Published: Sunday, 8th November, 2009 6:44pm

Police support drug addict bus

The Brisbane Evangelical Church bring a single decker bus to the entrance of the Gateside Street car park in Largs on Tuesday evenings for two hours to hand out free food packages to local drug addicts.

Pastor Tom Stables told the 'News': "We are trying to help and get them to get their lives sorted out. We have managed to get three people sent away to Christian rehabilitation centres and they are all doing well.

"In fact, since we set up the programme, one has just a graduation ceremony to complete the programme and has got a job in a woman's rehabilitation centre. Two young men we were seeing have also gone into rehab. We are just our second month into running the converted bus. People can come and have a chat and we can help point them in the right direction. It is because there is a problem that we are trying to do something about it which is positive. Largs is not any different to any other town."

"It is part of what we consider a service to the community because we are Christians. When we approached the police to say what we thought would be a good site for the bus, they were delighted that someone was doing something constructively about the drug problem."

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