Hello!
Yes Rachel and I (Jillian) are still alive! Just not getting any regular access to internet!
Well things went well in Inverness last week, with almost 3 times the number of children attending the club than we had last year! We also had a good fun time with between 2 and 6 youth in the evenings!
This week we're in Lossie, joined by another 6 people, which includes Lorna our teamleader for the week! Not being team leader takes a lot of responsibility off my shoulders and allows me to be a little bit more silly (It's alright, Lorna just has to say my name if im getting too silly, and i'll stop!). The kids club this week is going really well, we started with about 32 kids on Monday and the numbers have just kept growing and growing! It;s great to see another new bunch of kids enjoying Roadside Rescue!
In the evenings I think we get up to 15 youth, mainly from the church, which is quite unusual for a Lossie mission, after chatting a bit about it, we felt that this is for us to really get alongside them and encourage them in their faith, and build them up to be able to feel confident in sharing their faith with their friends! Amazing things are going to be happening in Lossie, Rae McKenzie has recently accepted the post of Associate pastor with responsibility for chidlren and youth (Or something equally as long and confusing) anyway Rae will be working with the youth in Lossie, and in about 2 weeks time a very long awaited Youth Cafe, organised by a committee made up of people from a number of churches inLossie, will be opening. We got a sneak preview during a photo shoot, and it's fantastic! The youth are going to love it!
Id best head off now, and get biscuits and icing for 2moro's craft. Please pray for that last burst of energy for our last day tomorrow, and also that we would enjoy Saturday, we're going to the church BBQ and then a family ceilidh, pray that our witness would continue through these 2 events as well!
Spk 2u soon!
Jillian (And rachel, who says *snore snore*)
x tc n Gb x
Thursday, August 16, 2007
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
It's Ayr!!!
Hello All!
So this week Cindy, Noel and me (Laura) are in Ayr! We have been joined by Claire, Adam and Dave with some honouree members from Ayr Baptist, Ross and Eilis. We have had a great week so far, we had 16 kids yesterday and 18 kids today at Roadside Rescue. The kids are all having a great time and the team are doing really well too, even though it’s my 5th time doing Roadside Rescue I am yet not tired of doing it! The three members of Step Out+ are getting very tired though, but it’s our final week of mission so we are going full steam ahead to continue God’s work! I can’t believe it’s our last week!
We had a youth club last night and had 10 church youth join us. It was a night of playing games and bletherings. I shared my story with them last night and was asked some challenging questions by Cindy! Like “How did you know God was telling you to do Step Out+?”!!! Thanks Cindy!! Hopefully I managed to answer it simply enough and I wasn’t talking gobbledygook!
Tonight will be some more of the same with Claire sharing her story with us. We are also getting a visit from Gary which is always exciting!
Will I better go be sociable with the rest of the team and let some others on the computer (we are currently all up at Ross’s house using his showers so, yes we are all smelling much better now!).
Speak to you or see you soon as I will be home on Sunday!
Take care
Laura
xox
So this week Cindy, Noel and me (Laura) are in Ayr! We have been joined by Claire, Adam and Dave with some honouree members from Ayr Baptist, Ross and Eilis. We have had a great week so far, we had 16 kids yesterday and 18 kids today at Roadside Rescue. The kids are all having a great time and the team are doing really well too, even though it’s my 5th time doing Roadside Rescue I am yet not tired of doing it! The three members of Step Out+ are getting very tired though, but it’s our final week of mission so we are going full steam ahead to continue God’s work! I can’t believe it’s our last week!
We had a youth club last night and had 10 church youth join us. It was a night of playing games and bletherings. I shared my story with them last night and was asked some challenging questions by Cindy! Like “How did you know God was telling you to do Step Out+?”!!! Thanks Cindy!! Hopefully I managed to answer it simply enough and I wasn’t talking gobbledygook!
Tonight will be some more of the same with Claire sharing her story with us. We are also getting a visit from Gary which is always exciting!
Will I better go be sociable with the rest of the team and let some others on the computer (we are currently all up at Ross’s house using his showers so, yes we are all smelling much better now!).
Speak to you or see you soon as I will be home on Sunday!
Take care
Laura
xox
Friday, August 10, 2007
I'm so bad at this game!
Hey all,
sorry i am so grateful to Laura for keping up with the posting, i have no reason other than being totally lazy.
I can not believe it is the end of week six already what a fast summer, i don't want it to end!
Just to finish off witha roundup of Bo'ness, huh where to start.
