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The Interfaith Sanctuary Alliance (ISA) of Santa Barbara will host the second Love Your Neighbor Week: Welcome the Stranger, Thursday, March 11-Sunday March 14 to raise awareness about ongoing immigrant rights issues and to stand in solidarity with immigrants in the community.
The week will consist of Love Your Neighbor/Welcome the Stranger-themed worship services the weekend of March 3-7 at various faith communities across Santa Barbara, with a complete listing of the services at www.loveyourneighborsb.org/schedule.
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TRUSSVILLE For the first time in over a decade, the annual “Love Your Neighbor” food drive to benefit T.E.A.M. (Trussville Ecumenical Assistive Ministry) will not occur in February. Due to COVID-19 precautions, the local ministry and its partner in the food drive, Trussville Area Chamber of Commerce, have made a joint decision to postpone indefinitely.
“We hope to hold a food drive around the first of the summer, depending on the COVID situation then,” said June Mathews, executive director of the Trussville Area Chamber of Commerce. “In the meantime, we encourage those who would normally contribute food to our February drive to make monetary donations instead.”
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Christmas Joy by Navik Mendis, Hampton School When Boris Johnson announced on the 19th of December that tighter restrictions would apply across the UK due to increasing COVID-19 cases, the mood was grim. Festive plans were ruined and many felt the sadness of spending Christmas without family. Many in particularly vulnerable situations – due to poverty, isolation, domestic violence, and other challenging circumstances – may have spent a joyless Christmas if it were not for the work of Love Christmas (#lovechristmaslyn), the seasonal offshoot of the Love Your Neighbour (#LoveYourNeighbour) campaign. Originating at Holy Trinity Brompton – and later spreading to thousands of churches across the country – the Love Your Neighbour campaign aimed to meet the needs of those in need during the difficult months of lockdown. This included food deliveries, weekly calls to the isolated or vulnerable, and supporting local hospitals and NHS staff. The coming of Christmas led to
It was an absolute pleasure taking the hampers to the school feeling like we had made a difference. I think at one time or another in our lives we have all felt financial strain, especially at Christmas. It can be a very lonely, unhappy time of year for families who find it hard to make ends meet. I hope that these 20 families will have a better Christmas.
“Everyone we have contacted for help has been brilliant. Ipswich Borough Council and our local councillor Peter Gardiner agreed extra funding for the idea and the East of England Co-op have matched this funding.