Wyde's hits the streets!

For the first time last night the burgundy and cream colours of Wyde could be seen walking the streets as Stella and I went Open-Wyde for the first time. We were scouting in the area of Naphill and Kingshill (Stella's patch) looking for young people, who we had heard reports of, hanging around in these areas. It was really great to be back on the streets again meeting with young people in their own space. We made contact with a few sporadic young people in Naphill and with a large group up in Kingshill.

Detached youth work is such a privilege...to walk up to a group of young people, introduce yourself and then to be invited into their world, and to engage them in conversation, it is so cool. Yeah, it does happen to some extent in churches, but it is when you are 'invading' their space rather than them 'coming into' yours that there is a greater feeling of privilege.

We will seek to try and meet up with these guys again, and their friends, so if you have nothing better to do on a Tuesday evening, or if we missed you hanging around last night, come join us in Naphill and Kingshill. Or if you just see the burgundy colours out and about, come and say "hi," we're not that scary, honest!!