Prisons Week - Together We Care.
The third week in November each year has become known as ‘Prisons Week’. Prisons Week was established to pray for and to raise awareness of the needs of prisoners and their families, victims of crime, prison staff and all those who care. This year, some of us were keen that Prisons Week should also be marked by a multi-Faith event. Just as the chaplaincy teams in prisons are exploring a more multi-Faith approach to pastoral care, so it was felt that Prisons Week could demonstrate different Faiths and Denominations coming together to reflect and to commit to a common purpose. On this Wednesday evening of Prisons Week a group of us gathered in the cavernous old Victorian chapel at Wormwood Scrubs. It was a dark and squally evening and several of our visitors were soaked as they were escorted in from the main gate and others on their way there had to sit for ages in the intense traffic generated by the vital England match at Wembley. In the event it wasn't the turnout we'd hop...