Helping the homeless locally

It’s our privilege to show Jesus’ love to those around us in our local communities.

Recently, some members of one of our Emmanuel Communities, based in Gilesgate, helped a local charity by sorting clothing donations.

Durham Action on Single Housing (DASH) supports people at risk of homelessness.

Our group has developed strong links with the charity over recent years, redecorating their facilities, sorting food donations, making up Christmas hampers and doing some gardening work.

To find out more about our Emmanuel Communities, click here.

Make Lunch #2

We love to show Jesus’ love to communities around us. One way we do this is through Make Lunch, our holiday activity club at Gilesgate Primary School.

After a hugely successful start in the summer, Make Lunch returned during October half-term - and was again a fantastic time, with lots of families, old and new, joining us for activities and lunch together on Tuesday and Friday.

Many of the families from the summer said how much the children were looking forward to coming again and on Friday we had the highest attendance of any session yet.

This meant even more people got to experience the delights that were created by our ‘guest chefs’ that day - two of the mums who have attended regularly since the summer offered to come and cook an authentic curry and they did an absolutely fantastic job, ably assisted by some of our regular Make Lunch kitchen team.

So a massive thank you to all the volunteers who again made it possible - you are amazing. We won’t be running at Christmas as the school is closed for the whole holiday and so we are looking at alternative ways we can bless the families over that period. We are then looking forward to running again in February half term.