Christian Aid Week 2021 – online giving
Here is the link to our online giving platform for Christian Aid Week 2021:
https://giving.tapsimple.org/online/christian-aid/christian-aid-week-2021-bf4b3
Here is the link to our online giving platform for Christian Aid Week 2021:
https://giving.tapsimple.org/online/christian-aid/christian-aid-week-2021-bf4b3
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The service for ‘midnight mass’ is now available:
Isaiah 6:1-8 Psalm 138 1 Corinthians 15:1-11 Luke 5:1-11 There’s a story told that in the early in the nineteenth century, the King of Prussia, Frederick William III, found his nation in great trouble. He had been attempting to bring prosperity to his land, but constant wars had drained the treasury. So, he wrote an…