by diviadmin | Jan 10, 2025 | Street Stories
We were walking through the bus station at 2 am when we found a fully packed holdall, rucksack and laptop case under a bench. Assuming that the owner had perhaps nipped to the loo, we stayed beside them for some 20 minutes. When no-one appeared, we opened the laptop...
by diviadmin | Jan 10, 2025 | Street Stories
We came across a girl, alone and crouching down, sobbing. This had been the first night that she had gone out for some months after a number of operations that she’d had to endure alone. She was very disappointed that none of her family had come down to visit her when...
by diviadmin | Jan 10, 2025 | Street Stories
We came across a man on North Hill whose hands were bleeding but to our surprise and disappointment, he refused all our offers of First Aid. We finally managed to persuade him to take some of our antiseptic wipes in case he decided to clean himself up (we later found...
by diviadmin | Jan 10, 2025 | Street Stories
We had a reminder on Saturday of the importance of not making assumptions. About 11.20 pm we saw quite an elderly gentleman leaning on a fence, so we went over and asked if he was ok. He said he wasn’t, as he’d come down to Plymouth from Exeter for the day and had...
by diviadmin | Jan 10, 2025 | Street Stories
The other night, we happened to pass a lassie who I greeted her with my usual Hello, is everything ok with you? Yes, thank you, I’m fine was her cheery reply. We continued to walk in opposite directions but after about twenty paces, without thinking, I found myself...
by diviadmin | Jan 10, 2025 | Street Stories
We are very grateful that part of our training equips us to be very honest on the street, so that if we really don’t know the answers to some questions, we can say that, but then ideally encourage the enquirer to ask his / her minister, or go on an Alpha course etc....
