Resurrection Party!

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Last Sunday night (14th April) we had our last Redefine meeting before the Easter holidays. It was a fun night with a party theme as we looked at and celebrated the Resurrection of Jesus.

We have been working our way through the gospel of Mark this term and at the last Redefine we looked at the death of Jesus on the cross. At our last Reverb we looked at the Triumphal entry and now at our last Redefine we finished off the gospel of Mark by looking at Jesus’ victory over death.

We wanted to create a celebratory and party feel for the night, so we had balloons, party poppers, party food (iced rings, popcorn, mini muffins, crisps & fruit) and some party games; including an extreme version of an Easter Egg Hunt involving Nerf Guns.

Everyone had a great night.

We also had a time of worship celebrating the good news of Jesus’ triumph over sin and death.

We are now on a break over the Easter holidays and will not be meeting back together until Thursday 2nd May for both Recess & Reverb and Sunday 5th May for Redefine.

But we will still be holding our monthly Prayer Gathering on Sunday 28th April @ 7pm in the Ty Llywelyn Community Centre. Please do join us for this and pray for the all the young people that have heard the gospel in the last couple of weeks.

Also please be praying for the young people as Easter is celebrated, that they would think about why we celebrate Easter and realise the importance of Jesus’ death, burial and resurrection.

Have a great Easter and be blessed!

Easter here we come!

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Well the schools will be breaking up for Easter this week. I’m sure the young people are relishing the 2 week holiday ahead of them and thinking of all the fun that they can have whilst not at school.

Visiting friends, or maybe going away with family somewhere and of course eating lots of chocolate eggs.

After all it is Easter and eggs are what many people think of when it comes to Easter. However as Christians Easter is about far more than Easter Eggs.

Easter is a remembrance and a celebration of the death, burial & resurrection of Jesus.

At all of the different events we run, Recess (our lunch time Christian Union meetings in Ysgol John Bright in Llandudno and Ysgol Aberconwy in Conwy), Reverb (our after-school drop-in youth club) & Redefine (our Sunday evening discipleship Bible Study group), we have been looking at the different events of Holy Week – From the Triumphal Entry to the Resurrection (which we will be looking at during this coming Sunday’s Redefine); helping the young people grasp exactly what it means that Christ died in our place to deal with sin.

This, like Christmas is a great time to share about the good news of Jesus relevantly with the young people that come to the different events that we hold.

Please can you be praying for the young people of Llandudno and beyond this Easter, that they would grasp how deeply loved they are by God. “For this is how much God loved the world—he gave his one and only, unique Son as a gift. So now everyone who believes in him will never perish but experience everlasting life.” – John 3:16

Pray that God would keep them safe during the holidays and that they would enjoy their time off school.

Thank you for all of your support for what we do at Llandudno Youth for Christ. We’re all about seeing young lives changed by Jesus and we love that by your faithful support, in prayer, financially and by volunteering, you are co-labourers with us in this grate work.

Thank you and just as for the young people, we wish you a truly blessed Easter.

PS: We’re back on with all of our different events from Thursday 2nd May 2019.

Be blessed!

 

A whole lotta shakin’ goin’ on!

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No I’m not doing a blog post about Elvis or his music, but am instead referring to the new event being run by Llandudno Youth for Christ in Colwyn Bay – ‘Shuffle & Shake‘.

For this post I interviewed the man heading up the new event; ‘Shuffle & Shake‘, Mr Korey Finch. Below are parts of that interview:

Q1: Korey can you give us a short introduction about yourself?

Korey: I’m from Texas originally and I met this amazing girl from Manchester named Miriam back in 2007 and decided I wanted to marry her, and as a result God put on my heart the desire to be a youth worker in the UK, so here we are now 10 years later. Married and living in Colwyn Bay, doing youth work.

Q2: How long have you lived in Wales?

Korey: I’ve been living here since 2013, so we’re coming up on 6 years now.

Q3: Can you give us a passage of the Bible that has really impacted you?

Korey: I really appreciate the passage, I think it is in Corinthians where it says “my strength is made perfect in your weakness”(2 Cor 12:9). It just helps me see that even though there are things that aren’t perfect in your life, God is still able to perfectly use us.

Q4: What do you do whilst working for or at Youth for Christ?

