Christmas Bowl

It’s not too late to sign up for the 2023 Christmas Bowl 

There is still time to sign up your church community for the 2023 Christmas Bowl. It would be wonderful if your congregation could be a part of this important tradition of Christians across Australia coming together on the one great day of sharing to support people uprooted by conflict and disaster around the world.  

Don’t miss your chance to be part of this incredible movement for change.

Since 1949, thousands of churches across Australia have been come together each Christmas to share God’s love with refugees and people who have been displaced due to conflict and disaster around the world. 

	Christmas Bowl celebrations at Normanhurst Uniting Church Christmas Bowl. Photo credit: © Ben Littlejohn/Act for Peace

You may know the story of the first Christmas Bowl well. It began 74 years ago 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.”

Please join this important tradition this year. If you are interested in registering your church using the link below, and we’ll send you everything you need to run the Christmas Bowl in your Church. Or if you have any questions please don’t hesitate to get in touch with the team on 1800 025 101.

Sign up today: https://christmasbowl.actforpeace.org.au/register  

The Christmas Bowl is the Christmas appeal of Act for Peace, the international aid agency of the NCCA.