Christ Apostolic Church
New Life Sanctuary
Christ Apostolic Church New Life Sanctuary’s Trustees Report
March 2018 – February 2019
Overview of Christ Apostolic Church New Life Sanctuary
Christ Apostolic Church New Life Sanctuary was incorporated in February 2016 as an initiative to bring together those of a similar faith to pray and support each other.
We recognise that a sense of community is a powerful tool with which to equip people, no matter where they are in the world, and this serves to ground and empower them as they face challenges in their everyday lives.
In Belfast, because of the difficulties in the world, people are arriving seeking a new life and coming to a strange country to ‘start over’ is very daunting. Most of these arrivals are families and the sense of isolation they feel when they arrive can not be underestimated as they attempt to navigate their way through the alien system of officialdom.
Christ Apostolic Church New Life Sanctuary is a programme that has seen these people welcomed and more importantly, given a community on which they can depend on for support, not only in the logistics of adapting to their nerw home but also in a spiritual way too as they come together to pray.
What Christ Apostolic Church New Life Sanctuary has achieved
From March 2018 – February 2019 Christ Apostolic Church New Life Sanctuary ’s main purpose was to provide physical and spiritual support to families as they arrived in the country. In addition to the challenges of being new into a country, families face the same difficulties as any other family: addiction, racism, marital problems etc. We provide counselling services for all these and seek to prvide extra curricular activities to enhance that sense of belonging and of community.
In the coming year Christ Apostolic Church New Life Sanctuary hope to secure a more permanent base which will be a comfortable and safe place for our community to attend, to pray, to receive support as and when it is needed and ensure the Church continues to develop and remain at the heart of our community.
DECLARATION
The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.
Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees
Signature
Nathaniel Akinniran
Full Name(s)
Nathaniel Akinniran
Position
Pastor & Trustee
DATE 30[th] October 2019
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DECLARATION The trustees declare thatthey have approved the trusteé report aljove. Signed on behalf of the charltys trustees Slgnature Full Namèlsl Nathaniel Akinnlran Position Pastor & Trustee DATE Ottober 2019