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Power of Ten by Gethin Russell-Jones (2013)New book shows how Christian collaborations are changing the face of Wales

Far from being a dying breed, Christian churches and organisations are changing the face of modern Wales.

A new book published by Gweini, an umbrella body for the Christian voluntary sector in Wales, profiles ten examples of dynamic partnerships that are making a huge difference to hundreds of thousands of people in the nation.

Power of Ten, written by Cardiff writer and Baptist minister, Gethin Russell-Jones, highlights social projects across Wales that are run by Christians for the benefit of people of all faiths and none. These range from local initiatives such as the capital city’s Rainbow of Hope to well-known national enterprises such as the Trussell Trust’s Foodbanks and Street Pastors.

These are not worthy works seeking attention but services that are literally feeding, protecting and supporting many of the nation’s most vulnerable residents.

 
FAMILY: Some families are made in the heart
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Family: Some Families are made in the heartA Call to Christian Adopters, Foster Carers and Supports.

While adoption and fostering is great fun and rewarding it can be a challenging and isolating experience with carers feeling missunderstood by churches and friends. This day will have a mix of teaching and workshops but above all a time to be with like minded people.

 
Connecting with streetwise kids
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Streetwise KidsAre you struggling with resources that don’t connect with your streetwise kids? Are you connecting with children and families who are from more marginalised urban or estate based communities?

The CURBS Project - Children in URBan Situations - was set up to support you in your ministry! CURBS provides a range of resources and training alongside a commitment to support and encourage Christians working with children in tougher areas across the UK. We promote an approach that starts in the world of the urban child and through positive relationships seeks to build bridges to enable them to experience God’s loving care.

 
Prospects: How we can help you?
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Prospects... Access to Life (logo)Prospects is a Christian organisation which enables and values people with learning disabilities to live their lives to the full.

Caring can be fun but exhausting.  As your child reaches adolescence you are aware that school and other children services will come to an end which may add to your worries.  Maybe you have organised all your adult child’s activities for years not knowing that you can have help. You may want some advice regarding church inclusion and bringing your child to faith.

 
Prison Fellowship sharing God’s love beyond the prison bars – Adam’s* story of hope
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Prison Fellowship - Taking responsibility for my actionsSchool days were certainly not the best days of my life.  At 16 I had no qualifications.  I was involved in an armed robbery when I was 18 and sentenced to 5 years in a young offenders’ institute.

I had dreams like everyone else but I didn’t have the education to go to college; the only thing I could do was sell drugs and I thought this was the way I could earn the money to buy my dream.

At 18 I had become a dad.  I saw my son now and again but to be honest I wasn’t that bothered about him. Mum and Dad tried talking to me but I was too arrogant to listen.  Then one day, when I was under the influence of drugs, I robbed a drug dealer of cannabis and a couple of hundred pounds.  And I assaulted him.  I was in the police station for three days.

 
EA Wales urge Wales to help end people trafficking of Eritreans
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Evangelical Alliance Wales / Cymru logo - Better Together

Evangelical Alliance Wales today urged organisations and individuals in Wales with links to Egypt to do all that it can to stop the horrific treatment of Eritrean refugees at the hands of Bedouin traffickers in Egypt’s Sinai Desert.

Many of the refugees fall into the hands of Bedouin people traffickers after fleeing their poverty-stricken country, where they are then held for ransom until friends or relatives abroad can pay.

BBC Radio 4’s Mike Thompson from the Today programme conducted a chilling interview over the phone on Saturday with Philemon, an Eritrean refugee, and his Bedouin trafficker who is demanding $25,000 for his release, threatening to kill him if the ransom is not met.

 
Working with Vine Trust in IKEA
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David Pike at Ikea

David Pike – at IKEA

How a Christian Charity works to equip young people for life

Vine Social Enterprises is the social trading arm of The Vine Trust Group, a Christian charity set up by a group of churches in Walsall in 1989. Based at the former Vine Inn in the town, a pub which was once a focus for drugs and prostitution, it seeks to ‘work with hard to reach young people, to fully equip them for life, so that together we will transform our communities’. The Vine Trust Group also operates an independent school and youth support company offering education for excluded pupils and advice and guidance to local young people. The focus of all activities within the Group is hard to reach/employ young people.

In 2008, Vine Social Enterprises secured a contract with IKEA Wales to deliver a core service function, managing customer shopping tools. This was with the long term vision of extending its activities into Wales, by establishing a similar hub for youth support services in Cardiff. The contract, named ‘Project390’ is delivered by mostly long-term unemployed young people from the Cardiff and Vale area. A team of four supervisors provide mentoring, training, support, & advice to each young person, outliving a Christian witness throughout the engagement.

 

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Gweini: Cynghrair Efengylaidd Cymru yn gweithio gyda mudiadau Cristnogol eraill yng Nghymru.
Mae’r Cyngrhair Efengylaidd yn gwmni cyfyngedig drwy warant, wedi ei gofrestru yng Nghymru a Lloegr, rhif 123448 Elusen Gofrestredig Rhif 212325
Gweini: Evangelical Alliance Wales working with other Christian agencies in the nation.
Evangelical Alliance is a company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales No 123448 Registered Charity No 212325