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Subject: "Serious About Transformation" eNews: April 2014
 | Welcome!A big "HELLO" to the new "Serious about Transformation" eNewsletter from Tearfund's IMPACT UK Team. "Serious about Transformation" picks up from the former "SERVE eNews" and aims to bring you a wide range of resources, inspiring stories & tips to help you in your missional journey of seeing the lives of individuals and communities transformed through the Good News of Jesus Christ.
To find out more about us, what we do & how we do it, just click HERE & visit us online.
With many blessings,
The IMPACT UK Team
(e-mail us at: team.impactuk@tearfund.org)
| 'Catalyst Programme':
Now open for applicationsThriving individuals and flourishing communities are at the heart of Tearfund's UK work. The IMPACT UK Team has a vision to see Christians, across the UK, fully engaged and equipped to bring wholeness and flourishing in place of poverty, disadvantage, inequality & brokenness.
You might be a church, in England, that is starting out on the journey of connecting with its local community and that wants to do something practical; you might already be on that journey; you might want to evaluate your current community engagement and want to start something new - whatever the circumstances, the Catalyst Programme can help you.
The Catalyst Programme helps the local church, in England, to:
- realise its mission and vision for the local community;
- develop, produce and implement a relevant and sustainable social action programme (that could be something like a Trussell Trust foodbank or a Christians Against Poverty Debt Centre, for example. Or, it could be something that is unique to your own locality).
To find out more & make an application click HERE
"Catalysts make something happen". | A Life Transformed
One of the Tearfund Partners, with whom we're currently journeying, helps young people come to terms with issues of loss e.g. bereavement, divorce etc.
The story below has been told to us by Ben's Support Worker:
"This afternoon I met with Ben (name changed). He is a lovely, gentle 15 year-old whose mum was violently killed a few years ago. Ben is now in care and has been deeply unhappy. I have been working with him for 6 weeks or so and in that time he became very depressed - I was the first person he had spoken to about his mum's death; once the flood-gates opened and he talked, he began to grieve.
When I saw Ben before half-term, he was still very raw - going between immense anger and deep sadness. I had been praying for him a lot over the holidays as I was considering referring him for medication. He often talked about his feeling of hopelessness without, now, having any family.
Today as I went over, I prayed. I physically felt God's presence with me and knew I could bring God's peace to him. As I walked into the room I was met by Ben - smiling! He looked so different to the gaunt boy from 2 weeks ago! We talked about what had changed; he talked about knowing that he had a greater purpose in life and that he was there to help others. He had been finding out about mentoring and youth work as he wanted to share his experience with other young, black men who had lost family through violence and drugs. He was laughing, telling me his hopes for the future, about having people around him that aren't his family but who could help him.
I cannot think of any word other than "transformed" for Ben today. Today, a young person was given hope instead of despair - thank God!"
If you would like to find out more about the work of This Way Up then please click HERE
| Can the Church End Hunger Fast?  Reverend Keith Hebden thinks it can! He helps run a Trussell Trust foodbank for his local community in Mansfield and is fasting from food completely for 40 days during Lent part of the End Hunger Fast campaign. End Hunger Fast is also calling for a national day of fasting on 4 April. Rev. Hebden said: "We must stop and recognise the growing hunger in our midst. I hope others will join and fast for a day in solidarity with the half a million hungry Britons."
Join the members of the IMPACT UK Team in supporting the campaign and the opportunity that it brings for us to reflect on the needs of those in our local communities across the UKTo find out more and join in go to www.endhungerfast.co.uk | Bits & Pieces...From time to time we come across lots of interesting bits & pieces that may, or may not, be of interest/use to you in your own local contexts.
Below are links to some of what we've come across this month:
Employment Vacancy: Current IMPACT UK Partner Innovista is looking to recruit a Thrive Director to multiply transformational mission in disadvantaged communities. For further information please click HERE
External Services: Heartlight HR is an exciting new venture offering churches and faith-based organisations distinctly Christian resources to help recruit, manage and develop people in a professionally excellent way, enabling them to focus on their God-given vision. To find out more, click to visit their website: Heartlight HR
External links are selected and reviewed when newsletter is published. However, the IMPACT UK Team is not responsible for the content of external websites. This is because: - we do not produce them or maintain/update them
- we cannot change them
- they can be changed without our knowledge or agreement.
Some of our external links may be to websites which also offer commercial services, such as online purchases.
The inclusion of a link to an external website from this newsletter should not be understood to be an endorsement of that website or the site's owners (or their products/services). | | | | | | |
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