“But seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the Lord on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare”. (Jeremiah 29:7)
As part of the Diocese of London’s response to the ‘Coming Home’ report, they hosted a series of three Housing Summits in 2021 hosted by the Right Revd Graham Tomlin on the following themes.
- Housing Summit Part 1: Practical Parish Responses
- Housing Summit Part 2: Prophetic Action and Pushing for Change
- Housing Summit Part 3: Putting our Own House in Order- Affordable Housing and Use of Church Land
You can find the recordings from those evenings below.
Housing Summit Recordings
Housing Summit 1- Practical Parish Responses
A ‘TED Talk’ style evening, helping churches explore what they can do to respond to the housing crisis and homelessness.
Housing Summit 2- Using our Prophetic Voice and Campaigning for Change
A TED-talk style evening, helping parishes explore how we can campaign and organise, using our voice and power as churches to seek a better vision of housing in society.
Housing Summit 3- Putting Our Own House in Order
A TED-talk style evening, helping us explore what we can do to unlock church assets, in the cause of providing truly affordable housing for our local communities.
Pause for Thought...
“If our homes and houses are in some measure to echo and give us a taste for our true home with God, then the quality and distribution of housing matters”
(Why the Church should care about housing – Grove booklet E200, p.6)