Restoration Counselling Services
(RCS) is an agency of the church and
has been established to provide
practical and ongoing help to the
community.
A number of projects have been
established by the agency these are
- click the links for more
information:
Drop in Centre
Mentoring Service
Home Visits
Jephthah's Army Project
Mission & Vision Statement
Jephthah's Daughter - A Ministry of Women to Women
Rites of Passage
Strengthening Families, Strengthening Communities
Drop in Centre
The centre opens from 11.00 am to
3.00pm every Wednesday and is for
all sections of the community. This
is a free service and is a ministry
of the main church.
Week 1
Intercessory prayer for the
community
Morning Prayer times:
11.00-11.30 prayers
11.30-12.00-discussion/-bible study
12.00-12.30 Tea/refreshments
Afternoon times:
1.00-2.30 prayer, discussion & bible
study
Week 2
Community Bible study subjects shall
include:
The Bible
Becoming a Christian
The basics of Christianity
Jesus the Way, the Truth, the Life
Week 3
Counselling
Help with family and other issues
Children issues
Mentoring
Spiritual guidance
Week 4
Casework
referrals from other agencies and to
other agencies
Follow up
Advocacy
Ongoing support
Week 5
Workshop
Topical issues shall be explored.
Practical help and advice on key
issues such as:
Money matters
Rites of passage
Policing
Overcoming gambling/alcohol/drug
addiction
Information centre
Mentoring Service
The mentoring programme is delivered
by Restoration Counselling Services
(RCS) and is an agency of the main
church.
The mentoring programme is for any
young person (boys and girls) who
will work with a mentor as he/she
grows up.
The mentor will offer
support, guidance and direction in
areas such as education, career
choice, coping with adolescence,
rites of passage and generally all
matters to do with growing up.
Ministers of the main church
supervise the mentoring programme.
The programme is not a substitute
for his/her parents but is designed
to assist parents as a family
friend, elder brother or sister, or
uncle/aunt.
To know more about the programme
simply contact the church office.
Home Visits
As a community oriented church we
seek to be open to the public on a
daily basis and do hope you will
visit us during the day and
especially on a Wednesday at the
Drop in Centre. The church also
offers home visits to the sick,
elderly and anyone who seeks the
help and support of the church.
Home visits are for:
Prayer, Counselling, Bible study and
any pastoral help that you and your
family might require.
To request a home visit from our
trained visitors please contact the
church by email, regular postal
service or by telephone. All visits
are by arrangement and are free of
charge.
Jephthah's Army Project
Who was Jephthah?
Jephthah was the illegitimate son of
a wealthy man and a prostitute
woman. The life and times of
Jephthah
can be found in the book of Judges
in the Holy Bible. Below is a
summary of the key points in
Jephthah’s life:
Rejected by his siblings because of
his background; He is forced to
leave the community after the death
of his father. He becomes a leader
of young men and a positive force
for good; His reputation as a leader
and mentor is so great his name and
work brings him into prominence; He
is asked to help protect his
community from a deadly threat; He
agrees to lead an army to protect
his community against the threat on
condition that he becomes leader in
peace time also; His request is
granted and he successfully defends
his community and nation; He makes a
life changing vow and would not
break the vow despite the great
personal cost.
What is the project?
A project that seeks to reach young
boys and young men who are deemed:
Antisocial, not motivated to
succeed, have a history of
rejection, exclusion from schools,
youth offending, and broken homes
leading to youth offending, gang
involvement, teenage fathers,
substance abuse and homelessness
Age group 5- 21
Services to be provided
A Drop in Centre where advice,
counselling and support can be given
to the young person, the school, the
police and other agencies in an
attempt to turn the young person’s
life and future prospects around;
Commissioning research on behalf of
young people’s needs; Outreach work,
in the form of liaison with schools,
YOT, Local authorities, the police
and other agencies to rescue young
people from gangs, truancy, and anti
social activities; Mentoring;
Counselling; Family support and
Advocacy.
