Tuesday, May 22, 2012

YF 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' Coffeehouse this weekend (prep on 25th and event 26th)

The Lord used this passage to convict me last week and I pray that we would all aspire to have this attitude as members of God's family in YF.  Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.  Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.  Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful.  Colossians 3:12-15 

That was quick!  It's already that time of year where it's 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' Coffeehouse weekend!  This Friday (25th), will be the last day of praying, preparation and dress rehearsal for the 'C&CF' coffeehouse. This Saturday (26th) will be the Coffeehouse, please arrange within each committee what time everyone needs to arrive early on Saturday to prep (food/decor/sound/practice etc.)  Committee heads, please ensure that everything that is needed (props, dress, decorations, instruments, powerpoint, skits, files on USB etc.) will be arranged for Friday night so we can have a full dress rehearsal for Saturday and go through the flow of coffeehouse. Learning to work with one another has always been a part of the goal :)  the YF coffeehouse exists to welcome your friends, be ambassadors of Christ and learning to work together with respect for one another.

A natural followup to Cofeehouse would be to invite your friends to take part in our goal of feeding 5000 or as many people as we can in the Ottawa area on Sat, June 2nd (June 2nd 9:30am - 3pm) !   Your friends will also receive community service hours for taking part (and maybe t-shirts if we have leftovers!)  We hope that we can package some lunches to distribute in our community and surrounding area. Our local food banks face their greatest shortages at this time of year. So we hope that other groups can collect for the food bank as we saw how easy it was to collect wagon fulls the last time we donated to the food bank last month. Afterwards, if you are able, you are invited to Mooney’s Bay to join hundreds of other youth for a BBQ and rally! 

On Sunday (27th), we'll continue our series on honoring parents & family.  Ouje mission team: as usual, we'll have a brief time of prayer directly after Sunday School.

Upcoming: Coffeehouse (May 26th) Feeding the 5000 (June 2nd) Relay for Life (June 8th) YF Mission trip to Ouje-Bougoumou (June 24th-June 30th)

Hit 'reply' in your e-mail and tell us how we can be praying for you or if you'd like to meet up in the coming weeks.