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| Sara and Duncan - and the MBE cake she made for him - and us! |
Soren Kierkegaard, the Danish philosopher, has some
brilliant one liners including this one: The door to happiness opens outwards…
In other words our lives are both enhanced and expanded as we think of others. Or as Jesus put it: Love God and Love Neighbour.
These words seem so appropriate as I reflect on the service we held at Amersham Free Church last Sunday morning, during which we presented the founder of Street Kids Direct, Duncan Dyason (who was awarded the MBE in the recent New Year’s Honours List) with a cheque from our church community for £7,500. When the final amounts of last year’s fund raising are gathered in that will rise to a wonderful £9,000 – well, I think it’s wonderful because we set out to raise £5,000 and ended up raising almost double.
In other words our lives are both enhanced and expanded as we think of others. Or as Jesus put it: Love God and Love Neighbour.
These words seem so appropriate as I reflect on the service we held at Amersham Free Church last Sunday morning, during which we presented the founder of Street Kids Direct, Duncan Dyason (who was awarded the MBE in the recent New Year’s Honours List) with a cheque from our church community for £7,500. When the final amounts of last year’s fund raising are gathered in that will rise to a wonderful £9,000 – well, I think it’s wonderful because we set out to raise £5,000 and ended up raising almost double.
These dry statistics represent a great deal of love, effort
and prayerful concern from the folks at AFC as they have taken Street Kids
Direct and all the work they do in Central America to their hearts. We have, in Kierkegarrd’s words, tried to
open the door outwards. I am often very
proud of my church (that isn’t a sin, is it?) and Sunday morning was just such
an occasion.
I hope, as a community of faith, we continue to look outwards and as we do I’m sure we’ll go on being inspired by the way God is at work in our world as we jump in and join him!
I hope, as a community of faith, we continue to look outwards and as we do I’m sure we’ll go on being inspired by the way God is at work in our world as we jump in and join him!
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