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“rooM for everyone”We believe in the concept of room for everyone because we want everyone in our cities to experience respect, justice and care.

We believe in providing room for everyone because the greatest challenges we see around us are exclusion, isolation and destructive dependency.

“room for everyone” also means that everyone is needed – because we wish to invite people’s partici-pation and invoke a sense of community.

“room for everyone” allows us all to strengthen our belief in freeing up resources and energy.

the ChurCh City Mission in osLoThe Church City Mission is one of the largest humanita-rian faith-based organisations in Norway. The Church City Mission is a diaconal foundation established in Kristiania (Oslo) in 1855. The Church City Mission in Oslo currently has approximately 1150 full-time and part-time employees, and even more volunteers, involved in around 45 different programmes and institutions, providing a wide range of professional expertise. The foundation works in accordance with the confessional basis of the Church of Norway.People from different age group and a wide range of social backgrounds are helped through our work and the services we provide. We offer everything from preventive and caring initiatives for children and adolescents to residential and treatment facilities for the elderly, from low-threshold pro-jects at street level to specialist institutional health services providing treatment for substance dependency and mental illnesses. In addition, we provide residential programmes and meeting-places, church service fellowships and multi-cultural activities, employment initiatives and a broad base of volunteers.

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respeCt, justiCe and Care The Church City Mission’s vision is that people in the city shall experience respect, justice and care. Individuals are of equal worth yet different. We wish to work for a society where every person is met with respect and an expectation: respect for his/her individuality and an expectation of what that individual can do. No one is just what we can see. In all its work, the Church City Mission shall seek to obtain and provide resources and opportunities, and to help foster and trigger courage and the ability to master one’s own si-tuation.

deteCt, reLieve, ChangeThe Church City Mission’s duties are comprehensive and include detecting and relieving violations, injustice and dis-tress, and by helping to remove the causes of injustice. We perceive our mission and our entire operation as being part of the church’s diaconal work in the metropolis.

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the ChurCh City Mission in norWay The Church City Mission is present in the form of in-dependent foundations established in most major citi-es in Norway: Oslo, Tromsø, Bodø, Trondheim, Bergen, Stavanger, Kristiansand, Tønsberg, Drammen and Fredrikstad. The head office of the Church City Mission in Oslo is situated at Tollbugata 3. The Church City Mission is also involved in the following cities: Haugesund, Stord, Kragerø, Larvik, Kongsberg, Lillestrøm, Sarpsborg and Halden.

Broad Cooperation The Church City Mission cooperates extensively with pu-blic health and social authorities at both the municipal and central government level. In addition, we collaborate clo-sely with other church and humanitarian organisations, and cooperate to an increasing extent with businesses under the heading “Corporate Social Responsibility”.

The Church City Mission sees its mission in a global per-spective too. This means that we share and glean experience and expertise in international networks and help ensure that a diversity of cultural expressions can meet, challenge and inspire one another.

The Church City Mission is a member of Eurodiaconia, a European network for diaconal social and health care pro-viders.

In addition , the Church City Mission is a member of the Nordic and European network of City Missions.The Church City Mission is also involved in internatio-nal friendship work, e.g. with church organisations in Guatemala.

finanCiaL resourCesPublic sector contributions account for four-fifths of the Church City Mission’s total budget. The remaining amount is financed through fund raising, revenues from funds, bursaries and project funding. In December each year, we arrange a “Light in Darkness” campaign, consisting of fund raising, various Christmas events and the provision of dif-ferent forms of support and contributions to individuals re-quiring assistance in the metropolis.

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Volunteering fosters solidarity.

Around 1500 Church City Mission volunteers assist us in our operations and make the city of Oslo and its suburbs a more generous place to live, with “room for everyone”. Some volunteers use their professional expertise, while others learn something completely different. Some peo-ple have plenty of time on their hands – others have very little time available. Common to all of them is that they give of themselves and their time, thus making a positive difference for both themselves and other people. All volunteers sign a contract after clarifying mutual ex-pectations, and they are followed up with courses and adjustments.

voLunteers housing We meet people who need a place to live or support and assistance in order to master everyday life in their homes.

We work to establish permanent housing for vulnerable groups in the housing market, and develop various reinfor-cement initiatives that enable individuals to master their housing situation and retain their homes. “Bybo” is the Church City Mission’s unit for social housing development.

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The way out of drug addiction is a difficult and long one. Some people wish to rid themselves completely of their addiction, while others need help to reduce the amount of drugs they use while still enjoying a worthy life.

