As Street Pators we aim to -

  > Reduce the fear of crime on the streets

  > Be a visible presence of Christ on the streets

  > Take the Church onto the streets

  > Help the vulnerable and needy on our streets

  > Engage with young people

'Christians who share a concern for Sutton

and who are willing to engage people where they are'.

The Street Pastors training course is currently running.

It happens twice each year and consists 3 blocks of 4 Saturday mornings.

Cost is £100 including uniform [subsidised, normal cost is £300]

The Street Pastor's training course is over 12 Saturdays (not altogether) and includes subjects such as counselling skills, drugs awareness, sociology, knowing your community, role and responsibility, and street safety.

If you are interested in becoming a Street Pastor, or would simply like to know more about their work, please contact Mark Tomlinson

Phone: 020 86407426    E mail m.tomlinson@talk21.com

Could you be a Street Pastor?

Sutton Street Pastors go out on the streets of Sutton every Friday and Saturday night from 9-4pm and have been operating since Dec 2005. We work in partnership with the Safer Sutton Partnership and have people from over 20 different congregations. Currently we have 34 street pastors and also have a team of prayer pastors who pray at St.Nicholas whilst we are out on the streets.

All Street Pastors go through 12 Saturdays of training over 6 months. A typical night includes giving out spikeys, flipflops, lollipops, helping those in distress, signposting people to relevant services, being a visible presence, being a listening ear and where appropriate praying with people and answering any spiritual questions they may have.

Before they can go out, every Street Pastor has to go through extensive 12 week training course in areas such as counseling, drug awareness, evangelism, working with statutory agencies and much more.

The initiative has the full backing of the Metropolitan Police and the Local Safer Neighbourhoods Team. In Sutton, the police have even provided a sum of money to subsidise the training, and more recently provided a grant to salary a part-time coordinator.

Videos

On Friday 17th December 2005, the first group of Sutton's Street Pastors took to the streets on an icy cold night.

"It was wonderful to see so many people greeting them and engaging with them - and in some cases actually hugging them" (K Ahronson)

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Sutton Council and Police give their blessing to the Street Pastor initiative
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