Work is now under way on a redevelopment of our 269-275 Hereford Street site which will transform how we help people get back on track with their lives after we have cared for them in crisis.
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Most banks will have stopped accepting cheques by the middle of this year. ANZ, the City Mission’s bank, is stopping from May 31.
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We plan on 2021 being our biggest and best year yet in using our life and work skills sessions to lift clients’ lives and give them a new beginning.
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Lucy’s family is herself and three boys. They live in a rental which the landlord has just sold so now they have to move. This, she says voice breaking, caps a year when everything went from bad to worse.
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Once again we are hosting the biggest Christmas Day party in Christchurch and we can’t wait to see everyone enjoying themselves.
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The City Mission has been associated with city Christmas Trees in the past, but our 2020 tree in Cashel Mall is something beautifully unique to Christchurch.
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These are our clients, the people you help us support. They are just a few of the hundreds and thousands of people we will be caring for over the Christmas season. These stories are real. We are here for Christchurch people who need us, and we will always will be. Thank you for being with us on this journey.
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We love all our donors but there is something extra special when children come to us and say they want to help others in our community. You see kindness and you see a wonderful hope for all of our future when children get behind us and join us.
The City Mission is bringing Christmas to Christchurch on November 28 when we officially launch our new Christmas Tree.
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The City Mission’s Carol Service is at the Cathedral on Wednesday, December 16.
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In the last few years we have accelerated our goal of not just helping people like Pita in an emergency but also boosting their self-esteem, life skills and work skills. We believe the best gift we can give is independence.
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Many families who are coming to us for help are new to us and we are being approached for help by families who in the past have been our supporters and donors.
These generous people can hardly believe that now they need to ask for help, help that we are so pleased to give them.
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Who could have anticipated all we have experienced over the past few months. And we are only now beginning to imagine what the future shape of our community will look like. What we do know for certain is that things will never return to what was.
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After years of coping and supporting her through her drinking, he’d finally had enough. He and the children couldn’t take it anymore.
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Our famous Christmas Lunch is Christchurch’s biggest mass celebration of giving on Christmas Day.
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Geoff* is gripping the mouse tightly, waving it high in the air, clicking away, trying to make the screen work.
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