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Our motivation
Sharing God’s love
We are inspired by God to share his love with people who are in need.
God’s love is
very personal, and values each individual as unique and special.
We long to see God’s
blessing in the life of every person who comes to us.
Actively helping people to move
forwards
We provide people with real opportunities to help them make genuine progress in their
lives. The choice is always theirs, and we encourage them along the way. This includes
supporting and helping them with their practical, emotional and spiritual needs,
so that they can become independent and enjoy the fullness of life.
We try to enable
changes in people’s lifestyles, promoting health in every aspect of their lives,
ensuring that they live in healthy conditions and are emotionally secure, and therefore
able to integrate more fully into the wider community, and able to lead meaningful
and purposeful lives.
Who we are
Part of the church in Bath
We are supported by all the churches in Bath,
who provide teams of volunteers, together with financial support, with the use of
their premises, and with prayer. We help the churches to work together to reach
people in need in the Bath area. We help individual Christians to put their faith
into action.
Volunteers
Most of our work is done by an army of volunteers from many
different churches who bring their love, their time and their energy to help people
in need. Some of our clients also become volunteers to help them develop their skills.
Staff
We
employ 13 people on a full or part time basis, working under a Director and a board
of Trustees, supported by an Advisory Board.
The people we help
Helping homeless, needy and disadvantaged people
We are here to
help people who find life difficult in many ways, and who need our support in order
to move forward in their lives. This includes people who are at the moment in the
situation where they are homeless, with addictions, vulnerable and desperate. They
may be influenced by alcohol, with family breakdown, and with chaotic lifestyles.
They may be disadvantaged, long term unemployed, or in some way marginalised. They
may be less able, or have learning disabilities or mental health issues.
How we help them
Stepping stones to the future
Our projects provide a variety of ways
to help people move forwards in their lives, from the provision of food...to friendship
and personal support...to help with rehousing...to training in lifeskills...to work
experience...to gaining qualifications...to ongoing support when they enter voluntary
or paid employment.
People can progress as they wish, and everyone’s journey is different.
A
place of safety
We provide safe places for people to come, in a non-
We come alongside people and share
their lives, their disappointments and their achievements. We accept people as they
are, and we are not judgmental. We treat them with great respect, and value them
as individuals. We help them to be themselves, and to live life more fully.
Building
confidence
We give people the opportunity to talk, to be listened to, and to socialise
with others. We help them to build relationships, to learn, to gain confidence,
and to express their needs and aspirations.
We seek to influence feelings of hopelessness,
worthlessness, insecurity, lack of trust in others, unhelpful negative attitudes,
and a lack of ability to commit..
We encourage and empower people, asking them to
make and keep commitments, and to accept responsibility.
We see them achieving an
increased sense of self worth, self confidence and self discipline, a sense of belonging
and a beneficial routine, so that they feel secure, and achieve a more stable lifestyle.
We
give them hope to achieve what was previously impossible.
Self determination
We guide, mentor, open doors, and match support to individual need.
But we allow people to work out for themselves what their needs are, and find out
for themselves how to meet them.
Part of a community
In Genesis, people have the opportunity
to belong to a community where they are valued and loved.
Spiritually, people know
that they are loved by God, and are able to move into a faith community in the city.
Long
term friendship
We help people to move forward so that in the end they do not need
Genesis. But the timing is in their hands, and they are never asked to leave. Our
friendship is real, and it is long term. We don’t give up on people.
Part of the wider community
A Christian witness to the community
We show the wider
community what happens when the churches work together to help people in need, and
everyone in the Bath area can see the benefits. We challenge negative and intolerant
attitudes towards homeless and disadvantaged people.
Supported by the community
We are helped by many supporters who give money, furniture, clothes and other items
to assist our work and our fund raising.
Working with other agencies
We work with other
agencies to make sure that our services dovetail together.
We provide:
- Food at the Sunday Centre, Soup Run and Lunch Box.
- The Lifeline Centre -
The first stop for people in crisis or experiencing addiction and help for the most vulnerable in society.
- Low cost furniture for those on benefit at the Furniture Project.
- Life Skills -
1 sessions.
- The Woodworks -
- Street Pastors is a sober presence on the streets of Bath on Friday and Saturday nights.
"If anyone has material processions and sees his brother in need but has no pity
on him, how can the love of God be in him? So let us not love only with words or
with tongue but with action and in truth."
1 John 3:17-
About Genesis Trust
© 2010 The Genesis Trust, 1 -
Tel: 01225 463549
Registered Charity No: 1045828