Liverpool City Mission © 2009 | Maintained by A Rimmer
City Centre Outreach
The café was opened in 1997 to serve the general public, along with the bookshop.
·In May 2003 we started serving free early morning breakfasts (7:00 am – 8:40 am each day Monday to Friday), to the homeless and needy folks of our city.
·By running the city centre rescue work in our Mount Pleasant Café we open our doors to those who society has written off – heroin addicts, street girls, alcoholics. Heroin addicts who live a grey meaningless life doing whatever it takes to get their next fix. The alcoholics who shake so badly they can barely hold a cup of tea first thing in the morning. The street girls who act so hard and untouchable. Yet If Christ were physically here in the city of Liverpool today you can be sure He would be here amongst these homeless folk, showing them His love, offering them His forgiveness, healing their diseases. But He is not here and has instead entrusted us with this most precious task.
·It’s a challenging and demanding work and one that many Christians fail to understand. This work has developed into visiting clients in prison and hospitals.
This is not just about “physical food handouts” alone, but provides many excellent opportunities to share the Gospel, and to befriend these homeless and vulnerable members of our community. Literally a “Voice in the City”.
Royal Liverpool Hospital
HM Prison Walton
Staff Drug Awareness Training
Three of our staff who work amongst the homeless and addicted have successfully completed the NCFE Level 2 Certificate in Drug Awareness Studies and their Applications. Mark Callister with two others who have since retired, undertook this 18 week course (Friday afternoons). They completed five units:-
· Understand Drug Use / Misuse
· Recognise and Respond to Drug Use / Misuse
· Communicate with Young People about Drugs
· Work with Communities
· Show Awareness of Issues Concerning Alcohol and Young People
We at the Liverpool City Mission felt that it was very important for these men to be trained in this area.
Three of our staff who work amongst the homeless and addicted have successfully completed the NCFE Level 2 Certificate in Drug Awareness Studies and their Applications. Mark Callister with two others who have since retired, undertook this 18 week course (Friday afternoons). They completed five units:-
· Understand Drug Use / Misuse
· Recognise and Respond to Drug Use / Misuse
· Communicate with Young People about Drugs
· Work with Communities
· Show Awareness of Issues Concerning Alcohol and Young People
We at the Liverpool City Mission felt that it was very important for these men to be trained in this area.