Peter Williamson offers a tongue-in-cheek perspective on the advantages of donating to the poor versus more conventional investments.
This video describes real and present needs. Please consider donating and forwarding this video to friends who may also wish to invest.
Christians in China face tremendous challenges due to that nation’s atheistic communist government. Although conditions vary greatly from region to region, the Catholic Church is severely limited in what is permitted by the Chinese authorities.
Two of the Catholic Church’s greatest needs in China are clergy education and Bible teaching for the laity. To help meet this need, Barnabas Almsgiving Fund has committed to provide for Fr. John Chen’s advanced studies in Scripture.
Fr. Chen has several years of seminary teaching experience and is eager to return to China to teach Scripture to seminarians and lay people. He is pursuing a four-year doctoral program in Scripture at St. Paul University in Ottawa, Canada.
Tuition and other academic costs come to about $13,000 USD a year, payable before each semester in December, April, and August. Fr. Chen provides for his own room and board and personal expenses by serving a parish in Ottawa; his own diocese in China is not able to provide financial support.
House of Hope (Nambikkai Illam in the Tamil language) is a project in Vellore, India, to construct a boys’ dormitory at an orphanage served by the Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Vellore, India.
The Sisterhood serves 90 orphaned and semi-orphaned children, sexually abused children, street children, and tribal children at Nambikkai Illam. Tribal children come from remote parts of India, wilderness places where subsistence hunting and gathering take place. The children are educated in an elementary school at the orphanage.
The dormitory will replace a very decrepit building that the boys use. They must evacuate that building when it rains—the roof leaks in many places, and when this happens, they also have no place to sleep and to do their school work! The Sisters are depending on the generosity of you and me to garner the funds needed to build the dormitory. The total cost of the project is $165,000. Any amount you can give will advance the Sister’s work.
The Barnabas Almsgiving Fund responds to the needs of people, especially fellow Christians, who have insufficient means to meet their needs for:
We encourage people to be aware of those needs and respond to them, being generous like Barnabas, a leader in the early Christian Church. This initiative is ecumenical, focused on the needs of Christians anywhere in the world.
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