SVP
St Vincent de Paul Society

2011 APPEAL

We are grateful for this opportunity to tell you a bit about the work of the St Vincent de Paul Society so that more people can benefit from our work, and hopefully more people can get involved. The posters at the back of the church illustrate some of the many ways in which SVP members help people from all walks of life, all circumstances, any faith or none, following the teaching of Christ “you must love one another as I have loved you”.

Our parish SVP
We try to respond to the needs of anyone in our own church family and the wider community who may be going through a hard time for whatever reason and who would appreciate some person to person support. For example, over the past year we have befriended some care home residents who never have a visitor, and never receive a birthday card or a present.

Helen, one of our newer SVP recruits, reflects on some personal highlights in her first year as an SVP member: “Sitting with an old lady during some of her last hours, being able to offer a small amount of comfort, reassurance and love. Also, meeting a resident of Cedar Park Care Home and sharing his wonderful smile, humour and memories”. That old guy is one of those people who never have a visitor.

Our SVP ‘twin’ in Sudan
The SVP has a twinnage programme whereby financial support is given to SVP groups in developing countries. We are twinned with an SVP group near Khartoum in the Sudan. We pray for them at our weekly meetings. Last year we sent Ł390 to the Sudan SVP from our funds.

We requested that some of this money go directly to the SVP Sudan Baby feeding programme, without which children under the age of five suffer from serious malnutrition leading to irreversible brain damage.





Thank you
As most of our energies are directed to our visits, we are not primarily a fundraising group. Therefore we were so grateful to Val and Nora who organised a Wine & Cheese fundraiser during the year, and we would also like to thank parishioners for your continued support through the wall boxes and this second collection today. We are only a small group, and we are all busy people [indeed one of our prayers is “for a balanced life”] but we feel so privileged to be part of an organisation based on love.

If you feel that you want to know more and would like to be involved, or know someone who needs help, please let us know. If you can’t help actively in the work at the present time, please consider giving a donation to enable the work to continue and we ask everyone to pray for the work of the SVP, its members and those whom we help, and we shall remember you all in prayers at our weekly meetings.

With our love & prayers for you and your families,

                            Barbara, Maureen, Pat, Ann, Helen & Immaculate

Our Report to the Parish. April 2010 - April 2011




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