Fortified!

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Have you ever looked at a packet of cereal, on some of them, they say that the cereal is ‘fortified’ with vitamins & minerals. When food is enriched or fortified; trace elements of vitamins and minerals are added to the foods. This is sometimes done to increase the appeal of the food to buyers,  but it is also done from a health standpoint; aiming at reducing dietary deficiencies in people. Making the population in an area healthier.

The dictionary definition of fortify is ‘to provide (a place) with defensive works as protection against attack,’ ‘to strengthen (someone) mentally or physically‘ or as already spoken about ‘to increase the nutritive value of (food) by adding vitamins.‘ The word comes from late Middle English; which comes from the French fortifier, which came from late Latin fortificare, which is from Latin fortis ‘strong’.

The word ‘Fort‘ comes from the same root. A Fort is a strong defensive edifice.

It is a place that is build up to proved a strong and safe shelter from attacks.

“The name of the Lord is a fortified tower; the righteous run to it and are safe.” – Proverbs 18:10. There is a children’s song that is based upon this proverb called ‘Blessed be the name of the Lord‘. It’s a bit of a blast from the past; and I remember singing it at open air church meetings when I was at University in the early 1990s.

That is not the only place in the Bible where it talks about God being a strong tower; in Psalm 61, the psalmist sings about this.

The other way to look at fortified, is not only a ‘fortified‘ building, but also something or someone that has been strengthened. We get the sense of the word ‘edify‘ from this. When we ‘edify‘ – encourage one another in our faith; we are building each other up. We are fortifying each other. This is an important thing to do for each other. At our last ‘Redefine‘ we look at the fact that God never intended us to do life alone. He wants us to do life in community with Himself and with each other. Part of that is encouraging one another, edifying and fortifying each other in our faith. The apostle Paul says this to the church in Thessaalonica “He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with him. Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.” – 1 Thessalonians 5:10-11

This coming Sunday at ‘Redefine‘ we will be having a great night where the young people will be doing just that. They will be fortifying each other with our fantastic ‘FREDtalks‘. These are our take on TEDtalks. “TED is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or less). TED began in 1984 as a conference where Technology, Entertainment and Design converged, and today covers almost all topics — from science to business to global issues — in more than 100 languages. Meanwhile, independently run TEDx events help share ideas in communities around the world.” – excerpt taken from their website.

With our FRED talks we give the amazing young people that come to ‘Redefine‘ the opportunity to share a short talk about a topic and how it relates to their faith. These have always been well received and help to create and build community within ‘Redefine’ and also provide a platform for the young people to encourage and fortify each other in their faith.

This not only strengthens them, but also helps them with their resilience. Their ability to bounce back from some of the things that they encounter in life. A bit like with another type of castle; a bouncy castle!

So thank you for all of your prayers and financial support for the work that we are doing at Llandudno Youth for Christ; you, with God, are helping to make a difference in many young people’s lives.

Be blessed!

Sometimes you can’t make it on your own.

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Yes, it is another song reference for the blog post. This time it comes from a song by U2. It is the third track from their 2004 album ‘How to dismantle an atomic bomb’. Bono wrote the song in 2000 about his relationship with his father Bob Hewson who was at the time dying of cancer. To Bono, his father had always been a tough character, indeed the original title of the song was ‘Tough’. In his own words Bono describes his father as “A tough old boot of a guy. Irish, Dub, north side Dubliner, very cynical about the world and the people in it, but very charming and funny with it.” The song won the ‘Song of the Year’ award at the Grammy’s in 2006.

In the song Bono is crying out to his father to share relationship with his son, for Bono to be able to help his father through this tough battle he was having with cancer. The chorus of ‘sometimes you can’t make it on your own‘ is all the more poignant with the knowledge of what Bono & Bob were going through.

Last Sunday night at Redefine we had the last in our ‘We Believe’ series, looking at ‘You can’t do life alone’. As Christians we are called to live in community with other believers and with God. We are called to ‘bear one another’s burdens‘, to ‘not give up meeting together‘, to practice hospitality, and serve one another.

