The YWAM (Youth With A Mission) team that I
am leading at the moment in Newcastle had an opportunity to partner with an
organization that calls itself space invaders!
Over the last couple of weeks we have
joined these guys for 4 days of renovation on a house. It is being used to give
local youth, some of which have been excluded from school, a space to be
creative. The youth do a mixture of helping to renovate the house and simply be
creative, for example of the final day we were with them they were given a pile
of wood and told to create something, they came out with things from
bookshelves to a swing.
We spent the time helping the project to
strip a number of rooms of the many layers of wallpaper, and then fill the holes
ready for them to be re-painted.
The project is not run by Christians, one
of the ladies who work on the project is and she told us that having us around
made the atmosphere seem so much lighter. One of the other ladies was also very
curious about why we had come to join them, and asked a bit about our faith,
she also accepted being prayed for on our final day with her.
We had a lot of fun, and it was really nice
to be able to see the progress as we come back each time.
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