Visit by the Archbishop of Canterbury

to Unity Gardens, Long Sutton.  on 8th March 2010

A home in which one may be safe, content and secure is crucial for human well-being; in our culture that means having a house which is decent and affordable, and where one's tenure is secure.

The prophecy of Micah includes a vision of 'the days to come' in which people will 'sit under their own vines and under their own fig trees, and no one shall make them afriad' (Micah 4.4). While the passage does not specifically mention a house, it nevertheless conjures up a picture of domestic security and provision which leads to contentment. In another prophetic passage, those who find themselves exiled from Jerusalem to Babylon are told to 'build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat what they produce' (Jeremiah 29.5). The building of houses is part of the process of  beginning to belong in a new and strange place.

On 8th March 2010 the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, visited the Association's development at Unity Gardens, Long Sutton.