Unite Southampton

Kim Carey has been heading up a project to involve local youthworkers in delivering the Choices course in Southampton schools. Over this last academic year, Choices has run in Upper Shirley High, Regents Park and Cantell schools. One of the teachers at Upper Shirley even contacted the council to tell them how the Choices course had worked wonders with their students that are in danger of permanent exclusion. More news will follow as we get feedback from the youthworkers involved.

Christians in Freemantle
4 July 2009
4-6pm Afternoon Tea at Philippa and Ken's
92 Richmond Road (023 8033 3999)
A chance for Christians in the area to meet each other.
Everyone's welcome - we hope to see you there.

As we've mentioned before, Chris and Becky are meeting with some other Christians in Freemantle to pray for the area and our witness there. A couple of new people have joined us and there's even the promise of more! If you live in Freemantle, get in touch and we'll let you know when we're next meeting.

If you don't live in Freemantle, why not start praying in your area. If you don't know any other Christians nearby, start praying yourself and I'm sure God will cause you to bump into someone else pretty soon.

Over the summer a few of the local church youthworkers met to adapt SAFE's Choices course for use with youth. It was great spending time with those guys - we know each other so well. From eating lunch, hanging out, going places, we've built up brilliant friendships and that's where I see unity between Christians from different backgrounds. When we come to do a project together, we know each other and understand where we're coming from. I think friendships generally (probably not always) need to come first for unity to work, but that's a topic for another conversation.Read more

Just heard that the Future Church conference are doing student discounts. £8 instead of £15. Well done for waiting.

Meeting with Kate, the PCSO was great. She is really enthusiastic about building community in the area. Basic requirement now is to get a team together and then we can get started. Will be a midweek evening. If you are interested in getting involved please let us know and we can keep you up to date with details.

We're meeting a local PCSO on Monday (in Freemantle) who wants to bring The Big Red Bus down and start a StreetLight team in the area. Chris and I have been musing on getting out and meeting the young people that hang around and have been on a quest to find others who share that vision. So, it looks like there's 3 of us...

With some interruption and inconvenience, we have been updating the website. You should see some changes (unless you see this on an RSS feed, in which case I hope you can see this on your RSS feed and we didn't break that too. Don't worry if you don't know what an RSS feed is just now). We will probably make some more over the next little while. Please comment here if you find things that don't work or you do/don't like. If comments are broke you might have to email or something.

Some friends of mine at the church we are part of are thinking of going to Kenya. The idea came from Ben who has always had an ethusiasm for using his business skills to help people in developing countries. That might be starting a business that trades with African countries to generate export wealth. Or it might be running a business in Africa employing local people. Or it might be teching/assisting Africans to run good businesses so that they can trade their way up the prosperity ladder. Or something else.Read more

The programme and workshop details have been sorted for the Mike Frost event in Southampton in October 2008 to help us think about the future of the church [tickets here].Read more