Dear friends Those of you who have been journeying with us over the past year or so will be familiar with the invitation that has become a core pillar for us as we seek to align ourselves to the Spirit’s movements in the world: “Go far, go slow, go together”. Over the past few months, […]
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*with acknowledgments to Kelley Nikondeha for this phrase from her highly recommended book “The First Advent in Palestine: Reversals, Resistance, and the Ongoing Complexity of Hope“ 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).
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“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
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“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
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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
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“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
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The overarching vision of The Warehouse is to see the Church actively living out the peace and justice of God for the world. All of the work that we do seeks to move towards this vision. We believe that local churches, not just because of their prevalence and position (particularly in our South African context),
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“You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times” These are the words of Jesus to the Pharisees and Sadducees in the Gospel of Matthew. Unfortunately, the Pharisees and the Sadducees are not the only ones with this limitation. Many of us as Jesus-followers and
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