people from the local community, providing basic food bags
Thursday, 7 May 2020 Both supply and demand have been building at the UCKG HelpCentre soup kitchen on Kilburn High Road thanks to the support of two local newspapers, the HelpCentre members, and members of other HelpCentres in Hammersmith and Southall. Having started by providing basic food bags for just 30 disadvantaged or homeless people three weeks ago, […]
holy ceremony
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many people are self-isolating and in light of the recent directions from the government, the UCKG HelpCentre is doing the most to support everyone during the pandemic. We have restructured our church meetings with immediate effect, so that they will only take place online until further notice. Imagine you were going about […]
a God of reaction
Who hasn’t cried before? We have all done it, especially in moments when we were in pain or felt a deep sadness. Maybe you have shed more tears than you could possibly count. “You number my wanderings; put my tears into Your bottle; are they not in Your book?” (Psalm 56:8) God sees our tears […]
Mental health
“Keep calm and stay safe at home” is the message to all across the UK. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has described the outbreak of Covid-19 as the “worst public health crisis for a generation”. In our sixth week into the lockdown, the situation is changing hourly and in the age of the smartphone, the breaking […]
faith groups, seeking additional donations
Friday, 1 May 2020 With attendance up by 50% a week after it opened, the soup kitchen at the UCKG HelpCentre on Kilburn High Road is clearly meeting a local need in the face of the coronavirus lockdown. Having supplied 30 local people with some basics last week, the soup kitchen saw 46 attendees on […]
soup kitchens in London, The soup kitchen
Friday, 24 April 2020 The UCKG held a pop up ‘soup kitchen’ in Leeds on Saturday 18 April, and provided food packs for 65 people in the city, who were either homeless or otherwise struggling to feed themselves in the face of the COVID-19 situation. All of the food and the PPE that was used […]
members of the HelpCentre
Thursday, 23 April 2020 The UCKG HelpCentre on Kilburn High Road reacted speedily to the government’s latest extension of the coronavirus lockdown by opening a soup kitchen at its premises, two days later on Saturday 18 April. In that short time, Pastor Carlos who runs the HelpCentre, gathered a team of volunteers and enough essential […]
Thursday, 23 April 2020 Attendance was up 50% after a week, at the UCKG HelpCentre’s soup kitchen in its headquarters building, the Rainbow Theatre, on Seven Sisters Road, Finsbury Park. Having opened for the first time on Easter Saturday, and handed out chicken soup and a small bag of groceries to 29 people, a week […]
he word of the Lord, sing faith with intelligence, the man of God
In this period of isolation and social distancing, the world has been forced to move at a slower pace. Everything has been affected, including people’s means of provision; in some cases, even the bare necessities have been limited. All of the things we took for granted just a few months ago are no longer easily […]
