Day 6 - ‘in-a-minute’
This is Fairtrade Fortnight
Here is a message from their 2023 Webpage
“Join us in spreading a simple message: making the small switch to Fairtrade supports producers in protecting the future of some of our most-loved food and the planet.
Did you know coffee, bananas and chocolate could soon be much more difficult to find on our shelves? Climate change is making crops like these harder and harder to grow.
Combined with unfair trade, communities growing these crops are being pushed to the brink.
But here’s the good news. More of us choosing Fairtrade means extra income, power, and support for those communities. By making the small switch to Fairtrade, we can all support producers in protecting the future of some of our most-loved food”
I believe it is good to support Fairtrade. It supports fair prices for farmers and traders throughout our world - this global village.
At the end of the parable of the Good Samaritan in Luke 10v36 Jesus asked, “which was the good neighbour?”
The answer was “the one who had mercy”
Then Jesus replied - go and do likewise.
This parable appears to be about a person who suffered injury through a violent attack. The parable was, in fact, about ‘who is the good neighbour.’ In the light of this parable, it is fair to ask - which type of neighbour shall I be in response to the plight of others?
Farmers in developing countries grow much of the food that we depend on and they depend on us for fair trade. They are our neighbours but are we good neighbours to them? Please Lord, help us to be so!
Kelvin <><
Pray Pointers
Today Let us Pray about fair trade
For Fair-trade Fortnight which is 27 February 2023 - 12 March 2023
http://fortnight.fairtrade.org.uk/
Prayer to end with
Dear Lord, we do not seek charity but fair trade for all. For those who grow the world’s food and make the world’s clothes. We pray for justice in food and farming, in trade and law
Change our hearts and minds that we will see a fairer world. Amen
