We were patrolling on the Barbican when one of our team spotted a young lady in a doorway. We went to check if she was ok and found she was “ever so slightly worse for wear” and had been separated from her group of friends. She was anxious and confused and, to make matters worse, had left her phone with her friends so had no means of contacting them. We offered to ring her friend or boyfriend, but (as often happens), she couldn’t remember their phone numbers.
Plan B was called for so, after finding out the names of said friend and boyfriend, messages were sent via Facebook Messenger to let them know she was safe and to arrange somewhere for them to meet up. Although the messages showed as delivered, we had no reply, so we decided to walk with her to the taxi rank with the idea that she could perhaps get a taxi home.
Unfortunately, she decided she really didn’t want to go home just yet and was about to wander off on her own saying in no uncertain terms she’d be ok and really didn’t want any more help from us!! Obviously, we appreciated that, being an adult, she was perfectly entitled to continue alone but we were still concerned about her as she was in a vulnerable state, heavily “under the influence”, so we phoned back to base again for prayer from our wonderful Prayer Pastors.
Lo and behold, the young lady’s boyfriend appeared! He was obviously very concerned about her and somewhat irate that she’d ended up in the company of a group of strangers but once the girl had reassured him that we were helping her and we had explained to him who and what Plymouth City Pastors are, they went off happily to enjoy the rest of their night out.
Just as we thought we were out of options, our Heavenly Father had intervened again and the couple were safely back together. Another example of God’s never-ending goodness and answered prayer ………….
Before we went out on patrol one of our Prayer Pastors talked about our serving, giving to God was at a cost to us and that if it didn’t cost us something it was of no worth.
At about 2.30 am we were called to a lassie, completely out of reason due to alcohol, no phone, no money, no friends anywhere. We managed to get two phone numbers; one no reply, the other a friend who didn’t want to know.
The police didn’t think they could help and when we tried to ring for an ambulance they intimated it was going to be a good long while before they could get to us. We couldn’t get the girl anywhere near sober enough for a taxi and in any case she had no money. The Prayer Pastors had been called so I knew they would be praying for a resolution, some miracle.
We were all cold, and I know I felt tired, tired with inability to solve the problem. I suddenly knew we should be praying out loud ourselves. So I started ….”Father you know we are all feeling cold and tired, You know….” and then the words of our Prayer Pastor from earlier came into my head…. “Father, not for ourselves…..but for this girl please….”
I got no further, I was going to ask for a miracle when around the corner came the friend we had called earlier. She decided she couldn’t leave her, but had to help!