Street pastors in Bexhill, Sussex, have completed a Response Pastors training day and will form the first Response Pastors team outside of London – Bexhill Response Pastors. The volunteers have received their uniforms and certificates and were commissioned as Response Pastors at a service last week.

Response pastors are trained to offer emotional and practical support  in times of crisis or need.

The photo shows the newly commissioned response pastors, along with Inspector James Scot, Sussex Police (far left), Mike Freeman, Response Pastors coordinator (back row, second from left) and Les Isaac, CEO of Ascension Trust and founder of Street Pastors (back row, centre).

The next training day Response Pastors will be held on 27 June in central London (details to be finalised). Read more about Response Pastors.