The Episcopal Diocese of Edinburgh is seeking funding for a water filtration project in Ghana and has reached about a third of the £12,000 target. The Episcopal Diocese of Edinburgh is seeking funding for a water filtration project in Ghana and has reached about a third of the £12,000 target.Bishop John Armes of Edinburgh Anglican Diocese is supporting the yearly Lenten appeal, asking parishoners to fund a water filtration project in Cape Hope, Ghana.He talked about how he and the seminary had a shared history through mutual visits and their struggles.In a video message the Bishop outlined the three main benefits of the scheme – firstly, that “it’s supporting our partners in mission”, that “it’s enabling a seminary to continue to train priests and other authorized ministers for work in the province of West Africa, and training clergy is very close to our hearts too” and finally that the system “ is specifically aimed to give clean water, and clean water is desperately needed in that part of the world”A further benefit of the project is that it a “self-help project”, by which he meant that if congregations at home could raised the target of £12,000, it would enable the Anglican seminary to raise a further £9,000 each year going forward, which would be “a steady stream of income in a part of the world where that is invaluable”Anglican activity in Ghana reaches of all the way back to the year 1751 with the work of the Reverend Thomas Thompson. Nicholas Seminary itself was founded in 1975 and has produced 300 priests in the last 10 years from a variety of African countries, as well as receiving visiting professors from Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom. Anyone wanting to donate to the water filtration project can do so at the following link:https://www.stewardship.org.uk/pages/BLA2023