We were never meant to go through life isolated. Indeed, right at the beginning God said it was not good for man to be alone.

One way to ensure that we do not do life alone is to engage in community with a local church. Now, many people have negative viewpoints of church, due to many different reasons, most involving being hurt in some way or another by churches and the people in them. However, we are all imperfect, broken people, that are being healed and made whole by God, and as a result, hurt and offence does occur. Does this mean we should give up on church? Should we stop doing life with other believers because of past issues and hurts?

No.

Not at all.

Jesus told us offences would come, but we need to forgive and move forward. Continue to do life together. As the Jack Johnson song says ‘it’s always better when we’re together‘. This goes for doing life with each other, and its especially true of doing life in relationship with God. Life is definitely better with Jesus.

The Third Day song ‘When the rain comes‘ talks about how when we go through bad and difficult times, it is better to go through them with God, even if we still go through the tough times; God is with us, holding us.

So I encourage you, as we encouraged the young people last Sunday night. Don’t do life alone. You were never designed that way. God wants you to live life with Him and with each other.

Be blessed!

Mezzamorphis!

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As with soooo many of the titles for my blog posts; today’s post has a music theme. It is in fact the title of a Delirious? Album. The album was released in 199 and it was their second studio album, following on from ‘King of Fools‘. Mezzamorphis was a great album for me and brings back so many memories.

Stu G (the band’s guitarist) states about the album, specifically when talking about the track ‘Metamorphis’, that “the fact that out in the world, although everybody wants to be their own selves, we’re pulled this way and that. Everyone you meet wants you to be something or another. The song asks God to help us to be our own true selves, as God sees us, not the way folk pressure us to be what they want us to be.” In-fact the title for the album as a whole is taken from the track ‘Metamorphis‘ and the first track on the album ‘Mezzanine Floor‘, which is about how they as a band were moving towards new directions musically, but had not yet reached where they were wanting to go.

This idea of aiming towards a goal, and knowing that you are heading in a direction that God intends for you, but that you are not already there yet makes me think of the apostle Paul when he says “Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: forgetting what is behind and straining towards what is ahead, I press on towards the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenwards in Christ Jesus.” – Philippians 3:12-14

There is a sense of journey, of growth, of change in what Delirious and St. Paul are saying. Hence the title of this blog post ‘Mezzamorhpis’: change in transition.

All of our lives are filled with changes and trasitions, and sometimes it feels like we are stuck on a mezzanine floor in our transformation. We are not where we used to be, but we have not reached our destination yet.

This is especially true in our walk with God.

If we have decided to follow Christ, we are no-longer walking blindly in ignorance and alienated from God, but are now citizens of heaven, adopted sons and daughters of the King of kings and co-heirs with Chris. ‘Heaven is our home’ as Martin Smith so aptly sings, but we are still here on earth. Waiting for the fulfilment of all that God has planned for us.

But do we just sit and wait idly by?…

No, we live, we learn, we grow, we change.

In fact the 3rd week of our ‘We believe’ series at Redefine was ‘Growing people change’.

Which is so very true.

If something is alive and thriving, then it will naturally be changing. Even Jesus ‘grew in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.’

As did people like the apostles Peter & Paul. You can read about the change and growth that happened in their lives from encounters they had with the risen Jesus. Read their before (Mark 14:66-72, John 21:15-19 and Acts 7:54-60, Acts 8:1-3 & Acts 9:1-31) and after stories in the Bible.

I also used the title from the album ‘Mezzamorphis’ as I listened to it quite extensively in 1999 & 2000 whilst I was living and studying in Australia. I was going to Bible college there, and there was so much change and growth going on in my life, that this album helped me keep my perspective on what was happening and where God was leading me.

 

In your walk with God, I want to encourage you to keep learning, keep changing and keep developing as He transforms you into His likeness.

Be blessed!

Gratitude is a Great Attitude.

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What are you thankful for? Why are you thankful? To whom are you thankful?

This coming Thursday 21st September is ‘World Gratitude Day‘.

