Category: Blog

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Black Lives vs White Comfort

Nkosivumile Gola The recent events in the world, both in terms of the recent wave of the Black Lives Matter movement that has swept the world due to the continued murdering of black men by police, and the ongoing femicide, have shaken how we should think about the world. The Warehouse Trust’s commitment to being...

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This White Heaven is Built on Black Hell

Once again we are too lateTo see Black Life as Human LifeGet used to being Late —It will be that way until weconnect our whiteheavens to black hells. Can we see?How we talkhow hire private security,what we believe,where we charge entry,how we assume priority,where we livewhere we go to school,what we learn,what we eatwho we...

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Victory?

We are not so different They, waiting for the promised Messiah to deliver them from their colonial powers Hoping for the day exploitation, oppression and brutalisation would be no more Praying and preparing for revolution Forward to the new Jerusalem! Thousands of years later the scenery is unchanged Still we wait for the Messiah to...

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The Warehouse is leaving the Warehouse

Our dear friends It is with rather nervous excitement that we share with you that we are moving out of the building which has been our home for 17 years! This may seem like a very sudden announcement and so we wanted to share a bit of the journey which has led us to this...

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An Introduction to CLAD (Corporate Listening & Discernment)

(This is an excerpt from a longer piece documenting The Warehouse’s journey in becoming formed as a discerning community and some lessons we have learned as we have journeyed. If you would like to know more about this, please feel free to contact us – we would be more than happy to share.) Identifying as,...

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New Hope in the Church

Walking into the old church community hall of St Peters Anglican Church in the heart of Mowbray on a Thursday evening, one will be welcomed by a community of people who gather to eat a wholesome hot meal together each week. Many live on the streets, some live in houses nearby and further afield. All...

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More than a Meal – Thank you for hope

Local Churches partner and care for their own community and others. “The relief fund is not just helping with food on the table and feeding my children. It has given me hope, just when I thought all was lost. It restored my faith that we still have good in the world. When it seemed like...

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HOPE FOOD VOUCHERS: Information & FAQs

There are many churches and other concerned organisations who are wanting to respond to the food security crisis that has become a serious consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic. There are some complexities around food parcels as a response to COVID-19 at the moment and so we have tried to focus on the food voucher model....

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If your Church closed tomorrow, would anyone notice?

I remember being challenged by a friend who asked me this question: “If your church closed tomorrow would anyone notice?” While it annoyed me greatly at the time, it is a powerful question that we would do well to ask ourselves in times like these. Exploring answers to this question is not as much about...