Dear friends As many of you have read in our past newsletters, The Warehouse staff is committed to rhythms, practises and processes of Corporate Listening and Discernment (or CLAD for short). This involves us submitting the constant listening and contextual analyses we are all engaged in to each other, to the light of Scripture and to the...
“Hope is the power to keep focusing on the larger vision while taking the small, often undramatic, steps toward that future.” – Mitri Raheb* Dear friends, Over these past two years as we at The Warehouse – with our wider community of friends – have remained committed to being a listening and discerning community, we have sensed and leant into...
“We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.” – Proverb from the First Nations people of Turtle Island Dear friends, Anything worth building must be done with the intention to outlast its builder. These are the conditions of sustainable transformation. This year, The Warehouse turned 21. We celebrated this...
At The Warehouse, we long to see a world marked by God’s peace and justice, a world which embodies goodness between all things, a world where there is restoration of all that has been broken. Yet it doesn’t take too much work to recognise that we are a long way away from this world. The present realities...
“We are not first about Justice: we are first about Jesus. And lives lived in obedience to Jesus, in love for each other, lead to and look like Justice.” The Warehouse Team [1] Over the last 20 years, as we have journeyed with local churches in how best to express the Good News of Jesus to those...
Dear friends, Now that we have crossed the threshold into the second half of 2022 (!) we wanted to use this newsletter to recentre who we are, revisit some of the things we felt God was calling us to prioritise this year, and celebrate some of the work we have been involved in. As an organisation, we...
The last quarter of 2021 is here and while the year is winding down, the journeys within The Warehouse are definitely not! Looking back over the last 18 months, our primary invitation as we partner and press into asking questions regarding what it means to seek the shalom of the cities and world we are...
After 19 years of working for The Warehouse as one of its founding directors, and 5 years of preparing for this moment, Craig Stewart will be leaving The Warehouse at the beginning of next year. Craig will be joining World Vision International – a sibling organisation within the broader Micah Global community. We are so...
I have always loved the declaration of Isaiah, the Old Testament prophet, “You shall be called the repairer of the breach.” For the most part I think we have no idea what this means. At times, we put flimsy plasters over the breach and call it repaired. At other times, we shut our eyes to...
