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All We Can in partnership
All We Can is doing development differently!
Hear how they are working with Eagles in Malawi.
Meet our Malawi partners, Eagles, and discover how together, we’re doing development differently.
- All We Can is using partnership to put communities in the driving seat
- Creating lasting impact with community-led initiatives
- Your chance to hear from one of our Malawi partners
Jimmy Likagwa, Church Mobilisation Coordinator, Eagles.
Putting communities in the driving seat in Malawi
At All We Can, we are changing the rhetoric. We believe in the power of partnership – it’s in our DNA. We understand that overcoming the challenges of poverty, crises and social injustice is complex and can only be achieved by working with local organisations, like Eagles, rooted within local communities.
Local organisations like Eagles know the communities, they know the landscape and are able to make real change at a grassroots level.
This March, we’re giving you the chance to meet our Malawi partners, Eagles, and discover their work directly!
Community-led initiatives
The Eagles’ church mobilisation process is a sustainable approach as it increases the likelihood of lasting impact.
Working with local structures of churches and communities, it empowers women and men in the community to use existing assets and skills and builds their capacity, creating a mind-set change away from dependency towards a sense of collective responsibility and collective confidence.
Members of the Madalitso choir (meaning blessings), in William village.
Getting to know the community
Church and Community Transformation (CCT) equips local churches to break mindsets of dependency and work with their community to achieve holistic change, especially for the most vulnerable.
Communities are equipped to identify their own problems, discover the abundance of their own resources, find solutions and act together, taking responsibility for their own development. Church and community mobilisation as an approach has been found to be 26 times more cost-effective than traditional development and 4 times more sustainable.
It works by utilising lasting local structures in the community like churches, empowers local people to radically transform their livelihoods and involves advocating to the government for larger-scale change.
Meet The Eagles
This March, we’re offering our supporters the chance to meet the Eagles team directly:
- Learn about the community
- Discover our partnership approach in action
- Be inspired with stories of hope
Come and join us on Thursday 2 March to learn more about their incredible work and be part of the transformation.
January’s Eco Challenge
January Eco Challenge
Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 18th – 25th January
This year the material has been prepared for world-wide use by churches in Minneapolis, USA, seeking to “explore how the work of Christian unity can contribute to the promotion of racial justice across all levels of society”. There is a particular focus for the UK on the murder of Stephen Lawrence in April 1993. More information is available from Churches in Britain and Ireland.
Broughty Ferry Churches Group will observe the Week at a Service led by the Rev. Mark-Aaron Tisdale, in St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Queen Street, Broughty Ferry, on Friday 20th January 2023 from 2.30 pm to 3.30 pm. Refreshments will be served after the service. All are warmly welcomed to this Service.
Lift the Ban!
The Joint Pubic Issues team, which includes the Methodist Church, is joining those who are calling on the Government to lift the ban on asylum seekers obtaining work.
Watch their video on the reasons why.
Places of Welcome in Dundee
Dundee Council says,
Dundee should be a city where everyone has somewhere to go to be welcomed, to be able to meet other people and take part in activities.
Use the map to find activities, cafes, etc near you.
Room for More?
On Monday, the Prime Minister announced a new strategy for dealing with those the Government describes as illegal immigrants, seeking to push back and restrict people crossing the channel to seek sanctuary in the UK. On Wednesday, more lives have been lost as people made the perilous journey in desperation.
On Monday, the Government chose to impose restrictions and intensify resources to try to stop people seeking a new life in the UK. Today, we need to reflect on our desire to deny other people – who are also made in the image of God – the same opportunity for safety and flourishing that we claim.
On Monday, those who are blessed with safety and resources decided to place limits on those who seek just the bare essentials. Our hearts go out to those whose loved ones have died crossing the channel and those who will try to do the same again.
On Monday we closed our doors a little more to those who are seeking sanctuary. Today we need to declare, ‘There is room’!
Prayer
Loving God, when Mary and Joseph arrived in Bethlehem, they were told that they could not be accommodated like everyone else. There was no room in the inn.
When people risk life and limb for a better life for themselves and their loved ones, they are told that they cannot be accommodated like everyone else.
Help us to be those who find accommodation for others.There is room.
Help us to move over and give one another space.There is room.
And help us to reflect on the capacity of your all-embracing love as we journey with you this Advent because, ‘There is room’.
We pray in the Name of Jesus whose love accommodates all.
Amen.
The President of the Methodist Conference, the Revd Graham Thompson
Cosy spaces in Broughty Ferry
Long Covid advice line
Chest Heart and Stroke Scotland has set up an advice line for people living with Long Covid.
Two community support co-ordinators will deliver one-to-one and group support, and five healthcare practitioners will work on the CHSS Advice Line to offer expert support, advice and reassurance to anyone living with long COVID.
To contact the Advice Line nurses:
Call 0808 801 0899 (FREE from landlines and mobiles)
Email adviceline@chss.org.uk
Text NURSE to 66777
Sundays during Advent and Christmas-tide
The Circuit’s churches have been invited to use the Methodist Advent Liturgy on the theme “There is room” and it will be incorporated into the Circuit digital YouTube services. See the varied material on offer.
4 December 2022 – 11 am worship at 17 Roseangle, Dundee
11 December 2022 – 11 am worship at Perth Methodist Church, Scott Street – followed by Christmas lunch
18 December 2022 – 11 am worship including Holy Communion at 17 Roseangle, Dundee
25 December 2022 – 10.30 am worship at 17 Roseangle, Dundee
No Methodist public worship in Dundee on 30 November 2022 and 1 January 2023.
Circuit worship on YouTube every Sunday; available from 9 am.
