The Street Pastors training course is currently running.
It happens twice each year and consists 3 blocks of 4 Saturday mornings.
Cost is £100 including uniform [subsidised, normal cost is £300]
The training course is over 12 Saturdays (not altogether) and includes subjects such as counselling skills, drugs awareness, sociology, knowing your community, role and responsibility, and street safety.
If you are interested in becoming a Street Pastor, or would simply like to know more about their work, please contact Mark Tomlinson.
Phone: 020 86407426 E mail m.tomlinson@talk21.com.
Sutton Street Pastors go out on the streets of Sutton every Friday and Saturday night from 9-4pm and have been operating since Dec 2005
We work in partnership with the Safer Sutton Partnership and have people from over 20 different congregations. Currently we have 34 street pastors and also have a team of prayer pastors who pray at St.Nicholas whilst we are out on the streets.
All Street Pastors go through 12 Saturdays of training over 6 months. A typical night includes giving out spikeys, flipflops, lollipops, helping those in distress, signposting people to relevant services, being a visible presence, being a listening ear and where appropriate praying with people and answering any spiritual questions they may have.
Before they can go out, every Street Pastor has to go through extensive 12 week training course in areas such as counselling, drug awareness, evangelism, statutory agencies and much more.
The initiative has the full backing of the Metropolitan Police and the local Safer Neighbourhoods Team. In Sutton, the police have even provided a sum of money to subsidise the training, and more recently provided a grant to salary a part-time coordinator.
www.suttonstreetpastors.org
www.suttonstreetpastors.org
As Street Pastors we aim to -
Reduce the fear of crime on the streets
Be a visible presence of Christ on the streets
Take the Church onto the streets
Help the vulnerable and needy on our streets
Engage with young people
