Dealing with Delay Alison writes about our approach to dealing with delay. How have you coped during the last two years? “Hope deferred makes the heart sick but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.” Proverbs 13 v12 Definition of Delay To defer something means to put off to a later time or postpone, […]
David: A Man After God’s Own Heart part 1
David: A Man After God’s Own Heart Part 1 “And Samuel said to Saul, “You have done foolishly. You have not kept the command of the LORD your God, with which he commanded you. For then the LORD would have established your kingdom over Israel forever. But now your kingdom shall not continue. The LORD […]
Are We An Ageist Society?
Are We An Ageist Society? This week’s blog post has been written by Alison Davey. A personal reflection More recently, I have found myself getting more aware of my own sensitivities to the subject. Perhaps it is because I myself am getting older and am learning to embrace what my own ‘mid-life’ years look like. […]
Children’s Storehouse
Children’s Storehouse Who are we and what do we do? The Children’s Storehouse is run by Jubilee Church Solihull to serve Solihull and its neighbouring communities. It was set up around four years ago and our aim is to show compassion by providing free, good quality pre-loved clothing, bedding and towels, toys and toiletries for […]
The Storehouse in Lockdown
The Storehouse in Lockdown Three years ago, the Children’s Storehouse opened its doors. The Storehouse, is a ministry that comes out of Jubilee Church Solihull to serve the needs of the most vulnerable in our community and as a church based ministry, we are not postcode restricted and so wherever there is a need we […]
Going Deeper: Joy
Going Deeper: Joy Alison shares how she has been challenged by God to choose joy as she goes deeper with Him. “Consider it Joy when you encounter various trials” I’ve been thinking a lot about this verse lately. (James 1:2) I found that God was challenging me to CHOOSE JOY! Look.. I know that it’s […]
“What more can we do?”
Alison leads the Children’s Storehouse team. Here she shares about the privilege of serving from a heart of love. “What more can we do?” These are the words that are living with me at the moment. Sometimes we can feel that there is so much need that we just don’t know where to start and […]
Clothed with Dignity
This week’s post is from the Storehouse team. Clothed with Dignity People ask me “Why did you set up the Storehouse? And what’s it all about?” Well the answer is quite simple really, we set it up because as a Church we felt we had to respond practically to the very real needs that families […]
Children’s Storehouse
News from the Children’s Storehouse team We just wanted to start by saying thank you to you all for your support in our first campaign! Before Christmas we launched a “Christmas Pants Campaign.” Where instead of sending Christmas cards, individuals were able to donate packs of pants to the storehouse. We calculated that we would […]
Introducing the Jubilee team: Alison
Introducing Alison Returning to our ‘interviews’ with team members, let’s meet Alison. How did you become a Christian? Well, I had been brought up by my mum to go to Church and to Sunday school, but it was when I was on a “weekend away” at the age of 12 that I realised going to […]