Tuesday, September 21, 2010

YF Youth Alpha H2o: Thirsty Discussion (6pm-9pm) series this Friday (24th)

Food Fight was an absolute blast!! Lots of thanks to Rae-Anne and Brad who were the brainchildren of the event, they described many of these events to Shelly and I a couple of months ago and they sounded hilarious so thanks for participating and making it a real fun night. We actually packed the upstairs sanctuary so I'm thankful for having the space to play and how you guys helped clean up so quickly afterwards. It was great to see faces covered in chocolate and donut powder and the creativeness of a giant cookie and a very crisp sucking-up cookie.

This week is the kick-off of our Alpha series (10 weeks of the h2o videos/discussion). Dinner will start at 6pm sharp and the Discussion will end at 9pm. Our small groups will be headed up by youth (many of you!), so it will be primarily a peer to peer environment where anyone can join and discuss Jesus. We've been praying and preparing for months and now things are just about ready to go with dinner provided to everyone each week and the facilities. This week our discussion will center on the topic Thirsty. YF Leaders (not the adults) will be the primary facilitators of the groups and asking the questions. As mentioned in Sunday school, each of you is signed up for a free dinner (along with your friends if you listed them) I sent you the questions last week and will reattach them and your groups in an e-mail following this one.

May the Lord continue to shape you and be the center of your lives. Anyways, we love you and are praying for you!

Let us pray together for all of YF and their friends during this discussion series.
See you all on Friday!

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

YF Food Fight this Friday! (17th)

Bigger or Better was a lot of fun on Friday, I heard some hilarious stories from the night (ie. people pretending to not be home and other funny instances), just gives us some stories hey? As always, it's amazing to see some of the stuff you end up with. TV's, Boom Boxes, Shirts, Art, receivers, play structures... it's amazing how quickly material treasure turns into junk. Many people didn't even want to accept the trade items :) Also big thanks for your participation in Sunday school, we had a good opportunity to share about the upcoming Alpha discussion series. If you are serving as a facilitator, I'll send more information to group leaders by tomorrow (well in advance of the actual discussions).

This Friday (17th), we will have an Youth Alpha kickoff night with our Food Fight event. It will involve lots of games involving... you guessed it - Food! Rae-Anne offered the main tip to eat a lighter supper (so long as it doesn't offend anyone - like the cook :) You don't have to worry about clothes, there will be garbage bags. (It's not an 'actual' food fight if anyone is worried haha) The night will include various games! It's going to be a lot of fun, it's a good chance for your friends and newcomers to feel welcome!

Coming up:
September 24th: Alpha/h2o discussion 1 - Thirsty
October 1st: Alpha/h2o discussion 2 - Polluted

Let us know how we can be praying for you or if you'd like to have coffee/catch up!
See you all on Friday!

Tuesday, September 07, 2010

YF Bigger or Better this Friday this Friday (10th) 7pm at church

Happy back to school day YF!

I'm sure some of you are *actually* happy to go back to school and of course there are many of you that also felt the summer went by wayyyy too quickly (myself included). Thanks for the awesome study and discussion last week in Habakkuk, it was in record time too, we even had time to socialize afterwards :) haha. The Fall is already here, it's a strange transition because YF runs every week throughout the summer :) Anyways Fall does mark the beginning of school and hopefully these next couple of weeks will let you relax a little at YF and prepare for the coming Youth Alpha course. This week (10th) and next week (17th) we will be having kick-off events to lead into our first youth Alpha course on the 24th.

This Friday (Sept 10th) we plan to play "BIGGER or better!" This will be our second time playing it and it was requested about 9 months ago (the last time we played it). Be at Church (or more accurately - 118) at 7:00pm (so 30 minutes earlier than usual)

Bigger or Better RULES
EACH TEAM will be designated an area (with accompanying adults) and given a corresponding paper clip color to visit homes and trade a paperclip up to the biggest or best item to win! Bring camera's because it'll be fun to see what each group ends up with. some basic rules so we don't have to explain each one on friday:
1. Time limit: each group has to be back at the youth room by 8:50-9:00pm at the latest
2. Make at least 5 trades ie) paperclip for a ruler, ruler for a picture frame, picture frame for a stuffed animal, stuffed animal for a chair, chair for a bigger chair, big chair for a sofa, sofa for a... "uh oh, how are we going to get this sofa back?"
3. No relatives houses
4. Have to bring the item back to church (if it is something that cannot be thrown out easily, then you must figure out if one person in your group can take it home)
5. Don't pressure homes to give you anything, be kind to every house!
maybe you can get more cushions for the youth room! :)

Bring your friends (more hands the better!) and prepare for the colder weather in the evening! If you haven't filled out the year waiver form (in your e-mail), please bring that back too (one-time thing for the year)

Upcoming: Bigger or Better (10th), Food Fight (17th), Alpha Discussion (Thirsty) (24th)
Have an awesome week!
see you on Friday!