Bishop's Alleluia Fund Letter
Easter 2009
Dear Friends in Christ,
Alleluia!– we joyfully proclaim the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the Savior of us all.
One way Rebecca and I express our gratitude for Christ’s resurrection is through our gift to the Alleluia Fund. It gives us great joy to see the ways in which our offerings support mission initiatives which could never have happened without the generosity of a great number of people throughout the diocese over the past six years!
Thanks to God’s grace and the people who contributed to the Alleluia Fund, Southwick Community Episcopal Church is now a Mission congregation of the Diocese. Our gifts to the Alleluia Fund are helping people without church connections to find a life-giving relationship with Jesus and his mission in a needy world. This is the final year of Alleluia Fund assistance for Southwick, so I invite you to give generously to help them become a self-supporting congregation.
In January 2009, I had the privilege of visiting our sisters and brothers in Liberia and in 2008 Rebecca and I visited the Diocese of Kumasi in Ghana. We saw their extraordinary faith and critical needs first hand. I’m delighted that a tithe of this year’s Alleluia Fund offerings will be used continue to support our relation-ship with the Diocese of Liberia and will help us begin a new relationship with the Diocese of Kumasi in Ghana.
I invite you to join us in prayer and giving to support the ministry of Christ in Southwick, Liberia and Ghana. May God multiply our gifts, as Christ multiplied the five loves and two fish, to provide for the needs of more people than we can ask or imagine.
Yours in gratitude for Christ’s resurrection
Gordon P. Scruton
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