NEWS & EVENTS
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Our regular Community activities include (see ‘WHAT’S ON’):
Drop-In for All (Tuesdays 9am-1pm)
Salsa Dancing Classes (fortnightly Wednesdays 7:30-9:15pm)
Stay & Play for Children 0 to 4 Years (Thursdays 8:45-10:45am)
Edge Youth Club for 9-14yrs old (Thursdays 6-8pm)
plus we organise special Children & Family events
We are a lively, diverse, family-friendly and growing church.
We love to welcome everyone, care for our whole community,
and seek to make Jesus Christ known in Barkingside.
It’s on our heart to offer a warm, inclusive and safe space for everyone!
(please see below more about the extraordinary challenges we face, and our response)
Why not join us and see how you like it?
You can find us on Mossford Green, Barkingside, IG6 2BX. Our Facebook site is https://www.facebook.com/HolyTrinityBarkingside
(including a live stream of our 10:30 a.m. Sunday service).
Our Safeguarding Officer is Kaye Larbi and you can contact him @ 07847 324955 or email him @ psr@holytrinitybarkingside.org.uk –
please see the link to our website here: Safeguarding and Health & Safety
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ABOUT THE EXTRAORDINARY CHALLENGES WE FACE, AND OUR RESPONSE
We are shaped by extraordinary challenges facing the world,
our country and our neighbourhood.
This includes ongoing violence and wars, hatred & exclusion, the rise of anti-democratic and racist populism, the ever-deepening cost-of-living crisis and polarization between rich and poor, the climate emergency, and last not least the various crises facing Christianity in the West, including the Church of England. In our own community the list of targets & victims includes women & girls, foreigners & refugees, Black & Brown, Muslims & Jews, gay people, millions of children and some of the most severely ill and disabled people.
Our response has been twofold (see Jeremiah 1:10 and John 10:10)
We feel called to do things that are central to God’s heart and strike us as healthy and life-giving: building a welcoming, diverse, inclusive, family friendly, lively and creative church for all in our Barkingside community. We welcome everyone and celebrate and affirm every person as beautifully made and wonderfully different from one another. We delight in Christ as our Lord and embrace his unconditional love, hope and healing and want to share his mercy and grace, compassion and humility. We see God’s abundance around us and want to help awaken the unique gifts and power of people, families and our neighbourhood. We have learned and grown by stumbling and suffering – that’s why it’s on our heart to walk with the broken and marginalised and help others embrace woundedness as the start of life-giving transformation discovering our true-self and dignity. We want to live a life according to God’s will: making good choices; working for the Common Good; caring for all living things and our environment; pursuing reconciliation.
We feel called to represent God’s heart for justice and truth:
Pushing back and speaking out against things that seem unhealthy to us but are thriving in the world, including scapegoating, exclusion, hatred and violence, and imposing guilt and shame on individuals and specific groups. Nobody should have to live in fear. We worship a God of love and peace who created all people in his image. We do our best to promote the dignity of every human being, build peace, and seek justice – we champion a neighbourhood of solidarity.
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