Barking Churches Unite

13 March 2022

Barking Churches Unite has a joint strategy of prayer and mission, in order to love back the community for God. The charity operates from three premises gifted rent free by the council and local businesses. They run a number of projects centred on wellbeing from a unit in the local shopping centre. Services include bereavement support, alcohol and drug rehabilitation, an arts and craft activity programme for those with mental health issues and an advisory service supporting people into employment. This premises also provides a mailing address for the homeless.

At the Barking Learning Centre, Barking Churches Unite provide 100 free meals a day, five days a week, through the ‘Pit stop’ café for those who are homeless or in need. Here, they also provide emergency food parcels and run a community food club which helps people with additional food supplies.

The third site is a warehouse that supports those who have been recently rehoused with free furniture, white goods and other household items. Prayer is a priority and activities include street prayer and united prayer meetings, regular prayer meetings for children’s and youth leaders and an intercessors group praying regularly for the community.

Michael Mednick, Coordinator for Barking Church Unite, said:

We are a group of churches across denominations, who share the same passion; to demonstrate the love of God to our town. We come together to pray and serve Barking, so that we can bring blessing and transformation. Last year we received over 25,000 visits and provided over 22,500 meals through our café and helped with housing, benefits, food supplies and many other things. We’ve supported, prayed and cared for people with the love of Jesus and seen them make positive steps towards change. We want to grow our services and hope to set up a discipleship programme in the future so that people in our community can come to know Jesus.”

Find out more: www.barkingchurchesunite.org