Why 'Back Room'?
The notion is to support national Christian workers in poor countries. That is Tanzanians working in Tanzania; Latvians working in Latvia, and so on. These people are often doing the Master's work, and getting paid very small wages. And sometimes they are not getting paid at all.They are as it were in the front line, or the front shop. The plan is to remain in the backroom, quietly supporting them.

Why 'Trust'?
We are registerd as a Scottish charity (Number SC040075). This allows us to get Gift Aid added to money donated by individuals who pay tax in the UK.

Please do not abuse this information for we have no desire to add insult to injury.

I’ve come across this issue elsewhere too. People who have a passion to tell children about Jesus do so at great personal cost.

Jesus indicated that it is what we spend on ourselves that matters and not what we give away. We seem to have that back to front.

So we have set up Back Room as a quiet little charity which will support Christian workers in various places if God provides the resources to do that. They will remain as the front line workers. We will work away in the Back Room to ensure they can ignore the worries of personal finance. Would you join us to do that?

One off without Gift Aid. We will take a donation in any form. You can send a cheque made out to "Back Room"; see 'Contact Details' for the address. We will of course take cash or a payment by electronic transfer, if you can do that. Our Bank details are below.

Regular payments and Gift Aid. We need you to fill in a small form. You can download one (see below) or we'll send you one; just ask; see Contact details.

A word about Gift Aid. Just in case you don't know, the UK government has a very generous scheme for registered charities. If you pay tax, we can claim back the tax you have paid on the money you donate, plus a bonus. It works out at 28% extra on every payment - big or small. So if you give £100 - we can claim a further £28. All you have to do is sign the certificate box in the middle panel of the form; and that is once and for all.

Receipts. We do not send out receipts routinely, but if you ever require one just ask. It is the simplest thing for us to send you one.

Bank Details:
Bank: Bank of Scotland
Sort Code: 80 11 05
Account number: 06004331

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>It is not a great faith that we need, it is a realisation that the faith we do have is in a great God. (Stop reading and go away and think about that for a while.)

>He said “God cannot lie, God cannot mislead you, God cannot fail” – not “does not” – a great man may rarely lie, mislead or fail. But God CANNOT.

>He said “God and God alone is my hope, I need no other . . . . . I am determined to trust in God.” . . . . In my deepest heart I believe that and have that determination, but somehow it gets diluted by the world I live in.

>He said it is important to learn “to move men, through God, by prayer alone.”

>His attitude to money was how I believe it should be. He determined never to appeal for funds or to have a “collection” taken. He determined never to incur a debt.

[At another time I read about the life of George Muller who was an Austrian who developed homes for thousands of street children in the Bristol area. He never asked anyone for money and yet never reached zero.

On one occasion just before breakfast his staff came to him and told him there was not enough food to get through the day. They suggested that the children be given half of what they had for breakfast and half for lunch. He said ‘no’ and instructed that they serve a full breakfast and then, after breakfast, they would have a prayer meeting. This they did. Not long before lunch time his staff came again, asking what to do. There was now no food. ‘Lay the tables anyway’ he instructed. This they did. As the children were assembling for lunch, before a very nervous staff, a van drove up with exactly the right number of hot pies for everyone. Had they come any earlier they would have been cold by the time the children came to eat them.

Anyway; back to Hudson Taylor . . . .

>His attitude to people’s qualification for the Lord’s service was as I believe it should be. He did not think much formal education was necessary. He said “the most important spiritual quality needed was an unshakable conviction that there is a faithful God . . . . . coupled with an ability and willingness to trust Him.”

>He expected things to be hard. He said that the cost of following Jesus would always be great. His daughter died in the work in China. As he sat by her bed he said “our heart and flesh fail, but God is the strength of our heart”. Later he said “I shall never more feel the pressure of that little hand . . . . . And yet she is not lost. I would not have her back again. The Gardner came and plucked a rose.”

>He expected to stand alone at times and experience the sneers and even opposition of good, godly men. He said “China is not to be won for Christ by quiet ease-loving men and women.”

>He realised that real happiness does not come from striving, effort, longing, hoping or struggling; instead it comes from abiding in Jesus through grace. He said “I realise that He is able to carry out His will and His will is mine . . . . . I have not to make myself a branch, the Lord tells me I am a branch. I am part of Him, and have just to believe it.” TRUST

>At a time when he was gravely ill he said “In the Master’s presence the servants only responsibility, and his sweetest joy, is to obey.”OBEY

>He asked “Is anything of value in Christ’s service which costs little?”

>He believed in work and “unwasted days”.

>He said “Depend upon it; God’s work, done in God’s way, will never lack God’s supplies”

>Later in life, when he had become famous, and was asked to preach, he spoke little of China and mostly about the beauty and glory of Jesus.

>On guidance . . . . He said “It is first about prayer and then about common sense.”

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