New appeal brings hope for Southampton housing estate

News Release: 23 September 2011

Church Army has launched its latest appeal which highlights the work of The Weston Lighthouse Project on a deprived housing estate in Southampton.

The project is run by Evangelists Tim Hyde and Trevor Clarke with the help of Evangelist-in-Training Maria Hembrow. The team works on the Weston housing estate which is well-known for its extreme levels of deprivation. Many of its residents struggle with unemployment, family breakdown, drug and alcohol addiction, mental illness and loneliness.

Therefor, Tim and the team are reaching out to people by meeting their practical needs on a daily basis and through these servant-hearted expressions of God's love, people are being drawn into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

Tim said: "We have established a variety of outreach projects which include: a fortnightly lunch club for the elderly, the lonely, and the semi-housebound; a renovations project which provides a basic decorating service for those who move into sub-standard accommodation; a domestic rubbish collection service; an allotment project designed to give people "green therapy"; and a service providing the most needy with furniture and white goods which have been donated to us."

Karen, a Weston resident, said: "My family was in desperate need of a fresh start and it would have been a lot harder to achieve without your help. You have restored my faith in human kindness which had been destroyed many years ago. God bless you."

To watch a film about The Weston Lighthouse Project and to donate, please visit our appeal web page.