Trees of Green

At CFL, not a day goes by when we do not face challenges, whether it is administrative deadlines to meet, financial trials, dealing with challenging behaviour from those in our care, a staffing crisis, complications concerning the building work or listening helplessly to a disclosure of abuse and suffering from someone in our care. It is during these times that one often needs encouragement and refocusing.

What Jesus did for us all on the cross was an act of selflessness, He responded in faith towards God. I believe that when we walk in faith through Christ, then the natural expression of our faith will be love; love for God and love for others. There will be times when this love will require self-sacrifice.

When Jesus was on earth he taught us about sacrificial love; fending for the poor, giving voice to those who had no voice in the community, forging friendships with social outcasts, loving the unloved and finally giving His life for each one of us on the cross.

As we follow in Jesus’ footsteps and touch damaged lives with His love we are very aware of the responsibility laid on us, as well as the enormity of the task. We are immensely fortunate to have supporters who offer prayer and financial encouragement. Supporters who recognise the enormity of the task and who share the responsibility by sacrificial financial giving and offering their time in volunteering and fervent prayer.

In our moments of despair when the challenges seem so daunting, we only have to look at Jesus when He responded in faith to God’s ultimate challenge of the cross.

Please continue to remember the staff and volunteers in your prayers as we also undertake to respond in faith to the challenges we face daily as we seek to serve in love, those whom God has entrusted to our care.

‘The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love’ Gal 5:6 (NIV)

Faith & Love by Flo Hendriksz (Exec Committee) << previous page

Faith & Love
by Flo Hendriksz
(Exec Committee)
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