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Street Pastors have arrived in Manchester: 14 of them, clad in distinctive blue jackets and baseball caps. With evangelical Christian fervour, they believe they can play a vital role in building bridges between the young and disenfranchised and so rebuild communities and reduce crime.
Pastors will work at weekends from 10pm to 4am and, according to the press release, "are trained in many areas including conflict resolution, counselling skills, drug awareness, and social historic development".
(What is social historic development and how do you discuss it with someone who has just fallen out of a club on Whitworth Street at 2am on a Saturday night/Sunday morning?)
The team comes from very different backgrounds and includes a business manager, a receptionist and a chef.
Candace James, street pastor and single mother, said: "I live on what many people would describe as a dangerous estate. I've had first hand experience of the fear gangs instill into communities.
"Yes, I am aware of the dangers and I don't relish being out on the streets late at night, but the opportunity to reach the marginalised in our society with the love of God makes the risks worthwhile. I believe every gang member that I've met has within them a heart of gold. I want to build relationships of trust with them and show them love and respect."
Pastors will work at weekends from 10pm to 4am and, according to the press release, "are trained in many areas including conflict resolution, counselling skills, drug awareness, and social historic development".
(What is social historic development and how do you discuss it with someone who has just fallen out of a club on Whitworth Street at 2am on a Saturday night/Sunday morning?)
The team comes from very different backgrounds and includes a business manager, a receptionist and a chef.
Candace James, street pastor and single mother, said: "I live on what many people would describe as a dangerous estate. I've had first hand experience of the fear gangs instill into communities.
"Yes, I am aware of the dangers and I don't relish being out on the streets late at night, but the opportunity to reach the marginalised in our society with the love of God makes the risks worthwhile. I believe every gang member that I've met has within them a heart of gold. I want to build relationships of trust with them and show them love and respect."
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Ha ha ha, that hit a nerve with Gump!
Light wrote:
> Wilkerson, David
>
> Converts: 35
> Money Raised: £200,000
> Altar Boys Molested: 6
> Number of Years for Embezzlement: 10
> Actual pages of Bible read: 2
Do you think you are funny? Seriously?
> Wilkerson, David
>
> Converts: 35
> Money Raised: £200,000
> Altar Boys Molested: 6
> Number of Years for Embezzlement: 10
> Actual pages of Bible read: 2
Do you think you are funny? Seriously?
Top Chumps would also work.
Heh.
Actually, I suppose the evangelical cards would be called Top Gumps.
I love that bit in the Simpsons (an older, better one) with the boot sale and Flanders selling the Top Trumps style Christian cards.
Bart: "Oh boy! Free trading cards!"
Milhouse: "Wow! Joseph of Arimathea! Twenty six conversions in A.D. 46."
Nelson: "Whoa, a Methuselah rookie card!"
Flanders: "Heh heh, well boys, who'd have thought learning about religion could be fun?"
Bart: "Religion?"
Milhouse: "Learning?"
Nelson: "Let's get out of here!"
Bart: "Oh boy! Free trading cards!"
Milhouse: "Wow! Joseph of Arimathea! Twenty six conversions in A.D. 46."
Nelson: "Whoa, a Methuselah rookie card!"
Flanders: "Heh heh, well boys, who'd have thought learning about religion could be fun?"
Bart: "Religion?"
Milhouse: "Learning?"
Nelson: "Let's get out of here!"
Forest Fan wrote:
> Light, you couldn't have picked a better topic to discuss with me.
Really? Excellent. Lets leave aside the fact that this topic had nothing to do with you, you egocentric assmonkey, but I'll ask; if I discuss this topic with you, will you answer the questions in the other threads, you gutless smear of beggars excrement? Or will you still run squealing?
>
> Do you know who my favourite preacher is?
>
> David Wilkerson.
>
> Read up on him.
What, are there preacher top trumps or something? What are the ratings like in it?
Wilkerson, David
Converts: 35
Money Raised: £200,000
Altar Boys Molested: 6
Number of Years for Embezzlement: 10
Actual pages of Bible read: 2
> Light, you couldn't have picked a better topic to discuss with me.
Really? Excellent. Lets leave aside the fact that this topic had nothing to do with you, you egocentric assmonkey, but I'll ask; if I discuss this topic with you, will you answer the questions in the other threads, you gutless smear of beggars excrement? Or will you still run squealing?
>
> Do you know who my favourite preacher is?
>
> David Wilkerson.
>
> Read up on him.
What, are there preacher top trumps or something? What are the ratings like in it?
Wilkerson, David
Converts: 35
Money Raised: £200,000
Altar Boys Molested: 6
Number of Years for Embezzlement: 10
Actual pages of Bible read: 2
Good on them for trying.
the sagacious one wrote:
> Manchester is a lost cause if the following "environmental"
> "poem" is too be used as a key performance indicator.
>
>
> With Kim Wilde's help and expert design
> A wildlife garden will turn out fine"
>
Dude, I'm hurt. I came up with those last two lines all by myself.
> Manchester is a lost cause if the following "environmental"
> "poem" is too be used as a key performance indicator.
>
>
> With Kim Wilde's help and expert design
> A wildlife garden will turn out fine"
>
Dude, I'm hurt. I came up with those last two lines all by myself.
Fine, get the slappers and pikeys fixed up. Just don't go pushing God on them because he's forgiven them for making a stupid choice - magically it seems.
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