Haven't written for ages - loads to write!!!

Just because I haven't written a blog for ages doesn't mean I have nothing to write about - it just means things are far too busy!!! West End Impact is  now in it's new building as from the 28th February and it was quite a journey getting there. Still have no phone line but I can still be reached on the normal number which very cleverly diverts to my mobile. We have an Official opening OPEN DAY on Monday 15th April from 2pm - 8pm for everyone to come and have a look around. We will then start our cafe on Tuesdays from 10am till 1pm until we get going and then hopefully we will start to serve light lunches. Lunches will be served on the open day too!!  The idea will be to pilot the community cafe with the parent cafe and when that is running well we will look at open for other session too. We hope to open on Friday evening for an older youth cafe, and on Sunday's before and after church. Then there will be room for maybe one evening and one other day a week when the cafe will be open. It is a great way to reach more people and help from many agencies will be available during cafe opening times. It is also a great way to make some money to help our organisation become more self sufficient. It's all very exciting but with greater things comes greater responsibility. I am really feeling the strain of that responsibility at the moment - we have two problems that the move and losing the old building has caused, one being the lack of storage space the other being the fact that we ran out of money before we finished the toilet block which will need a disabled toilet. Anyway we go on working with excellence, doing the best we can with what we have. As God gives us more we need to be good stewards of more and especially when it comes to working with the many vulnerable people that God sends our way and places into our care. We have some cases that social services and our NHS and council are finding it difficult to deal with but these people are still engaging in our services. One of the reasons for that is that they feel accepted when coming in to West End Impact. Our Value of acceptance is very apparent all the way through our organisation as a church and community centre. We as a church are serving our community and we will continue to do that with excellence!! As we expand we hope to reach many more people and we hope many more will be spiritually helped as well as practically. God wants to see people in a better place he wants to see people whole, healed and following in his footsteps towards a better more fulfilled life!! So that has to be our aim too!! There are many lonely people in Morecambe who have lost hope and need a friend. There is so much poverty not just financial but spiritual and one person at I time we can show them in many different ways that there is hope...........