charge for charities by BT, so you can be sure that it is
reliable and secure. Furthermore, the site can
automatically reclaim gift aid on our behalf. What could
be easier?
www.waldensian.org.uk
For the first time, the English Committee in aid of the
Waldensian Church Missions now has its own website.
On the site you are able to download the latest copy of
the Waldensian
Review, but also
access the archive of
the magazine, going
all the way back to
2005.
To round things off, the website has all the important
contact details for the key committee members and a
link to our online Charity Commission records.
We hope that this first foray into the internet will only
be the beginning and the website will offer us many
more possibilities in the future, including online sales of
publications and plenty more reading matter.
There are also useful
links to other
Waldensian websites
and reading matter, in
both English and Italian. These include some of the
Waldensian guest houses which you can stay at while
visiting Italy.
So if you have any suggestions about what could
feature on the site, or ways to improve it, we would be
delighted to hear from you. Please contact the website
editor Alastair Morris with your ideas:
[email protected]
And finally, please spread the word about the website,
sharing the new web
address online, linking to
it from other sites and
raising its profile. We
hope that it will become
one of the leading English
language sites on the
Waldensian Church.
Perhaps most excitingly for the prospects of the
committee, we now have the ability to take online
donations to our funds. As well as details about how to
set up a standing order, and gift aid
your donations, you can easily click
through to the donation pages and
make an instant credit or debit card
payment. These are supported free of
From Noemi Falla
I’m Noemi Falla. I am 27 years old and I come from Scicli,
in the south of Sicily. Scicli is one of the places where
episodes of the television series Il Commissario Montalbano
[Inspector Montalbano] were filmed.
I grew up in the Evangelical Methodist Church.
When I was 3 months old, my parents, who were both
Methodists, dedicated me in Church, but did not have
me baptized. When I was 18, I decided to be baptized by
sprinkling.
That baptism, however, was not an act of faith, but the conclusion of a
journey that began with the Sunday School. In my heart, I knew I did not really
believe. I attended church services and weekly activities, but I lived them as a
duty. I could even do without them. I asked myself some questions about God,
especially because when I was 16 my father died suddenly. I wondered why
I had not the same faith as the other brothers and sisters of my congregation,
but at the same time I had other thoughts in my mind (friends, entertainments)
and I did not face the trouble.
In the meantime, I was attending Art School and after getting my diploma
I enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Catania. After more than a year, I
interrupted this path because I had health problems. That period was really
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