A public talk by Michael Gorman, Christchurch City Missioner at the City Mission. This talk, entitled 'Dealing with the social aftershock', formed part of the Plenary Two session, 'Clearing the decks'.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The fence of the cordoned off Christchurch City Mission showing all the teddy bears that people have left".
A Christchurch catering company has joined forces with the City Mission to tackle what is being described as a new era of poverty after the Canterbury earthquakes.
A graphic illustrating statistics on food parcels distributed by the City Mission.
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Hereford Street, just up from City Mission".
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Hereford Street, just up from City Mission".
former site of sweet shop, Christchurch City Mission charity shop and Soul Food Cafe
A building on Worcester Street where the brick side wall has collapsed, exposing the interior.
A photograph of Tim Corry, Community Development Worker at the Christchurch Methodist Mission, taking part in #FiveYearsOn. Corry is from the Christchurch Methodist Mission's Wellbeing New Brighton Project, an All Right? Champion. Corry holds a sign which reads, "Five years on, I feel... that my glass is half full." All Right? posted the photograph on their Facebook Timeline on 21 February 2016 at 9:27am. All Right? captioned the photograph, "Tim from the Christchurch City Mission is feeling that his glass is half full. #fiveyears on #5yearson #allrightnz". (This was later corrected in the comments to, "the magnificent Christchurch METHODIST Mission".)
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Christchurch City Missioner Michael Gorman is shipping out food as soon as it arrives. 65 food parcels arrived yesterday where 35 is the norm".
The Christchurch City Council's plans to to help curb a rising homeless population has left some people who live rough worried. The council is considering funding the Christchurch City Mission to employ outreach workers for the first time since the Canterbury earthquakes, and police are increasing central city patrols. Christchurch reporter Logan Church has the story.
A video of a tour of Lion Nathan's Canterbury Brewery, where employees are cleaning up after the 4 September 2010 earthquake. The video shows footage of Lion Nathan employees clearing away pallets of broken bottles and mopping up spilt beer. It also includes an interview with Neil Hinton, Lion Nathan Corporate Affairs Director, about the beer which has been sent down from Auckland, and the help they are giving to the City Mission.
A PDF copy of minutes from a meeting between Anglican Advocacy (formerly the Anglican Life Social Justice Unit), the City Mission, Te Whare Roimata, Presbyterian Support, and landowners from Christchurch East. The meeting took place on 7 August 2012.