We’d ‘heart’ for you to be part of the team!

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Here at Llandudno Youth for Christ we have a fantastic bunch of volunteers that support all of the work that we do with young people in Llandudno and beyond.

Some of them work in our projects that directly impact the young people, such as ‘Reverb Youth Space‘ our Thursdays after-school drop-in, ‘Recess‘ our Thursday’s lunchtime schools club & ‘Redefine‘ our Sunday evening youth Bible Study; others work in our ‘Reverb Saturday Cafe @ St John’s‘ on Mostyn Street, where they lovingly make sweet and savoury crepes, pour teas & coffees, serve customers and wash-up amongst other tasks.

The Saturday cafe volunteering helps serve the wider Llandudno community with a safe haven to sit, relax & chat amidst the hustle and bustle of a busy Saturday on Llandudno’s high street. This is not so-much of a direct face to face working with young people aspect of the work we do, but it does help people learn more about the work of LLYFC; it blesses the local community, it helps to raise much needed funds for the work of LLYFC and it also gives many of our young people opportunities to serve others and grow in confidence as they help out.

We also have others that commit to pray regularly for the work that we do; meeting on the 4th Sunday of each month at Ty Llywelyn Community Centre to pray for everything that we do.

We have church leaders, teachers, parents and other youth workers that continue to support all of the work we do and are extremely grateful for all of their support.

If, in any way, shape or form you have helped, or do continue to help the work of LLYFC in reaching out to young people in Llandudno and beyond with the good news of Jesus, then we would love to say to you: ‘THANK YOU‘. Keep on doing what you are doing.

Also, if you have never before thought about volunteering with us, then please do prayerfully consider this. As we head into summer and then in September to a brand new school year; we are always looking for more volunteers. More people to help us reach more young people with the love of God.

If you feel that God is directing you to help us out, whether directly or indirectly, we’d ‘heart‘ (love) to hear from you, and we’d ‘heart‘ (love) for you to join us in seeing more young people reached with the gospel.

Please do contact us by phone: 07517429763, email: llandudnoyfc@gmail.com, or letter: Llandudno Youth for Christ, c/o Ty Llywelyn Community Centre, Ffordd Yr Orsedd, Llandudno, LL30 1LA.

Be blessed!

Waiting for the summer…

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Hi all, some of you might recognise the lyric & title to a less well known Delirious? song. I thought it linked well into the fact that in less than 12 days time the schools will close for the summer!

Until then, there are so many young people simply ‘waiting for the summer’.

At Llandudno Youth for Christ, we also have a whole host of fun events that are going to be held during the summer school break.

Just one week after schools close our very own director, Mr Tim Gough, will be finally taking the plunge with Tim’s Big Jump! We are so excited for him in doing this! He will be jumping over 400ft from the highest bungee jump in the UK and is aiming to raise £5,000 for the work of LLYFC. Please support him, especially as we draw closer to the jump day of the 28th of July.

In August we have some more fun days to look forward to.

On Tuesday 1st of August we will be holding our overnight youth event at Gloddaeth Church: ‘The Lock-In‘; this is a fun evening for all the young people, with games, a movie, Bible studies and times of prayer and worship together.

Then on Thursday 3rd August we will be holding a picnic and water fight on the green outside the Lighthouse Church on the West Shore of Llandudno.

Finally we a capping off the summer with our great mini-conference ‘Refresh‘ at St. David’s College in Llandudno.

We are looking forward to hosting these great events for the young people in Llandudno and beyond.

Please be praying for all of these events. Praying for the volunteers and young people involved. Praying that God would change lives at each event.

Also, please consider sponsoring Tim as he jumps over 400ft on the 28th July.

Be blessed!

5,4,3,2,1..Thunder-Tim is go!!!!!

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In just over 3 weeks, our very own centre director Mr Tim Gough will be jumping over 400ft out of a crane attached to a bungee cord and will travel at speeds up to 90mph as he rushes headlong towards the ground. The whole jump will take only 5 seconds to complete from launch to the full extension of the bungee cord.

So, 400ft, 90mph, 5seconds!

Wow!

Why is he doing such an insane thing? Listen to him explain it here.

He is doing it all to raise money for the work of Llandudno Youth for Christ and all the great work we do at sharing the good news of Jesus relevantly with the young people in North Wales.

So on the 28th of July Tim will be taking the big plunge.

Tim is planning by this endeavour to raise over £5,000 for the work of Llandudno Youth for Christ. So far we have raised over £2,000; so we have 3 weeks to raise over half the amount, but I believe we can do it.

