Saturday night in Sutton

[st_martin_a]

It's 3:00 in the morning and I'm just back from street pastoring. There were 6 of us on tonight - Michael, a doctor; Mark, a partially blind guy; another guy called Mark, who's got two daughters that are in the same year as one of my sons at school; Gillian, a woman in her 60's; and Antonio, my Venezuelan friend.
It started fairly quiet but quickly became the usual night of drunk people, homeless people, club promoters, policemen, drunken fights nearby, drunk aggressive guys approaching us. One of them was making no sense as he spoke to us. I just about picked up that he had been involved in some violent behaviour in his past. Then he pointed at me and said: "He scares me"... Antonio is a big guy and I knew that if anyone got violent he would step in but I still hate unnecessary confrontation. I laughed it off and fortunately the drunk guy did too. Phew...
We had to call two ambulances tonight. One was for a guy who'd been jumped and was unconscious; the other was for another guy who'd passed out after complaining of chest pains.
As we were leaving at the end of the night, we passed a few of the homeless guys. One of them had a guitar and was playing and singing. He had a good voice and it was a cool scene to leave behind at the end of the night.

Comments

[paw_prints]

Good on you for making a difference where you can. :)

[october_rain]

Sounds like a sort of crazy night. Glad you and your group kept safe.