Sorry! Just catching up AGAIN ...

Count your blessings - Lent 2008 - material from Christian Aid:
(The way this works is that you you keep a running total each day, according to what it says. At the end I will give you the address to send a donation in to Christian Aid if you are willing and can still afford to!)

Friday 22nd Feb
It is expected that Africa's last remaining tropical glacier, on Kenya's Mount Kilimanjaro, will vanish by 2015.
Next time you boil a kettle, only fill it with the amount of water you'll need.

Saturday 23rd Feb
852 million people in the world do not have enough to eat.
Count 25p for every time you ate out this week.

Sunday 24th Feb
A Christian Aid partner in Mozambique gathers decommissioned weapons and gives them to local artists, who turn them into sculptures.
Pray that God may rebuild countries like Mozambique torn apart by civil war.

Monday 25th Feb (which is the beginning of Fair Trade fortnight)
There are now 1500 Fairtrade-certified products on sale in the UK.
Count 50p if you haven't bought a fairly traded product this week.