Special Appeal
The brothers and sisters of the CCM are writing to tell you about
our work and to appeal to you to take part in it.
Attached you
will find some detailed information which we hope you and your ecclesia
will prayerfully reflect upon in depth. We wish to set before you very
clearly the thrilling and exciting prospects before us, and the ways in
which you can become part of spreading the Gospel to the entire world.
Our Aims and Principles:
- to take Christ to those
who have not heard, in every nation
- to distribute Bibles
and preaching literature in as many languages as possible, so that contacts
can read in their own languages
- to ensure that all contacts
are thoroughly instructed in the truth about our Lord Jesus Christ, and
then baptised into his Saving Name
- to encourage them to
teach their families about the Gospel, and to share their thoughts and
feelings with other brothers and sisters by meeting them or correspondence
- to help them in facing
the often radical and traumatic results of their conversion, and to alleviate
genuine cases of severe poverty
- to serve them by pastoral
care, with the aim of developing spiritually self-supporting ecclesias,
able to take responsibility for local preaching
Some of our members have been quietly pursuing this work for many years,
and our attached report is to tell you the story of this. What we are
proposing is not a new initiative, rather it is an appeal to enable the
wonderful momentum achieved over the last 15 years to continue bearing
fruit and to increase. We are asking you to consider donating what you
can, preferably on a regular basis, either monthly or annually. Our previous
sources of funding have been cut off and this necessitates our appeal
which we feel so awkward at making. We make it only because we seek the
welfare of our contacts and the continued spread of the Gospel.
There is no doubt that, for whatever reasons, there are now many wonderful
Christadelphians in urgent need and desperate poverty worldwide, whose
sources of support have largely been removed. It is particularly the urgency
of their need which gives us the courage to desperately, if quietly, appeal
for your support now -- old sisters unable to pay basic heating bills
in Eastern Europe; young mothers unable to get urgent medical attention
for their children or even to have the funds to give birth in hospital;
highly committed brothers on the run for their lives in the Moslem world,
having had their photos published in magazines and constantly receiving
death threats -- it is their need which inspires us to make this appeal
to you. Our funds for all the work are very depleted. We have spent and
been spent, so we ask for your support.