Let your friends and family know about this insane but worthwhile feat that Tim is doing. Get them to sponsor him.

If you or someone you know has been blessed by the work of LLYFC. If you’ve been to a ‘Spark‘ event, come to ‘Recess‘, ‘Reverb‘ or ‘Redefine‘. If you’ve attended one of our ‘Monthly Meet‘ training evenings, or enjoy our ‘Reverb Saturday Cafe @ St John’s‘ then please do sponsor Tim and encourage your friends to do so too.

I’m sure if everyone that has ever been impacted by the work that we do in and around Llandudno and beyond gave just £1 to this, then we would easily raise the remainder of the money and reach our goal of £5,000.

Please share this and let’s support Tim as he takes a big leap for a big ministry that serves a big God.

Be blessed!

 

We want you!

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Not the great British Bake-Off, but this Summer we are looking for some enthusiastic and fun-loving volunteers to help us out with our Reverb Saturday Cafe @ St John’s.

We are always looking for more wonderful volunteers at this great endeavour that creates a safe and friendly environment on a Saturday for shoppers to rest and relax and chat over a nice cup of tea or coffee and nibble a cake. For those wanting something more substantial, we do freshly cooked filled french crepes & yummy toasted sandwiches.

It’s a really busy and fun day for all involved; and it is great to be part of something that brings joy to so many.

However, this Summer, especially on Saturday 29th of July & Saturday 12th of August, we are, due to people being away or unavailable, a little short staffed on those days. So if you know how to make a toasted sandwich, or are an ace with a tea bag and a cake slice, or you feel that you can take & deliver orders with vim and vigour; then we would love to hear from you.

And don’t be fearful that you don’t have what it takes; after all, in the wonderful words of wisdom from ‘Ratatouille’; “Anyone can cook“. So if that’s you, drop us a line and put on your apron.

“In his grace, God has given us different gifts for doing certain things well. So if God has given you the ability to prophesy, speak out with as much faith as God has given you. If your gift is serving others, serve them well. If you are a teacher, teach well. If your gift is to encourage others, be encouraging. If it is giving, give generously. If God has given you leadership ability, take the responsibility seriously. And if you have a gift for showing kindness to others, do it gladly.” – Romans 12:6-8

If you have been gifted with the gift of serving; then this is a great opportunity for you.

Contact us by email: llandudnoyfc@gmail.com or ring the LLYFC office on: 07517 429763 (Mondays & Thursday 9am to 5pm and Fridays 9am to 1pm)

Be blessed!

Here comes the sun….

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Well, in just over 5 weeks time the schools will have shut for the summer holidays! Wow, it seems like the year is flying by, but there is still so much to look forward to.

We’ve had a great year so far at Llandudno Youth for Christ.

We started the year off with a bang as a large number of our volunteers joined our centre director at the Youth for Christ UK annual conference in Manchester. It was a great event, where we got to meet up with other crazy & wonderful Youth for Christ workers and volunteers. We were all encouraged and challenged to believe God for more in 2017; and to really dig in deeper in prayer for the year ahead. To create a culture of prayer within Youth for Christ and to see many young people changed by the power of the gospel of Jesus.

Then we had a great spring term in the schools; continuing to deepen our links with Ysgol John Bright. Numbers have grown steadily at our Thursday lunch-time meeting ‘Recess‘, especially after our centre director Mr Mr Tim Gough held a series of assemblies in the school.

This also had a positive affect on the number of young people coming to our after school-drop in club ‘Reverb Youth Space‘, also held on Thursday afternoons at 3:15pm in Ty Llywelyn Community Centre in Llandudno. Here the young people come to relax and have fun with friends. They can sit in our quiet creative room and do arts & crafts; or they can play board games, pool, table football or retro video games in our games zone, then finally we have a more energetic space where we play table tennis or 4 square. We also hold a monthly ‘movie event’ at the ‘Reverb Youth Space‘, which is a great event for our young people to invite friends to.

‘Redefine‘ has continued to grow and consolidate, with a number of our young people stepping up to become young helpers who help the rest of the volunteer team with running the Sunday evening Bible study.

Speaking of Bible studies we also have a new event called ‘Afterhours‘ that is run after our ‘Reverb Youth Space‘ drop-in. This is a meeting where those that wish to can dig in deeper into the Bible and it is going really well after only a couple of months.

There is so much more to say that I’d run out of time to talk about what we have ahead of us. Needless to say God has been blessing us amazingly and abundantly so far this year, with great volunteers, great prayer support and great financial support.

We will continue to look to Him to meet our needs as we head in to July & August.

