For the past four years teenagers in the Coventry area have been hanging out at ‘the Granny Wagon’! Every Friday night sees Mothers' Union members in the Coventry area serving tea, hot chocolate and biscuits in a bid to fight boredom and disillusionment amongst local teenagers. Christine Cooke, one of the founding members of the project, explains, ‘I am a bell ringer, and every time I went to an evening practice I would walk past a group of youngsters hanging out in the recreation ground next to the church. God kept giving me a nudge and asking me to take notice of them.’ God continued tapping on Christine’s shoulder when she attended a New Wine Women’s Day and got chatting to Jan, who admitted that for a long time God had been asking her too to help young people, but she didn’t know quite how to respond.‘The two of us walked around town praying in different areas where we knew young people tended to gather,’ Christian recalls. ‘We were drawn to their main “watering hole”, the recreation ground next to the church.’ The two ladies purloined Jan’s husband’s car (a hatchback used for serving drinks at his club events which had earned itself the nickname ‘the Granny Wagon’), brought it down to the recreation ground one evening and opened the hatch! They served 98 cups of hot chocolate that first night.
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