Homelessness, Hospitality and Hope
by
Annie Kirke
Date and time
Description
Alison Gelder, Housing Justice CEO, shares about Night Shelters from The Cinnamon Network on Vimeo.
You are invited to a service at Southwark Cathedral hosted by Housing Justice, the Diocese of London and The West London Mission celebrating inspiring stories of love, transformation and hope from church run night shelters across and beyond London.
The Bishop of London, the Right Revd Richard Chartres has said in support of the
event, “We are rightly concerned with the underlying causes of homelessness in our society. But the more immediate concern is to offer shelter, food and a listening ear. There are thousands of churches throughout our Capital and I am so glad that growing numbers of them are co-operating in this practical demonstration of the love of Jesus Christ for those like himself who have no place to lay their head.”
After the celebration, we will be hosting 6 seminars covering a variety of topics. These seminars aim to help you and your church host a shelter for the first time or develop your existing shelter work.
09:45: Registration, refreshments and celebration service
11:45: Seminars (see options below)
12:30: Lunch (there are cafes, pubs, Borough Market food stalls nearby and on the river www.visitbankside.com)
13:15: Seminars (see options below)
12:30: Lunch (there are cafes, pubs, Borough Market food stalls nearby and on the river www.visitbankside.com)
13:15: Seminars (see options below)
14:00: Worship and night shelter commission
14:30: Close
Seminar options:
1. Working Partnerships? Truth, grace, and partnering with Local Authorities.
Seminar options:
1. Working Partnerships? Truth, grace, and partnering with Local Authorities.
2. How can we support rough sleepers with drug, alcohol, and mental health issues?
3. Running a night shelter: what can we learn from one another's journeys?
4. How can we integrate Christian faith and spirituality into our night shelter communities?
3. Running a night shelter: what can we learn from one another's journeys?
4. How can we integrate Christian faith and spirituality into our night shelter communities?
5. Show me the money! How can you raise funds to run a shelter?
6. Homelessness, inequality and politics: what difference have recent budget cuts made and how can we respond?
Seminar spaces are limited so please sign up in advance: http://londonnightsheltersseminars.eventbrite.co.uk
We'd love you to invite friends, family, members of your churches, you colleagues and supporters of the homeless to the event to celebrate this great work and to find out how they could volunteer in a night shelter between December 2012 - March 2013 or start one!
We look forward to seeing you there!
Housing Justice, The Diocese of London and The West London Mission
