On Sunday we held our Harvest Thanksgiving Service - and as well as supporting the work of BMS World Mission we also collected a range of dried and tinned goods to help support our local homeless Night Shelter.
The Night Shelter is overseen by Cricklewood Homeless Concern now known as Ashford Place. As a part of their provision they organise, between November and March, a number of venues around north Brent which provide a hot evening meal, a place to sleep and breakfast for around 20 people who would otherwise be sleeping on streets. One of the local Methodist churches is a venue, this year opening from Saturday evening through to Monday morning every weekend over the winter months. Whilst a lot of the work does fall into the hands of a few brilliant and dedicated people at Queensbury Methodist, it is great to be a part of a team drawn from a whole range of local churches. Each church will sign up to a number of evenings and provide the food and volunteers to run the shelter that night.
It might not seem much in the big scheme of things - but as we saw on Sunday, from Matthew 25:31-46, it's not about saving the world all in one go - it's about meeting need one person at a time. As Mother Teresa said, 'If you can't feed a hundred people then feed just one'.
For those struggling to find all three differences: the tin of hot dogs has moved from front left; a tin of beans has moved front right to centre; and a tin of tomatoes in the middle has been rotated.
