This is a typical site that I see as I walk across this bridge on my way home and peer over Camden Lock- teens, and lots of them. They're there on the weekends at all hours, sitting/standing in circles, drinking beer, and hanging out. I'll walk by at midnight after Saturday night tea outreach, and they'll still be there talking. Sometimes I wonder if they have parents who know and care where they are and what they're doing. I want to reach out to them and show them the love of Jesus. I've passed this site for 10 months now, and I just don't know how.


Last weekend, two of my musically gifted teammates and I went down to this area of the lock, sat down with our guitar and djembe and began singing worship songs.

The place was PACKED with young people. Some of them began sitting closer to us, one coming right up and sitting by my drum. He told us that he had grown up in a Baptist church and had been really involved, but had thrown it all away when he was 18. M told us that him and God had been fighting for a long time and that M had given up on Him. My teammate said, "Well, Jesus has never left you." M went very quiet, bowed his head, and said, "Thank you. Maybe this was His will that I would run into you today. Maybe I needed to hear this." I gave him a flyer for our Easter service next week. I'm praying that he'll come. I'm also hoping that this will become a regular thing and will lead to many more conversations about Jesus with other young people down by the canal.