If you would like your Church to move further in your journey towards being a disaster-ready church, you can contact respond@warehouse.org.za You can read more about the RESPOND Coalition here
Better Together
This is the first in a series of good news stories emerging from the Church responding to the COVID-19...in collaboration, in creativity, in community
Action towards Compassionate Care for Homeless People during COVID-19 Lockdown
Is this not the fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke? – Isaiah 58:6 As part of the Western Cape Ecumenical Network (WCEN) and other Denominational and Faith-Based Organisations Coalitions, the Warehouse would like to encourage...
Setting up a Care Centre in COVID-19 Response
Please download the latest version of this manual here. Please note that this is part of a larger initiative across the country. You can read more about it about it and register your church here
Local Ecumenical Action Networks (LEAN) – Starter Pack
Please note that this will soon be in a form which will be easier to distribute. We wanted to balance the need to have the information out for people who were asking for it with the need to have it in the easiest-to-read-and-share format. This is for the former 🙂 Local Ecumenical Action Network (LEAN)...
Hope in a COVID Siege
We, in South Africa, have just ended our first week of a national lockdown in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. As a world, we are under siege and experiencing it in real-time like no generation before us. As this siege crept towards us inexorably and a lockdown was announced, my social media news feeds were...
Locked Down, not Locked Out
Around the country, churches are being called on to open their doors as Care Centres to the vulnerable, to those who are unable to self-isolate due to high-density living areas, to healthcare workers who need rest between shifts somewhere near their workplace, and as community testing and collection & distribution sites. With the need for...
Home- & Community Based Care for COVID-19
When someone has COVID-19 sickness from infection with novel coronavirus, the most common symptoms are: fever cough, tiredness, and shortness of breath. Sometimes people may also have aches and pains, nasal congestion, runny nose, a sore throat or a headache. Rarely, patients may also present with diarrhoea, nausea, and vomiting. If someone is sick with...
Offering & Preparing your Church Site/s for Use during Lockdown
If you would like to offer your Church Site as a Care Centre, please fill out this form. We are all aware that we have not reached the apex of the pandemic in South Africa. In the coming weeks we will see a rise in the number of people who are reporting ill as well...