Date: Fri, 12 Aug 4pm
The time here is 4 o’clock which I think that makes you 7 and half hours ahead of us. I woke up and could not sleep so I thought that I would send some news.
The show went well last night we had 2 people saved, there was a few visitors that were out but they are saying that some people might be a bit nervous about coming out at night because of the riots. I am not sure how many were out but it was quite a loud crowd, lots of young people and they were right into it. I didn’t get to see Clement until after the show where he met us at the restaurant that Tee (the assistant pastor) took me to. He had been tied up all day dealing with some other stuff and in the night he was asked to go on the BBC tv to talk about his perspective on the riots, he was saying though that no one would look at him when he had his hand up to ask a question. They were more wanting to put a bandaid on the situation than actually dealing with the reason as to why this happened. Over half the people arrested were young people under the age of 18, that came from fatherless homes and they were black.
As far as the riots go apart from a few shops that have been targeted and had their windows broken (they are the ones with plywood across the open area where the window once was) and stuff stolen it all seems fairly normal. Tee took me past one place on the way to church that was built in 1834 approximately, it had been in these peoples family for generations...they were now using it for a furniture shop. Apparently it is the footage the media are using of a building that has been set on fire, the place was totally destroyed. The building had been through 2 world wars but could not survive these riots.
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