PERSONAL FUNDRAISING

Below is a copy of a flyer I have printed off to raise some funds for the new project in Gulu. This will be for a new church plant as a foundation for the new Watoto Village aimed at rescuing and healing children who have been abducted into the rebel army (LRA). I don't know how much I can raise but I reckon anything will be some help.

I'll start off at Church and see how I go! (And maybe at Jennie's on 2 June at her film night if it is OK with her.)

W O W!
(Weight Off for Watoto)

My aim is to try to lose between 25 and 30 kgs by Christmas of this year. I hope that you might consider sponsoring me per kilo – payable on 30 December 2007 at whatever I have lost by then. All money raised will go to support the Watoto Childcare Ministry in Uganda.

Carmela Strain will be my weigh-in sister and will make reports (I hope at some point you will be able to see progress for yourselves), or check out our blogspot.

I also need a huge amount of prayer support. this is a real challenge for me as I have failed many times before. I appreciate any support you may be able to give to me, monetary or prayer, preferably both!

Judith Sharp

IT IS THE SEASON

I see your will Lord, I hear you calling
“Come join the work I have prepared”
You have planted and you have watered
The sun has warmed the cold hard ground.
The harvest beckons, it is ready
for the workers to be found.


Increase my faith Lord;
Desire to serve you.
Just like the saints of old
Abram and Moses, Aaron, Elijah,
Who helped your plans unfold.


It is the season, the tasks are many,
In my strength I am too weak.
But you have promised that when we trust you
You will enable and complete.
The harvest beckons, it is ready
for the workers to be found.



I once was lost, I once was hostile
To the love of your dear Son.
His sacrifice saved me, He now presents me
Holy and blameless before your throne.
Now is the season
For me to stand up,
and declare “Your will be done”.


(JS - April 2007)

Just an image of the children who don't have a future if we don't act. I, personally have looked the other way when I see these photos because it was too painful and I thought that there was nothing I could do. Well there is, and I have stopped looking away.

I have three grandsons and the thought of them being abused in such ways is incredibly heartbreaking. There but for the grace of God.

Man's Inhumanity to Man

Just been reading an account of the terrible seige by Islamic militants at a school in Beslan, Russia, in 2004. On what should have been the start of a celebratory school week, 331 men, women and children were killed and over 700 people injured over two days of absolute horror and carnage.

Some of the militants were women who were wired up to bombs as they sat amongst women and children in fear and despair. It is said that they had lost their husbands and children through violence and were now taking their revenge.

Here we are trying to appeal to women with a mother's heart to help children on the other side of the world who are experiencing dreadful horrors, yet there were other women completely oblivious to the pain and suffering of children sitting right in front of them - the depravity of man!