Transcript ST MARY ADDISCOMBE 2016

Trevor Clarke
Nick Lebey
Nick Russell (Lead Evangelist)
GREENWICH CENTRE OF MISSION
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KIDBROOKE VILLAGE
DEPRIVED ESTATES ABBEY
WOOD/THAMESMEAD
4 DEPRIVED ESTATES/3 PARISHES
ELTHAM
Greenwich CoM : 3 Deaneries
Abbey Wood/Thamesmead:
Nicholas Lebey
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Partnership with XLP and their computer &
games bus
Working with local school- excluded pupils
Youth Club for unchurched young people
Discipleship Group (went to Soul Survivor)
Youth Church by the end of this year.
PAGE, BROOK & HORN PARK & MIDDLE PARK
ESTATES+FORMER FERRIER TENANTS
NATIONALLY:
HIGHEST 5% FOR CRIME,
HIGHEST 3-8% DEPRIVATION
ADULTS: Socially Excluded/Vulnerable/Addicts:
Blessing, Belonging, Believing, Behaving
Trevor Clarke:
 Café outreach Horn Park, mainly people
from sheltered accommodation.
 Decorating project
 Bible group
Nick Russell
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VULNERABLE ADULTS CAFÉ
VULNERABLE ADULTS FRESH
EXPRESSION
SUPERKIDZ CHILDREN AND YOUTH
WORK
www.superkidztrust.org
Deprived Children, Youth, Families, Kidbrooke/Eltham
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GOD’S HEALING LOVE FOR DAMAGED CHILDREN & FAMILIES
SHARING THE GOSPEL MESSAGE
PARTNERSHIP WITH XLP
3X CHILDREN’S CLUBS SERVING 3 ESTATES, 2 X YOUTH
CLUBS,
MENTORING SCHEME,
DETACHED STREET OUTREACH,
GROUP MENTORING OF AT RISK GIRLS,
Y. OFFENDERS, ASBO Y.PEOPLE, NEETS
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5-11S, PARENTS AND TEENAGERS
STRONG MESSAGES PERSEVERING AT SCHOOL, POSITIVE
CHOICE, ANTI-CRIME
TARGETS YOUNG OFFENDERS/AT RISK YOUNG PEOPLE
3 SALARIED STAFF (2 part-time),
10 VOLUNTEERS
REACHES AVERAGE 150 PER WEEK, OVER 300 AT PEAKS,
ALMOST 600 IN 2014
17 PART-TIME PAID TEENAGE WORKERS FROM LOCAL
COMMUNITIES
SUPERKIDZ TRANSFORM GROUP & INDIVIDUAL MENTORING
Young Troubled Minds:
Threefold Problem
Internal Working Model
Negative Personal Constructs
Group/Gang Norms
“Love is the only thing that can give
damaged children hope”
Camilla Bathmanghelidj
“God is love. Whoever lives in love
lives in God, and God in them”
1 John 4:16
Girl Sessional workers
“C”
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Drug addict father used to point a gun at her head to
get money out of her mother
Mother took refuge in cannabis and alcohol
Poverty, neglect and insecurity
Failure at school
C’s sister raped at 13, unable to focus at school
C gets pregnant by drug dependent boyfriend whose
mother is an addict convicted of manslaughter
Both C and her sister getting work experience through
Superkidz
C now confident and wants to be a midwife, returning
to education
Success in employment training
Teenage boy “A”
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Both parents class A drug dependent
Poverty and neglect
Witnessed domestic violence when an infant,
dad in and out of gaol.
Excluded from school because of disturbed
behaviour
Criminal record including violence
Volunteered with Superkidz
Trained as a football coach through partner
XLP, coaching youngsters
Trained by Superkidz to pass Construction
Site test
STOPPING DAMAGED CHILDREN
BECOMING DAMAGING PARENTS
LOVE OF GOD
THROUGH US
DAMAGED PARENTS
DAMAGED CHILDREN
LOVE OF GOD
THROUGH US
Triple missiological/psychological strategy tackling:
1. Internal Working Model: Negative feelings/mental lens about
self and others formed in infancy & childhood,
introducing a loving God, 1 Cor. 13 long-suffering & patient love
2. Negative group norms/culture
3. Negative personal constructs/beliefs about self/the future.
Highlights
Doing, Advocating, Resourcing and
Enabling evangelism