There is this passage of Scripture.  It’s massive.  It’s strong.  It’s forthright.  And it’s God speaking to his people – Israel – his ‘son’.  The tone is urgent, serious, passionate, firm, corrective.  God is setting his people straight, putting things in order, sorting things out.  Here’s a snippet:

⁶ “Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen:
to loose the chains of injustice
and untie the cords of the yoke,
to set the oppressed free
and break every yoke?

⁷ Is it not to share your food with the hungry
and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter—
when you see the naked, to clothe him,
and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?

⁸ Then your light will break forth like the dawn,
and your healing will quickly appear;
then your righteousness will go before you,
and the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard.

⁹ Then you will call, and the LORD will answer;
you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I.
“If you do away with the yoke of oppression,
with the pointing finger and malicious talk,

¹⁰ and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry
and satisfy the needs of the oppressed,
then your light will rise in the darkness,
and your night will become like the noonday.

¹¹ The LORD will guide you always;
he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land
and will strengthen your frame.
You will be like a well-watered garden,
like a spring whose waters never fail.

¹² Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins
and will raise up the age-old foundations;
you will be called Repairer of Broken Walls,
Restorer of Streets with Dwellings.

And it is these verse that have spoken to us time and again calling us to be a people who make things good, who repair, who restore.

All around us we see rubbish in the streets, graffitti, old sofas, out of control gardens, broken windows.  And that’s just the outside.  On the inside we know that some people live in terrible conditions, having lost the ability or the motivation or the money to make tings good.

As a small Christian Community we want to put this right.  We want to make a difference one house at a time, one street at a time, one family at a time.

Join us if you want to get involved.