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the BLi Team
Live Below the Line Challenge

Today, 1.4 billion people are currently living in extreme poverty on £1 a day. Think about it. The figure 1.4 billion, that’s 20 times the population of the UK ... who ARE living every day in extreme poverty. Fact.

Upcoming Trips and Events

Great News!
Lots of things happening. So mark up your calenders. Trips to Timor Leste, Sri Lanka, Cambodia and even a Easter retreat!
Timor Leste
Our partners CRS are going into Timor Leste doing health education and clinics for 27 oct to 1 Nov 2012. Timor is even poorer than Cambodia or Myamnar with a higher child mortality than both the other countries. Do pray for them. Do contact us if you like to be a volunteer from Bread & Life Intl to join our partner in Timor Leste.
Sri Lanka
CRS is also planning a trip to Sri Lanka early next year.  If you have a passion for Sri Lanka, don't miss this opportunity to volunteer via Bread & Life Intl.
Easter Retreat 2013
Watch this space. We are planning to bring Pastor Ricky and his wife Lay Wah, founders of Carecorner Orphanage, Captain Merrill Leung and his wife Shirley, an experience Drug rehab center founding member, over to conduct a series of exciting meetings and workshops. If you like to be kept informed of this, please drop us line.
Cambodia July 2013
This is THE mission trip for Bread & Life Intl for 2013. We will be working with Operation Hernia and CRS to bring a team of medics and volunteers to do primary care clinics as well as surgeries. We are very excited about this and the details are still being worked out. The tentative dates are targeted for 1 week starting from 15th July 2013. More details to follow. Again ping us if you would like to be kept abreast of this.
Phew! We will also have lots of fund raising events throughout the year, so stay tuned!

Love Thailand is becoming Bread & Life International: Restore, Rebuild & Revive

Exciting news! Following our trips to Burma and Thailand this year and doors opening to Cambodia (more of this to follow), we have outgrown the current name "Love Thailand" as much as we have grown to love it. During a SGM meeting on 30th Sept 2012, all members present voted to have the name changed to Bread & Life International: Restore, Rebuild & Revive. The name is consistent to our charitable belief. "Bread" charities has in the days past always associated with alms and providing for the poor and needy. Bread is symbolic of the basic necessary of life both physical and spiritually speaking. Life is what we believe in, that humans should have a whole and abundant life, whether it is housing for children, building farms so that life can be self supporting or medical missions - they all have a theme of improving and making life whole. The subtitles Restore, Rebuild and Revive are basically the means we operate. We have submitted the name change request with the Charity Commission. So do pray that this will be a smooth process.

And do watch this space and we will be advertising our 2013 trips soon!

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Bristol Half Marathon - 30 Sept 2012

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Wow, an step up from the Bristol 10K, we now have 7 volunteers bravely stepping forward to run the Bristol Half Marathan on 30th Sept to raise funds for Love Thailand. The funds raised will be channelled directly to CareCorner Orphange to bring in and support 25 Karen children into the orphanage.

Ai Seok and Scott will run their company Everything Everywhere's support. Everything Everywhere will match 25% of the giving and you can donate via http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/EEBristolHalfMarathon.

The rest of the team, Hui King, Wai, Benson, Julia and Nadia will run under the LoveThailand banner and you can show your support viahttp://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/lovethailand2012

Don't forget to gift aid you donations.

Thanks again for all the support and encouragement and your donations will go a long way and make a difference in a child's life.

BURMA!

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God is opening up the door for us to serve in Burma's poorest area for a medical relief mission partnering with  Crisis Relief Singapore (www.crisisrelief.org). A group of us will travel to Burma from 8th July for about 5 days for this mission. This is an opportunity for us to be trained as well for future disaster relief work such as earthquakes, floods and the aftermath. Although it is mainly medical, there will be other ministries such as orphanage ministry, praying for the sick, help with the logistics. Come on Doctors, medics, nurses, pharmacologist and anyone willing to serve!