Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart. Psalm 37v4.
Saturday, May 29, 2010
And the Truth...
Yeh so as you will remember we took our yp to a weekend away at the Barcaple Abernethy adventure centre back in February... As part of the weekend we had a morning service where the yp took part in workshops in order to effectively create their own service.
the workshops were: Music Art Prayer 'sermon' and drama
Myself and a couple of the other leaders were in charge of the art workshop, and we figured that we could make a freeze of sorts for the yp to add to. Here is the background for our freeze which i made =)
We spent some time looking at scriptures which talked about Jesus and the Truth and obviously John 8:32 inspired these discussions greatly. Perhaps i'll manage at some point to get a pic of the freeze finished so that you can see the yp's additions to it =)
Yes so, last weekend we took our young people away to the Abernethy Trust Activity Centre in Barcaple (down past Dumfries) and despite a hairy time getting things sorted on the run up to it (communication at the centre sucked big time on occasions), we got there and had a fabulous time!!! Like seriously!
The activities were amazing... like at the previous centre we've been to their 'team challenge' activity is basically puzzles that you need to work out as a team... so when my group got to that activity on the Saturday morning we were most amused when we found out that at Barcaple 'Team Challenge' is actually an assault course... which you (as a team) have to carry a bucket of water through, and a big plastic tube and in our case a tangerine (well the instructor had wanted to give us a raw egg... thankfully the kitchen didn't have any! lol). So basically there were cargo nets, small concrete tubes to crawl through, the 'chicken coupe' and although i probably got the most bruises from it (and a grazed knee) it was soooooooo much fun! and Such a laugh!
But yeh, the sessions were great too. Despite worries about how we had such a great range of yp (p7-S6) attending and moreso that they varied hugely in their experience of God and Church, we had a great time. We learned about who God is... How he is Love, our stronghold, our Redeemer, the Truth and is unending. And the yp and leaders got loads out of it! So ultimately it was a magic weekend. God blessed us loads! =) He is awesome!!!!
Anyway - below you can see some video footage from the weekend that i've put together for our service at church tonight =)
So we're taking our young people away in... 1 day and 15 hours time...
i'd really appreciate it if you would stand in prayer with me about it...
prayer points: * we have a diverse range of yp attending from no relationship with God, to very passionate about God and walking daily with him - so if you could pray that all teaching would speak to all then that would be great! * that we would all be safe not only in travel to and from (we've had a lot of snow with more on the way) but also during the outdoor activities that the centre has planned for us =) * that there would be unquestionable unity amongst the team leading. * that our focus would be completely on God - for yp and leaders. * that yp would come to christ and know his love.
So... for the past 4 years we've been taking our youth from Kenmure on a youth weekend every year in February... we go to an adventure centre somewhere in scotland. The last 3 years we've been at the Compass Christian Centre in Glenshee, this year for a change we've opted to got to the Abernethy Trust Centre in Barcaple. It's not been without it's challenges so far, but i'm really looking forward to getting there and getting into it all =)
Our theme for the weekend is 'This is our God'. The idea behind this is that we have such a huge diversity amongst the young people (both age - P7-S6 and spiritual maturity - no Christian understanding to passionate for living for God) and so we've gone for this theme as it will hopefully allow us to really enable all groups to engage with God... either for the first time, or deepen a relationship they already have with God =)... The plan is to have 5 teaching sessions, each looking at who God is. Friday night - God is Love Saturday morning - God is a Stronghold Saturday evening - God is a Redeemer Sunday morning - God is Truth Sunday afternoon - God is unending The intention is to start each session with a big sheet of paper with the characteristic on it i.e. 'Love' and get the yp all to tell us what they think this means and write that onto it... Then we'll unpack what it means for God. So really looking forward to that =)
Aside from the sessions we have activities too =) so we'll be doing various team challenges, abseiling, zip wire... it's going to be lots of fun... yes we'll all be knackered by the time we get home, but it only happens once a year =)
Name: TLT Home: Glasgow, United Kingdom About Me: I'm a youthworker with a church in the North of Glasgow... I enjoy watching films 'n surfing the net 'n hanging out with friends... See my complete profile
