No YF this Friday (31st), Enjoy Labor Day weekend with your family!
Thanks to Emily and her aunt opening up their beautiful place to celebrate and pray for our grads! It was a wonderful evening enjoying the outdoor pool, weather, games and food! A great way to close off an amazing summer with Ouje, DWeek, VBS, fellowship and hanging out! Thanks for praying with us for all of the grads! Fortunately for us, we'll still see them often enough :)
There is no YF this Friday, please enjoy the last weekend of summer with your family as we look forward to a busy fall with Fall Retreat and Rock the River right around the corner!
Coming up: Preparing for the Harvest series, Fall Retreat is booked for September 21-23rd, pray for our retreat and Rock the River (Sept 29-30) the following week and bring your coffeehouse friends!
YF Grad sendoff at Emily's this Friday (24th) 5:30pm
Thanks again for your amazing participation in Discipleship Week. Despite missing some regulars due to jobs or prior commitments, we still had 28 of you show up with an average of over 20 each day! Praise the Lord that you guys made it a priority to attend each day and staff at both St. Luke's and Jericho Road have a high opinion of you guys and the Christ-like example that you set as kind and hard-working servants. We still have a couple of sessions that we can go through at another time regarding honoring God through finances and purity that we can explore at YF the next week. As a work-up to Rock the River in the Fall, our Fall Retreat and the weeks leading up to it will be focused on "Preparing for the Harvest" as we pray for a greater desire for the Kingdom.This Friday (24th), YF will be having a YF Grad sendoff pool party at the home of Emily's aunt at 5:30pm (address in e-mail)! She has offered her entire backyard for us to enjoy the in ground pool, potluck, patio and fellowship. If you are coming at 5:30pm please bring some ready to eat food for potluck! Each year, as another YF cycle transitions into the next stage of life, there is no suitable way to commission them - so we'll throw a party and pray for them :) Even if it rains, we'll have plenty to do indoors with games, movies, food etc. Feel free to invite your friends! Come to enjoy not only the beautiful weather and the pool, but the chance to be together in fellowship, talk, laugh etc. Time: Friday (24th) from 5:30pm to 9:00pmAddress: Address and Google Map Directions in your e-mail.Bus directions (from Emily): Easiest bus stop would probably be the park and ride (at Eagleson) However there is one close to Cadence Gate (just outside the Great Canadian Superstore).We can pick you up from the bus stop if you need us to.Remember to BRING: Bathing suits (one piece or dark t-shirt), TOWELS, sunscreen, extra clothes, extra food/snacks/games. Coming up: Fall Retreat is booked for September 21-23rd, pray for our retreat and Rock the River (Sept 29-30) the following week and bring your coffeehouse friends!
Let me know if you guys want to meet up during the week to catch up!
See you all on Friday at Emily's!
Awesome week
A reminder that there is no official YF program tonight as we had YF everyday this week :) You are encouraged to spend the evening together or quality time with your fam! It really was awesome seeing you guys each day this week, great participation each morning and every place we volunteer always admires you guys and is genuinely surprised at your work ethic and the examples you set (consistently every year!) Keep being an example in speech, life, love, faith and purity (1 Tim 4:12)!
May God continue to transform you through and through, so you can shine like stars and stand out in the world. He is faithful and He will do it. Much love.
YF Waterfight @ Eric's this Friday, Discipleship Week next week
Hope everyone had a great civic holiday weekend, huge thanks to Em and Shelly for the Food Olympics events and the 20+ participants to make it awesome! Thanks for praying for Sunday as I spoke on spiritual warfare. This is the constant reality that we live in and we are frequently warned to be alert and in prayer. Pray for our church, fellowship and friends.
This Friday (10th), we'll be having our Waterfight Extravaganza at the Pan's home (address in your e-mail). (Google Maps Directions). Arrive at 5:30pm for a potluck, bring food, feel free to arrive as you are able, Games and waterfight will start at 7pm and following that we will have an informal time of games and hanging out until fellowship ends at 9:20pm. The forecast looks like 70% rain on Friday, but we'll make it work :)
The deets: Eric will be providing a couple hundred waterballoons, feel free to bring your own stash (like last year), bazookas and other special tools for your own 'tactical advantage'. Bring Friends, Water guns, balloons (we'll have some but the more baloons, the more chaos), towels, clean change of clothes, from Eric: " YFers will bring food for potluck, as well as any towels or change of clothe they will need. Dress will be shorts and t-shirts at all times, no white t-shirts. I would also suggest shorts to around knee-length, or just slightly less. (I'm so old fashion, the Ammish be trippin' =P) "
If I'm missing anything, maybe Eric can fill in blanks! :)
Next week is Discipleship Week (August 13-17th) 9:30am - 12noon each day, we are wrestling with a curriculum which examines the way Jesus commands us to live our lives. With what is considered normal in society these days, the lives of Christians should look drastically different. Print out the letter for your parents to fill out so they are aware of the service dates. Thursday we will be meeting at the Jericho Road home at 10 Crerar Ave, every other morning we will be meeting at church.
VBS is coming up (20th-24th), thanks to all of you who volunteered, we are currently looking for rides for some of the children, if you have a sibling attending VBS with space in your car, please let us know!
Fall Retreat is booked for September 21-23rd, pray for our retreat and Rock the River (Sept 29-30) the following week and bring your coffeehouse friends!
Coming up:
Waterfight, Discipleship Week, Fall Retreat, Rock the River and more!
See you all at Eric's on Friday!
