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Moderator urges generosity for flood victims
The Moderator of the Uniting Church Synod of New South Wales and the ACT, the Rev. Niall Reid, has launched a rural crisis Flood Appeal in response to the unrelenting rain and flooding across New South Wales in late 2010.
Despite years of drought, December’s heavy rains have brought misery to Eastern Australia.
Weeks of drenching rains killed people, destroyed crops and forced thousands of people to evacuate their homes.
Mr Reid said, “Once again the rural economy faces considerable ongoing stress. Of more concern is the spiritual and emotional wellbeing of those who have endured so much despair and now see their hopes, raised by the rain, now being washed away by it.”
Any money received will be used by the Synod Disaster Fund to provide pastoral relief, support for the work of the Rural Chaplains, and provision of funds to congregations setting up programs to aid in the recovery of their local communities.
Donations to the flood appeal can be made using this coupon.
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