Changed for Good

by Main Street Preachers & Jane Freeman

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about

The Community Awareness Programme is a charity that has worked for seventeen years in the heart of Wakefield supporting people facing severe and multiple disadvantage with their journey from desperation to self-sufficiency. This involves practical help in the form of food, clothing, hygiene facilities and toiletries, household goods and furniture, but it crucially also involves emotional support, help and advice to assist clients as they find their way back onto their own two feet. The charity also fights to raise awareness of issues such as homelessness, substance misuse, mental illness, poverty, violence and abuse, attempting to give disadvantaged people a voice within their local community and inform decision makers what can and should be done to avoid being in this situation in the first place. (For full details of the charity see www.capcare.org )

Written in 2014, “Changed for Good” is a song about the experience of Project Manager Kevin Dobson in his first year in post at the Community Awareness Programme. Kevin says: “It has changed my life. The work of the staff, volunteers and clients together continues every day to change the lives of people who have found themselves at the point of desperation”.

The Main Street Preachers are Kevin and Rev James Morley, a Methodist Minister in the Aire and Calder Methodist Circuit. Dr Jane Freeman works voluntarily behind the scenes at the charity and has joined up with Kevin and James for this venture.

The charity relies heavily on public donations to be able to help over 700 people each year, at a rate of more than 85 people every day at our day centre in the middle of Wakefield.

A HUGE thank you – from everyone at CAP Care...

lyrics

Every story something new, another pair of eyes
That tries to hide the blinding fear, denying the demise
Wond’ring how it came to bear, how did this come to me?
Security a distant thought, now dream of being free

(Being) changed for good
Humbled in a new way
Doing like we should
The time is now at hand

I’ve seen images of heaven, and silhouettes of hell
Encounters with the darkness where the broken pieces dwell
There’s those that permeate the lines and get inside my skin
Take my soul to brand new places, influencing deep within

Is this what you asked of me?
Helping new beginnings show
Is this what you asked of me?
See the embers of your Spirit... grow