'Experiencing Homelessness’ presentation as a monologue or a group presentation to highlight the challenges faced by some of those experiencing homelessness. With around one fifth of parishes within the Diocese of London actively helping the homeless, this is an issue that is very close to hearts and minds, the reason we have launched the Diocesan of London Homelessness Appeal so parishes can join together in an immediate response to help alleviate the suffering of those living in urgent and desperate need.

2. Experiencing
Homelessness

3. Imagine what it must be like ..

4. Can you?
…….. I find it hard.

5. What would it be like to lose
your home?

6. How would you cope?
Could you do it for a
night?
Could you do it for a
year?

7. Can you imagine what its like
to have people walk past you
who feel awkward and
uncomfortable by your
misfortune?

8. It can happen to anybody…..

9. “I wasn’t
well…..
so I gave up a
little bit……”

10. “I lost my job. I had no money
- I tried to get another job.”

11. “I hadn’t eaten for a few days,
I was so very hungry”

12. “… and then my brother died.”

13. “People do funny things when
they’re faced with grief….”

14. “If you have nowhere to go,
what do you do?
Where do you go???”

15. “You can’t work if you can’t
sleep.”

16. “All I had were
my thoughts…”

17. “If things aren’t spoken about,
it’s easy to pretend they’re
not happening”

18. “People don’t ask questions
when they don’t want to know
the answer….”

19. …. somewhere to be warm
for a few hours”

20. “No one wants to sleep rough…
you end up walking around all
night”

21. “There is a big
difference
between £1
and £2 when
you have no
money.”

22. “When you’re homeless you
don’t have many clothes…
If they get wet, it’s very hard
to dry them.”

23. “I looked at the reflection in
the shop window.
I didn’t recognise myself”

24. “Being homeless is heartbreaking.”

25. “You find your
way.

26. “Get a roof over my head and
then I’ll see…”

27. “I want to try and feel normal.”

28. This
is
an
appeal

29. “Everyone has a story.”

30. “How can anyone know what
LIFE MIGHT THROW AT
THEM….”

31. “We stand
together.

32. “Truly I tell you, whatever you
did for one of the least of
these brothers and sisters of
mine, you did for me.”
Matthew 25:40

33. Make this appeal
part of your
advent and
Christmas giving
www.london.anglican.org/homelessnessappeal
Get involved

34. How to give
• Cash collections - through your local
church/parish.
• Online donations can be made
at https://www.give.net/lent18_homelessness
• Cheques made out to the LONDON DIOCESAN
FUND with Homelessness Appeal or Lent 2018 noted on
the back.