Alison Micklem – Community-minded
‘My job is not to get people outside the church to come in, but rather to encourage people inside the church to go out’
‘The welcome and care the homeless people received, and the support of people in the churches who they felt had become real friends, helped them gain a new perspective on their lives’
‘By letting go, the church has enabled people’s hopes for the lunch club to be realised’
‘If anyone had told that congregation five years ago they should be hosting community activities seven days a week – they would have been unanimous in declaring it impossible’
‘If “incarnational ministry” has any distinguishing features, then it is the ministry of “being there”’
‘The smoothie-maker was powered by pedalling a static bicycle, so the drink was healthy in more ways than one’
‘It is high time the ideals and approaches of community-based credit unions were more widely embraced’
‘Gardening projects could be taken as a model of community development work at its best’
