Hi Everyone and a very Happy New year to you....
On the 11th of February at 10.30 am at St Peters City Centre Church we are meeting till 3.00 pm as our Annual day of prayer for all DCM's ministries. Would you please consider coming for some or all of it.... All that we do is driven by faith and prayer in a God who answers prayer on behalf of His people. This year is an important year as we seek to make strides forward in Gods service.
Format of the day is:
10.30 -11.00 Worship lead by Robin Miller
11.00 -11.30 Overview and Biblical envcouragement Alasdair Kay
11.30 -12.30 Prayer for Healing on the Streets and Homelessnes
12.30 -13.30 Prayer for Street Pastors in the City Centre and Austin Estate
13.30 -14.00 A break
14.00 -15.00 Prayer for Jubilee project/Basics Bank and the Alpha course.
Every blessing and hope to see you there. ..
Alasdair
Monday, 17 January 2011
Monday, 20 December 2010
750 and Counting
Well tomorrow at last the staff at DCM get a break for Christmas. This last month has been hard work as it is the busiest period with people requiring food parcels, the Christmas rush on Street Pastors, deputations and preaching in Derby Churches. However the busiest period has been Christmas Connection as we have found presents for 750 children accross the City. We have partnered with over 30 churches and Westfields to find the neediest in our City a present.
As public sector jobs are lost and many families stare in fear into 2011 would you stand with us as either volunteer prayer partner or supporter as we seek to bring the Whole Gospel for the Whole Person to the Whole City... So may you know the miracle of Jesus in your heart and be born again the Christmas... To all of you from myself as Director, Robin the Operations Manager, and Sharon our other City Missionary, Trustees and volunteers we wish you a very very Happy Christmas and a blessed New Year.
As public sector jobs are lost and many families stare in fear into 2011 would you stand with us as either volunteer prayer partner or supporter as we seek to bring the Whole Gospel for the Whole Person to the Whole City... So may you know the miracle of Jesus in your heart and be born again the Christmas... To all of you from myself as Director, Robin the Operations Manager, and Sharon our other City Missionary, Trustees and volunteers we wish you a very very Happy Christmas and a blessed New Year.
Tuesday, 2 November 2010
News from the Streets
Well the Street Pastors have come through yet another Halloween weekend. Lately in fact since freshers week have been very busy in the City. Sadly despite all our efforts Alcohol related violence has risen and things are much more hostile on Friday and Saturday nights. On one evening recently we called 5 ambulances in 2 hours. The cases were for a 17 year old boy badly intoxicated with cannabis and alcohol. Another call was for a young single Mum fitting as a result of an Ecstacy/Alcohol cocktail. Then we are dealing with a man who's ear has been bitten through by someone in a fight. However we are convinced that Jesus is in all this. We believe that WWJB means Where Would Jesus Be.. We think the early hours of a Sunday morning he would be ministering love and care to people who need it.
This week at our Jubilee project we heard of a tragic tale of an impoverished single Mum who had been charged £150 bank charges by her bank for being a tiny bit over her £50 overdraft level. We made a complaint and were then able to help her clear her debts. In fact last week we were able to get several thousnad pounds worth of debt paid off for people thus getting them free and allowing them to sleep again. We have been so blessed in the quality of our excellent volunteers who serve the clients so well.
A huge thank you to all who gave to our Harvest Basics Bank Food appeal Chruches and School from all over Derbyshire gave so generously we estimate over £20,000 worth of food has been donated ot help us relieve poverty and to help make peoples lives better. Special thanks should go to John and Sylvia Gatt and Einir Cooper who along with the other stalwart volunteers Sue Smith, Sylvia, Karl and Andy and Ruth have done an amazing job in bringing in the harvest sorting it and administering it all.............. an amazing feat.
Recovery Project. we now have over 45 clients coming to this each week and are partnering with Restore to reach out to sex workers who come into the project. It is great to see this project which is a prtnership between Ozzy Road Church, YWAM DCM and now Restore take shape and begin to see lives turn around...... For myself Alasdair it is the highlight of my week !
The Healing in the Streets conference despite the down pour went really well with one lady being healed as we prayed for her and just now I took a call from a lady who we had prayed with on the streets the other day asking where she could find a church where Gods power was as she wanted to join a church where God was .......... providentially I had lots of choice in Derby !
Over 60 Christians from 21 differrent churches came together for the conference and we are so excited to see what God is doing in Derby through His church.... It really is the Hope of the World...
Please pray for the fulltime staff at DCM, the other day we calculated that we now have over 200 volunteers working accross the various projects we run and as you can imagine that takes some administrating and caring for.... So please don't fgeel forgotten we can just get very busy at times......
This week at our Jubilee project we heard of a tragic tale of an impoverished single Mum who had been charged £150 bank charges by her bank for being a tiny bit over her £50 overdraft level. We made a complaint and were then able to help her clear her debts. In fact last week we were able to get several thousnad pounds worth of debt paid off for people thus getting them free and allowing them to sleep again. We have been so blessed in the quality of our excellent volunteers who serve the clients so well.
A huge thank you to all who gave to our Harvest Basics Bank Food appeal Chruches and School from all over Derbyshire gave so generously we estimate over £20,000 worth of food has been donated ot help us relieve poverty and to help make peoples lives better. Special thanks should go to John and Sylvia Gatt and Einir Cooper who along with the other stalwart volunteers Sue Smith, Sylvia, Karl and Andy and Ruth have done an amazing job in bringing in the harvest sorting it and administering it all.............. an amazing feat.
