The picture shows Steve working hard auctioning harvest produce and goods to raise funds for the Anglican church in Aden. This church runs a number of clinics; hosts social welfare programmes for very poor people in the district, and has developed workshops where unemployed people can learn new skills. It employs over twenty people, including a number of doctors. Its work is almost entirely funded from the churches in other countries.

Archdeacon John says in his harvest newsletter :

“There are a number of reasons for drawing attention to this work at this time. One is that the church is within my new diocese of Cyprus and the Gulf, and the picture gives some idea of the change of cultures that the diocese includes, stretching as it does some 2,900 miles. Second, it shows Anglican church work in a part of the world where we do not perhaps expect to see it, and cooperation with local Muslim authorities which is not well publicised or recognised. But third it reminds us of the central place that social and community outreach has in the church. As the third mark of mission adopted by the Anglican Communion puts it, we are a church that attempts to meet human need with loving service. Sometimes that is seen in a very limited way in churches. Service can sometimes be seen almost as an advantage of membership and something we pay for in our offerings. In fact when the church speaks of service, it has in mind primarily those who are not its members, and a much more daring enterprise altogether”.