On the scrapheap?

Brian Parry  |  Features
Date posted:  1 Jun 2009
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With the Chancellor’s budget in April it became obvious just how serious the financial difficulties facing our country are.

According to government figures in May unemployment was at 7.1% for the first time since 1996. It has seen the biggest quarterly rise since 1981. These percentages translate into 2.2 million people currently unemployed. Some sources are talking of three million unemployed by the end of this year.

Unemployed

What is it like to find yourself unemployed? How is a Christian to react? Here is my own experience of redundancy, and how the Lord helped me to face it. It may help someone in a similar situation.

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