for churches & church leaders
the vision
As Christians, we believe that God is good and all good things come from him. However, for many people the week of Halloween is not associated with things that are good - some people in our neighbourhoods are scared to open their doors; shops and homes are decorated with frightening images, and things that are evil are wrongly portrayed as ‘good.’
Jesus came to change and transform society and culture and declared,
‘I am the Light of the World. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but have the light of life.’
As Christians we are called to be part of Jesus' great transformation plan and to share his light with those around us.
This is why we started the Streets of Light initiative – a simple idea to bless our cities, towns and villages as a whole; and also as a way for individuals to do something positive and good on their street and with their neighbours.
We would love people to get involved with the Streets of Light Trail in order to be part of making that change and transformation in their community - turning streets of darkness and fear into streets of light, love and hope.
The second aspect to the vision is for Streets of Light to become a national event or initiative with streets, roads, towns and cities across the UK being lit up over the week of Halloween.
As this happens, rather than individual homes being a tiny, isolated pinprick of light on a map, we would instead begin to see hundreds of these houses of light connected to each other, forming links and chains across neighbourhoods, cities and the country.
In 2020, we saw this beginning to happen – not only across Sheffield, but in Wolverhampton and Tunbridge Wells, and other areas of the country too.
In 2021 we were also joined by churches and individuals in places such as Liverpool, Manchester, Hinckley, Bridlington, Leigh-on-Sea, and Cornwall. Our prayer is to see even more people taking part each year! We would love to have an interactive map dotted with locations across the country where the message of Light, Love and Hope is being shone into the streets and communities in that area.
How can we get involved as a church?
It is so easy to get your church involved!
Simply share the vision behind Streets of Light, use the video and resources on this website to help get others excited and inspired, and then ask people to sign up on this website ahead of the sign up deadline.
The sign-up form is totally GDPR compliant, and the program that we use for plotting the trails and maps does not make anyone’s address public.
Anyone who signs up, from anywhere in the whole country, is included on the interactive map on the website.
If lots of people sign up in your particular area, we will make a PDF version of a local area map for you, and also host this on the website.
Wherever you live in the UK, or even further afield, you will be able to direct people to the website or the Facebook event to access the interactive map or the map of their local area.
If people want to take part, but don’t have access to the internet, you can print off a paper signup form, and then post it to us!
If you have questions please do contact us.