Advent and Christmas 2015: Room at the Inn

Advent and Christmas 2015: Room at the Inn

 Throughout Advent Ekklesia will be opening a daily ‘window’ onto our Christmas appeal theme – ‘Room at the Inn’: how to make room in our hearts, our churches, our lives and our world for the coming of a different order. We will discover that this can happen in a variety of different ways: welcoming the stranger (the current refugee crisis), combatting stigmatism and prejudice (HIV/AIDS, mental health issues and more), preserving the habitat (global warming and climate change), working for peacemaking and peace-building (the fractured situation throughout the Middle East) and more. Each day we will offer a meditation on a verse of Scripture, and a practical action to accompany prayer and self-examination in what is a penitential – but also profoundly hopeful – season. 

“When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you.” (Isaiah 43. 2)

The earth is a gift, so long as we continue to treat it as such – and not a commodity to be exploited.

The COP21 Paris Climate talks begin today. It is also St Andrew’s Day.

Action: Support efforts to combat global warming and human-assisted climate

change: http://www.greenchristian.org.uk/climate-action