About a month ago, we gave the congregation at St Paul’s an update on how The Lab is going, and - for those who didn’t know - introduced them to who we are and what we do.
This is my preach from that service (the text is Jesus’ encounter with Zacchaeus from Luke 19:1-10), which you might find interesting if you’d like to know a bit more of what we get up to. Sarah - one of our current youth work apprentices - also shares a bit from her perspective having spent a year with us in Alway.
Video of Hope Newport 2011 in Alway.
Thanks Sarah, as always, for your amazing editing skillz.
Photos from Hope Newport 2011 which happened last Thursday - Friday. The Alway team cleaned up and repainted some basketball courts in the centre of the Alway estate, and hosted a family fun day and BBQ on the Saturday. A pretty exhausting, slightly dramatic, but altogether great three days.
Around 250 volunteers from about 10 (possibly more) churches took part in Hope 2011, doing projects in 6 different areas of the city, in support with Newport City Council, Newport City Homes, Communities First Teams, local Community Associations, Newport Youth Service and others.
The Alway Project - Annual Report 2011
A few weeks ago, we threw together our annual report for the project in Alway over the past year. You can view it here to see the different work we’ve been involved in.
Also, in the last few days we have properly formalised a partnership with the Streetspace Network - a network of innovative youth and community work projects run by Frontier Youth Trust in partnership with the Church Missionary Society.
We’re very excited about the incredible support and training that partnering with Streetspace will bring to the work in Alway.
See crime statistics for your area
I don’t know if you’ve already been made aware, but if you live in the UK, you can now see your local crime statistics for December 2010, as well as local policing information, online at police.uk.
The crime map centred around the main Lab community house in Alway shows 279 crimes reported within a mile of the house:
- 47% Anti-social behaviour (131)
- 12% Burglary (35)
- 8% Vehicle crime (22)
- 4% Violent crime (11)
- 1% Robbery (2)
- 28% Other crime (78)
We quickly put together this video as an introduction to The Lab for a church we were visiting. It’s all filmed using the webcam on a Mac and Photobooth. Check it out for a bit of an explanation of what The Lab is about.