Gratitude is defined as the state of being grateful. Which itself is defined as ‘feeling or showing an appreciation for something done or received‘. It is from the Latin word ‘Gratus‘ which means to ‘welcome, greet or praise‘ and has the same root as the word ‘gratia‘ from which we get the word ‘grace‘.

All of this to me, links together to show that true gratitude comes from a place where we feel and show appreciation to God for the life He has given us and for all that He has done for us. Everything that we have from God is a gift of His grace towards us.

“Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful. Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts. And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.” – Colossians 3:15-17

This last Sunday 17th September, continuing with our ‘We believe’ series at ‘Redefine‘, we looked at ‘Everyone is a worship leader‘.

Too often we think of a worship leader as the person who stands at the front of a Church service and leads the singing. They’re skilled and gifted at what they do, but God has called all of us to worship. Indeed, as we realise all that God has done for us and all that we have received from Him as a result of Jesus’ death & resurrection, we will naturally be filled with gratitude that overflows into worship & praise (2 Corinthians 4 & 1 Peter 1).

This is not just making music or singing songs to God to thank Him, but also in the way we live our lives. How we treat others. How generous we are with our finances, our time, our lives.

When we realise how much God has given us and how everything we have comes from Him, then it really puts everything else into its proper perspective. “Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.” – Colossians 3:1-4 (Indeed read the whole of Colossians 3)

So in light of all of this, what are you thankful for? Why are you thankful? Who are you thankful to? and also How can you demonstrate your thankfulness?

One way you could demonstrate your gratitude to God is share with others the difference Jesus has made in your life.

You could also think about volunteering with us here at Llandudno Youth for Christ?

However you express your gratitude to God, have a great week full of a great attitude of gratitude and be blessed!

All in the serve

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Last night we had another excellent ‘Redefine‘ meeting. We continued to look at our ‘We Believe‘ series and spoke about how as Christians we are called to serve God and serve others.

‘Saved people, serve people‘ was the title.

Now when I say serve, I don’t necessarily mean playing tennis, unless of course by ‘serving’ someone in a game of tennis you are indeed ‘serving’ them….Like they need some help practicing their game for an upcoming tournament.

The title of this blog post is taken from a Michael W Smith song ‘All in the serve‘. I chose it as it links nicely into the Bible passage we looked at to see what God says about serving. We read from Mark 10:35-45. Here we see James & John being very presumptuous and audacious in asking Jesus for places of honour, power & privilege in the Kingdom of God. It is as if they were not listening earlier on when Jesus spoke about the children that they had tried to stop from coming to see Him: “Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.” Children did not have much status, rights or power in 1st Century Palestine. They were dependant on others for food, protection, shelter, etc. They were humble and in a place to receive, not demand.

It is as if James & John had completely missed the point that Jesus was trying to make. So He makes it a lot more emphatic for them: “Jesus called them together and said, ‘You know that those who are regarded as rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them. Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be slave of all. For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.’“- Mark 10:42-45.

Jesus had and has every right to demand service. He is the King of kings and Lord of lords, and yet he takes the lowest place to serve us all. We, the underserving ones are served by the one who deserves all glory, honour & praise. Jesus so lovingly demonstrated this by washing His disciples feet at the last supper; even His betrayer ‘Judas’ has his feet washed by Jesus.

Then Jesus demonstrates His love for all of us on the cross. He dies and gives His life as a ransom for many. Serving us to the end.

So, we, His followers cannot think that we can follow Jesus and be called His disciples if we do not serve. There is no exemption for us. We are to walk in our Master’s footsteps and serve others. Not out of a mentality where we do it to earn brownie points with God, but out of a heart of love. A heart full of Jesus’ love for us, which will spur us on to love Him in return and also love those around us.

One way for us to demonstrate that love is by serving others. “Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfil the law of Christ.” – Galatians 6:2. Jesus’ law was to love one another – “‘A new command I give you: love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.” – John 13:34.

In what ways can you serve those around you this week?

How can you show Jesus’ love?

