{"id":3733,"date":"2017-10-18T20:39:26","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T20:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/?p=3733"},"modified":"2021-02-17T15:06:42","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T15:06:42","slug":"relationship-nurtures-the-belief-change-is-possible-21-years-of-xlp-by-patrick-regan-obe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/relationship-nurtures-the-belief-change-is-possible-21-years-of-xlp-by-patrick-regan-obe\/","title":{"rendered":"21 years of XLP"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The phone rang back in 1996. My vicar called to tell me that there had been a stabbing in the playground at a local school, and that he had told them that I\u2019d go in and see what I could do. I\u2019d been in London a relatively short period of time having grown up in Chelmsford in Essex. I\u2019d visited London as a school kid, and couldn\u2019t get the tragedy of poverty and exclusion out of my head as the class caught sight of cardboard city \u2013 people living in boxes under Waterloo Bridge \u2013 some barely out of their teens, while others wore the scars of long-term homelessness. I fairly much decided then and there, I needed to do something.<\/p>\n

I came back a few years later as a gap-year student with Oasis, and after getting married to Diane, we moved into a small flat on an estate in Lambeth and I took up the post of youth worker in a local church. Although I didn\u2019t realise it at the time, my heart was beginning to change and my life would never be the same. I was learning that God loves them all \u2013 eve...<\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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