St Andrew's Bo'ness visits India again!

 A group of young people together with our family worker Lilias Snedden will be travelling to India this summer. They are leaving on July 26th and will be away until August the 10th. They will be visiting our partner churches in Chennai where with the help of Pastor Raj the young people will be collaborating in running a summer camp for children living in the slums of Chennai.

The young people travelling have been moved into action by some of the stories they heard from the team who visited India last year, the films seen on our website and the conversations with our partners from Chennai, Captain Thacker and Raj Kumar. These young people have been fund-raising all year for this one-of-a-lifetime opportunity. Bon Voyage!.

History of St. Andrews' connection with India.

Last year a party of young people and adults visited India also. Twelve members of our congregation set off to India in mid July 2007. They visited the Indian partners of the WwW. A blog was established so that everyone can follow their advertures. Te congregation could follow them and send words of encouragement through the blog.

A live link was established ocassionally with our party in India and we expect to do the same with our 2008 party. Please have a look at the video connections made during 2007.

We were able to connect live through the Internet with our partner community in Chennai, see them and talk to them. The live link was established during our Sunday service. it was wonderful to speak with all of them.

View the 2007 Blog

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Knowledge Sources: Support for Partnerships

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We have been collecting information on ways to support your partnerships as part of an electronic library of documents, preentations and short films. You will find everything from management techniques to make your partnership work, to technical support on video-making techniques. Have a look at the Support Section.

Volunteering: Get Involved

The WwW projects offers many opportunities for people of all ages to get involved in volunteering work. There are many ways in which each of our partners can use your skills. So far, people from all walks of life, from doctors, to architects, to bus drivers and nurses and teachers have contributed their expertise to the benefit od the project. We have attracted over 400 volunteers to the project. Many have contributed their knowledge and time in Scotland.  Others have travelled to the partnerships contributing with their work and spiritual support to the wellbeing of people abroad. However, let us not forget that every member overseas is also blessed with their own volunteers who through their own contributions make the WwW a project that works for the benefit of all.

WwW under new management

The WwW will be changing management in March. Virginia Cano will be moving shortly to work in The Church of Scotland, within the Church in Society section.

The WwW will be in the capable hands of Erica Bonnar and Lorna Main, our two SoutlTouch Ambassadors. They will be contacting every WwW partner in Scotland very shortly to explain their ideas about the future of WwW and SoulTouch.

We wish them every blessing!

 

YouTube Hit Parade

We have posted a number of our partner's films in YouTube as a way to reach a wider audience for our films. We will be having at least one film from each of our partners within this channel. Congratulations to Ludhiana for their film on the Mobile Dental Clinic which has been watched over 600 times. The Voice for the Voiceless, also from our Indian partners in Chennai has been watched 183 times. Our partners from St Andrew's in Pretoria have had their film The Lost Coin, watched 195 times and the Fly Away film from our partners in Kirkmichael. Tinwald and Torthorwald has been watched 70 times.

It is easy to subscribe to the WwW postings within YouTube. You can therefore remained informed everytime a new film has been posted up. If you wish to subscribe for free, please click here to get to the WwW section within YouTube. Once you are in YouTube press the subscribe button. Happy watching!!

Partner's from India visited St. Andrew's Bo'ness.

Captain Thacker, has become a familiar face in Bo'ness for the past thee weeks. He is an integral member of the volunteer team heading our partner's churches in Chennai. As a result of his visit a committee for India has been set up in St. Andrews. Capt. Thacker interacted with different members of our congregation and informed us of the conditions of children living in the slums of Chennai.  he will no doubt provide lots of support to the group of young people that will be travelling to india very shortly.

OVERVIEW OF FUNDRAISING ACTIVITIES

Kiambaa Fund Raising stall
runs in Carluke every Sunday.

Kirkton Church in Carluke have been doing a number of fundraising activities on behalf of PCEA Church in Kenya. This is particularly important due to the recent troubles that Kenya has been experiencing. The Friends of Kenya are busy disseminating information about the country in the heart of Scotland.

Here are some of the lovely people who have been involved in fundraising.

Soup and Sweet Lunch
@ Holy Trinity

Holy Trinity`s Harvest Thanksgiving service at the church was a good opportunity to highlight the work of Eliseo and Ronald, in Bolivia. Part of the donations collected were `Jars of Grace` which brought in enough money for our commitment to the end of the year of funds for our Bolivian Project in Oruro.

After the service members of the congregation were invited to a Soup and Sweet lunch with videos to be shown of the activities of WwW with of course the emphasis on the work of Ronald and Eliseo, some 80 plus people turned up, we had plenty of soup, thanks to Mrs Cruickshanks and plenty of sweet thanks to a group of `sweet makers` in the church.

The minister and his family were in good form and with a great deal of children there it was a wonderful family atmosphere.

After the meal Ron Cruishank was approached by a young student girl, Louise, who has recently spent her gap year in Bolivia and some time in Oruro...more on this later.

 

General Meeting of WwW Scottish Partners

All Scottish Partners were invited to attend a meeting at St Andrew'sParish Church on Friday October 31 to discuss available funding opportunities secured for the WwW. Partner's travellerd from far and wide to attend our meeting . It was interesing to hear view points concerning the different funding proposals. Thank you all for coming and for sharing ideas and experiences.

 

STOP PRESS!

Congratulations to Dwelling Places in Uganda

One of the videos they produced for the WwW has been selected to be shown as part of the Unesco sponsored One Minute Video Competition at the Beijing Olympics. The films will be part of a travelling exhibition within selected art galleries at the end of the Olympic Celebration. You can see their film here

The Digistory pilot: Storytelling, children and digital technologies

The WwW team is exploring the interaction between storytelling, children and adults who like to tell and listen to stories and technology with which to record those stories and make them available to a wider community. The WwW sponsored a workshop on Digital storytelling. We were very fortunate in having received the advice of the Scottish Storytelling Centre in developing the workshop and helping us secure the participation of Michael Williams, a storyteller, singer songwriter and peace educator who lead us in storytelling techniques.

Nancy Mwaura from our partner church in Kenya, attended the workshop and tested out her newly acquired skills to an enraptured audience of toddlers.

If you want to listn to Nancy's story, please follow this link to her presentation.

The outcome of the workshop was the agreement of participating churches to pilot-test storytelling within their own organisations and to report back to the WwW team in November.

Our own implementation of storytelling was extremely fruitful.

Children ranging from 5-12 participated in storytelling activities as part of the Digistory Club.

They developed their own storyboards, invented stories, told those stories for an audience and also listened to stories.

Parents were happy for children to participate and in the end we produced a DVD for each of the participating children. This was a great accomplishment since some of the footage was taken by the older children and the video editing was done by one of the WwW volunteers.

 

Zomba Action Project

4th General Meeting of the Zomba Action Project.

The WwW team has a greeting to all those involved at the conference.