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Spending a penny will help build a toilet in Burundi

The Bishop of Swindon Rev Lee The Venerable Caroline Baston, and by joining the Tearfund toilet challenge and is twinning a toilet at
Rayfield has said blessing the new Priest in Charge at St Andrew, said: twinning scheme, we are committed Mark House in Old Town.
toilet at St Andrew, North Swindon “We found a great solution by to raising money to support a toilet To find out more about compost-
was a first for him in 10 years in installing a waterless composting block in a school in Burundi. ing toilets and toilet twinning,
the role. toilet which has cost a fraction of “We encourage everyone to prayer- contact Caroline: cjbaston17@
Over 100 people attended a ser- building one within the church. fully consider supporting Toilet Twin- gmail.com
vice on Sunday 6 September where “We didn’t have space anyway ning; Bishop Lee has taken up the www.tearfund.org
he welcomed the new facility and as we are at capacity most weeks
praised the twinning link. with over 100 children and some
The 12th Century church which 60 families on our books. With 70
was rebuilt in 1868 has never had Baptisms a year as well as regular
a toilet. Because of its position weddings, we really needed to pro-
on St Andrew’s Ridge, connecting vide the congregation and visitors
it to the mains would have been with hygienic facilities.
prohibitively expensive. “It’s environmentally good news,

St. John’s Haydon Wick

On Thames Avenue
next door to
Morrisons
Contact: Rev Caroline Baston, left, and Rev Anne Faulkner holding the
Revd Raymond Adams Tearfund twinning certificate in the St Andrew eco-loo
Tel: 634258
Sunday 9am Traditional communion service Charity to bring much-needed aid
Services 11am Eventful, contemporary worship to earthquake-torn Nepal
with children’s groups meeting
www.stjohnshaydonwick.org.uk
Open to all, serving tea, coffee, cakes & light lunches
Fridays and Saturdays: 10am - 2pm

West Swindon and Lydiard Tregoze
Church Partnership
Please join us in worship on Sunday mornings
Westlea Church, Westlea School: 10am
St Mary’s Lydiard Tregoze Krishna and his family await aid in the ruined village of Kodari
- the church in the park: 10am Two Swindon charity workers will very hard for families trying to sur-
Holy Trinity, Shaw: 10.30am next month take out a highly-skilled vive with no real shelter, no running
Toothill Church: 10.30am team of volunteers to Nepal to help water whilst fighting the risks of
For details of these and our other services with the aftermath of the devastat- disease and landslides caused by the
call the Partnership Office on 01793 874221 ing earthquake. earthquake’s structural damage.
Rosa said: “Our team is made up
Rosa and Ian Matheson from
Email: [email protected] Website: WSwinlyd.org.uk
Highworth have raised funds for of several people including Rebecca,
Anglican • Baptist • Methodist • United Reformed Church the past five years for the Angel an earth building expert, Lawrence,
Orphanage in Kathmandu, but ever a carpenter and Sam, a mechanic.
since the April earthquake they We all bring different expertise to
have also been calling for volun- the table.
teers and donations to help where it “We’re hoping to make a real
really matters. difference in helping the rebuild
The couple and a team of when we get out there. Ian has
volunteers will be heading out to been learning how to weld so that
Nepal on 3 November for a month he can pass that on to the villagers
long trip to take supplies to Angel’s for them to be able to build more
Orphanage and also Kodari. This is iron-based shelters.
a quake-hit village the Mathesons “People in Swindon have been so
have got to know well during their generous but there’s still money
visits after being invited by hotel needed for both the orphanage and
waiter Krishna to meet his family. the earthquake victims. Every bit
The team had planned to go out helps so much and really makes a
earlier in the year but were delayed difference.”
by the late arrival of the monsoon Donate and find out more via:
season. www.bit.ly/Angelsbiggive
The last few months have been www.angelsorphanage.com
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