 | | OFFERING LIFE TO YOUNG PEOPLE | | Tired of young people entering its building for youth group but leaving unchanged, Kerith Community Church launched LIFE in 2009. Starting with 35 young people, today around 300–500 attend each Friday evening. Each evening can involve RAVEs, Sumo Suits, p
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 | | GIVING FURNITURE - GIVING HOPE | | Gateway Furniture provides good-quality furniture and electrical items to those in need within Swindon. In one six month period, it helped 140 families in need with nearly 600 pieces of furniture and averted 15 tonnes from landfill.
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| | Claire Musters |
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 | | EDUCATION BRINGING HOPE | | Every day in the UK, 600,000 children and young people play truant from school, whilst a further 2,500 receive a fixed term exclusion. These figures represent thousands of children missing out not just on an education but more often they are being robbed
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| | Geoff Knott |
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 | | FRIENDS FIRST | | Friends First provides accommodation and services to men and women who have been homeless and want to live independently but need a period of support in order to achieve this. The supported house offers a place of stability and safety, where issues from t
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 | | HELPING PEOPLE BACK TO WORK | | Job Clubs aims to break down the barriers that prevent anyone from a fulfilling and prosperous work life. At the beginning of 2009 I was made redundant. As the weeks went by the battle of finding a job, together with increasing financial pressure, became
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 | | ON THE STREETS | | A story of Churches working together in one London Borough as Street Pastors. “We launched Street Pastors locally in December 2005. It was a response to the growing night time economy of the town and the concerns over the vulnerability of the young people
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 | | FEAST FOR A THOUSAND | | Since King’s Church London started feeding and housing homeless people in the Lewisham area, its congregation has grown from 230 to over 1,200 and the church now meets on three sites each Sunday. More than 1,100 rough sleepers and homeless have received a
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 | | DISCIPLING OUT OF DEBT | | In 1991 Heather Keates and her husband found themselves, through a difficult set of circumstances, with tens of thousands of pounds of debt and nowhere to turn for help. Since then Heather has been involved in helping thousands of others trapped by debt t
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 | | TAKING ACTION TO PLUG THE GAP | | When a church in Newcastle decided to identify the greatest unmet needs in its city, it quickly became clear that there were hundreds of destitute asylum seekers falling through a gap in service provision. City Church Newcastle resolved to plug that gap,
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 | | OAKS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS | | Seeing lives transformed by the gospel has been at the heart of the King’s Arms church in Bedford for over 20 years. Hundreds of rough sleepers, addicts, homeless, debt-ridden – countless people who have nowhere else to turn – have been touched since the
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