News and Updates

The Annual General Meeting of Isle of Wight Street Pastors will be held on Tuesday May 12th 7pm at Newport Methodist Church. The Trustees’ Annual Report will be presented to members and new trustees proposed.  Anyone who is interested in the work of the charity is welcome to attend.

This was a great evening of praise and celebration. Wendy Thomas the national prayer co-ordinator for Ascension Trust spoke on ‘Knowing God as father’ and this touched several of those present. Click here to read more from Wendy.

There are plans to hold another prayer and praise evening in the Spring.

The 18th Brighstone Christmas Tree Festival

Thursday 11th – Sunday  14th December

Do go and see all the beautiful trees including ours.

Ventnor Christmas Fare

Saturday 13th December.

Street Pastor Ivan Rendell is taking part as The Grinch. We will have collection buckets  10:00 am – 13:00 pm and 13:00 pm -16:00 pm at the local Co -op.

Castlehold  Baptist Church, Newport

Casttlehold are having a street, school and prayer pastor light the advent candle with a child each week . This is raising the profile with stories shared of the work in the sermon. Christmas day collection will go to the Charity.

Bring & Buy Sale

14th January from 10am

School Pastor Zeta Bishop is organising a Bring & Buy Coffee Morning at Bembridge Village Hall from 10 am on 14 Th January.

We celebrated former pastor  Marian Blackburn’s life on Saturday at St John’s Church, Sandown, with extremely touching tributes given by various members of the congregation in an open forum as they remembered Marian. Also a wonderful more formal tribute given by  David Ouston  our former Street Pastor Co ordinator. Please do remember Marians family at this time . Her daughter Jenny was at the service and said to me that she had so treasured the messages of  love and support sent to her .

We were very sad to learn of the passing  on Tuesday November 11th of our dear friend Marian Blackburn who was one of the very first street pastors on the Island. She then went on to become one of our first school pastors. She gave many, many hours to care, listen and help others. The funeral is in Bournemouth on Thursday November 20th. We hope that we will be able to honour this lovely lady at a memorial service on the Island at a later date.

We are now recruiting for new Street Pastors, School Pastors and Prayer Pastors to join us at the beginning of 2015. Applications need to be in by the end of January. Successful applicants will then receive full training in the spring before joining our existing volunteers helping our local community. If you would like to find our more please contact one of the coordinators – contact Denise on 07545 242782 (Street Pastors or Rebecca on 07428 399866 (School Pastors) or use the contact form here.  If you want to apply you can download an application pack below.

– Download Street Pastors Application Pack –

– Download School Pastors Application Pack –

– Download Prayer Pastors Application Pack –