All We Can in partnership
All We Can is doing development differently!
Hear how they are working with Eagles in Malawi.
Meet our Malawi partners, Eagles, and discover how together, we’re doing development differently.
- All We Can is using partnership to put communities in the driving seat
- Creating lasting impact with community-led initiatives
- Your chance to hear from one of our Malawi partners
Jimmy Likagwa, Church Mobilisation Coordinator, Eagles.
Putting communities in the driving seat in Malawi
At All We Can, we are changing the rhetoric. We believe in the power of partnership – it’s in our DNA. We understand that overcoming the challenges of poverty, crises and social injustice is complex and can only be achieved by working with local organisations, like Eagles, rooted within local communities.
Local organisations like Eagles know the communities, they know the landscape and are able to make real change at a grassroots level.
This March, we’re giving you the chance to meet our Malawi partners, Eagles, and discover their work directly!
Community-led initiatives
The Eagles’ church mobilisation process is a sustainable approach as it increases the likelihood of lasting impact.
Working with local structures of churches and communities, it empowers women and men in the community to use existing assets and skills and builds their capacity, creating a mind-set change away from dependency towards a sense of collective responsibility and collective confidence.
Members of the Madalitso choir (meaning blessings), in William village.
Getting to know the community
Church and Community Transformation (CCT) equips local churches to break mindsets of dependency and work with their community to achieve holistic change, especially for the most vulnerable.
Communities are equipped to identify their own problems, discover the abundance of their own resources, find solutions and act together, taking responsibility for their own development. Church and community mobilisation as an approach has been found to be 26 times more cost-effective than traditional development and 4 times more sustainable.
It works by utilising lasting local structures in the community like churches, empowers local people to radically transform their livelihoods and involves advocating to the government for larger-scale change.
Meet The Eagles
This March, we’re offering our supporters the chance to meet the Eagles team directly:
- Learn about the community
- Discover our partnership approach in action
- Be inspired with stories of hope
Come and join us on Thursday 2 March to learn more about their incredible work and be part of the transformation.
January’s Eco Challenge
January Eco Challenge
Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 18th – 25th January
This year the material has been prepared for world-wide use by churches in Minneapolis, USA, seeking to “explore how the work of Christian unity can contribute to the promotion of racial justice across all levels of society”. There is a particular focus for the UK on the murder of Stephen Lawrence in April 1993. More information is available from Churches in Britain and Ireland.
Broughty Ferry Churches Group will observe the Week at a Service led by the Rev. Mark-Aaron Tisdale, in St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Queen Street, Broughty Ferry, on Friday 20th January 2023 from 2.30 pm to 3.30 pm. Refreshments will be served after the service. All are warmly welcomed to this Service.
Lift the Ban!
The Joint Pubic Issues team, which includes the Methodist Church, is joining those who are calling on the Government to lift the ban on asylum seekers obtaining work.
Watch their video on the reasons why.
Places of Welcome in Dundee
Dundee Council says,
Dundee should be a city where everyone has somewhere to go to be welcomed, to be able to meet other people and take part in activities.
Use the map to find activities, cafes, etc near you.
Room for More?
On Monday, the Prime Minister announced a new strategy for dealing with those the Government describes as illegal immigrants, seeking to push back and restrict people crossing the channel to seek sanctuary in the UK. On Wednesday, more lives have been lost as people made the perilous journey in desperation.
On Monday, the Government chose to impose restrictions and intensify resources to try to stop people seeking a new life in the UK. Today, we need to reflect on our desire to deny other people – who are also made in the image of God – the same opportunity for safety and flourishing that we claim.
On Monday, those who are blessed with safety and resources decided to place limits on those who seek just the bare essentials. Our hearts go out to those whose loved ones have died crossing the channel and those who will try to do the same again.
On Monday we closed our doors a little more to those who are seeking sanctuary. Today we need to declare, ‘There is room’!
Prayer
Loving God, when Mary and Joseph arrived in Bethlehem, they were told that they could not be accommodated like everyone else. There was no room in the inn.
When people risk life and limb for a better life for themselves and their loved ones, they are told that they cannot be accommodated like everyone else.
Help us to be those who find accommodation for others.There is room.
Help us to move over and give one another space.There is room.
And help us to reflect on the capacity of your all-embracing love as we journey with you this Advent because, ‘There is room’.
We pray in the Name of Jesus whose love accommodates all.
Amen.
The President of the Methodist Conference, the Revd Graham Thompson
Cosy spaces in Broughty Ferry
Long Covid advice line
Chest Heart and Stroke Scotland has set up an advice line for people living with Long Covid.
Two community support co-ordinators will deliver one-to-one and group support, and five healthcare practitioners will work on the CHSS Advice Line to offer expert support, advice and reassurance to anyone living with long COVID.
To contact the Advice Line nurses:
Call 0808 801 0899 (FREE from landlines and mobiles)
Email adviceline@chss.org.uk
Text NURSE to 66777
Sundays during Advent and Christmas-tide
The Circuit’s churches have been invited to use the Methodist Advent Liturgy on the theme “There is room” and it will be incorporated into the Circuit digital YouTube services. See the varied material on offer.
4 December 2022 – 11 am worship at 17 Roseangle, Dundee
11 December 2022 – 11 am worship at Perth Methodist Church, Scott Street – followed by Christmas lunch
18 December 2022 – 11 am worship including Holy Communion at 17 Roseangle, Dundee
25 December 2022 – 10.30 am worship at 17 Roseangle, Dundee
No Methodist public worship in Dundee on 30 November 2022 and 1 January 2023.
Circuit worship on YouTube every Sunday; available from 9 am.