Especially as we head towards ‘Tim’s Big Jump‘.

Our centre director is going to be doing a massive bungee jump on the 27th July in Chepstow to raise funds for the work of LLYFC. We are looking at raising £5,000 towards all that we do to reach young people with the gospel. You can hear about it from Tim himself here. Please consider supporting us and sponsoring Tim; also, let your firends, family & churches know about this and encourage them to support this amazing feat.

Also, as we move into the summer we will be holding a host of different events for the young people in the area. Do continue to pray for us and the work that we are doing. Please also consider attending our next prayer meeting for the work of LLYFC; Sunday 25th June at Ty Llywelyn Community Centre, LL30 1LA, 7pm start.

Have a great week and thank you for your support.

 

Be Blessed!

Diolch! Gracias! Grazie! Dankie! Obrigado! Mercie!

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At Llandudno Youth for Christ, we want to say a massive and resounding ‘THANK YOU!’ to all of our amazing volunteers, supporters and young people.

You are all simply ‘Aces!’

Last Wednesday 7th of June we held our annual ‘Showcase’ with AGM of all of the events that we do, and it was so wonderfully supported and well attended. The Rev. Neil Kirkham allowed us to hold it in the beautifully renovated Gloddaeth Church in Llandudno (if you haven’t visited the church yet, I would encourage you to do so; they truly have done a wonderful job inside the building), which was the perfect venue for us. Thank you Neil!

During the evening, we had tea, coffee, fruit juices, crisps, cakes, fruit and sweets for all who came. Thank you James & Jessica for so wonderfully serving everyone with a hot drink and a warm smile; and all that despite any nerves you might have had for the talks you were going to do later in the evening. Thank you!

Also, thank you to everyone who helped with decorating and preparing the church for the meeting. Thank you Chloe, Andrew, Katie, Tim, Todd, James, Jessica, Darren, Simon & Noah. Also, thank you Simon for leading the worship at the showcase, and thank you to your amazing band; Chloe on Saxophone and Noah on drums, with your melodious backing vocalists Fu, Mei Mei & Jessica. Thank you!

Thank you to our centre director for supporting and inspiring us so well, and for informing everyone on the night in such a fun and interactive way of all of the different events we hold, from ‘Redefine‘, ‘Recess‘ & ‘Reverb‘ to ‘Afterhours‘, the ‘Convo Board‘, ‘Nerf Wars‘, ‘Spark‘ & the ‘Monthly Meet‘ to name some of our main events and projects that we hold. Thank you.

Thank you to the volunteers and young people that spoke so eloquently and passionately about the work of Llandudno Youth for Christ. Thank you James, Mega, Simon & Jessica.

Thank you to our treasurer Mr Chris Condrup for taking us swiftly through the finances for the past year and giving us a great picture of what we are aiming towards in the coming financial year.

Thank you to our chair of trustees Mr Paul Hadley for speaking such heartfelt words about the necessity of the work of Llandudno Youth for Christ in reaching young lives with the power of the gospel; and for praying so earnestly for God to move through everything that we do. Thank you.

Thank you to everyone that attended the Showcase to support the work of Llanduno Youth for Christ.

Thank you to all of those who faithfully serve and help out at our Reverb Saturday Cafe held in St John’s Church on Mostyn Street. We are so grateful for your amazing dedication to this outreach in the community that not only helps to raise much needed financial funds for the work of LLYFC, but also creates a safe place for people from within Llandudno and its environs as well as those visiting the area, to meet up and have a great time chatting together over a cup of coffee and a cake or toasted sandwich. Thank you.

Thank you to those who tirelessly and faithfully pray for us and all that we are doing. (Our next prayer meeting is on Sunday 25th June at 7pm in Ty Llywelyn Community Centre)

Thank you for those who champion the work of Llandudno Youth for Christ; promoting it within their local church to inspire more people to partner with us in taking the good news of Jesus to so many more young people to see a generation changed by the love of God.

Thank you, thank you thank you!

I’m sure I have missed some people out, sorry for that, but if you have ever in any way, shape or form helped and supported the work of LLYFC; then we want to say yet again…

THANK YOU!

“May God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give you grace and peace. Every time I think of you, I give thanks to my God. Whenever I pray, I make my requests for all of you with joy, for you have been my partners in spreading the Good News about Christ from the time you first heard it until now. And I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns.” – Philippians 1:2-6

Have a great week and Be Blessed!

Afflictions eclipsed by glory.

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For a lot of the young people that attend the many different events we hold at Llandudno Youth for Christ, the next two weeks are going to be one full of exams and revision and potentail stress.

