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Often at Street Connect we write about the people we work with and the difference an encounter with us can make in their lives, but today I’d like to take you behind the scenes. What’s it like? Often hidden from public view we work hard to oil the wheels of Street...

It’s 2021, and here we are in the midst of another lockdown, unsure exactly how long this one will last. Could it stretch right into the spring? We do not quite know. We may have been hoping to say goodbye to the challenging year we faced in 2020, and step into a...

2020 hearing you may be asking? Isn’t it supposed to be 2020 Vision? Well, yes it is! But before we are able to have 2020 vision, we first need to have 2020 hearing! As a Christian organisation the first value on our list of core values is: FAITH - FAITH IN THE...

As anyone in my family will tell you, I am a loyal and joyful observer of Advent. A gilt wreath we were given as a wedding gift from the minister who married us sits on our dining table and the candles are lit one after another as the 4 Sundays of Advent pass. There...

It had been a busy a week at Street Connect with one thing and another. One of the guys we had been working with had ended up back in prison. This was particularly discouraging as we had been working with him for nearly 2 years and he had finally got into rehab. But...

After reading last week of the 550 drug related deaths in Scotland in the last 6 months (1st April 2020 – end September 2020), on top of the 1,187 deaths in 2018, putting us on par with US per capita, you could easily get discouraged. Look also at the number of drug...

“My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.” - John 15:12  “This is my command: Love each other.” - John 15:17  When I stop to think about it, it’s a bit strange that Jesus commanded us to love. When we think about love, it is often...

As I look around me, I am regularly reminded and taken to a place of thanksgiving because of the people round about me. I do have to genuinely say that here at Street Connect, we are truly blessed with a high quality team of committed individuals. Thank you Lord for...

It was during an Easter service that I began reflecting on how God’s healing mercy and forgiveness contribute to the recoveries I have witnessed in my time with Street Connect – and it affects the lives of those we reach out to right from the start of their journey...

I think the charity is so well named, the more I am here the more I see it. Since joining Street Connect in August 2018 there are visible and invisible connections that become apparent all the time. I have always had faith and knew that prayer was a direct route for...

As a Christian organisation, our faith is and has always been at the centre of what we do. One of our core values is faith:   FAITH - in the transforming power of Jesus Christ underpins all our activities.   This is all good and well, but how does our faith actually...

What my first 2 weeks at Street Connect have taught me My name is Lauryn, I’m a Community Education student at UWS, on placement at Street Connect for the next few months. I’m a Christian – committed my life to Christ in my early teens and recommitted when I was 17 –...

Our Outreach Worker Stephen Webster writes about an experience he encountered in Glasgow City Centre this month: "Saturday night Outreach Café runs every Saturday 8.30-11.00 pm at 348 Cathedral Street, where we serve free food, tea and coffee at Glasgow City Church....

In our last blog we spoke of one of the greatest resources in our communities, ‘the local church’. In our first blog in Feb 2018, we spoke of ‘connecting online’ through regular blog posts related to the work of Street Connect. Then throughout the rest of the blogs we...

Can you think of some of the greatest resources in our local communities? In this instance I am not referring to community centres, leisure centres, local parks, libraries, local businesses, support groups or any other resource I haven’t mentioned specifically, but am...

Before we look at this question, and I give you my somewhat controversial answer on this topic, lets first turn our attention to the rise in drug deaths that have been recently reported in our news. It was recently revealed that there were 934 drug related deaths in...

Rough sleeping and begging I often hear people commenting on the state of rough sleeping in our cities and how it has gotten so much worse over the past year or 2. I also get asked a lot about begging and homelessness and the connection between the two. Hopefully we...

So what exactly is Homelessness? What are the main reasons for homelessness? Are all homeless people in addiction? Is homelessness on the rise? What can we do about it? Can homelessness ever truly be eradicated? I know from my own experience that I used to stigmatise...

Values is all about how we do what we do, our behaviours, which in turn creates our culture. People do what people see. "Culture eats strategy for breakfast" is a quote normally attributed to Management expert Peter Drucker. Basically meaning we can have the greatest...

“The fields are white for harvest” and “you will always have the poor among you” are two statements made by Jesus to his disciples on two separate occasions in the book of John. Sadly this is the case, effectively meaning, at Street Connect, we will never have a...

I would like to welcome you to the new monthly Street Connect blog, written by myself, Ricky McAddock, Co-Founder and Director of Street Connect.  Every 2 - 3 months we will run a theme, with the odd 'hot topic' blog being thrown in for good measure on a current issue...

"Then He appointed twelve, that they might be with Him and that He might send them out to preach, and to have power to heal sicknesses and to cast out demons" - Mark 3:14,15 The world is a hectic place. Even before our present world crisis, the challenges of coping...

THIS BLOG POST WAS WRITTEN BY LAURA, WHO WORKED AS A SOCIAL ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT INTERN FOR STREET CONNECT FOR SEVERAL MONTHS IN 2020. When I saw this role at Street Connect advertised in February, I was struggling with grief after the sudden loss of my mum who I...

The last blog I wrote was back at the beginning of 2020, in the month of January. Now here we are 6 months later having been through, and continuing to navigate one of the most challenging seasons of our lifetime with Covid-19. I wrote back then on the topic of ‘2020...