The United Reformed Church Related Community Worker (CRCW) is a busy ministry.

CRCWs respond to and challenge the issues facing in their neighbourhoods, work with a wide range of community groups and organisations, develop initiatives and projects to transform individuals, churches and communities.

But life has dramatically changed since the coronavirus lockdown.

Marie Trubic, a CRCW based at the Priesthill & Shawlands project in Glasgow, explains how she continues to find hope and inspiration:

“As the days have gone by, I have noticed that more and more pictures of rainbows are appearing in the windows of the houses and flats that I am passing. Some have even appeared on the pavements. I have no idea who are drawing these, although I suspect that the majority are the work of children.

“I have always been fascinated by rainbows, even before I became a Christian, after which they then became more significant. Rainbows are signs, they are signs of hope and they have appeared to have become the sign of hope during these unsettling times, regardless of whether folk are familiar with the its story in the Hebrew scriptures …

“At the moment, it feels as though we, like Noah, are all sheltering from the storm. We no longer know what normal is - or what it will be. But as Christians, in the eye of this storm, we are called to share, in whatever way is appropriate, our hope of that rainbow, of a safer future, of a God that is with us always and who, as our faith tells us, will restore the world.

This is an extract from a blog written by Marie. The blog can be read in full here.

If you would like to know more about Church Related Community Work and how you can be an agent of social change, please contact the CRCW by email.

Picture: An encouraging sign with a rainbow. K Mitch Hodge/Unsplash
16 April 2020