Hidden Voices

for 2 hours
St Matthew's Parish Church, Croydon
Chichester Road Croydon, CR0 5NQ, United Kingdom

Saturdays 2 – 4 pm with a break for drinks and cake
14th and 28th September, 12th and 26th October 2024
St Matthew’s Church, Chichester Rd, Croydon CR0 5NQ

This 4-week course is about Modern Slavery Right Here, Right Now! It is designed to help churches and communities respond to modern slavery.
What can churches and communities do about modern slavery?
The truth is you are key to solving this puzzle. For starters, you can:
spot the signs of modern slavery and help the police to find victims.
prevent vulnerable people you meet from being trafficked or exploited.
support survivors of modern slavery, helping them overcome their experiences.

Hidden Voices is for churches with a passion for working with their communities and responding to the needs of the vulnerable and marginalised. It describes a simple process to help build community, with the church acting as a catalyst.

Hidden Voices is written in four parts:
Setting the scene for action
Detection
Prevention
Action planning

Each session includes
Biblical reflections
Practical tools
Case studies
Activities to help you work alongside your community and see how you might already be coming across modern slavery without knowing it.

We hope churches that do the Hidden Voices course will feel inspired and ready to start their own project by the end. You might not have all the answers, but you will certainly know where to start and you will receive ongoing support from the Southwark Churches Against Modern Slavery group.

To find out more please contact Penny in the church office.

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St Matthew's Parish Church, Croydon

Park Hill is a popular location for young professionals, families and older citizens alike.

We at St Matthew’s are an inclusive people embracing the joys and challenges of being human with all our differences of race, gender, sexuality and social background. We are a part of Inclusive Church and fully support the IC Statement.

Our mission is to reach out and share God’s unconditional love for the world with all people of our parish and with the wider community.

As Desmond Tutu once said: “Christ, when he was lifted up did not say ‘I draw some people to myself’. He said ‘I draw all, All, ALL’.

Come just as you are.

Every Sunday at 8.30am we have a said service of Holy Communion.

Every Sunday at 10.00am we have a sung service of Holy Communion.

Our 10am Sunday services (and other occasional events as advertised) are live streamed and can be viewed below or on our YouTube channel.

On Wednesdays at 10.00am there will be a service of Holy Communion in church.

St Matthew’s offers Prayers of Love and Faith (https://www.churchofengland.org/prayer-and-worship/worship-texts-and-resources/prayers-love-and-faith) for same sex couples. At present these will take place within regular services. For further information please do get in touch with our vicar Rev Ruth [email protected]

The birth of a child can be celebrated with a Service of Thanksgiving or Baptism (Christening).

Anyone who lives in the parish can be married at St Matthew’s, or can have a civil marriage blessed. At the moment we are unable to offer services of blessing for same-sex marriages, but we hope to be able to do so in the future.

Funerals or Memorial services can help us cope with loss and grief.

For further information, please contact our Parish Administrator, Penny Goswell, on 020 8681 3147 during office hours, Monday to Friday 9.00am to 12noon who will put you in contact with the relevant member of our team.

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Rev Ruth Chapman

St Matthew's Vicarage, 7 Brownlow Road, Croydon, Surrey, CR0 5JT

(020) 8681 3147

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Hidden Voices

for 2 hours
St Matthew's Parish Church, Croydon
Chichester Road Croydon, CR0 5NQ, United Kingdom

Saturdays 2 – 4 pm with a break for drinks and cake
14th and 28th September, 12th and 26th October 2024
St Matthew’s Church, Chichester Rd, Croydon CR0 5NQ

This 4-week course is about Modern Slavery Right Here, Right Now! It is designed to help churches and communities respond to modern slavery.
What can churches and communities do about modern slavery?
The truth is you are key to solving this puzzle. For starters, you can:
spot the signs of modern slavery and help the police to find victims.
prevent vulnerable people you meet from being trafficked or exploited.
support survivors of modern slavery, helping them overcome their experiences.

Hidden Voices is for churches with a passion for working with their communities and responding to the needs of the vulnerable and marginalised. It describes a simple process to help build community, with the church acting as a catalyst.

Hidden Voices is written in four parts:
Setting the scene for action
Detection
Prevention
Action planning

Each session includes
Biblical reflections
Practical tools
Case studies
Activities to help you work alongside your community and see how you might already be coming across modern slavery without knowing it.

We hope churches that do the Hidden Voices course will feel inspired and ready to start their own project by the end. You might not have all the answers, but you will certainly know where to start and you will receive ongoing support from the Southwark Churches Against Modern Slavery group.

To find out more please contact Penny in the church office.

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