Street Space
It has been an exciting time for StreetSpace since the last FYT news, with three staff appointments over the summer to help us cope with the growth of the community.
Based in Glasgow, Dave Close has been seconded to us till Christmas as our Scotland Development worker, and we hope that we will develop this role to become a full time post in the New Year. Martin Stewart started in September as our London development worker. He will be based at Urban Hope in Islington from which we hope to build a strong hub of urban work that can grow into adjacent areas. Martin will be supported by John Wheatley who started full time with us in August and will help cover some of the London enquiries alongside me. So with a new team in place we had our first StreetSpace team meeting, where we used the metaphor “Here be Dragons” to describe how StreetSpace seems to work in the place on the edge of maps that used to be simply marked by the first explorers and map makers by a large Dragon. Much of this thinking is down to our FYT heritage with a commitment to being at the edge, and to our desire to simply follow God where ever led. We described our approach to being and growing church on the edge to a young person, and below
is a map that shows this land of dragons, which aren’t actually that scary after all. There is also a second map with shows where StreetSpace has live projects and emerging projects.
Dave Close
Martin Stewart
Richard Passmore
www.fyt.org.uk / frontier@fyt.org.uk
3