ÿþ<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <title>Hesed and money</title> <link href="Buttons.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> <style type="text/css"> <!-- --> </style> </head> <body> <div id="Layer2"><img src="Images/logo002.gif" width="189" height="126" alt="logo" align= "left"/> <div align="center" class="style36" >&quot;To know, worship and obey God according to the scriptures&quot;</div> </div> <div align="center"><ul><li><a class="menu" href="index.html">Home</a> </li> <li><a class="menu" href="Fellowship.html">Hesed Fellowship</a></li> <li><a class="menu" href="Prayer.html">Suffering Church</a></li> <li><a class="menu" href="Israel.html">Israel</a></li> <li><a class="menu" href="Links.html">Links</a></li> <li><a class="menu" href="Contacts.html">Contact us</a></li> </ul> </div> <table width="100%" border="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><p align="center" class="style14"><strong>Hesed and Money </strong></p> <p class="style31">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;When Hesed held services no collection taken during the service, and there are no fundraising events for the church. All expenses are met from members' giving and covenanting. </p> <p class="style31">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Anyone who has a financial need can see the Pastor or one of the church members, and we will do what we can to help.</p> <p class="style31">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Hesed is an independent church. It is not formally registered with the charity commissioners or any denomination. We are however, registered with the Inland Revenue as a charity for tax purposes, and can reclaim tax on any donations made under Gift Aid.</p> <p class="style31">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Hesed may organise fund raising events for the benefit of other Christians. </p> <p class="style31">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Being concerned to help anyone in poverty or danger, we have become increasingly aware of the widespread persecution of over two hundred million Christians in sixty countries. In 2005, £7,000.00 was raised over 7 months to finance a “safe house ”for persecuted Christians though Open Doors. Then in 2009, £9,000 was raised for a minibus for Sharing Life Ministries Pakistan. This was a great encouragement to our small fellowship and others. </p> <p class="style31">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The fellowship has a separate Charity account for accumulating such designated funds.</p> <p class="style31">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In the year ended May 31st 2011 a total of £2,246.90 was sent to support a number of projects with various organisations working with the <a href="http://hesedcf.co.uk/Prayer.html">Suffering Church. </a></p> <p align="center" class="style31"> <a href="Fellowship.html">Return to Hesed Fellowship </a></p> <p align="center" class="style31">&nbsp;</p> </td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>