Derby City Mission

Hi Here are some great Testiminies from this weekends team great to God doing such great things through the Street Pastors



Hi Ally,
Following on from my text this morning here are some of the highlights from the City Centre on Saturday night. In the second half both teams had good spiritual conversations with a number of people. Andy Moorley may be able to fill you in on what happened on Giles’ team. Within my team we had good conversations with 4 people, on each occasion we were very much guided by the Holy Spirit to change plans and walk to a quieter area of the city centre for the time of night where we had the encounters.

Firstly at about 1-30 we spoke to a couple from Heanor outside Greggs. I spoke mainly to the husband who was telling me how much he has been impacted by the Channel 4 programmes on the History of the Bible and had a thirst for more information, encouraged him to try reading it as well as watching it. Didn’t have time to take it any further as they had to go and get the bus! Not sure how the conversation with the wife went, perhaps John or Kat could fill in on that, but gave her one of our contact cards if they wanted to follow anything up.

Secondly met a geology student straight after on the Market Place near Walkabout who said he was an atheist, but was really impressed with the good that Christians did in the world, but struggled to understand American fundamentalist religion. Said he was an atheist because he had read Dawkins and it fitted with his scientific reasoning and could never believe in a God. Told him that he should never say never as all 3 of us were in fact scientists also and suggested that he should try reading someone like John Lennox to get an alternative view to Dawkins. Also talked about the miracle of creation and when in the future he holds a new born baby he may change his views. He then left to rejoin some friends.

Finally at about 2-45am we met a young man called Luke and his girlfriend. After asking what a Street Pastor is he said he wanted to ask us a question. “In the bible story of Cain and Abel why was a mark put on Cain so that anyone who killed him would suffer vengeance 7 fold, which didn’t seem fair after killing his brother”. We were honest and said that we could not give a total answer of the top of our heads, however I went on to say that it illustrates that we have a God who is willing to forgive us stuff in our lives no matter how bad it might be. We didn’t go much further than that but he seemed happy with his answer!

On a broader note we also had two instances of the police taking a gentler line and supporting us with people who were very drunk that we were attending. Giles’s team had someone that the taxi’s would take as they were too drunk and when they couldn’t contact anyone on his phone the police got one of their cars to take him home. Also when we were helping a drunk and distressed woman outside Nono8 who fell over a police officer who was near by actually put the flip flops on her feet and helped her up so that we could walk her to the taxis. She told us that she had suffered 3 deaths in her family in as many months.