This summer in church
Coleshill Parish Church has raised over £5,000 for the clinic over the years.
Donations after signing a Congregational Christmas card, church sales, fund raisers and many other good efforts helped pay for the treatment of patients suffering from respiratory infections, malaria, gastrointestinal complaints, eye problems and malnutrition. Scabies, which is probably a rarity in the UK, is not uncommon.
The Mobile Clinic established in 2005 has continued to grow and develop its work with regular visits to the most rural villages in Northern Malawi serving more than 200 people per visit.
Former Rector of St Mary and St Margaret in Castle Bromwich, and eventually Bishop of Northern Malawi Christopher Boyle is still associated with the clinic. He said: “These figures leave me in no doubt as to the importance of this good work. Together we are able to support these remote rural villages and help raise the whole quality of their lives. Above all they know they are not forgotten; indeed, cherished and cared for.
“The mobile clinic is a wonderful, good news story. In all this work the focus remains on the patients served faithfully month by month. The heroes and heroines are the dedicated and hardworking Northern Malawi medical team who diligently visit these remote villages to deliver medical care and the dedicated and generous donors like Coleshill Parish Church.”
You can meet Bishop Christopher when he visits Coleshill to preach on 17 August (poster above).