Tuesday, July 13, 2010

YF Devotion/gathering at Josh and Shell's this Friday (16th)

We just got back in from California today, it was an incredible trip (the twenty hour round trip to Oregon was tough with two babies in the van but more than worth it to see a good friend get married). I'm also (extremely) happy to be alive after an almost deadly mishap when hiking with my friend Jon - the Lord used it to add to our perspective in life... all in all it's been a great 8 days! Although we had no sleep for awhile as the baby wasn't fond of the airplane, airport, car transfers. Hope everyone had a lot of fun with Sardines, sundaes and sharing last week with Rae-Anne and Brad, we definitely thought of you!

This Friday (16th), I wanted to share a brief devotion from Scripture (and my heart) at Josh and Shell's for YF! We noticed that we haven't opened our home for YF since March and it's due time! Feel free to come earlier, you can even bring your own dinner if you just wanted to hang out, feel free to come as early as 5pm - it's always nice to have a longer time to chat/pray/catch up with one another. If you are coming after dinner, feel free to come at 7pm. We can have a quick devotion time and brief sharing about what's coming up (Discipleship week, Alpha plans, maybe your ideas for summer events to welcome friends etc) then we'll open it up to games and hanging out. All the Jenga, Rockband, Brawl, Guillotine, For Sale or as YF girls often do - hang out with Eli and Levi). You can bring your snacks, wiimotes, Brawl disc, boardgames, friends etc.

On Saturday (17th) is our annual church picnic, so please join your family (or invite your families) to the church picnic. This year, we'll have the privilege of witnessing our brother (and buddy) Wardrer proclaim his faith in Christ as he has decided to be baptized! So make sure you join us in encouraging Wardrer and continuing to walk with him in his relationship with Christ as we grow together as a family.

Coming up:
July 17th Church picnic and baptisms
August 16th - 20th YF Discipleship Week
August 25th - Helping out at the Ottawa Mission
September 24th YF Alpha begins (10 weeks)

Drop us a line about how your past couple of weeks have been and if you want to meet up for some lunch, coffee or something like that. It'll be on us, so "Mo hat hey" or "Tai ke chi bu hao" for the mandoes.
See you all on Friday!

posted by YF @ 9:31 PM