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Help in Lockdown (Ros' Blog)
I’m sure it’s true to say that nobody wanted to start the New Year with another total lockdown, even though most people can see the need for it and the sense of it. Those who are in the clinically extremely vulnerable category have been... read more »
Online Retreat: 'Finding God in Lockdown'
After a wonderful first retreat in 2020, we're excited to announce our second online retreat, running through the week starting the 1st February -- all based around 'Finding God in Lockdown'. Using Zoom, participants will meet from 2 to 4pm on the... read more »
We Wish You A Blessed (If Different!) Christmas (Ros' Blog)
Through the Roof has just held its first online retreat. Its theme was Finding God in Lockdown. We looked at the life of Samuel Rutherford in the seventeenth century who was banished from his parish and placed under house arrest at a time of... read more »
'Keeping Wheels Turning': The Winter 2020 Vital Link
The Winter 2020 Vital Link is now available. Find out all about our new supported distributions, the Luke 5 award, the recent growth of our Roofbreaker... read more »
Become a Roofbreaker
Thank you for considering becoming a Roofbreaker. Your membership of this movement is going to help transform lives and enrich churches all around the UK. Fill in the form below, and we'll get back to you very soon. If you'd like to find out... read more »
Congratulations Myles! Our first Luke 5 Award
Congratulations to Myles Pilling – the first recipient of our new ‘Luke 5 Award’. The new award is for churches, ministries, or individuals, who are nominated by a disabled person to recognise the difference they have made in enabling... read more »
Beauty from Chaos (Ros' Blog)
I’m writing this four days before my wedding. I’ve been going round my house getting everything ready for my new husband to move in after we’re married, as we’re going to be living here temporarily. I’ve lived here on my own for most of the last nine years,... read more »
Writing Disability (Ros' Blog)
This week’s blog is a guest post by Fiona Veitch Smith. Fiona is a Christian novelist who writes fiction for the general market. She writes of how her third book in the Poppy Denby Investigates series (murder mysteries set in the 1920s) received... read more »
“We May Not Think As Quickly, But We Feel As Deeply” (Ros' Blog)
Two recent encounters give a painfully poignant insight into the reality of lockdown for people with significant learning disabilities. In the first, a young woman is visited by her mother for the first time in 15 weeks since the beginning of lockdown. The meeting... read more »
'A Unique Voice in Lockdown' - the Summer 2020 Vital Link
The Summer 2020 Vital Link is now available! Like everyone, we've had to make a lot of adjustments to keeping working through Coronavirus pandemic, and a lot of our trips or events have had to be postponed. There's still loads of work... read more »