You’re invited to the 2023 Christmas B
owl
You may know the story of the first Christmas Bowl well. It began in 1949 when millions of refugees were starving in war-ravaged countries, unable to return home or struggling to establish a life in a new and unfamiliar place. Rev Frank Byatt, a young minister in country Victoria, looked at his heavily laden Christmas table and recognised the stark contrast between this abundance and the needs of others around the world. And he knew he had to do something.
So he called on his congregation to “get a bowl to put on your Christmas dinner table as a Bowl of Remembrance and see if you can get everybody round the table to make a generous gift so that you can share your good dinner with hungry children in other lands.”
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| Rev Josie Neuendorff celebrating the Christmas Bowl at Chermside Kedron Community Church. Photo credit: © Andy Corkill/Act for Peace | |
Since 1949, thousands of churches have followed Rev Frank Byatt’s legacy, coming together each Christmas across Australia and the world to stand in solidarity with people forced from their homes by conflict and disaster.
We would love for you to join us this year. Just register your church using the link below, and we’ll send you everything you need to run the Christmas Bowl in your Church.
Sign up for the 2023 Christmas Bowl
The Christmas Bowl is the Christmas appeal of Act for Peace, the international aid agency of the NCCA.
