A Prayer Fast for Lent

WEAVE US TOGETHER, LORD.........
during these forty days and forty nights!

(Thanks to Oxford Presbytery and Celia Orth for sharing this resource.)

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 The Lenten period is an opportunity to raise funds for the Gardens Project in Mozambique. Mozambique has many challenges but, like southern Ontario, has excellent soils with much capacity to grow food and medicinal plants.

Donated funds would go to the Christian Council of Mozambique (CCM). As you may know, Bill and Karen Butt are United Church overseas personnel in Mozambique. CCM will direct these dollars towards the best use in the Gardens Project. Opportunities include but are not limited to helping to pay for a helper to expand the gardens to new areas.

A few dollars goes a long way. For example, it costs about $250 per month to employ a helper.

CCM Worker sorting plants used to start a new Garden Project in Mozambique

 From February 25 to April 12, you can put a coin or bill of your choice into the envelope and use the daily prayer to help you connect with the work of our partner churches in Mozambique, the presbytery and with God!

 On Easter Sunday the envelope could go into the offering. If you have your name (or #) and the amount written on it, your local treasurer can receipt you in the usual way.   We are then asking local treasurers to send one cheque to London Conference who forwards the money to the CCM (Christian Council of Mozambique). This is an Extra Measures program that has been granted to London Conference from General Council Office to enable closer relationships with M&S projects around the world.

PRAYERS to WEAVE US TOGETHER

Prayers for each day of Lent to "weave us together" as partners with the people of Mozambique and the Christian Council of Mozambique.

 Instructions for Treasurers

How to collect and forward donations.

Weave Label

A label for donation envelopes.  Print this sheet on a self-stick label sheet.  Cut the labels and place one on an envelope (5 1/2" x 9").  Put "Weave us together" sheet and "Prayers" in envelope.  Donors use the envelope for their daily donations and return the envelope with the donations on Easter Day.