Cartoonists across America will draw more than comic relief for the next three weeks as they post their work on eBay in an unprecedented online fundraiser. Spearheaded by former Disney artists Tom Bancroft, director Tony Bancroft (“Mulan”) and Chad Frye, auction funds will help support the family and finances of fellow cartoonist Tim Hodge. Hodge’s son Matthew remains in a coma five months after his car collided with a train.
On Thursday, Jan. 21, the NCSF launched the eBay fundraiser to benefit the Hodge family. 165 treasures from 115 artists like…
• An original Charles Schulz “Charlie Brown” drawing
• An illustration by famous movie poster artist Drew Struzan
• Character drawings by Disney supervising animators of characters from the new “The Princess and the Frog” feature film
• Illustrations of “Po” from “Kung Fu Panda” character designer Nico Marlet.
• A drawing by the 2010 Golden Globe winning director of Pixar’s “Up” Pete Docter signed by actor Ed Asner.
“Art’s coming from all over the country and beyond,” organizer Tom Bancroft said, amazed. “Almost every major animation film studio is represented.”
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US urban gospel group US urban gospel group 21:03 will be headlining a fundraising concert at
Jesus House,
Brent Terrace, Brent Cross, London NW2 on January 16.
They’ll be joined by Guvna B, Jake Isaacs, Rachel Kerr, Mo Tru and others.
The money raised from this concert will go towards the
Bola Soyoda Educational Foundation, set up to sponsor the education of children who have lost a parent.
Tickets are £10.
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The 29th Chapter in partnership with aid relief Charity Tearfund, release a Christmas classic with a dash of 29′s trademark tongue in cheek antics for what hopes to be a big hit this Christmas.
Mr Prince of The 29th chapter comments, “We are really excited to release the record in partnership with aid relief Tearfund. Tearfund work in over 50 countries to transform lives materially and spiritually through aid, social action and political lobbying. Tearfund’s work has affected the lives of literally millions of the most broken and needy people on the face of our planet. All the profits raised by the single will go towards Tearfund’s life transforming work so please, please, please support the single.”
The track can be downloaded today Click Here
It should begin to appear on other download platforms through the course of this week.
Let’s get Gloria in the charts!
For all of you who have heard and have agreed to support our big chart single ‘Invincible’ next year, this is a chance to prove your commitment to the 29 family. ‘Gloria’ has been set up for the charts in the same way as ‘Invincible’ will be. We are wondering how high up the charts we can get it. Make sure you get online and buy your 3 copies of the radio and extended version. Other ways you could support the song:
- Change your Myspace, Facebook, Bebo, Twitter status to: “Download 29th Chapter track ‘Gloria’ get it now at: www.dittomusic.dloadshop.com
- Forward this email to all your friends with details of the track.
- Text all your friends the details of the track.
- Copy the icon above and paste it anywhere and everywhere you can, change your profile pic to this as well.
We need at least 10,000 downloads so get going! We’ll let you know on Friday via the 29 website how the numbers are looking.
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Women in Christian leadership are being invited by Tearfund to take part in a trip to Malawi next year (February 2010), to spend time with women affected by poverty and HIV.
The trip will include visits to local churches which are reaching out to people in their communities who are affected by HIV, as well as opportunities to stay with a family in a community overnight and shadow them during the day.
‘We know that poverty always disproportionately affects women, and that they are very involved in caring for others and in finding practical solutions to issues in their communities,’ says Yioula Taliadorou, Church Relationship Manager at Tearfund.
‘I know that the women who come on this trip will return challenged, humbled and inspired to share their passion for justice and tackling poverty with their families and churches.’
During the trip, there will be opportunities for the team to work alongside local families and churches and to pray with and for them, as part of Tearfund’s Connected Church programme which helps UK churches to partner with churches in the poorest parts of the world.
Scottish singer and songwriter Yvonne Lyon, who went to Cambodia with Tearfund on a similar trip earlier this year, said: ‘I fell in love with the way church does things. There was an emphasis on the spiritual and education combined. ‘For example, we met a teenage HIV support group and I saw groups of women and children in the village learning about health. I wasn’t expecting to see something so practical which was obviously restoring respect and dignity. I felt really proud and I believe in what Tearfund does.’
The trip runs from 22 February to 5 March and costs £850 plus flight costs.
For information call 0208 943 7868 or www.tearfund.org/News
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A 33-year-old preacher’s kid from Atlanta recently raised $30,000 in 18 hours to build a kindergarten in Vietnam...
Jonathan Acuff, 33, is the writer of the satirical Stuff Christians Like blog, which was started as a reaction to the popular blog Stuff White People Like. The Christian blog is less than two years old but the site has drawn hundreds of thousands of online readers and Acuff already has a book deal with Christian publishing giant Zondervan.
Some of his posts include “#654. Staring at someone in the choir during the sermon”; “#327. Conferences, AKA the Christian Prom”; “#39. Giving advice on things we’ve never experienced”; and “#240. Kirk Cameron.”
After more than 600 posts, Acuff took the bold step of pursuing what his 6-year-old daughter inspired. With more than 75,000 readers a month, the blogger plopped on them a fundraising project.
“Right now, right here, you and me and the Stuff Christians Like community have the chance to be much bigger than a blog,” Acuff wrote in his blog last week. “I am growing overwhelmed but the sense that God has given us all a tremendous gift called, ‘being alive on Monday’ and He’s holding His breath in eager anticipation to see what we’ll do next.
“And what’s next for Stuff Christians Like is that we’re going to build a kindergarten in Vietnam. (No segue whatsoever; we just jumped into that, didn’t we?)”
He was challenged by the oldest, Laura Elizabeth, of his two daughters who one year ago was shocked to discover there were kids her age starving in other parts of the world.
While looking through a book together, they came across a picture of a little boy who was starving and whose ribs were sticking out.
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Congregation members from various churches across the London Borough of Barnet are getting ready to spread some cheer this Christmas and have started work on putting together thousands of Christmas hampers which will be delivered to families in need living in the borough.
A church spokesperson at Jesus House, one of the churches involved explained, “Last year we decided to touch the lives of local residents over the Christmas season and distributed over 1500 food hampers in the West Hendon and Colindale areas. People greatly appreciated this small gesture, so we felt it would be a good thing to repeat the exercise this year, and distribute hampers to people in need right across the borough.
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Survivor: Biadglign Befekadu still bears the scars of the famine to this day.
It is twenty five years since news of the dreadful famine in Ethiopia hit our televisions screens with its distressing pictures of orphaned and abandoned children. In the month when the Ethiopian government is again calling for food aid, St Matthew’s Children’s Fund Ethiopia (SMCF) is launching its Twenty5 campaign, to raise funds for the longer-term investment which is so vital in enabling communities, and their children, to withstand the effects of future famines exacerbated by climate change.
The campaign aims to fund work with a number of poor urban communities throughout Ethiopia so that they can better care for their orphaned and ‘at risk’ children. The work will include promoting urban agriculture and environmental improvement, providing water and sanitation, setting up income generation training, women’s self-help groups and also strengthening the community’s own capacity to care for its members.
Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu
The campaign is endorsed by the Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu who says: “It is 25 years since Michael Buerk’s groundbreaking reports from Ethiopia which drew the attention of a generation to the devastation caused by the famine of 1984. Since that time the work of organisations like the St Matthew’s Children’s Fund Ethiopia have done much to alleviate the poverty and suffering in this proud country. Please support the Twenty5 appeal for SMCF and its work in giving children a family, an education and the skills to earn their living in Ethiopia.”
www.twenty5ethiopia.org
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