Peter's House - Update

The next Peter’s House year starts on Monday, 07th September, and we are expecting four new volunteers to arrive that week. 

From the USA we have two volunteers: Jensen and Joslyn. From Colombia we have Juan and from Austria there is Jakob. 

The sharp eyed will notice that we have opted to recruit volunteers with the same first initial – it’s the year of the J’s.

The volunteers will have the opportunity to introduce themselves to you, both here and in person, over the course of the next few weeks and months and its our hope that a more straightforward start to the year will mean a quicker‘bedding in’ to the life of the team churches.

The summer has seen a few updates to the house on Ella Street, including a new boiler which will save us quite a bit of concern. In October we will have a fifth volunteer joining us, just for a couple of weeks. Katharina (we thought four J’s were enough, so moved on to the next letter in the alphabet) is a cousin of Laura, (Peter’s House 25/26) and is coming to stay during a school holiday.

Each of the volunteers will be assigned a personal ‘mentor’ from within the churches, if you’d like to volunteer to mentor one of them, do let Simon know.

Each volunteer will be working in and alongside the team of churches, as well as volunteering in community projects, undertaking a study project, and spending time with Simon – taking part in Bible studies and discussion.

We all know what a transformative year this can be for young people, key to this is the relationships they develop in and through the churches, so please do take time to get to know the volunteers if you can.