Talking Space

Well I cant remember if I have mentioned that I was getting involved in this or not, but basically on Friday I was in town giving out free tea/coffee to people who had come out of the pubs and clubs in the city. It a thing that has been set up by a church in the town centre that are situated at the end of the road where the majority of the pubs and clubs are in town. Most people walk past it to get a taxi when they have finished drinking for the night. Anyway the church have set up that every other Friday a team of volunteers hand out tea/coffee and the people can come and site down and drink if they wish too. We don't open up the church but we set up chairs and tables in the church grounds with a big gazebo and candles etc. It was a fantastic night, I wasn't really sure at first how this would touch the people as they've all had a drink and I thought they probably wouldn't care about a free tea/coffee but amazingly I was to be proved wrong.
We had quite alot of people come, I was out on the street inviting them in and the responses I got were very varied. Some people didn't answer, others were very polite and said no thank you, others stopped and thought it was a very strange thing to do and asked why were we doing it and couldn't understand when I replied we're just being nice!!. Others came in no questions asked, some wanted the tea but didn't dear step foot over the boundary of the church property, I even had to get a few drinks for people and take them out purely for this reason.
I had one guy who was reluctant to go in and then ended up staying for about 2 hours (5 drinks late!!!) I passed a couple sitting down with there tea discussing the fact that she thought there was a God and he didn't, so I made a joke and said don't worry my boyfriends not a christian, you'll get used to it. Then I ended up sitting with them for about 1/2 hour discussing different things.
At the End of it there was alot of people to pray for, and I felt really encourage to want to do it again. This week was my first week and it was a tester basically for me to see if I want to be involved more regularly. I am looking to put my name down on the rota from next year as the next 2 Fridays they are doing I am busy.

I am also still looking to get involved with the Christian drug rehabilitation place in Coventry as a volunteer too but I haven't heard anything about that yet if you want to pray about that for me.

We also had a meeting last night about the next alpha that we are running in January as we obviously need to promote and plan that and there is still HOPE 08 of course which will be going on through next year, so lots of stuff going on at the moment.