Flip-flops and a queue for shoes

Notes and photos from our patrol on 21st June Great night in the City Centre – grateful for your prayers. Quieter than expected considering good weather. 46+ conversations 6 pairs flip flops duly applied to sore feet: “you’re life savers”.  Chara – out for...

Street Pastor Detectives!

On Wednesday June 19, Red Letter Christians UK, held an event “Redeeming Piccadilly” in Piccadilly Gardens. Activists, including Red Letter Christians founders Shane Claiborne and Tony Campolo, gathered to proclaim ‘Love over Fear’ in what is one of the...

Patrolling in Manchester

The patrols of our part of Manchester City Centre continue (if we had a bigger team we could patrol another part as well. That was a HINT). Here are some photos from a recent patrol. And a quote from the patrol report: “We lost count of people stopping us tonight and...

Street Pastors’ Graduation

Four new graduates for Manchester City Centre among the 19 for the Greater Manchester projects at the Graduation Celebration last Saturday. Welcome to the team. Welcome to the streets for some listening, caring and helping.

March Patrols so far…

Our two patrols so far in March show the contrast there can be on consecutive weeks. One week “quiet”, the next a bit more challenging, but with supportive prayer and inspiration and help from the Holy Spirit, our team were able to deal with and...

Street Pastors at CRE North

We, and the other 9 Greater Manchester Street Pastor projects are going to be sharing a stand at the Christian Resources Exhibition next week – March 13-14. We will also be part of the Social Engagement seminar. Come and say hello (email us for free tickets)....

Another patrol

Street Pastor patrols in Manchester City Centre continue month by month. This is the faithful perseverance of building up a presence and growing relationships, assurance and integrity. Occasionally, we feature one here. Last night there were lots of opportunities to...

Nigel’s Blog

One of our team, Nigel Holmes, has written a blog about his experience on patrol in Manchester City Centre. It’s a great read, find it here.

CRE Manchester

We are joining with the other Greater Manchester Street Pastor projects to have a stand at the Christian Resources Exhibition on March 13-14. This will be a great opportunity to meet and engage with church leaders and members and share the vision of Street Pastors....

New Coordinator

In August we said goodbye to our Coordinator Natalie as she moved on to begin a course of study. We are grateful to Natalie for her three and half years of hard work, passion and commitment to our project and its volunteers. She will be remaining as a Street Pastor...