Gospel beauty parlour offers inner transformation

It’s not often you hear of churches being taken over by beauty salons. But that’s exactly what happened at one East London church recently, all to reach those on the margins of society.

On a rainy day, London City Missionaries Marlen and Amanda-Lee, alongside volunteers from LCM Church Partner, The Liberty Church, came early in the morning to transform a modest church space into somewhere that women could get their hair cut, enjoy beauty treatments for their hands and feet, and hear the good news of Jesus Christ.

Just days before, Marlen and a local church member had contacted a range of hostels, refuge houses and temporary accommodation that hosted survivors of domestic violence or human trafficking, and a recovery house where women battling substance abuse lived.