Hope - Stories From The Road

Tim Evans and Dave Wiles

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Booklet

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This Booklet describes a pilgrimage made by Tim Evans and Dave Wiles in Sept 06. Using only £10 they travelled between 4 major cities to collect stories of hope from the yuong people that they met on the road.

Dave and Tim head up Frontier Youth Trust (FYT) and Worth Unlimited, both are organisations that work with and for young people on the margins of society. They joined forces to create a trust fund that will be controlled by young people, for young people and which will enable them to act on their own concerns. Tired of the negative stereotypes about young people, the trust will seek to enable them to demonstrate that young people can be positive force for change in society. In order to create the ‘Talent - Young People in Action Trust Fund’ FYT gave away £1000 in £10 notes to youth projects/groups to use to turn it into as much cash as they could. As Christian organisations we see this as related to the parable of the ‘talents’ (see Matthew 25:14 for details), however, we are quite happy about the double meaning in that we believe in young people and want to give them an opportunity to demonstrate their talent. To launch the initiative Dave and Tim received £10 to go on the road for a week in order to collect stories of hope from young people as a sponsored activity.

Tim Evans and Dave Wiles spent the week on the road together, with only £10.00 in their pocket; with no plans, no hotels, no transport and some would say no sense… their journey began! they say...

"For 5 days we travelled between Bristol, Cardiff, Birmingham and Liverpool with no resources or arrangements other than contact with several local youth work projects, radio stations and £10! We see this as an alternative model for Christian leaders to promote their ideas – a substitute for large scale Christian PR campaigns!

... This book is based on diaries that we kept on the road and we hope that it will interest, encourage, challenge and inspire you in any work you may do with young people or in relation to your thinking about them. Names are changed throughout the book to respect those who shared with us. We came back from our journey with £4 in our pockets, having given away £5 and spent £1 on chocolate and we would like to give thanks to God and His people for the care, generosity and love that we received. The journey has been a reminder that faith is spelt ‘risk’ and we have received so much more than we have given through our pilgrimage together..."

Price: £5.00 + £0.50 p&p. 

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