Deeper shade of grey | Faith House
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K
ings Cross, in London, England, is pretty much as inner city as it gets. The kind of place that people tend to travel through, pretty quickly. Spend time there and you’ll soon see all the tale tell signs of fragmentation, obvious, in your face, hardly hidden as commuters rush to their semi detaches in the leafy green suburbs.
It is said that the name would strike fear into prospective Salvation officers who would declare “Any Cross but Kings Cross!!!”. Within a five minute walk from Kings Cross all the issues of a broken community easily ignored and forgotten were there to be seen. The hopeful girl looking for business, furtive glances of possibly a dealer, angry exchanges, aimless loneliness, homelessness.
There is something new in my life. Faith House. A Salvation Army presence trying to bring something of the cohesion of the Kingdom to the chaos of Kings Cross. A place of safety for the working girls, a place of community for the homeless, simply a place for those that need it. Monday nights will be my time to be involved, hopefully to support, to encourage and be part of a family that will give me more than I am sure I can give to it. Estelle and Christine with a team and network of people try to make a difference. I’m glad that I finally acted on a strong urge to get involved.
Deeper shade of grey appears every Wednesday on theRubicon. Find past posts and a bio of Capt. Gordon Cotterill here.
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Gordon
Great to read this. Some of my friends and I when we were in Training College started going up to Kings Cross to help Faith House in the outreach ministry. (It was part of our mission module project).
The time there reinforced for us just how evil drugs can be in ruining peoples’ lives and the depravity that there was around the area. We did have some wonderful moments too that I still remember to this day which just shows how the light of God can shine in the darkness.
May the Lord continue to bless Faith House and everyone involved in its ministry to those in such need.
Paul