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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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We needed two miracles
A year has made an enormous difference in the lives of Colin and Lorraine - thanks to their involvement in the Northampton Jesus Centre.Published: 21st Jan 2004
COLIN Witkowski and Lorraine Cheape had been together for four years when a friend had suggested they try heroin 'for the buzz.'
"I thought 'I'm not going to get addicted'" explains Lorraine. "But we didn't realise what it was like. The buzz soon stopped and we woke up ill, because we needed another hit. Then we realised it had got us. After that, we couldn't start the day without a hit and went from smoking to injecting and shop-lifting to get the money. We both got caught and sent to prison."
Things went from bad to worse. One day in 2000, they came home to find they'd been evicted. Their belongings were out in the street and the locks had been changed.
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