Helping hundreds during Lent (with your help)

This past year, with help from our supporters and our community, we’ve been able to provide emergency food and practical support to 6,854 people – 4,593 adults and 2,261 children. And in the six weeks of Lent, we’ll support hundreds more, but we could do with some help.

If you, your church, school or community group is taking part in Lent, we’ve produced some great resources to help inspire and encourage you to get involved. They include:

 

40 pence for 40 days poster:  A poster / flyer for you to share and display in your workplace, church, school or community. This is a new campaign designed to help us raise vital funds for our work.

Download the poster here >

 

Give in Lent poster:  A poster / flyer for you to share and display in your workplace, church, school or community. It contains a list of the most urgent items we need.

Download the poster here >

 

Give in Lent Calendar:  Contains 40 essential items that we include in our emergency food parcels.

Download the calendar here >

 

Give Up 10 for Lent:  An invitation to stand in solidarity with people facing hardship by hearing their stories and reflections for 10 minutes each week.

Find out more and join us here >

 

Study resources, videos and interactive games: Links to Trussell’s website, where you can access more resources and support.

https://www.trussell.org.uk/support-us/churches

https://www.trussell.org.uk/support-us/churches/resources

 

Lent prayer:  Written by church engagement officer, Phil.

Lord our God,

We thank you for the opportunities which this season of Lent provides us to reflect on our lives and our communities. We ask that you bless us with a renewed sense of justice and community so that, in your name, we may work together to build a country without the need for food banks.

Grant us O Lord a spirit of generosity, that we may respond abundantly to provide donations for South Liverpool Foodbank so that in turn, they can provide the much-needed support for people in our community who are going without the essentials.

We ask you Lord to bless the work of the food bank. We thank you for the compassion and courage of their staff and volunteers and ask that you give them the strength to continue in their vital mission.

Grant us, Lord God, a vision of your world as your love would have it: a world where peace is built with justice, and justice is guided by love.

We ask this in the name of Jesus, your Son.

Amen.

 

Reflection and talking points:  Some suggested verses.

• Talking about Matthew 25 31-46 – Jesus reminding us that he will be found amongst people that are experiencing destitution and poverty.
• Thinking about Acts 2 42-47 – one of the manifestations of the Holy Spirit was a community in which everyone cared for each other and shared their possessions. What does that mean to us in the UK today?
• A reflection on the Lord’s prayer – thinking especially as ‘give us today our daily bread’ and the phrase ‘on earth as it is in heaven’.

 

Thank you for your support and generosity. Together we can make a difference.

 

 

 

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