Our first residents are moving into our new Whakaora Kāinga (transitional housing) building and we couldn’t be more excited and proud to see this amazing project finally get under way.
Whakaora Kāinga is at 275 Hereford Street – behind our new Thrive Café – and it is part of a $11m redevelopment that will take the quality of how we care for people to new levels. A new foodbank is still being completed and that will open in March-April 2023.
Read MoreThis year we will feature the inaugural performance of the Christchurch City Mission Choir, which includes very brave and committed people who have been homeless and in our emergency shelters and who use our drop-in day programmes. They will be joined by Mission volunteers and staff to sing the songs of Christmas we all love.
Everyone is welcome to attend the Carol Service at the Transitional Cathedral at 7pm on December 14.
Read MoreWhen Bob (not his real name) was hungry, a meal would be frozen peas put in a glass of hot water. He is a 77-year-old who was sent to our Foodbank for help by a support worker.
Along with the request came this heartbreaking photo of his fridge taken during a welfare check. The shock of those empty shelves really brings home what it means when people tell us they are struggling and food has to be low in their priorities.
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