Korey: Mostly play board games actually…just kidding. There is a lot of office work that I need to do, planning for different events; planning for regular weekly meetings. Sunday I help with Redefine in Llandudno. Monday I’m at ‘Shuffle & Shake’ in Colwyn Bay. Wednesday I’m in the office preparing. Thursday I’m in Ysgol Aberconwy helping with the Recess Christian Union, and then helping with the Reverb after-school drop-in club in Llandudno. Saturday I mostly spend time with the family, but there is the odd day where I might have a Nerf Battle kind of thing like we did this last week, and so, yeah it’s just a balance of events and admin/management.

Q5: Brilliant. So, you just mentioned that you like board games. What is your favourite board game and why?

Korey: I’ll give you two because they’re both totally different. The first is ‘Scythe’, a gigantic, huge game. It weighs a ton, it’s amazing and I love it because I just feel like I’m immersed in the theme: a very diesel punk alternate reality, post world war 2 and there are robots and I like robots, so yeah. That’s fun. I also really like a simple game called ‘Sushi Go’; which is a little card game, about the size of ‘Uno’, but it’s so totally different than anything I’ve ever played and it’s actually inspired me to try to make my own board game..

Q6: You mentioned Redefine, Reverb and Recess, which I’m sure our readers have already heard about, but there was a new one amongst them, ‘Shuffle & Shake’. Can you explain a bit more about it?

Korey: Yeah, the idea is that it’s basically like a youth board game café. It’s open one night of the week for a couple of hours and it’s specifically for young people to have a place where they can connect around a table, and that’s kind of the idea behind that word ‘shuffle’. Not only are we literally shuffling cards etc., but that people’s lives will be mixed and shuffled together. And in that mix they’ll be introduced to Christ. Also part of the name ‘Shuffle & Shake’ is the second part ‘shake’. And that’s just simply ‘we have milkshakes’. So, ‘Shuffle & Shake’ it’s like a board game café for young people.

Q7: In what way can our readers help support the work that you do at ‘Shuffle & Shake’?

Korey: If any adults were interested in helping out or passing along the word about the event, that’d be great. We want to be a help to the community in Colwyn Bay; a bright spot so to speak in Colwyn Bay, and so just letting people know where we are and what’s going on would help. Also if people are able to support financially, by giving to Llandudno Youth for Christ. So, giving to Llandudno Youth for Christ, encouraging people to come to ‘Shuffle & Shake’, thinking of adults that might be able to volunteer and help out, all those are great ways to help support us.

‘Shuffle & Shake‘ is held at Prince’s Drive Baptist Church in Colwyn Bay, typically on the 1st & 3rd Monday of the month during school term time, running from 7:30pm to 9pm. Please do consider supporting this new event that’s seeking to reach young people relevantly with the good news of Jesus Christ.

The next 2 ‘Shuffle & Shake‘ meetings will be on Monday April 8th & Monday April 29th.

Be Blessed!

Nerf Said!

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We all had a fantastic time on this past Saturday 30th March. Here at Llandudno Youth for Christ we held a mega epic Nerf Battle for young people at Gloddaeth Church.

We are so grateful to Gloddaeth Church and its pastor Rev. Neil Kirkham for allowing us to hold this great social event in their building. It’s brilliant to know that we are so well supported and championed by the amazing churches in our area.

The Nerf Battle was heaps of fun, with lots of young people from Llandudno and further afield coming together to take part in this exciting event.

It was a night that I’m sure the young people who attended will not soon forget. Not only did we have many different games of Nerf, from a ‘capture the flag’ game to ‘last person standing’. We also had snacks and refreshments half way through for everyone to be able to re-energise themselves.

Whilst everyone was eating and resting, our director Tim Gough gave a short 5 minute talk about how, in the same way that his favourite Nerf Gun had been carefully worked on and lovingly modified to make it even more efficient at firing foam darts, and for that reason it was his favourite. We have all been carefully and lovingly put together, created by a God who loves us and wants us to get to know Him.

The young people listened attentively to this encouraging and hope filled message, which for some was their first experience of hearing how much God loved them.

It’s really brilliant being able to hold such events that have a great impact upon the lives of so many young people.

And we wouldn’t be able to do events such as these without the help and support of churches and individuals in our area and beyond.

We need people to volunteer to help run the events and work that we do.

We need people to be faithfully praying for the events and work that we do.

We need people to faithfully support us financially for the events and work that we do.

Please do continue to support us, and let others know about the amazing work we do to see young people reached with the love of God.

We want to be able to continue to impact young people’s lives with the good news of Jesus, and cannot do this without your help and support. Thank you and be blessed!