Thank Offering 2025
Seeing Breakthrough in the Lives of Children
Each year, our Thank Offering gives us the chance to pause and give thanks - to recognise all that God has done in and through our church family, and to respond with generosity above and beyond our regular giving. It’s our way of responding to God through contributing to projects that make a real difference in people’s lives.
Last year, through our theme 'Blessing Our Global Family', we supported relief efforts due to conflict in the Middle East and supporting our global partners emotionally, physically and spiritually by creating space for our recent Global Family Celebration. Your generosity brought strength, connection and hope to people around the world.
This year, our focus turns to children and seeing breakthrough in their lives, both locally and globally. We believe God’s heart is for every child to grow up knowing they are loved, safe and full of potential.
Supporting this year:
As part of this year’s Thank Offering, we'll be supporting three amazing organisations who are seeing transformation in children’s lives every day:
Dignity Freedom Network, India
In India millions of girls are at high risk of leaving school prematurely. Poverty, gender discrimination, child marriage and other forms of exploitation can ruin a child’s future. But when a girl is given the chance to learn, everything changes! She is safer, healthier, more confident and filled with hope. She empowers both her family and her
community. DFN's schools make this possible by providing good quality, English-medium education in a respectful, discrimination-free environment. Your generosity will enable girls most at risk to stay in school and also help our partners provide school places to other vulnerable girls from poor and marginalised backgrounds. DFN's experienced team in India will identify those most in need of such an intervention.
Resurrection Church, Lebanon
Alongside a growing kids ministry within their church in war-torn Beirut, each Easter & Christmas children from Resurrection Church are involved in special outreach musicals and performances that help connect with their community. As tuition fees continue to rise, the church also offer eligible students a school scholarship to help them stay in school. Additionally through their community centre, they offer trauma counselling and psychosocial support sessions for groups of kids (ages 5-12). Over 8 weeks, these sessions equip traumatised children with coping mechanisms among the difficult contexts they're encountering.
Chuckle Productions, Stone, Staffordshire
Right here in Staffordshire, Chuckle Productions offers a diverse programme to help children and young people be themselves, no matter what challenges they face in their lives. This ranges from movement and music programmes for children with profound needs, interactive sessions for those with emerging communication skills, to inclusive musical theatre for children and young people with complex additional or physical needs. Chuckle has supported so many local families in Stone, Stafford and beyond since it was established in 2009. In the words of one parent: 'The Chuckle staff see my child, and that’s huge for us. Children like him can be very invisible in life, but never at Chuckle.'
Every year, a proportion of our Thank Offering also goes to support our own ministries within Rising Brook Church, helping us continue to serve our community, care for families, and see lives transformed here at home.
Together we can help create spaces where children flourish, families are strengthened and communities are renewed.
How to take part:
Pray – Ask God to lead you in how to give.
Give – Make a one-off Thank Offering gift online or in person.
Share – Take time to reflect with others on how God has been at work in your life this year.
Let’s give generously and believe for breakthrough in the next generation.