Bethezer Inaugural Meeting

Welcome to the Christadelphian Bethezer Fund Project Diary.

Well, it's official. We've had our inaugural meeting and ratified a constitution!

The Bethezer fund exists, is preparing to register with the relevant authorities and our first project will be underway shortly.

Here you can see a copy of our agenda. Things might not have gone entirely to plan, time wise, but it was very productive and inspiring to be involved in such a great cause.

The meeting itself was convened in this living room on the 26th of January 2008. We had Thai for dinner. Yum!

This excerpt from the Constitution gives some idea as to what we're about

1 Mission Statement

1.1 To provide welfare, relief and developmental aid programs to the poor and needy of Southeast Asia and Oceania expressed by the values and ideals of the Christadelphian community.

2 Aims and Objectives

2.1 Aims
2.1.1 To give the members of the Christadelphian community an opportunity to contribute, and participate in a humanitarian aid organisation which matches their values and ideals
2.1.2 To complement the activities of the worldwide Christadelphian brotherhood
2.1.3 To provide welfare, relief and developmental assistance to the poor and needy of Southeast Asia and Oceania

2.2 Objectives

2.2.1 To provide ‘best service’ for donors wishing to contribute either financially, in time or application to help the needy through a humanitarian aid organisation which matches their values and ideals
2.2.2 To sponsor and initiate projects which have a positive affect on the preaching work done by the Christadelphian Bible missions where viable
2.2.3 To initiate welfare, relief and development aid programs in developing countries, and to fund and/or sponsor existing projects run by other existing NGOs which are consistent with the ideals of the organisation

Our management team consists of

Brother and Sister Terry and Karen Nutter (Bro Terry is President)
Brother and Sister James and Miranda Rasmussen (Bro James is Treasurer)
Brother and Sister Michael and Miriam Hewitt (Bro Michael is Secretary)

Brother and Sister Raju and Ruth Devis

Brother and Sister Steve and Lyn Armes

with Bro and Sis Joni and Melinda Saxon acting as expert advisors :)

watch out for further posts regarding our first two projects and our publicity campaign!!!