Drum-roll please!
In 8 days time Tim Gough, our centre director will be leaping into the air from a 400ft high platform to raise much needed funds for the work of Llandudno Youth for Christ.
8 days!
400ft!
Pheweee!
Hence the title of this blog post.
“Weeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!”
Because I hope that the jump is a fun and exhilarating time for Tim, but also because although Tim is the only one doing the jump; so many people are supporting and encouraging him in this amazing feat. So it is a ‘we’ endeavour.
It is something for all the young people that come to our youth drop-ins, Bible studies, special events & other projects to support. It is an opportunity for churches and parents that have been blessed by the work that we are doing to get involved with supporting the work that we do. It is a time for us all to be praying for Tim as he makes the leap.
We are all involved in the jump in some way or shape and we will all benefit from the jump as people continue to sponsor Tim. We still have 8 days left to raise more money for this great cause.
Also, the money that is raised will be put back into all of the work that we do, and so many more young lives will be positively impacted by the good news of Jesus. Which in turn will have positive affect upon their families, friends, neighbours and communities. Indeed it is a ripple effect that will effect the whole of North Wales and beyond. That is why it is so important for us to get behind Tim and be there supporting him in his Big Jump.
In effect on a certain level we will all be jumping with Tim. For we will all have a vested interest in him having a fun and successful jump.
This makes me think of how the apostle Paul gets us to think about how all believers; all followers of Jesus; were involved and part of Jesus’ death and resurrection.
“If I acted crazy, I did it for God; if I acted overly serious, I did it for you. Christ’s love has moved me to such extremes. His love has the first and last word in everything we do. Our firm decision is to work from this focused centre: One man died for everyone. That puts everyone in the same boat. He included everyone in his death so that everyone could also be included in his life, a resurrection life, a far better life than people ever lived on their own.” – 2 Corinthians 5:13-15 (The Message)
“If we are ‘out of our mind,’ as some say, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you. For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.” – 2 Corinthians 5:13-15 (NIV)
He puts it another way in the book of Romans in chapter 6; where “all of us who were baptised into Christ Jesus were baptised into his death” and “We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.” And in Colossians Paul says of Jesus’ death on the cross “For God in all his fullness was pleased to live in Christ, and through him God reconciled everything to himself. He made peace with everything in heaven and on earth by means of Christ’s blood on the cross. This includes you who were once far away from God.” – Colossians 1:19-21
We were all included. Wow!
Let’s all get behind Tim as he jumps. Let us all support him, in prayer and with our finances.
And all this so that we can let others know of the great message of how God has opened the way for us all to live a new life at peace with himself through Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross.
Be blessed!
