Mother's Union Chester
SURVEY ON DOMESTIC ABUSE
‘HUG IN A RUG’
A big thank you to all who made and contributed to the blankets for the refugees. I delivered 14 to Northwich on Saturday. They will be shipped out to the refugees on Lesbos next weekend. If you remember, that migrant camp was burnt down there, so they have very little shelter and the weather is getting colder. Your blankets will be a lifesaver, especially for the children. God bless you all.
Klabou 336 6312 or angelaklabou@gmail.com
Mothers’ Union Prayer
Loving Lord, We thank you for your love so freely given to us all.
We pray for families around the world.
Bless the work of the Mothers' Union as we seek to share your love through the encouragement, strengthening and support of marriage and family life.
Empowered by your Spirit, may we be united in prayer and worship, and in love and service reach out as your hands across the world.
In Jesus' name.
Amen
Blessing
Let us go forward rejoicing that God loves us and gives us all we need for life.
As the children of God, we take his love into the world that others may also have the fullness of life
as part of his family. Amen
Mothers Union (Neston Branch)
Mothers union in Neston is part of a worldwide organisation with approximately four million members in eighty one countries.
We have over fifty members in our branch and meet on the second Wednesday of the month in the Parish Church at 2.30pm following the weekly Communion at 1.30pm (any alterations to date, time or venue will be published in the weekly ‘Prayer in Action’ or via website. New members are always welcome.
Mothers union was established in 1876 by a vicar’s wife Mary Sumner. When her first child was born she was overwhelmed by what she saw as the awesome responsibility of parents, not only in caring for their children’s physical well being but also their spiritual nurture and growth.
Later she formed a small group of local women, offering mutual support and help in rearing their families. From such a small beginnings she could never have imagined the extent in which Mothers Union has grown today.
The aim of the Mothers Union is the advancement of Christian faith in the sphere of marriage and family life. Mothers Union offers friendship. Care and unconditional love to thousands of women and men throughout the world, offering a life-line to many families. It is a praying, teaching and caring society open to both men and women who have been baptised in the name of the Trinity and support its aims.
Locally, as part of the Parish of Neston, we raise money to support ongoing projects worldwide, support, which is underpinned with prayer.
The Literary Programme is one such project, changing the lives of hundreds of people as they learn to read and write and are then able to work to support their own families. Many start up their own small businesses: an impossible task if you can’t read or write.
Nearer home, another project provides needy families with a holiday. For those of us who take holidays for granted it’s easy to forget that others, even in our own country, the shortest break is impossible on a tight budget.
For further information contact: Branch Leader Angela Klabou 336 6312