Helping put the bin out? Washing the dishes? Giving some food to the local food-bank? Giving up your seat to someone else on the bus or train?

Have a great week and look out for ‘Acts of everyday kindness‘ where you can show Jesus’ love to those who so desperately need it.

Be blessed!

International Bestseller?…Might be worth a read!

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According to the Guinness World Records, “the Bible is the world’s best-selling and most widely distributed book. A survey by the Bible Society concluded that around 2.5 billion copies were printed between 1815 and 1975, but more recent estimates put the number at more than 5 billion.”

Thursday 7th September was ‘Buy a New Book Day‘, and today (as I write this post) is ‘International Literacy Day‘, so I thought it would be good to extol the benefits of reading the world’s best-selling book – The Bible.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon famously said “A Bible that’s falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn’t.” The Bible is one of the most debated about, most praised and attacked, most read and neglected book in all of recorded history.

It is in-fact an anthology of books that span hundreds of years between the writing of the first book and the last. It records the history of God’s relationship with man.

Thousands of books have been written about the Bible and it seems that the more you learn and know about it, the less you realise you know about it; as St Augustine of Hippos states – “The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.”

However, “The Bible was not given for our information but for our transformation.” – Dwight L. Moody.

That is why God gave us the Bible; it was not to be debated over, studied, dissected and read just to fill our minds with more and more information. The Bible is God revealing His truth to our hearts, to bring change, life & transformation. President of the U.S.A. Abraham Lincoln said “I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from The Saviour of the world is communicated to us through this Book.”

It is Jesus’ word to us.

“The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world.” – Charles Dickens. Jesus himself said “Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.”- Matthew 4:4

So we see that The Bible is mean to be nourishment/sustenance for our souls. It is something that is as necessary for life as bread. Like the saying it is our ‘bread and butter’: what we need.

The Bible, also called the ‘Word of God‘ is something firm and unshakeable that we can turn to in times of trouble. “Your word, Lord, is eternal; it stands firm in the heavens.” – Psalm 119:89.”The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God endures for ever” – Isaiah 40:8. It also gives us wisdom and revelation, “The unfolding of your words gives light; it gives understanding to the simple.” – Psalm 119:130

In fact, the Apostle Paul, when writing to his young friend Timothy tells him the following, “But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it, and how from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.” – 2 Timothy 3:14-17

God has given us His Word, the Bible to help us, to train us, to encourage us, to equip us, to transform us, challenge us, and above all else, to reveal Jesus to us.

Dr R. C. Sproul says the following in regards to the Bible; “I think the greatest weakness in the church today is that almost no one believes that God invests His power in the Bible. Everyone is looking for power in a program, in a methodology, in a technique, in anything and everything but that in which God has placed it—His Word. He alone has the power to change lives for eternity, and that power is focused on the Scriptures.”

At Llandudno Youth for Christ we are passionate about the Bible and about giving the young people that come to the events that we hold, not only access to the Bible, but also tools for themselves to read and study the Bible, and in doing so, get to know the author.

Please continue to pray for the work that we do sharing the gospel relevantly with young people in Llandudno and beyond, and also, I encourage you to open your Bible and get to know its author, God, for yourself.

Be blessed!

 

 

 

 

 

Back with a vengance!

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Not that we are back to strike with a vengance against all evil doers, as Superman & Batman would, but ‘Redefine‘ is back!!!!

We had our first Sunday night Bible study of the new term last Monday night! Whoop!

It was fantastic to say the least, with a great turnout of familiar faces and a lot of new young people turned up too.

We’ve spent a lot of time during the summer praying, preparing and thinking about this new term, and are really expectant of what God is going to do this term through the work of LLYFC.

We have worked hard at creating a great space for the young people to meet in. We now have a great ‘cafe‘ feel for the room we meet in with Parasols, string lights, an illuminated stage area, notice board, welcome area with a hot chocolate bar.

We love the new decor, and the young people did too.

