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Northampton: Broken physics boff finds hope at Northampton Jesus Centre
On yer bike! Troubled Hungarian's true tale...Published: 15th Feb 2013
"PATRIK HAD been a physics lecturer in Hungary, his home country. He was quite broken by the needs that had led him to seek shelter in Britain."
Elaine Baker teaches ESOL, English for Speakers of Other Languages at the Northampton Jesus Centre. She told Streetpaper Patrik's story.
"Patrik had been in my ESOL class for a while," says Elaine, "We got to the part of the lesson that day in which we practice talking about our week. He told us about how he now had a menial job (working at a factory in an industrial area) and that he regularly had to walk for two hours to get to work. He was grateful for the work but it really brought home to us the difficulties some of our students...
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Northampton: Socks changed my life!
Filmmaker Aidan Ashby writes what his camera saw: the moving story of Sid Elliot’s journey from homelessness and addiction to faith and freedom through the work of the Northampton Jesus Centre.Published: 25th Jan 2012
“HI, I’M SID and this is how socks changed my life”. Sid, sitting in front of us was recounting his life story to our camera. And it’s quite a story!
My friend Richard King and I had been approached by Faithworks Northampton, part of a national network of Churches aiming to resource and encourage community involvement between Churches.
They offered us an opportunity to promote the work of the Northampton Jesus Centre (which is affiliated to Faithworks) through a YouTube video which they would promote.
So we’d dragged ourselves out of bed at 5.15 that morning, aiming to catch the cold early morning sunlight on the empty streets of Northampton. We wanted to capture some footage to show...
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Northampton: A bird with a broken wing
Jayne Elliott describes a moving encounter at the Northampton Jesus Centre.Published: 19th Jan 2012
SOME VISITORS to the Jesus Centre remind me why it is a privilege to work here.
Lisa was one. In her late 20s, like a little bird with a broken wing she came, on an afternoon when a women-only session was running. In fact, no-one had turned up and I was feeling like I was wasting my time, hanging around waiting for regulars to turn up.
Then I spotted her at the window. She was reluctant to come in, but when I offered her the option to talk privately, explaining there was no-one else around, she agreed. I sensed I had to be very patient and gentle (neither are my particular strong points!) if I was going to get her to unfold her story.
Lisa was desperate. She’d been diagnosed with a personality disorder and...
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Northampton: Prison: My Wake Up Call
Starting again after life on the inside can feel impossible. A knock on his cell door set Andy Clark on the road to a new life.Published: 5th Jul 2010
The facts
About 504 people sleep outside every night
8 out of every 10 prisoners admit to drug misuse prior to prison
7 out of every 10 prisoners have been in prison before
7 out of every 10 prisoners are unemployed prior to prison
7 out of every 10 female prisoners have no formal qualifications
6 out of every 10 male sentenced prisoners consume alcohol haphazardly
5 out of every 10 male prisoners were excluded from school
3 out of every 10 prisoners have been in care
Source: Prison Fellowship
In 1976 Andy Clark was working four days on/three days off as a nursing auxiliary in a mental hospital in Lancashire. One night he got back late to his hostel, walked...
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Making it work
From weight loss classes to immigration services, the support groups that are running in all three Jesus Centres help to provide "worship, friendship and help for every kind of person". "With support groups we can link up people to listen to each other and give mutual support," says Piers Young, manager of Coventry Jesus Centre. "It can make a big difference. We've seen it."Published: 21st Jan 2010
LONDON
"Making it work," is a relatively new job-search support group at the London Jesus Centre. It has been running for over nine months, during which Alison Moore, who runs it, has seen over 50 different people who are having difficulty finding work. It runs every Thursday by appointment, from 8.30am-3.30pm.
She helps them to put together their CVs, helps with interview skills, gives employment advice, searches for jobs with them, makes phone calls to employers and, as she puts it, "I do a lot of chatting, praying, solving problems, laughing, crying and drinking tea."
"My Spanish has improved!" laughs Alison, "And I've learnt about helping migrant workers to find jobs and a lot...
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