Campaign against sex-ads bears fruit
Ex-police Sergeant, Neil Boast, who was heavily involved in starting and running Town Pastors across the county, has recently been campaigning to stop the sex-ads in local newspapers. He wrote a piece in Network Ipswich about it a short time ago ( click here to read it).
It now looks as if this campaign has borne fruit. He writes:-
“THANK YOU To everyone who campaigned, prayed, supported or encouraged me in getting the Sex Ads removed from the local papers. I understand that the ‘Adult 18 Services’ Ads now no longer exist in the Evening Star or East Anglian Daily Times. About time but it is good news..... Just keep an eye on them so they do not re-appear (oh cynical ex-Cop eh!)”
Neil also had some comments on Town Pastors:
“I was so proud that the Town Pastors were at Latitude and I heard so many good reports...plus I had a text from a TP stating “The Poo Lorry is stuck in the mud outside my tent”!!!! Painting pictures with words? I hope that the TP’s who were involved have dried out by now and that all the groups have ‘Reps’ there next year as it is a great way for all the TP groups to merge and do good. Pray for sun next year!”
“It is hard to ‘let go’ of being so involved with the Town Pastors. Having been there at the start (I originally named it the ‘Peter Project’ after Peter the Disciple but Paul Daltry and Liz Beaton then suggested Town Pastors and the rest is history!) I have watched the Town Pastors become a ‘ball of snow’...you know how they keep rolling and get bigger and bigger. I am like the proud Dad who has to eventually watch his kids leave home!”
Neil Boast was heavily involved in establishing Town Pastors in Ipswich, and subsequently in eight other towns and villages around Suffolk, and he continues to help with the training of new volunteers. He retired from the police in late 2010
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