On Thursday night Amie shared her story and had a tough audience but those who needed to hear it heard of the impact God has made in her life, it was an amazing week and one of our older youth (using the word youth btw) asked Jesus into her life it was an amazing moment and truly a beautiful moment for everyone concerned!
Friday was packed out with a mixture of Partents, kids and youth for fun bbq and it was also a great chance for the older kids to get to know some of the younger ones, also helped that the team got stuck in there and made complete fools of themselves all in the name of fun!
This week has been really good, Roadside Rescue went fantastic with a few more faces today and the traffic light biscuits going down well.
The team had a lovely evening at Hamish and Morag's huse bonding and playing Buzz on the PS2, we evn cracked out the singstar for a few tunes!
Anyway it is late so i better get moving to my bed i will try to write before i leave for Ayr on Sunday but if i am too lazy please forgive me!
Also can you please remember the team next week in your prayers as myself and Noelio are co-leading so you never know what will happen!
God Bless
Love and Prayers
Cinders xx
sorry i am so grateful to Laura for keping up with the posting, i have no reason other than being totally lazy.
I can not believe it is the end of week six already what a fast summer, i don't want it to end!
Just to finish off witha roundup of Bo'ness, huh where to start.
On Thursday night Amie shared her story and had a tough audience but those who needed to hear it heard of the impact God has made in her life, it was an amazing week and one of our older youth (using the word youth btw) asked Jesus into her life it was an amazing moment and truly a beautiful moment for everyone concerned!
Friday was packed out with a mixture of Partents, kids and youth for fun bbq and it was also a great chance for the older kids to get to know some of the younger ones, also helped that the team got stuck in there and made complete fools of themselves all in the name of fun!
This week has been really good, Roadside Rescue went fantastic with a few more faces today and the traffic light biscuits going down well.
The team had a lovely evening at Hamish and Morag's huse bonding and playing Buzz on the PS2, we evn cracked out the singstar for a few tunes!
Anyway it is late so i better get moving to my bed i will try to write before i leave for Ayr on Sunday but if i am too lazy please forgive me!
Also can you please remember the team next week in your prayers as myself and Noelio are co-leading so you never know what will happen!
God Bless
Love and Prayers
Cinders xx
End of the week ramblings!
Good Morning!
So it’s Friday again. We finished up youth work in Cornton on Wednesday with some silly balloon games which the boys really enjoyed. And of course we had to play a final game of Nukemball in which I redeemed myself by actually catching the ball this time! The boys have all seemed to really enjoyed coming along and are interesting in coming back when Cornton can find a venue to hold a youth club in. Cornton have just begun building work and so are out of their own building at the moment. But it’s encouraging that they are very keen to keep going despite this by actively looking for somewhere to hold a youth club.
Roadside Rescue is still going down a treat over in Tilly. There have been around 35 to 40 children every day with a good 50% of them being non-church kids which is very encouraging. We finish up the afternoon club this afternoon by looking at how just like a car needs fuel to run we too need fuel to work for God and he sends that in the form of his Holy Spirit. That we can do amazing things for Him if we use His Holy Spirit to help us.
The team are going to enjoy a night off tonight having some “team bonding” playing buzz and eating chocolate fountain – yummy! We are looking forward to our day off tomorrow and a BBQ at night with the folks from Tilly.
We are taking the majority of the Sunday Morning Service again this Sunday with yours truly leading it. We’ll be singing some of the songs from the week and telling the church folks all about what we’ve been upto this week.
It may be a while before I post again as I’m heading with Cindy and Noel to Ayr on Sunday for our final week of mission. We will be staying in the church and I will unlikely get internet access. Please pray for our continued need for strength as we fight the tiredness on our last week. We’ll be doing Roadside Rescue in the mornings and youth work in the evenings.
Jillian and Rachel have had a good week up in Inverness and they will be travelling on to Lossiemouth on Sunday for their final week of mission. They too will be doing Roadside Rescue in the mornings and youth work in the evenings.
Hope all is well.
Take care,
Laura
xox
So it’s Friday again. We finished up youth work in Cornton on Wednesday with some silly balloon games which the boys really enjoyed. And of course we had to play a final game of Nukemball in which I redeemed myself by actually catching the ball this time! The boys have all seemed to really enjoyed coming along and are interesting in coming back when Cornton can find a venue to hold a youth club in. Cornton have just begun building work and so are out of their own building at the moment. But it’s encouraging that they are very keen to keep going despite this by actively looking for somewhere to hold a youth club.
