Gweini Pembrokeshire, have negotiated with "Care for the Family", to provide two, 2-day, non-residential parenting training courses in the county at a reduced price. These courses will equip people to work in groups with parents or supporting couple relationships.

In order to access the reduced cost we need to provide at least 12 attendees at each course. In this way it is hoped to train a team of people who in turn can deliver this training, not only as part of the good news in their own church, but also support each other and work with other churches where there is a need. We will be supported locally by Plant Dewi in this aim.

Care for the Family is a national Christian charity based in Cardiff. They provide support for couples and parents as they negotiate the ups and downs of family life, through resources, events and training courses.

In today’s society parents are under more pressure than ever before. Juggling home-life, work, finances, and a thousand other things on a daily basis, it can be so easy for parents to find that they unexpectedly struggle in their family life. When family difficulties escalate it can lead to fractured relationships and broken families.

"I was hungry and you gave me nothing to drink.  I was a stranger and you did not look after me.  I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me."

These haunting words of Jesus are the organizing principle of the Newport Night Shelter: when Christians see people in need, they are commanded to act.  Failure to help the "least of these" is failure to serve Christ.

It all started with another project: a bus outreach to the city's vulnerable, run by Teen Challenge Newport.  Volunteers for this coffee house on wheels saw another need: there was no emergency night shelter in the Newport area.  Many of the homeless were forced to sleep exposed to the elements.  In the winter months, this was not only uncomfortable but also dangerous. 

In 2009, a small group of volunteers resolved to address this problem.  Despite having no previous experience of running a night shelter, they were motivated to act.  As Stuart Johnson, one of the project's coordinators, explained: "It was not, 'Can we do this?'  It was, 'We are doing this.'  There was no doubt in our minds; God had given us the vision."