Charities

As a congregation we support many local and National charities.

Each month we have a Communion collection for a different charity, all of which are well supported. This year we added West Kirby Disabled Swimming Club and the local Riding for the Disabled to our list.

Nationally we support Fairtrade, Christian Aid and Commitment for Life.

The Trussell Trust - Stop UK Hunger

​An update from Wirral Foodbank

We are reliant on the support and generosity of donors. Demand is currently exceeding supply, and we are using our cash reserves and contingency stocks. Can you please help by donating an item or more from our shopping list.

 ➢ Tinned Meat ➢ Tinned Fish ➢ Squash ➢ Jam ➢ Soup 

 Emergency Aid Support If you need emergency food support, you can call Wirral Council – 0151 606 2005

You can find out more about Wirral Foodbank by visiting our website If you would like someone from Wirral Foodbank to visit your church, please don’t hesitate to contact us: Em: enquiries@wirralfoodbank.org.uk Tel: 0151 638 7090 

News from Trussell Trust In the last financial year, food banks in the Trussell Trust network have seen the highest ever level of need, distributing close to 3 million (2,986,203) emergency food parcels — including more than a million to children. This is the most parcels the network has ever distributed in a single year.  

Find out more from The Trussell Trust - Read the latest Hunger in the UK report from Trussell Trust. 

Transcript from October’s prayer – read by Laura Chalmers

Hi I’m Laura Chalmers. I’m an Area Manager with Trussell for Yorkshire and Humberside.

This week I went to visit a food bank who had closed their doors and just did deliveries for a week, so that they could completely gut out and rearrange their centre. I went to go visit the new layout of the centre and they had installed a tea, coffee and cake serving area. They’d put in tablecloths and put flowers on the tables.

It’s clean and it is a comfortable cafe type setting, with comfortable seats and a really nice atmosphere. I noticed that every single detail had been considered to ensure that people’s experiences were positive and that their dignity was upheld.

It got me thinking, what does biblical hospitality look like? I did some searching and I came across this passage from the Apostle Paul in his letter to the Romans.

This is Romans 15, verses 1-7.

We who have a strong obligation to bear with the failing of the weak, and do no please ourselves. Let each of us please his neighbour for his good, and build him up for Christ did not please himself.

But as it is written, the approaches of those who approached you fell on me, for whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through encouragement of the scriptures, we might have hope.

May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another in accordance to Jesus Christ, that together you may with one voice, glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Therefore, welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you for the glory of God.

Isn’t this such a beautiful description of hospitality? It builds people up. It’s patient. It bears with the failings of the weak. It sets aside selfishness to help people feel safe and important and encouraged. So, as we open the doors to our food banks, where we want people to feel safe and important and encouraged, let’s pray.

Lord, help us to treat others the way we would want to be treated. To cultivate the kinds of spaces where people feel safe and relaxed and encouraged.

I pray, Lord, for all our food banks. Please give them the encouragement they need.

That as they seek to provide these selfless and patient spaces that you would step in.

That the conditions that they provide would be ripe for both relational and spiritual harmony.

Lord, help us this week to be true to you in every way, being kind to everyone we meet and help us to lift the lost and strengthen us in the moment.

Thinking about Acts 2 42-47 – one of the manifestations of the Holy Spirit was a community in which everyone cared for each other and shared their possessions. What does that mean to us in the UK today?

· A reflection on the Lord’s prayer – thinking especially as ‘give us today our daily bread’ and the phrase ‘on earth as it is in heaven’.

This prayer, based on the Lord’s Prayer, was written by John who is part of the Trussell group of Christians who have lived experience of using a food bank. John is now a trustee and volunteer at his local food bank.

“Our Father in heaven, but close to us in our life day by day, hearing our prayers and answering with kindness. Hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as in heaven. Help us to make earth more like heaven by being kind to one another, helping each other out and showing compassion whenever we can. Give us today our daily bread. Please make sure we all have enough to eat today and when we have more than

enough, help us to share with those around us. Forgive us our sins. We all do things wrong, please forgive us when we make mistakes as we forgive those who sin against us. Help us to keep caring for people around us even when they are difficult, because we know you love us even when we are difficult. Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours now and for ever. Amen.”