Tagged with: social action

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March for London: A Review

Rebecca Horner |

Easter has come and gone and Students are beginning to shut themselves away in the library to finish off dissertations, meet their final essay deadlines and then look towards their exams. It can be an isolating time, and it’s easy...

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Students: March for London

Vicki Cavolina |

As a student, you’re likely to be living in London for at least three years, longer if you fall in love with it. That’s barely enough time to scratch the surface of a city as diverse, creative and changing as...

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Goals to Glory Olympic Fun Day

Chris Kirtley |

Having run a successful summer soccer school in recent years we decided to crank it up a bit this year by holding a Community Fun Day for families on the Vauxhall Estate that followed on from the football. Unless you’ve...

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Olympics 2012

Stephen Humphreys |

The Olympics this summer will be an exciting and defining event in London and a great opportunity for ChristChurch to show that we care about the people who live around us, and want to be involved in the flourishing of...

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Collaborate

John Archer |

Collaborate: (v) to work, one with another; cooperate, especially to produce or create something The definition is self-explanatory. And yet, I would argue, it is the most challenging part of the Everything Matters mandate. It is also the most vital,...

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Stand Alone Talks: Vision 2012

David Stroud |

A new year is a perfect time to take stock, look back at the achievements of the previous year, and look forward to all that the next year has in store. On this, our Vision Sunday, David Stroud will unpack...

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Think Bigger than a Poster

Abigail Malortie |

The café of my local cinema is frequented on weekdays by ‘creative types’.  Most sit in front of a MacBook, chain-drinking their way through the café’s supply of Fairtrade coffee, fingertips worn red by the frenzied typing which is punctured...

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Introducing: Baroness Cox

Hannah Elwyn |

If you research the darkest and most unreached nations of the world, where unspeakable suffering and destructive oppression is taking place, there is a good chance that Baroness Cox has been there. Whether it’s southern Sudan, east Timor, northern Uganda,...

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Foodbank

Tim Frisby |

For people on low incomes, a sudden crisis – redundancy, benefit delay, illness or even an unexpected bill – can mean going hungry. Every day parents skip meals to feed their children and people are forced to choose between paying...

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Football in the Community

Louisa Collington |

The Vauxhall Football In The Community project welcomes around eighty children each week to train and play football. This video gives a taste of what goes on every Monday evening and explains a little of the vision behind the project

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Refugee Support Network

Hannah Elwyn |

ChristChurch London has begun its mentoring scheme in Lambeth College this month! Refugee Support Network, a charity which specialises in educational support to young asylum seekers and refugees, are managing us as we start what we hope will be a...

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Stand Alone Talks: Vision 2011

David Stroud |

This week, David cast vision for what ChristChurch should look like in the next twenty years. It is to be a church for God, for people and for the city, nation and nations.

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Kingdom Come: Justice - Matthew 5:38-48

David Stroud |

This week we looked at Matthew 5:38-48, and considered what the Kingdom response should be when people wrong us. Jesus taught that we should not retaliate like for like. Neither should we become a ‘doormat’ for people to trample over....

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Just like Bear Grylls, I did Alpha

Mikhail |

All my life I have felt something tugging at me. Sometimes I would be lost in thought wondering about my life and where it was going. I had so many judgments about myself and others, especially those closest to me....

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Stand Alone Talks: Vision 2009 - Mark 1: 15-15, Acts 1:1-3

David Stroud |

Vision 2009. David shares how the kingdom of God is to bring transformation to every part of society and that we all have a part to play in this great mission.