The Church City Mission has a great deal of experience and professional expertise in dealing with drug addiction, and today offers around 100 places for the treatment of drug users and their families. The Church City Mission in Oslo also operates an open-all-hours outreach programme in drug-related environments, aimed in particular at people with both drug problems and mental health issues.

Unemployment has the harshest effects on those groups in society that are most vulner-able: Disabled individuals, people with so-cial difficulties and health problems, young people with limited education and groups of immigrants.

Our employment-related projects offer working commu-nities and meaningful tasks for individuals prevented from taking part in occupational life, as well as retraining and re-habilitation programmes for people with occupational capa-bilities. The Church City Mission also operates a direct em-ployment programme providing pay on the day, in the form of jobs for people with dependency problems. Not everyone is capable of remaining in paid employment for long peri-ods of time. At times activity-based programmes and assignments in a social community can be of great value.

drug addiCtion Work and aCtivity

Everyone needs someone, sometimes.

For the Church City Mission, it is important to prevent cri-ses and conflicts by being good conversational partners for children and adolescents at risk. Prevention requires know-ledge, confidence and courage. In affluent, modern Norway, we also see that thousands of children come from homes with such limited financial means that this affects both adults and children.

The Church City Mission offers a variety of services for children and adolescents, ranging from short-term low-threshold programmes to year-long follow-up projects in collaboration with child welfare services.

Due to mental illnesses, many people are unable to com-plete their schooling and to function in occupational life, and are thus unable to establish themselves in ordinary adult life.

The Church City Mission provides help to master such events at an after-care centre for young adults, and offers psychiatric treatment for adolescents.

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The Church City Mission’s projects for the elderly include preventive work as well as the provision of practical assistance, care, treat-ment, cultural experiences and volunteer work.

The aim of these initiatives is to help individuals to feel that their identity, dignity and own resources are being valued. At nursing homes and senior citizen centres we work to en-sure that users and residents are met with openness and re-spect as to how they wish to live. We see that cultural expe-riences help trigger spontaneity, laughter, activity, under-standing and a sense of community.

Church City Mission institutions for the elderly focus on open cooperation with local communities.

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Both in Norway and abroad, selling sex entails major life challenges, social rejection, organised crime and human trafficking.

The Church City Mission provides shelter, work-related projects, guidance and care measures for both women and men who have experience in selling sex. By means of ou-treach and follow-up programmes, we wish to assist women and men to gain greater control over their own lives.

projeCts for sex Workers For most people with HIV, living means

experiencing fear of rejection and with-drawal from one’s surroundings.

The Church City Mission offers space and time for people to meet others in the same situation. We provide opportu-nities for recreation and rehabilitation, and we offer experi-enced professionals as collaborative partners, mentors and therapists. We wish to offer assistance to everyone affected in one way or another by the HIV virus.

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Other social projects

Many people in the city display their vulnerability on the open streets as drug users, and as fatigued and often stig-matised individuals. Others are less visible but nevertheless wage their own battles with loneliness and isolation.

Everyone dreams of improving their everyday life. By provi-ding outreach projects, health services, coffee shops and ac-tivity houses, the Church City Mission offers contact, food, rest, guidance and a sense of community. In meeting peo-ple faced with difficulties in the city, we wish to show indi-viduals respect for the life they lead – and the choices they make.

The Church City Mission wishes to be a church with room for everyone, a church that speaks out on behalf of social outcasts, and a church that fosters the courage to live one’s life, and to encourage faith and hope.

We practise this by means of conversations, the lighting of candles, rooms for contemplation, and the use of old and new rituals alike. We wish to help people to experience the church as something that is accessible and close at hand, by among other things providing street services, open chur-ches, and by paving the way for diaconal services in con-texts outside ordinary church buildings.

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“A single moment’s experience of dignity is worth as much as time-consuming change.”

“What gave me strength was the good atmosphere. I found faith in myself. Now I want to prove to my-self and to others that I can achieve things.”

”It is so good to be here. You take us for what we are. And you can see everything about us.”

“Courage to live and courage to believe.”

“Beyond right and wrong there is a landscape – I will meet you there.”

The Church City Mission uses the following symbols:

Cobblestones – a sign of everyday life and the realities of the street

light – a sign of hope, faith and prayer

Roses – a sign of love and fellowship

the CRoss – the Christian expression of God’s presence in this world, a sign of hope and a new life.

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