Dursley Tabernacle supports a number of organisations throughout the year as part of its Mission:
We support the work of Christian Aid through its campaigns and its appeals and by taking part in the Christian Aid week door to door collections in May
We support the Bible Society and Bible Sunday and collect spare change for ‘Bible a Month’
Every August we hold a Garden Fete for Leprosy Mission.
We also support them through buying gifts from their catalogue at Christmas
Every March we hold a Corrymeela Lunch to support the work of the Corrymeela Community for Peace and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland. We have supported them for over thirty years and visited the Community in 2007
In 2007 and 2009 and 2016 groups of our young people and adults have gone out to Nicaragua to work with the Christian Charity the Peace and Hope Trust. Working in the poorest communities of one of the poorest countries on earth they have experienced the issues of poverty and development first hand. We hope to continue to send people out and support the work of the charity. For more info www.peaceandhope.org
This church is a Fair-trade church and tries to ensure that wherever possible we use fairly traded products that give a better deal for Third World Producers
We are active within our local Churches Together of Cam, Dursley and District.
The 13 churches share together in United Services, Walk of Witness on Good Friday, Lent studies, Lectures, Friends at Christmas and supporting a different Convenor’s Charity each year
Set up after a Churches Together Lent course on peacemaking, the Child Contact Centre is a neutral meeting place where children of estranged parents can meet safely the non resident parent. Many from this church volunteer at the centre which meets in our Community Rooms alternate Saturday afternoons. Contact the Co-ordinator 07924 872854
As part of the United Reformed Church we are linked to the Council for World Mission – Congregational and Presbyterian Churches around the world. Our Synod (West Midlands) has a special relationship with the church of North India, in particular the Diocese of Durgaphur and Amristsar
We are also part of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches (soon to become the World Communion of Reformed Churches) and the World Council of Churches.
