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Battle Log > Plymouth Team > Saturday, 7 November, 2009
Saturday, 7 November, 2009
On saturday 7th November, about 7 of us met up in Plymouth city centre to do a short outreach and to give out tracts to passers by. Again we could not go out Friday night again due to the bad weather.
On saturday, Wayne had his p.a and microphone, and so we took it in turns to do open air preaching to the crowds that walked by.
After about 20 minutes, a PCSO approached us saying that she had received complaints from shops in the city centre about the level of our noise, and if we could turn the volume down. We acknowledged her but stated that the noise was way below the guidelines given by the council of 40 decibells, we were under 10 at a guess. We also stated that it was not so much the noise that offended people, but what we were speaking about.
After more preaching in that spot, we moved on up further into the city centre and started again. Opposite where we were speaking was a balloon seller who sometimes gives us grief as he has a Jehovas witness background and likes to heckle us, which can sometimes be good to draw onlookers. However this time when I was speaking, he was seemingly enraged and marched back across to me with his balloons, giving me abuse about what I was saying and pulling my rememberance day poppy from my jacket.
Just after this happened and my friend Wayne was speaking to him, the same PCSO who had approached us earlier came back, saying that we had turned the volume up, that about 12 shops had complained again, and that we could either turn the volume down again, stop using the p.a, or she would have to give us an anti social behaviour order, banning us from preaching in the city centre. We all spoke with her again, saying that people didnt complain about a group of Indians that sometimes play in the centre with panpipes selling cds, or about the guy who plays the bagpipes, or the fair or anything else that was much louder that went on.
She said she would be meeting with the council on Monday to discuss what we had said, and Wayne also said he would contact the Christian Institute about what our rights were more clearly. Quite a few people stopped to listen that day, and may tracts were handed out, so pray that people heard the gospel and were convicted of their sin and saw their need for a Saviour!
Romans 10v14- Faith comes through hearing, and hearing through the word of God.
Links to the videos that are on youtube of the day are below
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBns0XlUWCE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8FU7RzctAM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhVCS8iqIH0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhoahkpmhS0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V35mr18WGRA