Roadside Rescue is still going down a treat over in Tilly. There have been around 35 to 40 children every day with a good 50% of them being non-church kids which is very encouraging. We finish up the afternoon club this afternoon by looking at how just like a car needs fuel to run we too need fuel to work for God and he sends that in the form of his Holy Spirit. That we can do amazing things for Him if we use His Holy Spirit to help us.
The team are going to enjoy a night off tonight having some “team bonding” playing buzz and eating chocolate fountain – yummy! We are looking forward to our day off tomorrow and a BBQ at night with the folks from Tilly.
We are taking the majority of the Sunday Morning Service again this Sunday with yours truly leading it. We’ll be singing some of the songs from the week and telling the church folks all about what we’ve been upto this week.
It may be a while before I post again as I’m heading with Cindy and Noel to Ayr on Sunday for our final week of mission. We will be staying in the church and I will unlikely get internet access. Please pray for our continued need for strength as we fight the tiredness on our last week. We’ll be doing Roadside Rescue in the mornings and youth work in the evenings.
Jillian and Rachel have had a good week up in Inverness and they will be travelling on to Lossiemouth on Sunday for their final week of mission. They too will be doing Roadside Rescue in the mornings and youth work in the evenings.
Hope all is well.
Take care,
Laura
xox
Monday, August 6, 2007
Cornton continues as Tilly begins!
Hello All!
Well the Cornton week ended well. The team enjoyed their day off shopping in Stirling and going out for coffee. We then had a night at the manse with the chocolate fountain and playing Buzz. The Sunday Service went well, we only had two kids join us (one of them being the Minister’s daughter) but they were incredibly enthusiastic joining in all the actions and reciting the memory verses. This also meant that I could test the team too!
The afternoon said goodbye to Natalie and Heather. The evening said hello to Cindy and Noel, to begin the Tilly week. We all headed out to the church to decorate and set up for the next day. To my surprise we arrived to it pretty much done and the place looked great! The Tilly folk were all very excited about the week ahead and it was such an encouragement to see it.
So this afternoon brought the beginning of Roadside Rescue for the fourth time for me this summer. All went well and we had 38 kids which was great. The team did great and the kids had a great time, they were all enthusiastic in playing the games, singing the songs and sat perfectly during the story time. We give thanks to God for the help provided by Tilly, the church folk were getting right into the new songs we were teaching them aswell.
We ran the youth club again tonight back over in Cornton and we had another 6 boys, they weren’t the same ones so it was good to get to know some others. Please pray for Cornton as they seek guidance in where they can go next with the youth work.
Right I’m off to get a cup of tea.
Take care
Laura
Xox
PS Apologies for the blue text I used last time, apparently it wasn’t very easy to read. I didn’t realise that so I now know not to use it again. (Thanks mum!)
Well the Cornton week ended well. The team enjoyed their day off shopping in Stirling and going out for coffee. We then had a night at the manse with the chocolate fountain and playing Buzz. The Sunday Service went well, we only had two kids join us (one of them being the Minister’s daughter) but they were incredibly enthusiastic joining in all the actions and reciting the memory verses. This also meant that I could test the team too!
The afternoon said goodbye to Natalie and Heather. The evening said hello to Cindy and Noel, to begin the Tilly week. We all headed out to the church to decorate and set up for the next day. To my surprise we arrived to it pretty much done and the place looked great! The Tilly folk were all very excited about the week ahead and it was such an encouragement to see it.
So this afternoon brought the beginning of Roadside Rescue for the fourth time for me this summer. All went well and we had 38 kids which was great. The team did great and the kids had a great time, they were all enthusiastic in playing the games, singing the songs and sat perfectly during the story time. We give thanks to God for the help provided by Tilly, the church folk were getting right into the new songs we were teaching them aswell.
We ran the youth club again tonight back over in Cornton and we had another 6 boys, they weren’t the same ones so it was good to get to know some others. Please pray for Cornton as they seek guidance in where they can go next with the youth work.
Right I’m off to get a cup of tea.
Take care
Laura
Xox
PS Apologies for the blue text I used last time, apparently it wasn’t very easy to read. I didn’t realise that so I now know not to use it again. (Thanks mum!)
Thursday, August 2, 2007
It's Bo'ness Baby!!!
Hi all,
So sorry i have been so lazy at the whole blog thing!!
Bo'ness has been going really well though the number's are lower the response has been fantastic!
We had a new little friend at Roadside Rescue today from the Grangepans area and She got stuck right in there!! Doing all the songs etc!
