Urban Neighbours of Hope is a ministry operating in Randwick Park in South Auckland. Dave and his team run a variety of social enterprise type organisations to provide hope and a means of employment to people who want to build better lives.
Through lawn mowing and bouncy castles hire they contracting for various jobs for the council they are empowering vulnerable.
Love Your Neighbour, NZ
date. 2022
Gift towards the work of facilitating chruch wide conversations
Howard, Lynette, and Bruce head up the Love your Neighbour team, facilitating church wide conversations for churches wishing reimagine what it means for them to be church.
Post Covid many churches are rethinking what it is that makes their church unique and valuable to their local community. The Love your Neighbour team uses appreciative inquiry to gather the thoughts of the people sitting around the table and to provide room for the Holy Spririt to birth exciting visions of what their church could 'be' moving forward.
Out of his many experiences with churches, Howard has written a book 'Redemptive Family' to explain a wholly authentic way of being church. It is centred around people gathered together as family for a meal, participating together in the rhythms of Christian life, and being missional in a special pllace - their local neighbourhood