At St. Lawrence’s, we support a number of different missions and charities both in the United Kingdom and overseas. We also have a flourishing Partnership with St. Paul’s Church, Syongila, in Kenya.
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St. Paul’s Church in Syongila, Kenya, is St. Lawrence’s Partner Church. Our partnership began in the early 1990s when the then vicar came to the UK to study. We now support St. Paul’s through prayer, giving and occasional exchange visits.
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Alison Talbert is our mission partner who works at the Kenya Medical Research Institute/Wellcome Trust research programme based at Kilifi, Kenya. She is a doctor, researching prevention and treatment of malnutrition in children. Alison also co-ordinates a work-based bible study group and chairs the management board of Upendo Orphans’ Support Project which we also support. Read more HERE |
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SANCTUS aims to walk alongside people who find their way to this area from all around the world, in a non judgemental and safe environment. At its Drop-in, at the YMCA in Hanley, it welcomes women, men and children, of all faiths and none.
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CPAS (Church Pastoral Aid Society) enables churches to help every person hear and discover the good news of Jesus. It is also our Patron.
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Tearfund is following Jesus where the need is greatest, working through local churches to unlock people’s potential and helping them to discover that the answer to poverty is within themselves. When disasters strike, Tearfund responds quickly. Their motto, ‘We won’t stop until poverty stops.’
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Christian Solidarity Worldwide is a human rights organisation which specialises in religious freedom and works on behalf of those persecuted for their Christian beliefs, persecuted for other religious belief or persecuted for lack of belief.
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Evangelical Alliance is hundreds of organisations, thousands of churches and tens of thousands of individuals who love Jesus and we want everyone in the UK to be given an opportunity to know Him. Read more HERE |
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We support Stoke-on-Trent Foodbank who have a Biddulph distribution points near the town centre at English Martyrs Roman Catholic Church and St. John’s Church, Knypersley.
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St. Lawrence’s is an active member of Christians Together in ST8 (formerly Biddulph Churches Together), which works across the denominations to promote the Christian message and values in and around the town of Biddulph.
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