Loving well and radically at the margins of UK society.
This year, the London Hub is walking month by month through Just Love's six Justice Practices, exploring the core vision we gather around as a community. This month, we’re focusing on the practice of Loving Widely.
This is a unique opportunity to hear from Molly on the call to love widely and radically in the context of UK poverty, educational inequality, the asylum system and more. With time to pray, worship and connect as a community.
St Peter's Vauxhall is a short walk from Vauxhall station, and from Vauxhall and Oval tube stations. Sign up below.
Have you ever wondered about moving to a marginalised area to support the local church there? Are you concerned about food banks, child poverty and educational inequality in the UK? Do you have questions about following the Holy Spirit's leading, or about how to support vulnerable people with both wisdom and sustainability?
If so, we'd so recommend coming to hear from Molly.
After being involved in Just Love Oxford, Molly moved to an estate in West Bowling, Bradford to join an Eden team. Whilst there she did a lot of youth work, lived with refugees, made a lot of friends, went on a lot of prayer walks, ate a lot of chips, trained to be teacher and became confused about how to pronounce words like "grass".
Molly now lives in Luton and continues to teach, do youth work, study for a Masters in SEND and commit to her local church, community and football team. She hopes to start respite fostering in the autumn.
All are welcome to hear from Molly on as she shares what she's learned over a decade living and working in an urban mission context.
We'll also make time for sung worship, to pray together and to hang out as a community. Feel free to bring a friend.
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In an era marked by isolation, fragmentation and the breakdown of community, we aim to do relationships the Jesus way, crossing boundaries, creating space for others to thrive, and living lives of radical inclusion.
Over against digital distraction, culture wars and social polarisation, we seek to shape spaces of justice and belonging. God said that he "sets the lonely in families" (Ps 68:6) - but to do that he needs people who are up for it.
We aim to create, shape and be part of communities that are truly inclusive, that do justice together, and where all are able to belong. Whether we are single, married, divorced, grieving, paying a mortgage, living in a flat-share, raising children or whatever else, we aim to do home, family and community in a radically other-centred way.
We want to practice radical hospitality - "welcoming the stranger" into our homes, be they a refugee fleeing conflict, a young person in need of a safe space, or a person finding their feet after time behind bars.
For some of us, this looks like opening our homes and our lives to people who are usually excluded or avoided, whether through illness, disability, gender identity, or whatever else. Or making space to accommodate people in urgent need of a place to stay, whether refugees fleeing conflict or people recovering from addiction or trauma.
For others, it might look like choosing counter-cultural forms of relational life, such as intentional community, voluntary singleness or the sharing of possessions, committing ourselves to spaces of justice, peace and belonging.
For others still, it will look like relocating our lives to physically cross the social and cultural boundaries erected by society, be they cultural, economic, political or linguistic - literally mapping out our lives based on the Kingdom of God.
In these and a thousand other ways, we seek to be and become the family of God, a community of reconciliation, love and friendship for all.
London Hub
The Just Love London Hub is a space of support and action in the work of social justice. We meet monthly in Vauxhall to
Pray and worship
Learn together
Spend time in community
Each month, we hear from a member or friend of the Just Love Network who is practicing justice in a radical, impactful and innovative way. Join us this month to hear from Molly.