Drumbeg Parish raises thousands

An invitation simply to be kind to one another took, in Rev Nixon’s words, “a God turn” as £7010 was raised in four hours in a huge act of kindness to God’s people in Uganda.

“This was God,” he said. “I asked for £1,000 and promised to make up any shortfall myself and God gave us £7,010.”

Kindness Day at Drumbeg Parish was actually inspired by some wise words from Rev Nixon’s 17–year old daughter Anna. Rev Nixon explained: “Anna, my eldest child, said something profound to me on Monday evening. ‘Daddy when everything is uncertain what we need more than anything is kindness’, she said. For me that was a ‘lightning bolt’ moment of inspiration!

“Anna and I left the conversation with the decision that Tuesday May 5, 2020 would be remembered as the ‘Day of Kindness’ at Drumbeg Parish during lockdown.”

That day, Rev Nixon received an email from the Mission Committee and dire news from the parish’s link diocese of Northern Uganda to say that clergy were on the verge of starvation. There was a major need for food for over 350 church workers and for masks to protect them when called upon to conduct funeral services.

Moved and humbled, at 5pm Rev sent out a message asking for donations of £20. By 5.10pm he had been given £810 and by bedtime the total had reached £7,010. The money has already been sent to Bishop Johnson in Uganda to feed his starving clergy and their families.