Poor and disadvantaged

• What has the church done in the past?


  • help set up a charity to give children an upbringing in a loving family environment
  • provided schools for pauper children
  • housing for the elderly
• Christian Aid

  • provide aid to less economically developed countries to improve living standard
  • provide emergency aid following major disasters but does not seek to convert people to Christianity
• What did Faith in the City result in

  Church Urban Fund (CUF)
• What does CUF provide?

  provides financial and practical support to churches/communities in poor urban areas
• Christians have become more concerned with fighting the causes of poverty through work with poor communities an social justice campaigns