Love Changes Everything
It is my privilege to present Love Changes Everything – the Interserve campaign 2010 - to you.
This theme of love is a natural progression for us, following on from our profiling of justice issues in 2009. In 2010, our focus is on the disabled, the disenfranchised and the trafficked and we will be demonstrating how our workers overseas offer God’s love to those who need it most.
The campaign will run for ten months from January 2010, and will visit schools, churches and other venues up and down the country, promoting God’s message of love, not fear: peace, not pain; hope, not hatred. We intend to reach hundreds of thousands of people through a co-ordinated media(including social media) campaign; raising up prayer and funding for the campaign projects that we are supporting in 2010.
I am so grateful to our growing team of advocates for their willingness to help our delivery of this important message. We are delighted to welcome West End actress Tabitha Webb to the team, as well as Urban Rapper and poet, Toby Butler. Tabitha, who is currently appearing in the alternate lead role of Christine in Phantom of the Opera, has agreed to be our ambassador for Love Changes Everything throughout 2010 and Toby will be writing and performing some of his bespoke work in schools and other events during the year.
Tabitha and Toby, together with the continuing support of our existing advocates, Gary Streeter MP, Andy Reed MP, Rev David Russell, as well as Interserve National Director, Steve Bell, and Head of Church Relations, Dave Taylor, will seek to raise up prayer, profile and pounds for three projects, details of which can be found here.
Of course, we could not do anything that we do without the foundational support of our fantastic supporters, many of whom have prayed for years for the work of Interserve. Many continue to help us financially as we seek to support our workers both overseas and here in the UK. As you read this, I want to invite those same supporters to participate in Love Changes Everything – the Interserve Campaign 2010 – so that together, we can corporately and with one voice speak up on behalf of the disabled, the disenfranchised and the trafficked.
As the confusion and debate continues to rage around Asia and the Arab World as to how to deal with conflicting approaches to peace, it is clear that there has never been a better time for Interserve to offer God’s message of unconditional love – the antidote to fear - to people of other faiths. I believe that this campaign is an outworking of a part of His plan to raise the profile of some of the work that has - is - and continues to be done by Interserve workers in over 35 countries in the world.
Thank you for your support,
Alastair McIver
Head of Communications and Campaign Manager