Camping in North Devon....
Lost Voices of Mission...Fred Brown
Along the world famous Oxford street in London's Westend; nestled in among the classy frontage of designer shops there is almost an unnoticeable, unimpressive wooden door. It is more or less alongside The Regent Hall's main entrance onto the busyness of Oxford Street. People pass the wooden door oblivious to the equally unimpressive wooden steps that go up three storey's to what was Regent Hall's youth club. When I was 10 I played on these bare wooden steps totally unaware of the significance behind and upon which I played. Many years later I discovered a university youth work course - as an induction to Youth Work - stopped outside this insignificant wooden door to point out that Youth Work as we know it in the UK started behind this door. ...whether that be the surbanite flower people that flooded the Westend to express their free love; or the hard core drug community this unimpressive wooden door became the 'portal' that blurred encounter between church an...
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as Isaiah 43 says we've just got back from a week in Torquay - yes it did rain lots but we had the luxury of a hotel roof, indoor heated pool, jacuzzi, sauna, cooked breakfast and three course evening meal every night!!! Hope you are all OK and hope to see you very soon, Sue Woodgate et al