Recovery Project. we now have over 45 clients coming to this each week and are partnering with Restore to reach out to sex workers who come into the project. It is great to see this project which is a prtnership between Ozzy Road Church, YWAM DCM and now Restore take shape and begin to see lives turn around...... For myself Alasdair it is the highlight of my week !
The Healing in the Streets conference despite the down pour went really well with one lady being healed as we prayed for her and just now I took a call from a lady who we had prayed with on the streets the other day asking where she could find a church where Gods power was as she wanted to join a church where God was .......... providentially I had lots of choice in Derby !
Over 60 Christians from 21 differrent churches came together for the conference and we are so excited to see what God is doing in Derby through His church.... It really is the Hope of the World...
Please pray for the fulltime staff at DCM, the other day we calculated that we now have over 200 volunteers working accross the various projects we run and as you can imagine that takes some administrating and caring for.... So please don't fgeel forgotten we can just get very busy at times......
Tuesday, 7 September 2010
Healing on the Streets Training Weekend News
Hi Everyone,
Application forms will be with your churches this weekend please note we only have 100 places on this training weekend .. Yes 100 for the whole City ! So if you are intending to join the Healing on The Streets Team you will have to attend the whole training weekend on Friday and Saturday. So applications will be on a first come first served basis.
Application forms are available from your Church Minister so please contact them rather than us at DCM for application forms.
Conditions for application are as follows;
Recommendation of minister
Attendance at the whole conference
Sign up to minister an average of one Saturday per month from 12-3 pm approx
Every blessing and we look forward to seeing you at St Alkmunds Church on Friday 22nd of October at 19h30.
Ally
Application forms will be with your churches this weekend please note we only have 100 places on this training weekend .. Yes 100 for the whole City ! So if you are intending to join the Healing on The Streets Team you will have to attend the whole training weekend on Friday and Saturday. So applications will be on a first come first served basis.
Application forms are available from your Church Minister so please contact them rather than us at DCM for application forms.
Conditions for application are as follows;
Recommendation of minister
Attendance at the whole conference
Sign up to minister an average of one Saturday per month from 12-3 pm approx
Every blessing and we look forward to seeing you at St Alkmunds Church on Friday 22nd of October at 19h30.
Ally
Tuesday, 13 July 2010
Street Pastor Car
While Ally is on holiday I have use of the SP car, yay!! I won't bore you with the details of how I came to be at the security gate at the University this morning but I was and I wasn't sure what to say to the guard to let me through! So I pulled up, wound down the window and before I could get a single word out he said to me, "Ah Street Pastors, are you one of the Street Pastors?" So I said "Yes, I help run the project." He said "Oh that's great, 3 people from my church are Street Pastors..." and so we talked for a minute, then he raised the barrier and cheerily waved me through. I couldn't help but think how cool it is that God opens doors, or should I say gates, for us!
Isaiah 45:1 "This is what the LORD says to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I take hold of to subdue nations before him and to strip kings of their armour, to open doors before him so that gates will not be shut..." (NIV)
In Christ
Robin
Isaiah 45:1 "This is what the LORD says to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I take hold of to subdue nations before him and to strip kings of their armour, to open doors before him so that gates will not be shut..." (NIV)
In Christ
Robin
Monday, 28 June 2010
Healing on the Streets Conference Details Confirmed
Hi Everyone,
We can now confirm that the Derby Healing on the Street Conference with Mark Marx from Causeway Coast Vineyard is confirmed for Friday and Saturday the 22nd and 23rd of October at St Alkmunds Church, Kedleston Road Derby
Prices for the Conference are £25 per head. There are concession prices for, Students, OAP's Unemployed.
For more details or testimonies from other Healing on the Streets towns please see the following URLs.
http://out-there.org/
http://www.onevoiceyork.org.uk/story.asp?itemID=979&pcid=128
If you are a Church in the Derby area or an indivdual who would like to take part in the confernce and training Application forms are available through your church minister / leader and they will have them by late August.
Please note that application for the conference is only through your church leader. Should you wish to join Derby Healing on the Streets you will need to complete a CRB form and have attended the conference to be a part of the Team.
The vision is to have Christians from accross the body of Christ on the Streets of Derby every Saturday from November 2010.
Derby Healing on the Streets is part of Derby City Vision and is administrated by Derby City Mission
We can now confirm that the Derby Healing on the Street Conference with Mark Marx from Causeway Coast Vineyard is confirmed for Friday and Saturday the 22nd and 23rd of October at St Alkmunds Church, Kedleston Road Derby
Prices for the Conference are £25 per head. There are concession prices for, Students, OAP's Unemployed.
For more details or testimonies from other Healing on the Streets towns please see the following URLs.
http://out-there.org/
http://www.onevoiceyork.org.uk/story.asp?itemID=979&pcid=128
If you are a Church in the Derby area or an indivdual who would like to take part in the confernce and training Application forms are available through your church minister / leader and they will have them by late August.
Please note that application for the conference is only through your church leader. Should you wish to join Derby Healing on the Streets you will need to complete a CRB form and have attended the conference to be a part of the Team.
The vision is to have Christians from accross the body of Christ on the Streets of Derby every Saturday from November 2010.
Derby Healing on the Streets is part of Derby City Vision and is administrated by Derby City Mission
Wednesday, 2 June 2010
New Team for Austin Estate
We wanted to show you the new team of guys that we are working with in the SunnyHill area of Derby. We have recently obtained funding from the Police and are awaiting funding from Derby Council for our community football team. We have also been working with them and the commnunity safety partnership to see the local pub the Caxton arms restored as a centre in which the community meets.
We believe that Gang culture thrives in the context of community break down fear and deprivation therefore we work with members of the communities to help them rebuild and engage with the problems that they have. Creating aspiration and empowering people to make life better for the generation that follows.
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