How can we make our churches places of learning, where we intentionally build cultures of welcome and share that learning with others? Led by Revd Inderjit Bhogal, OBE, founder member of the City of Sanctuary Movement. The morning will finish with a Healing Eucharist.
The Ministry of Healing includes healing of our communities and the fabric of the nation. On this reflective day we will explore how in our churches we can build healing communities of warmth and sanctuary, places of genuine welcome for all where we respond to the biblical mandate to welcome the stranger.
We will explore the idea of Church of Sanctuary, and engaging with refugees. This is a faith-based initiative, rooted in scripture and history, a call to prophetic Christian witness. It is an expression of hospitality as a clear challenge to hostility.
The aim is to go beyond being a welcoming church, to take steps to build protective hospitality in ways that express mutual solidarity and safeguarding, fostering warm welcome, protective hospitality, healing and safety for all, without neglecting any vulnerable people, and especially for people fleeing violence and persecution, a clear demonstration of Christian discipleship.
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