The Leprosy Mission is 150 years old this year . It was in 1874 when Wellesley Bailey and his wife Alice came back to Ireland from India and started telling people about the devastating effect of Leprosy long before there was any effective medical treatment for it. They founded what has become a world wide Mission.
Every two minutes, someone is diagnosed with leprosy. That’s more than 200,000 new cases a year. Although it is curable, millions of people worldwide are living with the effects of the disease, from physical disability to mental health problems, poverty and discrimination.
On Sunday January 28th – as we do each year on the last Sunday in January we will concentrate on the work of the Mission in our Sunday Worship.
Our Preacher this year will be John Harrison.
Find out more about its work here.
