40 Days, 40 Nights, 40 Dollars
Focused Lenten Almsgiving
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Br. Tim with his Missioning Crucifix
The traditional practices of Lent are prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. Sometimes it helps to give a focus to those practices. So this Lent, in an act of solidarity and support, we are inviting the friars and our friends to focus these spiritual exercises toward Br. Tim Lamb, serving now with the friars of St. Francis of Assisi Province in Africa. Br. Tim is living at the Franciscan Novitiate in Kakoba, Uganda, a village outside of Mbarara. We invite you to pray for Br. Tim and his confreres, to forgo some small pleasure this Lent, and to share a small gift with Br. Tim’s community: a dollar a day for the 40 days of Lent.
Br. Tim writes: “The money will be used in two places. Fr. Dismas (the guardian here) has a personal project visiting the local prison. He could use about $1,000 for supplying medicine for sick inmates. The remainder I would direct to St. Francis Counsellor Training Programme (British spelling) where I have been working as an instructor. The money would go toward tuition for primary school teachers who are seeking a degree in counseling. They are pioneers in that they would be the first school counselors in the nation.”
Br. Tim shares with us periodically about his life, work, and these projects on his blog: www.omnesdonumest.blogspot.com. Our goal is to raise at least $5,000.
Your gift of solidarity ($40) can be sent to:
Friar Works
1615 Vine Street
Cincinnati, OH 45202
Or donate online
Please let us know that your donation is for Br. Tim by making that notation on your check or in the Comments box online.
May Br. Tim help us remember during this Lent: Omnes donum est; all is gift!
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