Tuesday, May 26, 2009

YF this Saturday, Community Impact

Thanks so much for an incredible coffeehouse and inviting LOADS of your friends! It was so cool to see you interact with your school friends and now you've introduced them to such a big part of your life! God is totally going to use your courage to open doors in your talks with them! Follow up with them and ask them what they thought about the people, presentation, sharings etc. In fact you can even use this Friday (YF is Saturday this week) to take them out to coffee or something and talk! It was super encouraging because I've never seen so many people from outside churches come to a coffeehouse before! You guys did some awesome outreach because your friends have heard more about Jesus and also know a bit more about who we are as a church/fellowship! Definitely keep praying for your friends - we'll have some laid back summer events at homes, so feel totally free to invite them to those! That's what I'm talkin bout! We also took some time to debrief about coffeehouse on Sunday morning, you'll find what we noticed attached. AND That scrapbook is amazing and I have the best wife ever! Thanks for all the notes of encouragement, yeah - i've already read them all and will probably read them many more times. Those kinds of gifts mean the most to me and it's seriously the best gift I've gotten! Love you YF!

There are quite a few things coming up here as per usual! YF is this SATURDAY (10am - 4pm) here at church, we will be doing community impact projects with the other OCYM churches. We'll be doing a few different projects, gardening (if you have work gloves, gardening shovels, weed pullers etc, we NEED those!), cleaning up the area, mowing lawns (please bring pushmowers if you have them), cleaning windows etc. In such a small block of time, we will see how we can do acts of service just by being available. YES, you'll also be able to get 6 volunteer hours that I can sign for as a bonus :) Also please fill out the two consent forms attached for the next two weeks. It's required because we need to waive the community agency we are helping on Saturday too. On Saturday evening, we encouraged you to join the Worship and Prayer night at EACO, starts at 6:30pm until 10:00pm.

Next Friday (June 5th) will be our Drive-by Prayer night. Please fill out the consent form and confirm your participation as we need to arrange for enough drivers and cars to run around and hit (as in pray for) as many houses as we can :)

Something cool might open up for July 24-26th keep it open :)
YF Discipleship week (August 17th - 21st)
VBS (August 10th - 14th)
YF Fall Retreat is September 11-13th at Rae-Annès parents lake-side house!!! :) KEEP IT OPEN!

Ouje team: (crafts, games, devos), we will have a quick team meeting after church on Sunday 1:00pm - 2/2:30pm just to catch up on where we are at in the planning and to give you some time to talk in your teams as well. We want to talk about the fundraiser on June 7th as well.

Let us know how you've been doing!
We'll see you Saturday!