscribed above the entrance to Centre Court at Wimbledon. It reads: “If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same…”. That might be a great quote from a wonderful poem, but it’s surely incredibly difficult to treat a first-round defeat and an Olympic gold as ‘just the same’.

At the start of a new academic year some of you will be changing schools, moving on to higher education and starting new jobs. Doubtless too some of you reading this will be struggling to find work or going through other difficulties. How can we treat starting a new school / job or failing to find a job as ‘just the same’? I don’t underestimate how hard this is (and I don’t know how Kipling expected his readers to do this), however, for me, my Christian belief is definitely the answer. Whatever might happen in my life I know that Jesus Christ has won the ultimate victory – death itself and all the powers of darkness have been defeated. This knowledge enables me to begin to treat triumph and disaster as impostors and to treat them just the same.

Whether you are currently enjoying triumph or struggling with disaster you are welcome to join us at St. Peter’s or your local church. If you would like us to pray for you about anything at all, please let me know, or complete one of the cards available in St. Peter’s, which is open every weekday from 10.30am to 12.30pm until the end of this month. As always, please remember you are all welcome at any of our services at St. Peter’s – details are here or give me a call.

With my prayers.

Jon Randall (Vicar) 01733 240339; vicar@saintpeters.co.uk

Read this article in the Yaxley Gazette.

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Adam Peaty, Christ, community, contrast, difficulty, disaster, Jesus, Novak Djokovic, Olympics, Rio, St. Peter's, struggle, treat, triumph, Yaxley

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