Community and Hospital Work
5th July 2011 In our continuing efforts to get involved with the communities where we live we are helping out with local groups who are working and already established in the area. The first project we worked with was the Harlesden clean up day with the Heart organisation where we helped out with the entertainment and had a great opportunity to promote YWAM and make local contacts.
We also have begun doing night evangelism to get through to the prostitution and drug addicts in Harlesden, getting them familiar with our faces and building up a trust relationship so we can help out with the core problems and not only to help with the superficial acts of prostitution or the use of drugs. On top of that we are working closely together with the local metropolitan police to reach youth gangs who are operating in residential areas of Harlesden.
Another opportunity that has arisen is volunteering at St. Charles Hospital. Nathan Householder is helping in the Palliative Care Wing, given to bring peace and a sense of comfort to those battling terminal illness. One prayer request is for the heart of compassion that is needed, and endurance in the time ahead, as it can be quite sobering to the spiritual person. A rich road of opportunity could be waiting: an arts program in the wing, many times of intimate conversation, administration and food handling services.
