Eurodiaconia updates and news...

The Free Churches Group are among a number of organisations who are active as part of the Eurodiaconia network. You can sign up for updates from them HERE. Their mission, with their partners, is “connecting faith and social justice through action.”

As part of Eurodiaconia’s work to keep us all in touch with

what is happening across their network

in response to COVID-19, there are some helpful press releases HERE.

An inspiring message from Heather Roy, the Secretary General of Eurodiaconia, to our churches

“This is the opportunity to see how our understanding of social justice and social care needs to go to the heart of our economic and political thinking. We need a paradigm shift in our understanding of what makes societies and people flourish – not only economic well-being but social well-being – and they cannot be in competition with each other – they do not need to be in competition with each other – one can reinforce the other. Thank you to all of you who are working – as volunteers and as staff – at this time. You are showing why what Diaconia does is essential and why it needs to be at the heart of our development as a society. You are valued and you are essential.”

(photo courtesy of Jakob Braun at Unsplash)