by diviadmin | Jan 10, 2025 | Street Stories
We were patrolling on the Octagon in Union St and a girl asked me to thank one of our ladies who she had talked with for 15 minutes, last month; at the end of which, she no longer wanted to kill the people who had been responsible for the death of her young...
by diviadmin | Jan 10, 2025 | Street Stories
Twice we were called by police to help with pastoral care of girls in distress; one was suicidal due to the death of her mother when she was only 9 years old. The other was a young mum with 2 children whose partner had just gone off with her best friend. A third girl...
by diviadmin | Jan 10, 2025 | Street Stories
One of our ladies was talking to a prostitute (let’s call her “D”), who was telling her she’d like to give up prostitution, but she needed the money to feed her drug habit. As they talked, D shared some other sad personal history and our lady asked her if she would...
by diviadmin | Jan 10, 2025 | Street Stories
A couple of months ago I was on duty and unusually for me I found myself really tired and yawning around 3 am, so I was quite pleased when the streets seemed to be quietening down around 3.40 am. At 10 to 4 we decided to point ourselves in the direction of base....
by diviadmin | Jan 10, 2025 | Street Stories
3.15 am at the end of an unusually quiet night and everyone is quietly heading home. Perhaps we should do the same. Then a vivacious young lady rushes up to say “You are wonderful. I want to do what you do but I am told I have to know Jesus and I haven’t met Him yet....
by diviadmin | Jan 10, 2025 | Street Stories
I don’t feel I can share too many details of this one but we met a lady who initially thanked us for what we do and asked if she could have her photo taken with us. We obliged and she then began to tell us about her life, which included mental health problems and the...