We had a fun game to start of the evening with a modern variation of British bulldog, only this time I was playing a zombie pirate with 2 foam cutlasses that if they touched you, you became one of my zombie pirate crew, until there was only 1 survivor who won the game. It was a great laugh and burned off more calories for me than expected.

Our teaching theme was ‘Found People Find People‘ – this is part of the “We Believe” teaching series we ran last year at this time. At the start of a new term it’s good to go back to the foundations and look at what we as Christians believe. To get back to basics. It’s also important given that we have so many new young people coming to ‘Redefine‘, that we layout for everyone the essentials of the Christian faith in a relevant way.

Our director Mr Tim Gough spoke excellently and really laid out the importance for us as Christians to share our faith with others.

We also had a great time of worship together, very ably led by Simon Platt. This was Simon’s last night with us before he heads down to London to study at the London School of Theology. We have been so blessed to see Simon grow and develop from a teenager who started to come to Redefine many years ago when we were still based in Madoc Street to become a invaluable volunteer leader with us. We are so grateful to God for all of the support and faithfulness Simon has shown and know that he will be such a blessing in London. We will miss him.

This coming Sunday we will be looking at ‘Saved People Serve People‘ and tackling the who area of servanthood and what that means. “Jesus called them together and said, ‘You know that those who are regarded as rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them. Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be slave of all.For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.’” – Mark 10:42-45

Speaking of serving and helping out, if there is anyone reading this blog post who feels that they want to help us out at Llandudno Youth for Christ, whether that be serving on our team for our youth work events or volunteering at our Saturday Cafe on Saturdays at St John’s Church in Llandudno, then please don’t hesitate to contact us.

Be blessed!@

 

A Helping Hand!

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Hi all,

I hope you all enjoyed your Bank Holiday Monday!

Here at Llandudno Youth for Christ we have just had our ‘Refresh‘ mini Conference. It was a truly fantastic day.

We had great weather, great food (I’m slightly biased as I was the cook for the day), fantastic games, great teaching from the book of Philemon, really good campfire worship and time to relax with friends and make some new friends too.

We played Ultimate Frisbee, had a treasure hunt for mini-pictures of Nicholas Cage’s head hidden around the conference grounds, watched ‘Evan Almighty‘, played Parachute games & toasted some giant marshmallows around the aforementioned campfire.

I really hope that everyone who came had as much fun as myself and the rest of our amazing volunteers did.

Everyone was brilliant too. Our great volunteers were there from early in the morning till late at night, helping us set-up and pack away. They took part in all of the games, Bible studies and worship times. They truly were brilliant and really engaged well with the young people.

Some of our volunteers could only make part of the day, with one helping out with 1 part of the day, squeezing it in-between two shifts at work. Another stayed with us until they had to go to another youth group where they were helping out in another part of Wales.

We are so blessed to have some amazing volunteers on our team. Helping us reach out to the young people of Llandudno and beyond relevantly with the good news of Jesus.

We will definitely be needing them in the months ahead as we get ready for next week and the relaunch of all of our amazing events and projects as we head into a new academic year.

We will be relaunching ‘Redefine‘, ‘Reverb‘, ‘Recess‘, ‘After-hours‘ and ‘Spark‘ amongst others. We are very excited to see what God is going to do in and through the ministry of Llandudno Youth for Christ; but as you can see from the news above about the fantastic ‘Refresh‘ mini-conference; we can only hold such great events for the young people with the help of our amazing volunteers; some of whom we will be losing due to them moving away to go to University or due to other changes in their lives etc.

So we are asking for more amazing volunteers to lend us a ‘helping hand‘ with the work that we are doing. The apostle Paul had many people that helped him greatly in sharing the good news of Jesus. He even mentions in the book of Philemon how much ‘help’ Onesimus had been to him. In other epistles written by him, Paul mentions different people who have helped him; in his work of spreading the good news of Jesus, such as Onesiphorus, Epaphras, Luke & Mark.

If like the apostle Paul and the great men & women that worked with him to share the love of Jesus to those around than; you want to see lives transformed by the gospel; then perhaps it’s time to do something and volunteer with us a Llandudno Youth for Christ.

