The Reality of the West End

Last Thursday I witnessed a tragedy that really moved me and I also heard some news that angered and disturbed me!! I saw a fight in the West End just outside the chemist across from IMPACT with a guy who had a metal bar and a Staffordshire terrier it was brutal. I also learnt that we had a 'Loan Shark' coming into IMPACT lending people money and then setting gangs on people when they didn't pay double and triple the amount back within a week or two!! It brought home to me the deprivation in the lives of the people living on our doorstep at MCC/IMPACT. To them this was just life, normal, and to be expected. To me it was shocking and it enraged me and I have been praying about every since. It has left me with a sense of helplessness of not being able to show these people that that is not what life is about - that its not normal its not how life is or should be. We are on the frontline here guys and we need some way of showing these people GOD and who he is. For those of us who live lifes where fear every day is not the norm, its hard to believe that people live like this on our doorstep, where fighting and people chasing you for money you owe is an everyday issue. A life of survival. For us where life is safe and secure and middle class God doesn't also make a radical difference to our lives - for them GOD would absolutely blow their worlds apart - so join me in prayer on how on earth we are going to reach them!!! THANKS

West End Impact 4-10 Heysham Road Morecambe