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It Feels Good to Give

The shoe box appeal is one of the many
favourite ways we come together as a
church. This is growing from strength to
strength and, as well as bringing love
and light into needy people’s lives, it
brings much glory to God. More than
this, it feels good to give, doesn’t it?

As well as increasing the number of Shoe
Boxes we fill year on year, we’re becoming
increasingly aware of the other impacts Blythswood has in the
areas of Education, Community, and the Gospel. A recent edition
of the Blythswood News magazine shared how the provision of
Bibles to the Invergordon Seafarers’ Centre has led to conversions
and Christian counselling for those crew otherwise at sea. Other
Gospel activity includes the provision of Christian books to growing
churches in Cameroon.

It is Community help that touches the heartstrings too. Blythswood
helps families, refugees, provides clean water through new wells,
food for the hungry, foodbanks in the UK, delivers escape from
slavery, and redemption from trades we don’t even want to
mention.

And education is the great hope for the future. The saying goes,
“Give a person a fish and they can eat for a day; teach them how to
fish and they can eat for a lifetime.” Blythswood is educating
people of all ages – from catching up missed school because of
Covid, through to healing trauma through compassionate
education, to the heights of creating new career options. What’s
not to love?

Through our partnerships with missions like
Blythswood and The Bible Society (to mention
two of the many our church members support)
you and I can make a difference in areas where
we couldn't physically deliver and on a scale that
is beyond us individually.

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