At night time our youth club has had an increase in numbers by a few with a few old faces coming back around!
On Tuesday night we started with 3 kids then i went out into the streets with Amie, we rounded up 8 kids from one street and went back along to the church the boys caused some trouble but hey thats half the fun and the two girls came back last night!! Smashing!! anyway time for a quick team meeting before dinner!!
I will return to poisting i promise!! xx
So sorry i have been so lazy at the whole blog thing!!
Bo'ness has been going really well though the number's are lower the response has been fantastic!
We had a new little friend at Roadside Rescue today from the Grangepans area and She got stuck right in there!! Doing all the songs etc!
At night time our youth club has had an increase in numbers by a few with a few old faces coming back around!
On Tuesday night we started with 3 kids then i went out into the streets with Amie, we rounded up 8 kids from one street and went back along to the church the boys caused some trouble but hey thats half the fun and the two girls came back last night!! Smashing!! anyway time for a quick team meeting before dinner!!
I will return to poisting i promise!! xx
It's Thursday already!!
Good Morning!
I (Laura, again, I think I’m the only one who has easy internet access this week) can’t believe it’s Thursday already! That does mean of course that I must be enjoying myself and we certainly are. We’ve had a great week but it’s not ended yet.
Yesterday was another good day at Roadside Rescue. We have kept the numbers steady with 19 kids, but we must remember it’s not about the number of kids we get but about the time we spend with them. It’s about the conversations we have, sharing with them about the love that God has for them. We had a few roudy boys yesterday who we suitably winding each other up and I, Miss Hart, had to get my teacher voice out and I’m not sure who was more scared, the boys or the team!
Today we will be sharing the story of the Good Shepherd, sharing how Jesus is our Good Shepherd and that He came to seek and save the lost.
We had our Youth Café last night and had an increase by 1 which was really good as the same boys who came on Monday came again. We played some team games and I was introduced to a new game to me called Nukemball (have no idea how to spell that so suggestions would be appreciated). I have to say I don’t think I was overly that bad at it. The boys loved it though and is apparently a firm favourite from the Boys Club. We ended the night with more sharing of interesting facts and Natalie shared her story which she did very well.
I do have some up-dates from the other Step-Out teams around Scotland. Jillian and Rachel up in Hopeman are doing well, the team are having a great time. The are also doing Roadside Rescue and are getting around 15 kids each day. Cindy and the team in Bo’ness have around 10 kids at the club and sound like they are having great fun with all the different car parts that make up their set. Noel and the team in Wigtown are getting around 30 youngsters to the youth work they are doing down there. Many are staying on for the Delta service late on in the evening (9.15pm to 10pm).
Well the team have now arrived for our morning run over of things for the afternoon.
Take care for now,
Laura
xox
I (Laura, again, I think I’m the only one who has easy internet access this week) can’t believe it’s Thursday already! That does mean of course that I must be enjoying myself and we certainly are. We’ve had a great week but it’s not ended yet.
Yesterday was another good day at Roadside Rescue. We have kept the numbers steady with 19 kids, but we must remember it’s not about the number of kids we get but about the time we spend with them. It’s about the conversations we have, sharing with them about the love that God has for them. We had a few roudy boys yesterday who we suitably winding each other up and I, Miss Hart, had to get my teacher voice out and I’m not sure who was more scared, the boys or the team!
Today we will be sharing the story of the Good Shepherd, sharing how Jesus is our Good Shepherd and that He came to seek and save the lost.
We had our Youth Café last night and had an increase by 1 which was really good as the same boys who came on Monday came again. We played some team games and I was introduced to a new game to me called Nukemball (have no idea how to spell that so suggestions would be appreciated). I have to say I don’t think I was overly that bad at it. The boys loved it though and is apparently a firm favourite from the Boys Club. We ended the night with more sharing of interesting facts and Natalie shared her story which she did very well.
I do have some up-dates from the other Step-Out teams around Scotland. Jillian and Rachel up in Hopeman are doing well, the team are having a great time. The are also doing Roadside Rescue and are getting around 15 kids each day. Cindy and the team in Bo’ness have around 10 kids at the club and sound like they are having great fun with all the different car parts that make up their set. Noel and the team in Wigtown are getting around 30 youngsters to the youth work they are doing down there. Many are staying on for the Delta service late on in the evening (9.15pm to 10pm).
Well the team have now arrived for our morning run over of things for the afternoon.
Take care for now,
Laura
xox
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