The parish gives support to a number of organisations during the year.  While financial giving is key to our mission support, prayer is also encouraged, and background information and news updates are on display, to help make our prayer support more specific.  At times a special event is held to raise money and awareness of the work done by different mission organisations.  Preachers from these groups are also invited to share about their work. If you would like to be involved, these are the organisations currently supported by our mission giving:

Misson Weekend 2010
On Saturday May 22nd, St Leonard’s and St Luke’s Churches, Seaford will be celebrating the work of mission at home and abroad. A bazaar with a variety of stalls including a “Grand Cake Stall” will be held in St Leonards Church Hall from 10am–12md, whilst at St Leonards Church, Church Street, Seaford from 10am – 2pm, there will be an interactive exhibition with a difference, featuring representatives from the parish and mission organisations with whom we are linked. The theme is “Taste and See”. Please come along, taste some of the food, and see more of the work that we as a parish continue to support. There will be a quiz and activities for children. Soup will be served in the church from 12md. Bring your friends and have a good time.

On Sunday May 23rd, the theme of World Mission will be continued during the services at St Leonard’s Church at 9.30 am and 11am. Also at St Luke’s Church, Walmer Road at 10am.

Christian Aid works to expose the scandal of poverty, to help in practical ways to root it out from the world, and to challenge and change the systems that favour the rich and powerful over the poor and marginalised. For more than sixty years Christian Aid has been providing relief to those hit by disaster, helping people help themselves out of poverty and speaking out against injustice. They work to help people, regardless of religion or nationality, both on the ground and in the corridors of power.

CMS is committed to evangelistic mission, working to see the world transformed by the love of Jesus and inspired by the hope that one day the whole of creation will be restored to a living, loving relationship with God. Born in 1799, in the crucible of the campaign to abolish slavery, CMS has always had justice and evangelism at its heart. Today it is a community of people in mission working in over 50 countries, directly supporting more than 700 people and drawing thousands more into local mission wherever they are.

The Bible Society aims to make sure the Bible’s message is known, loved and understood everywhere. The task is huge because although in some parts of the world the Bible plays a central role, in many others it is ignored or seen as irrelevant or has virtually disappeared from the day-to-day reality of people’s lives. And in too many areas its message has still hardly been heard at all. For example, more than 4,500 languages still wait for even one book of the Bible and a billion people live on less than 60p a day – making the Bible a luxury they can’t afford. The Bible Society is totally committed to making the bible and scriptures available in such places.

The Church Army shares faith through words and action to transform lives by making Jesus famous. It focuses on the 7 out of 10 people who have little or no meaningful contact with church, and exists to enable people to come to a living faith in Jesus Christ. It is a mission agency within the Anglican Church - founded in 1882 by Wilson Carlile. Church Army trains, employs and deploys evangelists who are active in training others in evangelism, planting new churches, and reaching out to children and young people, homeless people and older people. Their evangelists often cross an area wider than one parish.

SAO Cambodia is a UK- based, evangelical, inter-denominational mission and development agency. The mission’s objective is to promote the Christian faith and relieve poverty and distress amongst the people of Cambodia and to assist church growth and help to meet the needs of the whole person. The work is done in co-operation with other agencies in Cambodia through various projects. the major partnership being with International Cooperation Cambodia (ICC). Sarah and Pola Chhin (Sarah comes from Seaford) work with SAO Cambodia, one of their recent projects being Project SKY. This project determines the situation and needs of young adult orphans preparing to leave orphanages and shelters in Phnom Penh.

Encounter is a local interdenominational Christian youth and schools work organisation, working to transform the lives of under 18’s and to assist churches in the demonstration of their faith and the nurturing of their children and young people. Encounter aims to ensure that no under eighteen year old in the wider Eastbourne and Seaford area is denied the opportunity to encounter Christianity in a relevant, personal and clear way, and that any young person who wishes to make a personal commitment to follow Christ has the opportunity to be nurtured in their faith in an appropriate local church.

LAMA HOUSE LAMA House is a home in the Philppines, for the long-term care of runaways and homeless youngsters. It provides residential care and support for around twenty boys aged 7-20+ years of age. Some of the children have serious emotional and behavioral problems due to histories of physical or sexual abuse. Most are homeless due to abuse, neglect or abandonment. Over the years, LAMA House has played a key role in the rescue and temporary shelter of children from child trafficking, child prostitution and prison and has helped to enforce the Child Labor Law offering shelter for victims of child slave labour.

Mission Aviation Fellowship is an organisation which focuses on five specific areas of activity in reaching out to help those in need:
1. Evangelism and Church Support: Connecting missionaries and local pastors with unreached people, transporting national church workers to

    isolated villages, and theological eduction by extension.
2. Community Development: Supplying and transporting Christian staff and supplies for health and community improvement projects, village

    enhancements such as water wells, and small MAF-built hydroelectric plants.
3. Medical Assistance: Providing medical emergency evacuations, transporting medicines and health workers to the sick and injured.
4. Crisis Relief: transporting food for the hungry, and critical relief supplies and agency personnel to disaster areas.
5. National Training: Educating pilots, mechanics, avionics technicians, radio and electronics specialists, and administrative and support

    personnel.