Mission Statement
“ To rescue, care and support
children and young people in the UK
through education, mentoring,
support and other related areas to
enable them to fulfil their
potential and grow into happy and
successful adults”
Vision Statement
“To be bridge of Hope to children
and young people in the UK to
enhance their opportunities of
success”
Objectives:
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To work with agencies involved
in children and young people
affairs;
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To help to improve the life
chances of disadvantaged young
people;
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To mediate on behalf of
disgruntled, anti social or
troubled children and young
people in ensuring the best
solutions are pursued;
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To develop projects that will
increase the aims of the agency
Jephthah's Daughter - A Ministry of
Women to Women
The only child of her father who
encouraged her father to follow
through a vow he makes to God and in
the process sacrifice herself.
This is a ministry of women willing
and able to make a difference in the
lives of other women:
A ministry to young people (female)
age 5-18, to young mothers and
expectant mothers; to help reduce
the high levels of teenage
pregnancies; help with controlling
high truancy levels.
Mentoring/mothering through
developing life skills, helping to
nurture relationships; supporting
families
and helping to develop a young
mothers support group.
Rites of Passage
What is a rite of passage?
A rite of passage, simply put, is
the transition from childhood to
adulthood.
This programme has been developed to
assist parents on preparing their
child to successfully make the
transition.
The programme aims to:
Equip adults especially parents with
the tools to ensure the transition
takes place. It will also set out
the key things every parent or
guardian must ensure their child is
aware of or able to do for
him/herself; Help children to
prepare for the transition; Is also
a standard for all children making
the transition;
The programme is over four weeks and
will equip parents with information,
knowledge and wisdom to prepare our
children with the tools to make the
transition. In modern society many
of the social problems and failures
caused by or experienced by our
youths is because they have never
been properly prepared for the
transition. Do sign up for this
innovative and timely programme and
learn the skills to help your child
become a successful adult.
Break the cycle, train for success
and pass on your values and dreams
to your children.
Strengthening Families Strengthening
Communities
The Strengthening Families,
Strengthening Communities parent
education programme is a community
based programme specifically
designed to promote some of the
protective factors associated with
'good parenting' (developing close
and warm relationships between
parents and children; using methods
of discipline that support
self-discipline in children;
fostering self-esteem of children;
developing strategies to deal with
risky situations; managing anger).
At the same time SFSC deals with the
factors in parenting that are
associated with increased risk
(inconsistent parenting; harsh
discipline in an overly critical
environment; limited supervision;
isolation and lack of knowledge of
community resources). Importantly,
the SFSC approach emphasises that
parenting is impacted by the local
environment (for example the
availability of good schools) and
that parents should play an active
role in shaping this environment by
engaging with community resources.
The SFSC parent programme is based
on a strengths based 'facilitative
model', which aims to raise the
consciousness of parents. In
addition, the curriculum aims to
help families develop or promote:
strong ethnic and cultural roots;
positive parent-child relationships;
a range of life skills; self esteem,
self-discipline and social
competence; and an ability to access
community resources.
SFSC achieves its aims through a
range of methods, which include:
providing parents with information
to empower them; developing anger
management and positive discipline
techniques; providing a cultural
framework to validate the historical
and family experiences of different
ethnic groups; decreasing isolation
by helping parents to connect to
community resources.
SFSC is structured into 12 three
hour sessions (plus an information
session) taught in consecutive
weeks. It is run with between 8 and
15 parents. The SFSC programme is
now an accredited programme through
the Open College Network. This
enables those facilitators who want
to, to support parents in developing
a portfolio and gaining
qualifications and credits for
participating in the programme. The
credits may be used by parents in
returning to formal education or
applying for jobs. The programme has
been shown to have been useful in a
range of settings and with a range
of different populations.
This has included: both urban and
rural settings; with men as well as
women; with teenage parents and with
a range of ethnic groups.