Lyndon Letter - Nov 2020

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We’d love to offer more places on our Leadership Programme and extend our Open ministry to support more women affected by miscarriage and abortion.

Lyndon Bowring CHAIRMAN

And we need to engage with, inform and mobilise a new movement of younger Christians. This year, CARE embarked on a number of new online initiatives reaching thousands of people, from; podcasts, prayers, devotionals and unique CARE Sessions focusing on important issues. Some of our normal activities have been restricted but these exciting innovations are proving invaluable in informing, equipping and encouraging Christians. So, if you’re able to give again, we’d be deeply grateful. Online donations are particularly helpful – if you can, please visit care.org.uk/donate, but if sending a cheque or paying by card suits you best, we’d be thrilled. Every CARE staff member engaged in processing donations and writing thank you letters prays for you. It's a real joy for me to add a personal message when a gift of £100 or more is made, and a privilege for me to pray for you and your family.

Jesus, our Rock of Ages In answer to Moses’ prayer, the Lord caused His goodness, mercy and compassion to pass before Moses. To protect him from the awesome sight of His glory, Moses was placed by God ‘in a cleft in the rock’ and His hand covered Moses until He’d passed by.’ Even though he’d already encountered the Lord in the most remarkable way for 40 days and nights on Mount Sinai, Moses still wanted to know God more! May each of us be granted a life-changing experience of increasingly knowing God through His Word, as we understand more of His ways. Let’s pray that we'll each be open to His mercy and goodness and that the eternal security and comfort of being hidden in the cleft of the Rock Christ Jesus. A new daily prayer of mine is; 'May I see You more clearly, love You more dearly, follow You more nearly, and know You more really day by day.' May His mercy, grace, peace and protection be yours over this Christmas season. Yours because He is our Emmanuel,

December 2020

Knowing God You may know that I try to make just one direct financial appeal a year for you to consider CARE after you’ve responded to family needs, your local church and other ministries close to your heart. No doubt you’ve received many calls for help during this unprecedented time of Covid-19, but your ongoing generosity is vitally important to us. Before I ask again for your continued support, let me share something with you. I wonder whether, like me, you are challenged by the question ‘How well do you know God?’. We know much about Him and how He works in our lives, our families, the Church and the wider world – but how well do we actually know Him? Exodus 33 describes one of the Bible’s greatest prayer encounters. God makes it clear that Moses has found favour with Him and so Moses asks just one thing: 'Please show me Your ways'. He longed to discover more of God's character, His words and acts.

Rev Lyndon Bowring Chairman

The awesome truth is that as Christians we’ve all found favour with God, through what Christ accomplished. Like Moses, we can humbly pray: ‘Lord, because I’ve found favour in Your sight, please reveal Your ways to me, by Your Spirit and through Your Word, to know You more!’

The ‘Quartet of the Vulnerable’

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CARE (Christian Action Research & Education) | Chief Executive Nola Leach | Chairman Rev Lyndon Bowring 53 Romney St, London, SW1P 3RF | 020 7233 0455 | mail@care.org.uk | Charity No: 1066963 | Scottish Charity No: SC038911

We learn from Scripture that God’s ways include His passion for the widow, the fatherless, the foreigner and the poor – known as ‘the quartet of the vulnerable’. The Church has a history of being counter-cultural by caring for these groups of people. First-century Christians in the Roman Empire did not discriminate; they rescued widows from poverty, cared for abandoned new-borns, tended the sick, fed the hungry and took in destitute people.


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