JEANS - A response to knife and gun crime

On Saturday I attended a conference in Leyton, East London run by the Adonai Amdassadors Assembly called "Make The Difference" The bit I attended was the launch of JEANS (Joint Effort Advocating New Society). It was great that they had managed to engage local community groups like the Police, their Local MP Harry Cohen and the deputy Mayor of Waltham Forest. The speaker for the day was Rev Andrew Brandon who works with gangs, and he shared insights from his work. I also managed to interview a young rap band called "da fellowship" who are dedicating money from their latest EP to victims of the China earthquake. Check out their myspace page. All these interviews will probably come out on trax16 in October. On Sunday Irfana and I took our youth group to Clapham Baptist church where Pastor Les Isaac was preaching. He is a good friend of Andrew Brandon's and was responsible for setting up a street Pastoring scheme in south London. I chatted with him afterwords and he too will be included on October's trax16.