Monday, August 30, 2010

YF Bible study: Minor Prophets (Habakkuk) this Thursday (2nd)

Yes, another Thursday :) The last week was to make room for the Mandarin retreat and this Friday, I`ll be at Chung and Jean`s wedding rehearsal + dinner. If you can think of it, remember Chung and Jean in your prayers as it will be a stressful week of preparations and pray for their marriage too! Thanks for your awesome service at the Mission on Wednesday. You served over 200 clients and each year wherever we serve, my contact has always said there is something special about our group! You guys are awesome! :) Thanks to the Ma family for opening up their home last Thursday for our grad send off (more like a ``see you later`) It was definitely a blast to zipline, share and see the CCCO home videos from when you were all 9 years younger lol :)

This Thursday (2nd), we`ll be continuing our series of Bible studies in the Minor Prophets. Please bring your Bibles and an open heart to hear what the Spirit desires to say to us. Hopefully it`ll be nice enough to have it outdoors but if not we`ll be in 118 Empress.. We'll also have a time of refreshments and fellowship afterwards.

Next Friday (10th), we plan to have an activity night (ie. Bigger or Better) and then `Food Fight` on the (17th) as a prelude for Youth Alpha which begins on September 24th. Youth Alpha will run for 11 weeks, please continue to pray for and invite friends for the Alpha discussion over the 10 weeks.

There`s not much time left in the summer, it`s been nice to have lunch with you guys more often during the summer whether discipleship week or just meeting up! So let us know how we can be praying for you guys!

See you this Thursday!

Monday, August 23, 2010

YF The Mission on Wednesday (25th) and Grad send off on Thursday (26th)

Hey YF!

Thanks for another great week at Discipleship week (I really do enjoy the discussion and service opportunities with you guys!) it was encouraging that even with over 20 students each day, most of you did the reflection tasks that were asked :) I pray that each of us would be more aware of the Spirit and His voice and allow Him to guide us. Salem was incredibly thankful for your service on Wednesday (there was a lot that we got finished that day)!

As you know as a final service opportunity from Discipleship week, the Mission has once again been awesome to work with in organizing another service opportunity with us. This Wednesday (25th) we will be serving with Meghan at the Ottawa Mission. We need all the volunteers we can get, so please commit to coming if you are free. I've sent a few extra details in your e-mail inbox.

So please meet at Richtree in the Rideau Centre by 9:15pm, if we are no longer there please proceed to the Mission for 9:30am, we will likely leave around noon.

This Thursday (26th), the Ma residence has once again made themselves available to host our Grad send off. Since the Mandarin retreat is this weekend, YF will be moved to Thursday in order to accommodate as many people as possible! We are hoping to have a potluck type supper. Jocelyn mentioned that if you bring meat, you can cook it there on the BBQ. The Ma's live at (2 Dodder Key), please arrange car pools with your closest neighbors. Here is a link to directions via Gmaps. They have suggested 6:30pm - 10:00pm We can talk more about it at the Mission this Wednesday!

Let us know if you'd like to meet/catch up!
See you Wednesday and Thursday!

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

YF Contentment and Suffering discussion (13th) Discipleship week details

Many thanks for the hospitality the Yip family showed for YF last week! Even though many people were out of town, they still fed and warmly hosted a large number of us! It was a great time to see everyone, catch up with summers over supper and just have fun with one another. Although, we didn't have an indepth study of Scripture etc, it's amazing how we can share all these experiences and fellowship time remind me that church is a living and breathing body/family.

This week, I originally had in mind to continue the Bible studies in the Minor prophets - but with Discipleship week coming up next week, we'll be spending a lot of time in Scripture each day. Instead, this Friday (13th), we will be having a discussion on contentment, those who are suffering and generosity based on the Nooma series. Each time we've seen one of these short videos, they leave a lot of room for discussion and we can also supplement the discussion by looking at more examples in God's Word. We'll talk about our inborn desire to succeed, gather, accomplish etc. Can our success, our attitude of one-upmanship and gaining everything end up turning on us? Please bring your Bibles, pens, refreshments etc to the youth room on Friday.

YF Discipleship week is NEXT WEEK from the 16th - 20th. (9:30am-12noon each day) We also have a service day on the 25th (detached from the Dweek days but still part of Dweek). We will be focusing on a Biblical understanding of the Holy Spirit and how we should be living by the power of the Spirit. Discipleship week includes brief assignments at the end of each day and also includes service opportunities where we learn more about the ministry of various organizations and take time to serve them as well. It may be best to arrange car pools each morning/bus sched/ etc. I've attached a form/letter to your e-mail that I've also e-mailed to parents with our service days and a description of the week on the second page.

Also, Dweek is an awesome time to have lunch together on one of the days (and even large groups have lunch together too!) so let's meet up for it!
See you on Friday!

Tuesday, August 03, 2010

YF Dinner and Fellowship at the Yip's house this Friday (6th) Discipleship week coming up (16-20th)

This Friday (6th), the Yip family (Michael, Eric and Rachel's family) has opened up their home for YF to have supper and fellowship at their home! Auntie Angie will be preparing some of her famous cooking for all to enjoy! Directions to their home is in your e-mail, so do your best to car pool with one another and as always feel free to bring your board games, wii games, pictures to show one another etc. It'll be a time to just gather, share with one another, catch up and play some games as well. Michael said to come at 6pm for supper!

YF Discipleship week is coming up from the 16th - 20th. (9:30am-12noon each day) We also have a service day on the 25th (detached from the Dweek days but still part of Dweek). We will be focusing on a Biblical understanding of the Holy Spirit and how we should be living by the power of the Spirit. Discipleship week includes brief assignments at the end of each day and also includes service opportunities where we learn more about the ministry of various organizations and take time to serve them as well.

We have some exciting things coming up in the Fall. We have a "Food Fight!" kickoff event the week before Alpha begins (17 of Sept, Alpha begins on the 24th) so anticipate inviting friends who are interested in Alpha that week as well! We will also have an Alpha retreat that all your friends are welcome to in November so there is lots coming up :)

As always, let us know how we can be praying for you or if you have time to meet up for lunch/coffee or book your Dweek lunch appt :)
see you all Friday!