MISSION PROJECTS

In partnership with the Message Trust, Life Church brought the Community Grocery initiative to East Lancashire in 2022. We currently have 2 locations, Valley Street Community Centre and Down Town in Burnley Town Centre. As well as a route out of poverty, the Community Groceries give a sense of dignity to the shoppers and provide wrap-around care through offering services in partnership with Burnley Together, Christians Against Poverty and Alpha, as well as prayer support.

Christians Against Poverty is a national charity that enables people to find freedom from debt. CAP gets alongside people by empowering them with budgeting skills, communicating with creditors on their behalf and connecting them to the wider church community. We partner with CAP Burnley, Nelson and Colne through providing Befrienders, a Life Skills Manager, a local Debt Coach and through serving on the committee.

Safe Families vision is to reduce the number of children being ‘looked after’ by at least 10 per cent by recruiting, training and mobilising 100,000 volunteers in communities across Great Britain by 2025. Their mission is to improve the outcomes for children and families going through a crisis. Life Church partners with Safe Families to reach out into the community by supplying volunteers.

SafeNet empowers women and children to live free from domestic violence and abuse. Life Church provides support through the donation of clothing and household items, gifts for the women and children, and pamper days. Our team attends the Refuge once a month to bring support and friendship to the women and children living in the centre.

New Neighbours Together welcomes refugees and asylum seekers to the town with friendship, hospitality, advice and support. Life Church partners with New Neighbours Together by supporting their mission to bring asylum seekers to East Lancashire as well as donations towards their work.

Life Church co-founded Burnley High School in 2014 as a Christian ethos free school for pupils of all faiths and none. We continue to support the school which puts a high value on family and is guided by the principles of respect, ambition, resilience and responsibility. Pete Baker is currently the Chair of Governors. We also serve a number of primary and secondary schools across East Lancs, seeking to share the good news of Jesus with those children and young people.