We are pleased to announce that Isle of Wight Street Pastors were the overall winners of this years Isle of Wight Community Action Awards. We are grateful to the judges for their recognition of the valuable work of our volunteer Street Pastors and its impact on our community. The £1,750 prize will help us continue and . . . → Read More: Community Action Awards
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Inspired by an encounter on the streets, Isle of Wight Street Pastors Co-ordinator David Ouston wrote a song, which has been performed in various places and is now available to download. There is no charge for the download, but if you are touched by the song please do consider making a donation to Isle of Wight Street Pastors, or becoming a regular . . . → Read More: Street Pastor Song So on Friday night we ventured out into the unknown, the start of our first weekend on the streets around the Isle of Wight Festival. It was like a ghost town in Newport so we headed up Fairlee Road towards the festival site. Immediately a young lad about 14 came staggering towards us, he was falling into the . . . → Read More: Festival Friday This year Street Pastors will be on the streets of Newport during the Isle of Wight Festival for the first time. Three teams will be out on Friday and Saturday nights and one team on Sunday night, from around 8pm to 1am. We’re not quite sure what to expect, but are really looking forward to meeting and . . . → Read More: Street Pastors hit the Isle of Wight Festival Last Friday saw the commissioning of the second wave of Street Pastors on the Isle of Wight in Newport Minster, followed by the first night on the streets of Newport. In front of a large congregation in the Minster new Street Pastors were prayed for and commissioned with Street Pastors each handed their cap, ready to . . . → Read More: Street Pastors take to the streets of Newport Our first Isle of Wight Street Pastors newsletter is now available. You can download a version for on screen reading from here, or obtain a printed copy or high resolution version to print at home by contacting David, SP co-ordinator. The newsletter is the first in a series of biannual publications which will help keep you up to date with . . . → Read More: First Newsletter out now Since May 22nd 2009 until 31st December 2009 we have done 38 nights out on the streets of Ryde, Cowes and Newport. This equates to 970 man/ woman hours . We have had 134 meaningful conversations and been involved in 33 tense or challenging situations. We have given away hundreds of pairs of flip flops and . . . → Read More: Less Crime in Ryde We have had requests for a poster and leaflet for churches and other organisations that want to show their support of Street Pastors. So here they are! You can now download an A5 leaflet or a poster (suitable for A4 or A3 printing) to display or hand out. They are all in PDF format and can be obtained from our . . . → Read More: Downloadable Poster & Flyer OK, I’m really only posting this because I like alliteration. That aside I thought you should know the lengths that our SP co-ordinator will go to to prove he has no fear. David and I were part of a trip to Germany with 19 teenagers (scary enough already if you ask me) travelling to Dresden for . . . → Read More: Death Defying David’s Deutsch Daring Do Since the commissioning service on May 22nd there has been a team out on the streets of Ryde every Friday night. We have gradually been extending our patrolling hours and now we are out until 2.30-3.00 am. Not only have we done all these nights we have also helped at Ryde Regatta, done 3 nights at . . . → Read More: Honoured and Humbled |
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