Goal:
GBP £17,500
Raised:
GBP £17,566
Campaign funds will be received by Christian Hernandez
St Christopher's Anglican Church in the Philippines is one of the very few traditional Anglican Churches in Asia and we need your help to purchase land AND BUILD OUR OWN CHURCH! We are a rapidly growing traditional Anglican Church
Since our start we have been renting a building and the rent has been killing us! Additionally it would appear that the persons renting us the building dont actually own the land that the building we rent was built upon. By purchasing a 250 sq m lot and building a purpose built building we will have a forever home. A home for our Great Music program, a home for our foodbank, a home for all the projects that we have become famous for,
The land and building will be own by a Trust controlled by the Church council to ensure the long term ownership is secure.
SUPPORT OUR MUSIC OUTREACH
St Christopher's Church has a fantastic music Outreach project. Our choir has already won awards for the standard of its music. We have a traditional Anglican Robed Church choir but one with a difference. We are one of the last few remaining Traditional Anglican Church choirs in the whole of Asia. AND WE ARE GROWING. We offer chorister positions to some of the poorest children that there are. Many come from the Homeless resettlement in nearby San Isidiro. Many of them have no running water or electricity in their homes. Yet these children attend church every Sunday, week in week out and sing their hearts out for the Lord. We teach them to the RSCM Voice for Life program, and they sing BCP Sung Evensong, Matins, and BCP Holy Communion. We are really proud of the Choir, and the fact that anyone, even from the poorest background can sing Cathedral standard music. If we are able to achieve our total of 4500 we will be able to offer another 10 places. We also provide our choristers with support with items such as school uniform to ensure they can go to school and get an education.
SUPPORT OUR COMMUNITY CAFE and FOODBANK
Each week, Our church has a community cafe, where hot meals are provided to the local community. We also have a foodbank that feeds the homeless and very poor, and also that provides emergency food parcels in the event of natural disaster, flooding, etc. Recently there was extensive flooding in the Philippines and we, as a Church provided dozens and dozens of emergency food parcels to those that lost their homes.
HELPING SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL ABUSE IN CHURCH SETTINGS.
St Christopher's has trained Psychotherapists that offer free and confidential psychotherapy to survivors of Clergy Sexual Abuse. The sad, sad reality is that for many years the Church of England, The Catholic church worldwide, and other churches have had a major problem with abusive clergy. All too often the problems have been covered up and the clergy moved to far flung places in the world where they were able to continue their evil acts unabated. Countries such as South Africa, the Philippines and many other countries were chosen as countries to send these evil Priests to. We are the Church that picks up the pieces and puts these Survivors back together.
We offer one to one sessions to those survivors slowly rebuilding their lives. Sessions are either in person or by Zoom calls. But the demand for our services sadly far exceeds the capacity. We wish to contract additional fully trained psychotherapists to meet this demand and continue this sadly much needed service. These are people that have had their lives destroyed by the church. Sadly the churches responsible for this mess hide behind lawyers and make getting support for these survivors as difficult as possible. We are currently supporting dozens of survivors from the Philippines, Hong Kong, the USA, South Africa and the UK and Australia.
PLEASE NOTE THAT NONE OF THE CLERGY or CHURCH STAFF ARE PAID.
100% of donations will go direct to the purchase of land and building the church building. .
PICTURES OF OUR COMMUNITY CAFE, CHOIR, AND FOOD PROGRAM CAN BE FOUND ON OUR FACEBOOK PAGE at https://www.facebook.com/st.christophers.anglican.church.2023
My and wife will help you every month for as long as we can God bless you
I pray the Lord will continue to bless & grow your family in Christ. Blessing from the uk :)
God Bless you all for all the work and compassion you have for souls may our Lord meet all your need according to his Glorious riches in Christ Jesus ❤
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Amazing ministry.
A joy this arose in this lenten almsgiving season.
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God bless you. We think it is a blessing that God has bestowed on you, that this seemingly unfortunate matter should have arisen; because - NOW you have the opportunity of a wonderful forever church home 🙏💖🌞
God bless you and your church!
My and wife will help you every month for as long as we can God bless you
I pray the Lord will continue to bless & grow your family in Christ. Blessing from the uk :)
March 10th, 2025
St Christophers has made the decision to try and raise the funds to purchase the land and try and build its own Forever home.
PLEASE SUPPORT THIS CAMPAIGN TO GET US A FOREVER HOME FOR ALL OUR GREAT WORK.
March 2nd, 2025
It is with great sadness to report that St Christophers had held its last service today.
We have sadly taken the decision due to rising costs and falling revenues. As most of our congregation are from the poorest of backgrounds they simply dont have the ability to even fund the electric bill rent let alone the rent!.
Every single penny donated so far has been used on Parish work, and the shortfall has been paid from clergies own pocket. This situation is unsubstainable long term.
WE THANK YOU our supporters for keeping us the last traditional Anglican robed youth choir in Asia going. We have had much fun along the way, and genuinely wish all our choristers, our congregation and all our supporters EVERY BLESSING possible in the future.
God be with you all
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