We’d appreciate your helping hands.

Be blessed!

Times of refreshing!

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Hi all, just wanted to let everyone know that this coming Wednesday 30th August we will be holding the last of our summer events!!! – Yikes where has time flown?!?!?!

Yes, this Wednesday 30th August we will be holding our annual ‘Refresh‘ mini conference.

It’s a great event that we hold every year during the summer at St David’s College in Llandudno. We have games, nature walks, BBQs & Bible talks. It always is a great time for all involved. We want to especially thank all of the staff at St David’s for allowing us the use of their amazing grounds and facilities for this mini-conference. Thank you!

This year we will be looking at the 3rd shortest book in the bible, ‘Philemon‘! Beaten to first spot for brevity by the Apostle John’s 2nd and 3rd Epistles. However as many of our young people know by now; brevity of a passage or even a book that is being studied does not mean that we will not get lots of life-changing revelation from studying it carefully and in context.

At LLYFC we pride ourselves on helping all of the young people that come to our events to be able to read and study the Bible by themselves for all it’s worth. For them to really know how to get to grips with God’s Word and be able to hear God speak to them personally through His eternal Word.

The Refresh Conference is another opportunity for us all to gather round God’s Word and grow in faith and be filled with the wisdom of God.

We will also have plenty of time hanging out and engaging in fun activities like ‘ultimate frisbee‘, ‘9 square‘ and singing around a campfire in the evening.

Also, let us not forget the food that we will be having whilst on the 1 day conference. We will be having a lip smacking barbecue; and as we are looking at ‘Philemon’ we will be having ‘Philly Cheesesteaks‘ as part of the barbecue.

We are really looking forward to the conference and pray that God would shape hearts and transform lives through it.

Please do continue to pray for the work of LLYFC, especially as we soon leave the summer behind and head towards the autumn and a new school year.

Be blessed!

Have a go..a Ninja-go..

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This coming Sunday night on August 27th at 6pm we will be hosting our final ‘God, Games & Goats‘ event of the summer. It will be a totally epic night of extreme awesomeness!

Not to be missed!

We will be hosting our very own ‘Ninja Warrior‘ night.

So come along to Ty Llywelyn Community Centre, Ffordd Yr Orsedd, Llandudno, LL30 1LA; and join in the fun.

Ninja Warrior is a televised obstacle course competition that pits the competitors’ strength, dexterity & agility against the various obstacles that they must face. To see a obstacle course being tackled; check out this video of Canadian actor Stephen Amell (who plays the superhero Green Arrow on TV) as he competes during a special charity event.

At this Sunday’s ‘G,G,G’ we will be having our very own course for the young people to face up against and tackle. With prizes to boot!

We love hosting these kinds of events for the young people in Llandudno and beyond. It’s a great opportunity for them to meet up with friends, relax and have fun in a safe environment.

We are also, so very grateful to all of our supporters who faithfully uphold us in prayer; give their time to support the work that we do; and contribute financially to ensure that we can hold such great activities every week for the young people to come to.

Such as this coming Sunday’s obstacle course mega competition!

So thank you!

Talking of obstacles to overcome; in the Bible we are encouraged that with God’s help we can overcome any obstacle that comes our way. In Psalm 18 David composed a song praising God for his faithfulness in delivering God out of the hands of his enemies. He acknowledged that it was God that gave him the strength & ability to overcome the obstacles in front of him. You can also find this Psalm in 2 Samuel 22.

However we are also encouraged to not put obstacles in people’s way that hinders them from coming to God (See Romans 16 and 1 Corinthians 9 in context); especially young people: “People were bringing little children to Jesus for him to place his hands on them, but the disciples rebuked them. When Jesus saw this, he was indignant. He said to them, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.” – Mark 10:13-15

We want to continue to allow young people the opportunity to meet with Jesus in a real and relevant way; and we continue to ask that you partner up with us and God in this endeavour. Continue to pray for us. Continue to support us. Continue to give your time to such a worthwhile ministry.

Thank you & be blessed!