Poverty and Homelessness Action Week
Poverty and Homelessness Action Week 2012 is fast approaching and there are already some exciting events planned. If you haven't planned your event yet, then don't worry, there's still time to order materials from one of the partners or download them for free from our website.
Reminder:
if you're planning an event, do please let us know! Register the details of
your event at our website now.
There are already many special church services, sleep outs and coffee mornings arranged as well as much more. In Liverpool's Quaker Meeting House there will be a debate entitled Cuts: From Rhetoric to Reality, at which Niall Cooper (National Co-ordinator, Church Action on Poverty), Alison Gelder (Director, Housing Justice), Louise Ellman MP and Luciana Berger MP will look at the impact of the current austerity measures being enacted by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition particularly with regards to the North West.
Meanwhile in Manchester the Boaz Trust, a Christian organisation serving destitute asylum seekers, are asking those churches that support them to focus their own prayers and reflections on the barriers that particularly hurt those seeking asylum; you can read more about it here.
And further north in Cairns there will be a church lunch with funds raised going to Action Week partner Scottish Churches Housing Action.
You can find out about these events and everything else that's happening by going to the Action Week events map.
The prayer for Poverty & Homelessness Action Week is:
Father, we thank you that Jesus came to break down barriers.
He did not see the migrant or the settled, the housed or the homeless, the
employed or the unemployed;
He saw and loved the person.
Forgive us when we put up barriers between ourselves and others; help us
show love to all without constraint.
Help us, your church, to build communities without barriers, where all are
valued because all are made in your image.
In Jesus' name, Amen
Plan your event!
Just a reminder - if you're planning a service or any other event in Action Week, we want to know about it! Please register your event by visiting the Action Week site or contacting one of the partners. This means we can offer you full support and resources - and list your event on the map to advertise your Action.
Along with many other resources online, our prayer calendar is available to guide your thoughts and reflections throughout the week. Don't forget you can order a copy on DVD to play to your school, church or just at home!
For more information contact one of the Action Week partners; and don't forget you can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook.
Best wishes and good luck with your events,
David Adams, Church Action on Poverty
Visit www.actionweek.org.uk to download all the materials you need for Poverty & Homelessness Action Week 2012, including worship materials, ideas for work with children and young people, information about the barriers and more. Or order by post from:
Church Action on Poverty, Dale House, 35 Dale Street, Manchester M1 2HF
Housing Justice, Charity Centre, 22-25 Finsbury Square, London EC2A 1DX
or Scottish Churches Housing Action, 44 Hanover St,
Edinburgh, EH2 2DR.
Poverty and Homelessness Action Week is organised by Church Action on
Poverty, Scottish Churches Housing Action and Housing Justice and runs from 28
January to 5 February 2012. Together we can challenge prejudice, enable
excluded people to live full lives, and build a fairer world.
