ISIS Chamber Orchestra

Thanks to the ISIS Chamber orchestra for their charity concert in Wantage raising funds for Wantage & Grove Street Pastors. An excellent evening!

Welcome to Wantage and Grove Street Pastors

Ten local churches set up Wantage and Grove Street Pastors in 2009, with our first teams commissioned and on the streets in October of that year.

(Photo: Street Pastors trainees with local councillors)

Our area consists of the small market town of Wantage and the largely residential village of Grove immediately to the north; so we are rather different from a city initiative. The night economy in Wantage centres round the Market Place, and people of all ages gather there on Friday nights from Grove and the surrounding villages. Many younger people are out in Grove and spend time in the Wantage Sweatbox youth centre.

Street Pastors teams are on the streets in Wantage every Friday night and an early team is building up our contact with younger people in Wantage and Grove; we have a teams out on Saturdays once-a-month but are looking to increase this throughout the year. We currently have ** Street Pastors and ** Prayer Support Volunteers. PSVs make up the base teams who see that while the Street Pastors are on the streets they have phone contact, prayer support – and refreshments.

Photo: A quiet moment near Wantage Market Place

Caring, listening and helping is, of course, both rewarding and challenging in a personal sense, and the churches have found it inspiring to work together like this to bring the love of God to his people who typically don’t come from any of the local churches.

For more information on Wantage and Grove Street Pastors, have a read of our latest monthly report or contact us by email or phone.