Churches Together in Lancashire June newsletter

 

> Please find CTL's newsletter for June here.

 

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/89023969/Churches%20Together%20in%20Lancashire%20Newsletter%20No3%20June%202014.pdf

 

Lots of news of forthcoming events across the county

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> Anton and I are delighted to receive articles for the newsletter and
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> Best wishes,
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> Helen Boothroyd
> Social Justice and Inter Faith Development Officer
> Churches Together in Lancashire
> helenboothroyd@ctlancashire.org.uk
> 07503 931196
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New Report on Food Poverty

Church Action on Poverty / Trussell Trust and Oxfam shocking new report

 

http://www.church-poverty.org.uk/breadline/read

 

Over 500,000 children in the UK live ‪#‎belowthebreadline‬ & can't afford a healthy diet. Read our new report at http://ow.ly/xMnVK

Letter from Church Urban Fund to all CofE Clergy

This email briefing has just been sent out by CUF to all clergy... Maybe you'd like to ask your vicar if they have seen it and how the parish is going to respond...

 

Thank you to all those of you who were able to highlight Church Urban Fund's work during Lent. I have heard of many retired clergy who take services locally and are able to talk about Church Urban Fund. We are now working with 14 local partnerships in dioceses across the country. We are also using the funds raised in churches and from generous individuals to support new initiatives and projects throughout England that are reaching out to people trapped in poverty, on the margins of society. For many, the most painful aspect of poverty is the poverty of having no one the turn to. Church communities around the country are holding out the hand of friendship and support to those in need. See how money was spent in our annual report here http://www.cuf.org.uk/about-us

Web of Poverty

Are we all better off today? Is everyone sharing in the upturn in the economy? Are all "hard-working" families sharing in the economic growth? If you want to know more about the facts of poverty please look at our latest report on the definition of poverty in England which is the basis of our work http://www.cuf.org.uk/poverty-england And don't forget the Poverty Look Up tool to assess poverty in your parish. 

New Research

Another piece of research we have commissioned enables us to demonstrate the enormous effort the church is making in tackling the poverty. In his Christmas address, Archbishop Justin Welby said that the church was in many places the glue holding society together. New research commissioned by Church Urban Fund and conducted by Theos, set out to explore the scale and nature of how churches hold communities together. The full report will be published shortly and will be available on our website. http://www.cuf.org.uk/how-we-help/research 

Poverty Sunday

Poverty Sunday is an opportunity for congregations to reflect on the reality of poverty in our society and its effects on individuals and local communities. Poverty Sunday is on 22 June this year and if you are leading a service on that day, you may want to invite the congregation to use some part of your Sunday service to get behind the clashing headlines about economic growth, benefits and the reality of poverty. Resources are available on our website for you to use if not in June then maybe on some other appropriate Sunday or as a study group. http://www.cuf.org.uk/get-involved/act/resources/poverty-sunday

With every blessing,

Canon Paul Hackwood

EXECUTIVE CHAIR 

E  paul.hackwood@cuf.org.uk

W  www.cuf.org.uk

Church Urban Fund

Church House

Great Smith Street

London

SW1P 3AZ

Channel 4’s Dispatches today at 7.30pm

Tune into Channel 4's Dispatches today (Monday 9th June) at 7.30pm, to see how food poverty is affecting the lives of children across the country.

Dispatches

www.channel4.comOver 300,000 children were given food aid in the UK in 2013. While politicians continue to argue about why so many kids are experiencing food poverty, Channel 4 Dispatches asked three children to reveal how it feels when the cupboards are sometimes bare.

Tuesday17th June 2014 Important event for Churches working to help people most in need in the community:

Just a reminder that this is now only a week away....

Do your best to be there and make sure you invite the leaders of your church, and of any social action ministries that are linked with local churches.  

It will be full of ideas to get you started and signpost you to sources of funding...

Important event for Churches working to help people most in need in the community: Don't miss it...

Introducing Cinnamon Network Funding micro grants...

 

Full details of this event at http://www.longtoncommunitychurch.co.uk/Articles/401898/Longton_Community_Church/New_Website/Serve_Our_Community/Community_Network_Event.aspx

Download the poster/flier for the event to print out at

http://www.longtoncommunitychurch.co.uk/Articles/401898/Longton_Community_Church/New_Website/Serve_Our_Community/Community_Network_Event.aspx

Is your church currently working to help people most in need in the community?

Has God Touched your heart to serve through a community project?

This event is designed to offer you support in starting a project or

working collaboratively with others.

Date: Tuesday17th June 2014

Time: 7.00p.m—9.30 p.m.

Venue: Fulwood Free Methodist Church, Lightfoot Lane, Preston, PR2 3LT

Book a place at:: www.cinnamonnetwork.co.uk

(Book a place on the regional events, Northwest Region, Preston )