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The Church's mission has many aspects, which include but are not limited to the following:

Calling people to faith in Jesus Christ and Christian discipleship

Caring for individual people and communities

Sharing in the task of education, and social and spiritual development

Struggling for a just world

Being alongside the poor

Building partnerships with other churches and groups who share some of our mission aims.

All onsite church services at the Whitechapel Mission are currently suspended.

Government announces roadmap for easing England's lockdown. We are now planning our own roadmap for services at the Whitechapel Mission - conditional on the government confirming that its four tests have been met at each relevant step of the Roadmap:

• The coronavirus vaccine programme continues to go to plan
• Vaccines are sufficiently reducing the number of people dying with the virus or needing hospital treatment
• Infection rates do not risk a surge in hospital admissions
• New coronavirus variants do not fundamentally change the risk of lifting restrictions

Stage One (from and including 29th March)

• We can welcome socially distanced donations at our door - with masks worn please
• Collections of donations can now be arranged - this will need to be a no-contact collection

Stage Two (no ealier than 12th April)

• No change to our services

Stage Three (no earlier than 17th May)

• Additional seating added for dinning
• Kitchen volunteering will recommence
• Opening hours will be extended
• Time limits on computer access will be relaxed
• Time restrictions in centre will be relaxed
• Services offered by third-parties can recommence. (hairdressing, chest xrays, dentists and others)

Stage Four (no earlier than 21st June)

• Additional seating added for dinning
• Opening hours will be extended again
• Restrictions on numbers will be relaxed
• The use of masks will be relaxed within the Mission, but still required for volunteers/staff working in one-to-one contact with guests - until our guests are also vaccinated