Trussell reports food poverty is increasing: Christian parents and churches can provide hope in these difficult times

You don’t have to look very hard to see that the majority of people in the UK are feeling the pinch of the cost-of-living crisis. Our money has to stretch further. Our jobs have become more unstable. The price of food has risen. We know that some people have to make a choice between heating and eating. But how bad is it really? What can we do as Christians to help alleviate some of the pressures from the families we might know. And how, as a Christian, can I survive in the middle of it all, living in a house with one income, three children and a high rent bill each month?

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) has just published their annual poverty report, which gives us a picture of poverty in the UK. The picture is bleak and shows signs of deepening poverty (people already in poverty moving deeper into it). It is likely to stay the same if significant interventions are not made.