for churches & church leaders
the vision
The Streets of Light team are motivated by their Christian faith, inspiring us to speak hope into darkness and to reflect the light and love of Jesus into our communities.
However, you do not have to be a Christian to take part in Streets of Light - we know that this project and the idea of spreading a message of light, love and hope resonates with people of all faiths and none.
In the Bible, you can read these words spoken by Jesus:
‘I am the Light of the World.
Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but have the light of life.’
Jesus also said:
‘You’re here to be light……..
If I make you light bearers, you don’t think I’m going to hide you under a bucket, do you?
Now that I’ve put you there on a hilltop, on a light stand - shine!’
This is why we started the Streets of Light initiative – it’s a simple idea to let light shine in our villages, towns and cities for all to see!
The second part of our vision is for Streets of Light to become a national initiative with streets, roads, towns and cities all across the UK being lit up over the week of Halloween.
We believe that there are enough dark and scary images around at this time of year, so instead we would love people to get involved with Streets of Light in order to spread and share a message of light, love and hope throughout local communities.
As this happens across the UK, rather than individual homes being a tiny, isolated pinprick of light on a map, we hope 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 Loughborough, Liverpool, Manchester, Bridlington, Leigh-on-Sea, and Cornwall. Since then the list has become longer and longer.
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.