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Healing on the Streets update |
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John Harrison writes:
Now that Healing on the Streets is able to take place every week, and also having moved mainly into the Bear Pit (St James Barton roundabout), things seem to be really kicking off.
Over the last couple of months we have prayed with many people: one lady recommitted her life to Christ, one man asked Jesus into his life, and a man blind from birth received partial sight!!
Training
If you would like to get involved, then there will be a training session in the chancel on Friday 7th May at 7.30 pm
Please contact John Harrison if you plan to be there.
If you are interested but can't make that date, do let John know so he can inform you of future training opportunities. |
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Old Market Community Association |
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 Old Market is part of Pip n Jay's parish area - it runs next to the roundabout adjacent to the church. Cut off from the central shopping area of Bristol by road construction in the 1960s, it was neglected for decades but has recently been undergoing development and renewal.
The OMCA is a group of local residents and businesses set up to protect the Old Market Conservation Area, gather and represent local views, and develop a sense of community in the area.
If you would like to see what is happening, and join in with their campaigns and community building, visit their website at www.OldMarket.org.uk |
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Bold move for the Wild Goose |
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 Geoff Haskett writes:
After a ten year search, the café for the disenfranchised is moving into a pub! Located between three churches on Stapleton Road the existing Queen Vic pub looks a strategic choice for Crisis Centre Ministries and a radical move from its current location on City Road in St Pauls.
It's a flight of faith involving around £450,000, with refurbishment costing as much as the purchase. CCM has always relied on support from a large number of Bristol churches. For this project they will be asking more of us. As Paul Hazelden said at Monday night's AGM: ‘It's a statement to the city that we are united in this work with the homeless’.
Read more about the Wild Goose café here and here. |
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Bulgaria team - mission accomplished! |
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 In September 2009, a team of Pip n Jay people visited a Shelter for Abused Women supported by mission partners Eurovangelism. They had lots of practical challenges to meet, and Sally McPherson shares how they got on:
We all had a great time in Bulgaria doing practical work on an ex-communist building that has been bought by Mission Possible and is being renovated as a shelter for abused women.
It was a very busy week but between us we:
- painted 12 en suite ceilings (3 coats of paint on each)
- painted 2 complete rooms (2 coats on ceilings and walls)
- painted 18 window frames and 12 door frames
- laid laminate floors in 12 bedrooms
- carried 50 mattresses, bed heads, sides and frames each up 2 floors
- dismantled 6 heavy desks and carried them down 2 floors
- unloaded a lorry load of chippings and laid on the path
- carried 30 crates of washing powder up 3 floors
- made up 16 flat pack wardrobes and 14 bedside cabinets, which then all had to be cleaned
- cleaned grouting from walls and tiles in 12 en suites
- peeled the protective stickers off 18 windows and 12 en suite doors
- cleaned 18 windows, inside and out
- scrubbed floors in all bedrooms, library and corridors
This means that the top floor is now nearing completion, just waiting for the builder to install the showers, wash basins and toilets in the en-suites and finish off the grouting. There is still a huge amount of work to be done on the 2 floors below but future teams will now be able to stay at the centre, which will increase productivity.
We certainly encouraged the Mission Possible team but they and indeed all the believers we met were a great blessing to us.
Thank you so much for your prayers. We will be reporting back to Pip n Jay during the morning and evening services on Sunday 18th October.
Contact Sally McPherson if you would like to know more. |
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Rich Wait writes:
During the summer Greg Sharples, John Harrison and myself spent some time in mission to the homeless of Bristol. We would meet for prayer in the morning and ask God for words and pictures, then spend a few hours walking through castle park and broadmead towards Stoke's Croft and the street drinkers that congregate there.
On the last day we were walking through the bear pit towards Stoke's croft when we noticed 2 girls, one with long dark hair and the other with braids. They were sat smoking and talking on one of the grassed areas. We had almost walked past when Greg remembered a word that he'd had earlier in the week about a girl with braided hair. So we decided to go and talk to them. As we approached the dark haired girl said 'I bet you wants us to sort you out some weed'. After thinking about it very briefly we declined her offer and explained that we were from a local church and that one of us had had a word for a girl with braided hair. Greg then proceded to explain what he'd heard, that this girl was worried about her mother and needed prayer. 'No way!' she said, with a worried look in her eyes. Greg then asked if that made any sense.
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