The Willats Trust

20/07/2023

🙌🏻

Méri Schoeman

Have you booked your tickets for our conference yet? We're excited to see the plans starting to come together, check out the booking page to find out about the day, including the programme, our brilliant speakers and accessibility details for the venues. https://estatechurches.org/conference

25/04/2022

What's Happening at The Willats Trust?👋

We've spent some time Reviewing and Reflecting upon our Strategic Priorities and Values, in order to yet again Re-Align and Discover the Vision Mr. Willats had for this Charity.

One of our Core Values is to support lay workers, appointed as Guides, to serve in the most deprived areas in the UK.

We Support Through Giving out Grants, Building Relationship with and Connecting our Guides with each other.

📖2 Timothy 1:6📖
"For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands..."

04/04/2022

Our Guides & Their Stories🗣
This is what Scot McJohnston says about his role as one of The Willats Trust's Guides and Keystone Project Coordinator at the St Andrew's Church, Cullompton.💒

🙋‍♂️"My role is to help people who are living through some of the same things I have lived through, helping them practically, emotionally, and spiritually. My calling is to come alongside people who find themselves in the dust of life's traumas."

"Being appointed as a guide with The Willats Trust has been so affirming to me. There is support available and I feel valued. I've never experienced this with any other funders"

☝️The Willats Trust invest in individuals, supporting them not just financially, but through building relationship with each and every Guide we appoint.

We Support the Journey!👣

Here's a photo of Scott and his his lovely family.

24/03/2022

🗣The Willats Trust Guide News🗣

One of our Guides, Jonny Gios, serving in Kendal at The Gateway Church, will be travelling to Romania soon, to support and offer help where needed to 🇺🇦Ukrainian Refugees🇺🇦

If you would like to support / donate financially / offer practical help,

Follow the link 👇 below for more information.

https://youtu.be/FJy2QWQrYuo

our Guides to Support others

Video informing of our news that we are travelling to Romania to support Ukrainian refugees. Jonny Gios and 2 others from Kendal will be going over to suppor...

24/03/2022

Feedback Time at The Willats Trust🌿🪴⏰

Did you know?
We Currently have 36 Guides We Support All Over the UK.👣🇬🇧

We Believe in the Value of Supporting Individuals, through 1) giving grants and 2) building relationship with them 🗣

our 6 Monthly Reports,
We Look Back on:
Highs, Lows, Opportunities and New Challenges

We Share in their hardship and joys and pray with them as the journey continues👣🫂

22/03/2022

Did you know?🧐

When you're appointed as one of our Guides, part of your role is to submit a 6 Monthly Report with us.

The purpose of this Report is for the Guide
1) To Reflect on his/her own journey within the ministry,
2) To Share relevant resources with other guides
3) To Connect with us in sharing their joys & hardships, challenges and visions for the future.

We Give Personal Feedback on Every Report Submitted.

Through this process, we're changing, growing, widening our perspectives and have the opportunity of learning more and more about The Gospel in the most deprived areas of the UK.

We walk on Holy Ground, this we know.

Extremely Grateful and Humbled to be able to support lay workers, proclaiming and living the Greatest Story of All.

17/03/2022

🌻💐1st Signs of Spring🌼💐

This is a Reminder of How Beautiful Change Can Be.

We Know With Change Comes Growth.🌿🪴
But, Only if you Choose to Grow.

🌷May Spring Remind You To:🌷

Trust God with the Process
Listen to His direction &
Find Deep Comfort in Knowing that He is in Control
& His Timing is Always Perfect

Romans 8:28
“And We Know That For Those Who Love God All Things Work Together For Good, For Those Who Are Called According to His Purpose”

👣Our Main Focus at The Willats Trust is To Support Guides Who Walk with Others in Their Journey of Faith👣

15/03/2022

👩‍🎨Art is a Way of Expressing our Souls🧑‍🎨

This is a Picture drawn by a 7-Year Old girl, Who Went Through Various Traumatic Experiences.

When asked to explain what the picture says, she said: "This is a picture of my house and the crosses on it show that Jesus is there to look after me when I sleep"

This story was shared by one of our Families & Children's Workers.

Our Guides serving in this field of ministry are passionate about families and walking alongside them in their discovering of a life of faith in Jesus.🗣

14/03/2022

🗣Important Announcement📣

Our March 2022 Round of Applications Have Been Delayed until Further Notice📄

For more information, please contact us directly☎️

02/03/2022

Today is the Start of Lent.

We Call it Ash Wednesday.

Here, at The Willats Trust, We Recognise The Pain of The World, The Brokenness in & Around us.

It’s a Time for Prayer

We Are Completely Dependant on God.

It’s a Time for Reflection

Through the Cross We Are Saved. Jesus’ Love Knows No Boundaries.

Through His Resurrection We Are Alive.

Here, at The Willats, we are Deeply Aware of God’s Heart for the World.

We Thrive on Supporting Those with A Calling to Share This Remarkable Truth

01/03/2022

This is the Kind of Work We Love To Support👋🏻

Excited to Share our 1st Video for 2022!📹📽

We Recently Visited our 1st Guide Situated in Lisburn, Northern Ireland.📍

This is part of her Story:🗣
Erin Allen, serving at The Journey Church, making an Impact and Sharing Her Love of Jesus with The Community.

A Truly Memorable Experience.👣🙏🏻

This video is about The Willats Trust - NI Visit

28/02/2022

🇺🇦A Blessing for Ukraine🇺🇦

God, the unthinkable has happened.
Swiftly, relentlessly,
by stealth and through open destruction,
the peace and beauty of the ordinary,
has been shattered in a day.
O God of justice and might,
We call to you to come and bring this suffering to an end.
Comfort these trembling hearts.
Shield the vulnerable.
Strengthen those with the resources and the resolve
to protect what they love
in the face of such overwhelming force.
Grant wisdom to the nations of our world, to our leaders, and to us,
to grasp the unfathomable,
to see evil in its true light,
and come against it unflinchingly.

Dear Ukraine,
though we shudder to watch what is happening
We will not look away.

- Kate Bowler