Action Groups and Task Teams cover a broad
spectrum of activities. Their activities are outlined
below.
Action Groups and Task Teams
The Christian Aid Group organise the town-wide
house-to-house collection during Christian Aid Week; they also arrange
an annual Christian Aid Service and generally work to promote awareness
of the activities and needs of Christian Aid.
Abingdon Traidcraft Group has outlets for fair traded goods in most of the
town's churches and at 35 Ock Street.
Corrymeela Support Group encourages the CiA
to support the work of the Correymeela ecumenical community in Ireland.
The Abingdon group raises money for the community and has sent volunteers
to work with the Corrymeela Summer Programme.
Christian Listeners is a project of the Acorn
Christian Healing Trust, and aims to develop the church's ministry of pastoral
care and healing by training local groups of Christian Listeners.
The Church Twinning Group aims to make close
ecumenical church links with churches in the Twin Towns of Abingdon and
the Vale of the White Horse: Argentan, Schongau, St Niklaas and Colmar.
Women's World Day of Prayer is a world wide
movement for Christian women, who come together each year to observe a
common day of prayer. Each year women in a different country are chosen
to write the service.
Town Centre Chaplaincy Town Centre Chaplains
can often provide a much needed link between the people who make decisions about
towns (councils, site owners etc.) and the people who actually work in these
places, all of course, with the prior agreement, usually enthusiasm, of all involved
Christian Focus A quarterly magazine which is
published by the CiA and is available from all the member churches.
CiA News is circulated to the editors of all the individual church publications
each month, containing information about forthcoming CiA events and other
news, for incorporation into the individual publications.
CiA Website is administered by John Shore and David Duce (see bottom of page)
Welcome to Abingdon is a ministry aiming to give people a friendly welcome
to their new home, and to provide helpful information, when they move into
or within the town.
is a house built over 300 years ago, which for many
years has been home to the ministers of Abingdon Baptist Church. In the mid-1990s it underwent a major programme of restoration and is now a Hospitality Centre
for all the people of the town and visitors to the town.
35 Ock Street aims to provide a place where the
whole community can find a warm welcome and friendly service, where those
with problems can find people willing to listen and where there is support
for families in difficulties. It also offers pleasant, homely rooms to
any organisation or group whose work helps to build up the community life
of the town. Already many of the groups and societies in the town meet
on the premises and it is hoped that the work and use of the centre will
continue to grow.
Although 35 Ock Street is part of the premises
of Abingdon Baptist Church, the hospitality area is staffed by people drawn
from nearly all the Abingdon Churches.
This website aims to promote awareness of the
CiA to other Christians, in Abingdon, and wordwide, and to act as a central
point from which information about the individual churches, their ministries
and services, activities and histories, may be located.