Over at Everyday Kingston we’ve been incredibly blessed to be warmly welcomed, championed and even served by members of the local homeless community. While we’ve run Winter Night Shelters in Wimbledon & Kingston, have begun discussions about cooperative work with Green Pastures and have partnered with local charities including the YMCA SWL, Kingston Churches Action on Homelessness and the Joel Community Project in the past, … Continue reading Our emerging plan for the homeless

Jesus replied, ‘Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.’ Matthew 8:20 So this is just a simple request for prayer – it’s becoming clear that God is moving us as a church develop a much more robust and sustainable response to homelessness in London; having developed a close group of homeless friends in Kingston, and … Continue reading no place to lay their heads…

As someone whose family and friends have first-hand been affected by abortion, I’m not posting this glibly or lightly – i know it can make for painful reading, and i also know I’ve posted on this issue fairly recently. This week though I read two succinct philosophical treatises on this issue that moved me, but were then powerfully eclipsed by a passage in my daily … Continue reading Being bold in the truth…

Rest&Play has completed it’s first term and the soft play items and interactive toys have been packed away for a few weeks until the next session on the 3rd September.  The team have really enjoyed getting to know a small number of local families, all of whom are doing a fantastic job of raising kids with additional needs.  There’s one family in particular who we … Continue reading A Voice to the Voiceless, by Adam Bream, Southfields Venue

So on Friday we’ll be meeting again with reps from Kingston’s Public Health & Leaving Care teams to plan the year ahead for Everyday Kingston’s Cook & Eat courses. Since we launched the course in February 2014 we’ve served three very different groups of care leavers: the first group, unaccompanied minors (i.e. young asylum seekers fleeing trauma and persecution in their own countries) introduced us … Continue reading Cook & Eat 2015/16 – here’s how you & your life group can get involved…

Many of you will have seen or at least heard about the secretly filmed Planned Parenthood video broke a couple of weeks ago. The 8 minute video, easily searchable, showed a senior Planned Parenthood executive describing specific techniques for carrying out late term abortions which allow for intact baby body parts to be harvested for medical research: “We’ve been very good at getting heart, lung, … Continue reading Apathy & Outrage: the real scandal at the heart of the Planned Parenthood story…

For the month of August, Sonnet Jenkins and her two girls Skye and Roxy, part of the Everyday Kingston family, will be making a Difference by helping to deliver education and support to some of the most vulnerable children in Zimbabwe. For Sonnet, this isn’t just an opportunity, it’s a significant step towards the realisation of a long held, God given dream… Sonnet says: “When I … Continue reading Dreaming and making a difference in Zimbabwe, by Sonnet Jenkins, Everyday Kingston

So on Friday I joined a panel of health and emergency service professionals in Kingston for an Alcohol and Drugs strategy meeting; i was there, with our friends Kier & Taff from the London Ambulance Service, specifically to talk about Safe & Sound. It was incredibly encouraging again to hear of the impact this scheme has had, with one senior officer saying “it’s worth it’s … Continue reading Safe & Sound 2015 – proposed dates

Over recent months, we have been feeling the call from God to make a response to the issue of how we serve prisoners and their families in London. I have been exploring the different initiatives already in place to establish what partnering opportunities might be available and recently met with Dan McNamara, who works for PACT – the Prison Advice and Care Trust (www.prisonadvice.org.uk). PACT … Continue reading About PACT: Prisons update by Adam Bream, Southfields venue

At a time when the social situation in the UK is creating more and more opportunities for individual Christians, churches and families of churches to demonstrate their faith and love in practical and significant ways, some timely research provides anyone who is interested with a useful snapshot of where we’re at now and points clearly to where we’re headed. There are some fascinating reports on … Continue reading Research and the church in motion…