Life February 2020

In the 6 weeks leading up to Christmas,
the PACE Trust (Programme for Applied
Christian Education) joined with churches
from around Bournemouth, Poole and
Christchurch to share the good news of
Jesus with thousands of local secondary
school kids using the GSUS Live bus.
The bus is a mobile interactive classroom
on a large lorry. It seats 30 students and
guides them through a lesson helping them
understand who Jesus is and why he came.
For it's final week in Bournemouth the bus
was parked at The Bishop of Winchester
Academy just about - it struggled to get into
the car park!). As I help to lead the PACE
team working in TBOWA, I had the pleasure
of helping out on the bus during the week.
In just one week over 400 teenagers were
able to engage with who Jesus is. Working
regularly in TBOWA I get to see firsthand
how open these young people are to
discussing issues of faith, but this week was
something different. The lesson combined
with expert deliverer, Dave Pegg (PACE
Schools Work Leader), had a great knack
of helping the young people open up with
some big questions and great discussions
on everything Christian.
The week ended with a gig by Christian
artist Chip Kendall which thousands of
young people were invited to over the 6
weeks, more than a hundred attended and a
number reported making a commitment to
Christ that evening and are being followed
up by local churches.
You can find out more about the work of
PACE and watch some reports from GSUS
Live on their facebook page
www.facebook.com/ThePaceTrust
Tom Davenport | Community Worker
inside the bus