Jordan Cafe Blog
Welcome to the Jordan Cafe Blog. This is the place to come for Jordan Cafe news, updates and stories!
Alert:
Back to takeaway meals!
SUNDAY WORSHIP GATHERINGS ONLINE NOW-
10 am @ facebook.com/newtownmission
Alert: The Jordan Cafe will now be providing takeaway meals only for the time being! We will be open Wednesday, Thursday & Friday (1 - 3 pm), there will be no sit-down meal service but instead we will offer takeaway meals, tea / coffee and the offer of support. Bible studies are on hold till further notice.
Please also note, all our other related Jordan Cafe activities: Monday Nights, Find-Out Fridays and Thursday Night Chapel are on hold for the time being.

Love for the Team
We have a wonderful team of people and organisations that join together to help out at the Jordan Cafe. Every person is amazing, as they come along to help out, and hang out. People give up their time to join with us, and they pour out their love and heart into the...
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Crazy, Beautiful
Someone recently said to me that ‘the more crazy it gets at the Jordan Café, the more beautiful it gets,’ which is true and which was certainly true last Thursday. Let me set the scene … Thursdays at 5 pm can be one of the busiest times of the week for the Jordan...
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September Calendar now available!
The September Calendar is now available for the Jordan Café! Please check it out for all that is happening here at the Jordan Cafe. There are now a number of Small Groups / Bible Studies: Monday nights, 7 pm: Hall Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday lunchtimes, 1:30 pm: Hall...
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Thank you RPAH / Sydney Local Health District
A very big thank you to Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (RPAH) and Sydney Local Health District for their very generous donations to the Jordan Café. RPAH / Sydney Local Health raised donations during Homelessness Week – and organised delivery to the Jordan Café...
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Family
This painting sits in the Jordan Café Office and so not a day goes by when I do not look at it. It is painted by one of the fellas from our Jordan Café Community, who has been in jail for a little while now and gets out (hopefully) in October. It will be good to see...
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Life-giving Bible
All Scripture is God-breathed (2 Timothy 3:16). Not some Scripture, not most of it but ALL Scripture is God breathed! God’s breath that gives life! And, last week, I had two memorable reminders of how life-giving the Bible is! And, how special it is for us to come...
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Thanks and August
Please find attached the Jordan Café Calendar for August. A few things to draw your attention to and to give thanks for: We have a memorial service (9th August, 3 pm after Lunch, in the Chapel) to say goodbye, and thank you, to our dear friend Bill (more about this to...
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Wow … and our mid-year break
Jordan Cafe: Wow what a first half-of-the-year! It has gone by very quickly, it has been very busy, fun, sometimes-frustrating, exhausting but a huge blessing. Today is the Jordan Cafe's last day (Friday, 24th July) for two weeks and we reopen Wednesday, 24th July....
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Friends, Family, Friday
We are heading in to our last week before our 2-week mid-year break (last day Friday, 5th July and we reopen Wednesday, 24th July) and things are busy … Last Friday was one of those days! The Jordan Café was so busy and there was not a free seat in the house! And we...
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June 2019 Newsletter and Tax Deductibility!
The Jordan Cafe June 2019 Newsletter is now available! It includes the big news that ... We’re delighted to let you know that you can now make tax deductible donations again to support the work of the Jordan Café! This has been made possible through the support and...
read moreIt’s just like Cheers: Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name.
PaulI remember coming in the early 90s when the drop in was out the front of the Church. Now look at it!
AlIn the heart of Newtown, with Newtown at its heart