Part of Reach - one church in many places
Reach Response
Karina Martin introduces Reach Response
Reach Response is our Reach-wide ministry which enables Reach Communities and church members to come alongside people who are currently in need of extra care or support.
We strive to provide caring communities where people feel safe and empowered to rebuild their lives. We also partner with a number of trusted charity partners to help deliver the specialised support people may need.
In Derby, we partner with the following local organisations to come alongside people at their point of need and be a loving community for some of our city’s most vulnerable people.
Green Reach
Green Reach exists to help us as a church, business and charity, to address the current climate and environmental crisis — in faith, practice and mission. We believe that responding to the climate crisis is an essential part of our responsibility to safeguard God's creation and achieve a just world. Climate change hits hardest the poorest countries and poorest people of the world. Meantime, the widespread destruction of the natural world is a crisis for creation.
We want to help all ministries across Reach consider how to adapt our practices to reduce carbon emissions and protect God’s creation for future generations.
If you’d like to get involved please e-mail hello@reachonline.org
Our Derby Partners
Celebrate Recovery is a Christ-centred 12 Step recovery programme designed to help people address a variety of hurts, hang-ups and habits. Originating from Saddleback Church in California in 1991, Celebrate Recovery has brought hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world into a deeper relationship with Jesus Christ. Celebrate Recovery is a safe place to find community and freedom from issues that control our lives.
Find out more at www.celebraterecovery.co.uk
Intercultural Churches UK dream of a generation of churches across the UK that will foreshadow God’s plan for a unified bride from every tribe, language, people and nation. They believe the church of the future will be an intercultural church as our cities become more and more diverse.
They equip those planting churches that will reach out to different ethnicities, bonding them together and building bridges with each other. They also assist those churches seeking to fully express the cultural diversity around them.
Find out more at icuk.network
Restore is a Christian project, walking alongside women who are working in the Sex Industry.
They offer friendship and support to women in a non-judgemental and non-discriminatory way, whilst nurturing self-worth and giving help to access the appropriate services if necessary.
Find out more at jacobswellderby.co.uk/restore
Storehouse isn’t just a food outlet for the most marginalised in our city, it is a source of companionship and a place where people can be supported and loved.
Every Thursday from 6pm, from Ozzy Road Baptist Church, up to 100 guests are provided with a hot meal lovingly served with a big dose of support and friendship. Derby City Mission is now overseeing the project with Reach Derby remaining as a prayer and financial partner.
Find out more at derbycitymission.org.uk/appeal/storehouse-food-project
Talk it Over provide free confidential care, information and support for women and their families facing difficult choices in pregnancy, in relation to parenting, adoption and termination. We also provide support for women and their families after pregnancy loss through termination or miscarriage.
Find out more at talkitoverderby.com
Upbeat Communities was founded in response to the needs of refugees arriving in the UK and the stories they shared of their lives and their journeys. Through building relationships with those from refugee communities we were able to identify their needs and the best ways to respond.
We believe that one of the best resources a refugee can have to help them settle in their new home is a good social network. Friendships and connectedness can help overcome the many challenges faced by those seeking refuge.
Find out more at upbeatcommunities.org