The Book of Boaz

[The work of the Boaz Trust is] beautiful and redemptive.

I was delighted to become a patron for the Boaz Trust, because they transform the lives of destitute asylum seekers ... who have been unable to access support and have nowhere else to turn to for help.

An inspiring and challenging account of where God might lead you if you take seriously His command to love the least and the lost and the most disadvantaged in our society. In this account of the Boaz Trust, the ministry to asylum seekers in Manchester he founded and still leads, Dave Smith gives us a graphic insight into the desperate plight of those who flee to Britain to escape persecution, torture and even the threat of death in their own country. Correcting much of the misinformation and downright prejudice that skews so many peoples perspective on those seeking asylum in Britain, Dave gives some very practical and sane suggestions from a wealth of first-hand experience as to how both government and the voluntary sector might do much more to help some of the neediest and most overlooked people currently living in this country.

The work of the Boaz Trust in providing accommodation, education and support to asylum seekers and refugees is a heart warming example of Christian love and hospitality in action. Not least, it provides a welcome to people who have suffered much by way aof rejection, both in their countries of origin and in the UK.

I was very pleased to visit Boaz Trust to learn about their work with destitute asylum seekers. Its morally right that we should care properly for asylum seekers while they are here among us. Yet too often they receive the poorest of welcomes, facing poverty and hardship, an unfriendly bureaucracy, scepticism, and hostility. I commend Boaz for their humanity, their energy, and their commitment in offering support to the most vulnerable and destitute.

The Boaz Trust speaks for those who have no or few rights and I highly value their work.