Morningside United Church has been a supporter of Christian Aid from its very beginnings.

Each year we run a successful Book Sale in the Church Hall to which people come from all over the city.  We also take part in the door-to-door collections, as well as share in occasional coffee mornings and special events.

We are committed to this charity which is the Aid and Development arm of the the British Churches.

Please visit the Christian Aid website for up to date information on all that is happening in their work.

Around 1910 Richard Hickling – a simple non-ordained missionary working in a rural area about 35 miles north of Bangalore on the Deccan plateau in south India, saw that there was a great need in the people whom he met.  Many of the women suffered and indeed often died for lack of care in childbirth. There was no surgical care anywhere even in Bangalore, which was too far in those days of limited transport. He planned and worked for a 60 bed hospital which was opened in 1913 in Chickballapur to begin to supply those needs.