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“Sometimes it is hell on the streets but when I play football I feel as if I am in heaven.”Thamires, Brazil

Street Child World Cup is hosting the Big City Sleep Challenge in London on the 23rd March. They’re asking supporters to spend a night sleeping rough to raise money for SCWC 2014 which will take place in Brazil.

There will be live Brazilian entertainment, a meal voucher for all sleepers and a chance to find out more about the Street Child World Cup.

You can find out all the details on the SCWC website or you can download a Big City Sleep form here, fill it out and send it to:katie@streetchildworldcup.org.

This is more than a game, no chi

Speak!

Speak for women affected by domestic abuse

http://www.restoredrelationships.org/

Don’t be silent if you are subject to domestic violence or abuse, don’t be silent if you know someone who is vulnerable

To celebrate the 12 Days of Christmas you will be able to get some freebies each day.

All you need to do is email me to contact@adambakermusic.co.uk

I will need your email address if you are to participate.

Follow the blog for each days treat!

What is there?

CD’s, Exclusive Digital Tracks, Unreleased Tracks, Photo’s, Videos and much more.

and the catch is?

There is no catch. It is a one off giveaway, not a competition. Every participant will get that days freebie.

To make it even better for every participant I will match £0.50 (100 participants = £50) to a charity which I will let you know more about after the 12 Days of Christmas.

Let Justice Reign Part 2

Christmas, what is it about? 

Incarnation? God coming into the world. The Kingdom of God at hand, arrived, in the midst, among us. The Messiah reigning. But not on a throne, not as a political authority, but as a servant, humble and compassionate.

Immanuel/Emmanuel God (El) with us. 

Let Justice Reign - How?

Modelling Jesus, Modelling God with us in humility and compassion. Demonstrations that the Kingdom of God is near and present by letting Justice Reign by being a people concerned for justice in the socio-political sphere, standing with the oppressed, raising a voice for the voiceless, showing love and compassion.

• Do something kind this Christmas - buy a coffee for a homeless person?
• Give - many great causes that need your support this Christmas WEC, Tearfund, STOP the Traffik, Retrak
• Share - food with someone who is hungry
• Pray - for the many who are exploited, oppressed, poor, hungry…
• Write - to MP’s, government to change and embrace justice (see Christian Aid and Tearfund)

These are only some ideas, be creative, what can you do to let justice reign?

Retrak a UK registered Charity appear on the latest Blue Peter episode. Check it out! Some very real and moving footage of street children.

Christma5! Supporting Open Doors this Christmas. 

Now this is slightly different from my Faith and Hope Tour. This is instead New Scottish Arts’ Christmas Hope Tour at which I will be singing at. I will have 30 mins each night.

I will be singing songs about “hope” and songs with the message of “hope” in relation to the Christmas story. 

So come along to here some Christmas themed songs about hope.

www.adambakermusic.co.uk

Rainbows of Hope is a ministry of WEC the Christian Mission which my wife and I have applied to. This week we will be at their training week. I might post some of the things we will learn there. In Senegal where we are hoping to go there is a project which Rainbows of Hope (ROH) are involved with called House of Hope. 

The project rehabilitates children who have been living on the streets. Many of the street boys in Senegal are on the streets because they have run away from religious schools because of neglect, abuse and the living conditions. Boys as young as 4 years old are given away by their parents to religious schools for training int he Qu’ran, sometimes because it is tradition to do so and at other times because a family are struggling to support a child and therefore it relieves their burden to do so.

We are going to work there for 2 years and learn the language and culture and how the project works. Before we go we spend some time in France learning French in a language school for 9 months.

Some stuff I picked up from Oxfams Music Shop in Glasgow.

Some stuff I got from Oxfam’s Music Shop in Glasgow. Holwin Wolf The Collection, Youssou N’dour Give and Take/Rokku Mi Rokka and Fleetwood Mac Rumours. Youssou N’dour is a Senegalese Pop Start. (Senegal is where my wife and I are hoping to work with WEC with a project that works with street children many of whom have been Talibe’s (Disciples) under the care of Marabout’s (teachers) but have run away to the streets for refuge because of the conditions of religious schools (Daara’s) and beatings from Marabout’s. Marabout’s often send children on to the streets to beg for money and food and they beat children who dont bring enough back. Children are given to these religious leaders as young as 4 years old, and they leave their family and home to go to a religious school. It has been a tradition in Senegal that  was once a proud Islamic tradition but now it is corrupted by poverty. BBC Our World have a short documentary which highlights the issue well, google God’s Beggar Child.