Help Save Klong Toey FC!
Our Klong Toey FC football program is desperately underfunded. It costs about $200 a year to give each young Klong Toey resident a 6 day a week football experience including meals, transport, kit, equipment, training each week-night, Bangkok Youth League matches, cup tournaments, coaches, camps and, of course, too busy enjoying football to get into trouble with drugs or violence. If you would like to support Klong Toey FC’s 12 coaches and 100 players please donate here (tax deductable in Australia).
Cooking with Poo
Welcome to those who may have found this site via the recent attention Cooking with Poo has received thanks to a nomination for Oddest book title of the Year (vote here) and Jamie Oliver’s link on Instagram. If you are interested in learning more about the wonderful cause behind Cooking with Poo, check out the web site. If you are interested in learing about UNOH, please read below and explore our site.
UNOH’s 2012 Music Video
Please enjoy and share UNOH’s latest music video with your friends. It features all the UNOH workers in their neighbourhoods and an inspiring song by ‘Jono and Friends’ (written and sung by UNOH Noble Park worker Jono Bailey with friends).
Welcome friends,
Thank-you for your interest in what God is doing through us. As Urban Neighbours Of Hope (UNOH) we often feel overwhelmed by the immense needs we see each day in our neighbourhoods. With 167,000 new people living in urban poverty each day now, including 94,000 new urban slum residents, we know this breaks God’s heart and he is looking for more people to be his hands and feet in response. Would you join us in our quest to love God and neighbour in more faithful and relevant ways in this new urban world?
As Urban Neighbours Of Hope we covenant together to focus our lives on:
- Loving God and neighbour
- Releasing neighbourhoods from urban poverty
- Equipping for Christian discipleship and mission among the urban poor.
UNOH began out of the privilege Anji and I had of relocating our home to the multicultural neighbourhood of Springvale (Melbourne, AUS) in 1992. We had no real idea then of how God would use us. We simply wanted to love God and our new neighbours in practical, life-giving ways. Many of those we sought to serve as neighbours at that time found real hope through Christ; however, it also transformed our lives too. We found real life and UNOH was born as God brought others along who had this calling too. Though UNOH workers and supporters come from diverse Christian traditions, UNOH was officially formed as part of the Churches of Christ in July 1993 and in 2001 commissioned as a ‘missional order among the poor’.
In 2011 there are now nine UNOH neighbourhood-based teams living and serving Christ amongst the urban poor in Melbourne, Sydney, Auckland, Mae Sot and Bangkok. We pray that God will raise-up more UNOH workers and teams in cities and neighbourhoods across the Asia-Pacific to seek transformation through Christ too. As well as community workers and volunteers, UNOH also have a training arm and a publishing arm that aim to inspire, inform and equip Christians for more creative responses to Christ among the urban poor.
Joining UNOH as a community worker starts by getting to know UNOH teams, participating in our Misseo Dei discernment retreats and Mission Exposure courses before Sub-merge, a live-in, year-long, accredited mission formation course with an existing UNOH team. You can also support UNOH workers, local projects and keep up to date through signing-up for UNOH’s free Finding Life newsletter or UNOH workers personal newsletter.
To ‘love God and thy ‘neighbour’ is not just a command expressed for our times – it’s an invitation to find real life. We would love you to become involved in what God is doing among the urban poor in any way you can and to join UNOH as a worker, volunteer or supporter. You will not regret any love you can give back to God and to those in need.
God bless,
Ash Barker
International Director
Urban Neighbours Of Hope