We're suspending the sending of Christmas cards and presents at Sanctus1 this year in favour of farming! No, silly - not moving to the Good Life or the country but buying a farm from Send A Cow.
They say, "You may like to give a farmyard in your own name, or perhaps you could encourage your church, club or workplace to raise £2,000 that will bring a secure future to upto 250 people currently trapped in poverty. Your symbolic Christmas farmyard will be distributed over all the countries in Africa where Send a Cow works."
With our £2000 we're buying ....
10 cows
2 pairs of goats
A team of oxen
3 sheep
4 flocks of poultry
5 hives of bees
600 fruit tree saplings
7 days of training
8 rabbits
And I'll try and post a picture of fabulous farmyard (made by Mary and Sarah) as it fills up week by week. You can pledge at Tues/ Wed evenings and any Sanctus service between now and Christmas.
HAPPY FARMING EVERYONE!
2 comments:
I do intend to buy something, but I'm not sure which.
Bill Drummond and the KLF inform most of my thinking, so I ought to buy two cows in honour of Mu Mu (moo moo, geddit?!), but that's a bit expensive.
I never know team is the collective noun for oxen, but it's true.
You could buy one cow then photocopy it.
"All I want for Christmas is moooooo..."
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