This is a plug for the "Parkup Mangere" event which is on tonight in my community in support of and to show solidarity for the people who have become homeless as a direct result of no longer being able to afford to pay for weekly housing in this area. I never dreamed I'd see the day that families would have to live in cars with children and adults due to unaffordable housing in the area!The amazing thing is that Te Puea Marae, in Mangere, named after a great Maori kuia (wise woman elder) has opened it's doors to some 30 families and individuals to support them by bringing them off the streets and from their cars to be provided with food and a place to sleep with a lot of support from companies with food and other families providing what they can to support them.
Cars will be asked to park up at the Mangere Town Centre carpark between 6pm tonight till 6am tomorrow night and to bring their survival kits along with them which I've attached to share with you. There are now other communities ready to park up their cars with Otara launching fairly soon and hopefully all over the nation.
And at church last night, our senior pastor, Ps Paul De Jong, prayed for the victim's families and friends in the Orlando massacre that occurred a couple of days ago, in a nightclub, that has taken the lives of many young people and traumatized many family members and friends of the victims who killed or were injured.
So tragic that such hate crimes have happened being the worst killings by a single gunman in US history, that despite the differences in beliefs, a single person (and condoned by an organisation) believes that they have the right to kill so many is a tragedy that will forever change many lives. I pray that good and light will continue to prevail amidst so much evil and darkness in the world...
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