WITNESS

Once again this year Churches Together in Northallerton Area held a 'Walk of Witness' on Good Friday. This is our showing to the many folk who are out and about in the town's High Street something of the significance of this day for Christian people everywhere.

We follow a simple wooden cross to the Market Cross. There we sing and pray in worship of the Lord whose cross is a sign of God's love for all people and of His victory over sin and death.

CHRISTIAN AID CHURCH PARTNERSHIP SCHEME

The churches have recently been holding events to raise funds for a scheme to facilitate work in Burkina Faso.  The European Union will treble the amount raised.

Burkina Faso in West Africa is one of the poorest countries in the world. Lying south of the Sahara desert it is  experiencing severe climate change – rainfall is decreasing and temperatures rising. As a result the desert is spreading further south each year. The people of the area depend on agriculture but the changing climate makes food production increasingly difficult. A Christian Aid partner, Reseau MARP, is working with farmers to improve crop varieties and farming techniques to cope with the increasingly arid conditions. The only alternative is migration to areas already heavily populated.