Thailand Mission Partnership Visit 2015

Rev. Dr. Amelia Koh-Butler re-established contact with our Partners in the Church of Christ in Thailand (CCT) on a visit during July2015 to Chiang Mai.

The South Australian Presbytery and Synod of the Uniting Church in Australia has been a supporter of the CCT AIDS Ministry (CAM) for a number of years. Amelia also met with Rev Wutti and his wife and reported on a very meaningful visit to the CCT AIDS Ministry. UCSA had previously entered into a commitment to provide $5,000 funding to CAM per year which ended in 2014. Given our financial position at the South Australian Presbytery and Synod of the Uniting Church in Australia the International Mission Office has advised that we will be unable to continue this level of financial support. However as CAM is a program dear to the hearts of many of our volunteer fundraisers, we believe UCSA will be able to assist from time to time to fund specific aspects of the AIDS Ministry, on the basis of a specific project proposal from CAM each time for our fundraising groups to consider. One such fundraising group are the volunteers who run the St Andrews Opportunity Shop at Glenelg in South Australia. At a recent meeting with them it was agreed that they would provide CAM with $2,000 as a final expression of their support for CAM’s vital work.