That is on-top of the confusion, anger, fear and disbelief that they might be feeling following the recent attacks in Manchester and London.

We need to be praying for our young people in this time.

Praying that they find God in amongst all that is going on around them.

Praying for His grace, peace and love to reach out to confused and hurting hearts and minds.

Praying for them to find His strength in their weakness.

Praying.

Whilst I was thinking about all of this, I remembered John Mark McMillan’s song ‘How He loves’. This is the full version of the song; not the cut down, cleaned up and sanitised version we might sing together in churches on Sundays.

John Mark McMillan wrote the song as a response to hearing the news that a friend of his had died tragically in a car accident. It was his way of dialoguing with God about this event that filled him with so much anger, confusion and frustration. You can watch a great video here where he explains more about the background to the song.

As John Mark McMillan says “This song isn’t a celebration of weakness and anger. It’s a celebration of a God who would want to hang with us through those things, who would want to be a part of our lives through those things, and, despite who we are, He would want to be a part of us, our community, and our family.”

“For we do not have a high priest who is unable to feel sympathy for our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are – yet he did not sin. Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.” – Hebrews 4:15-16

In Jesus, God entered our world in a very real and physical way. He took on our humanity and became just like one of us. He was and still is our Emmanuel – God with us.

As not only the young people wrestle with their exams and with questions and doubts that will naturally arise in the wake of the past couple of weeks, but also as we all wrestle with questions of justice and mercy, faith and doubt, and other emotions that will be rising up within us; let us never forget that the God we love and serve, loves us so much more than we can ever imagine; and is with us every step of the way.

“Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the Lord your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you.’” – Deuteronomy 31:6

I chose afflictions eclipsed by glory as the title of this post; as we see so much affliction around us today, yet, with eyes of faith as we look to God we see so much of His glory; that it eclipses all of the trouble and strife. His love is the answer to our very great needs within us and in the world around us.

Read the full lyrics to John Mark McMillan’s ‘How He loves’ here, and listen to the full song here.

Also, This coming Wednesday 7th June at 7pm we will be holding our annual Showcase. Come and find out what Llandudno Youth For Christ has been up to this year, and what the plans are for next year too. They’ll be times of worship – led by young people – interviews and testimonies, and a Q&A panel of team and young people. There will also be much needed time to pray together as a community of Jesus’ followers.

It would be great to have your support if you’re able to make it!

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Have a great week, and remember that He love us!

Volunteers’ Week

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June 1st to Junes 7th 2017 is Volunteers’ Week – an annual UK festival of volunteering. The main aims of the Week are to recognise, reward and recruit volunteers. It’s a great opportunity to say thank you to all of the wonderful volunteers we have a Llandudno Youth for Christ.

From those who faithfully help out at our Reverb Saturday Cafe @ St John’s on the 2nd and 4th Saturdays of the month; to those who commit to praying for the work of Llandudno Youth for Christ. We are so very grateful for everyone who volunteers at one of the many projects and events we run.

We would not be able to do this without you.

When thinking about ‘Volunteers’ Week‘ I thought of the account in the Bible where Joshua is fighting against the Amalekite army; and Moses stood on a hill overlooking the battle field, holding up the staff of God. Whenever Moses held up the staff, the Israelite army was winning, and whenever his arms dropped; the Amalekites would be winning; so two of Moses’ friends; his brother Aaron and another friend called Hur held up Moses arms until the Israelites had won the decisive victory. You can read the account in Exodus 17:8-16.

Just like Aaron & Hur, all of our volunteers help us lift up our arms to God to see a generation of young people changed and saved by the good news of Jesus Christ.

We are so grateful and want to say a big ‘THANK YOU!‘

Thank you for giving of your time, you creativity, your finances. Thank you for praying. Thank you for volunteering with Llandudno Youth for Christ.

If after reading this post, you think that you would like to volunteer with Llandudno Youth for Christ; then please do not hesitate to contact us.

Also, if you want to learn more about all that we do at Llandudno Youth for Christ; then please come along to our Showcase – Wednesday 7th June at 7pm in Gloddaeth Church, Llandudno, LL30 2SY.

Be blessed.

A Great Meeting! – Not to be missed!

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It has finally arrived!

Our annual meeting where we come together to talk about everything that has been going on in the life of Llandudno Youth for Christ.

We will be showcasing all of the different events that we hold. Hearing testimonies and stories from volunteers and young people who attend the various projects that we run.

There will be time to pray together as a community of Christians who want to see young people in North Wales impacted and changed by the good news of Jesus.

We will have worship led by some of the young people that come to our events.

There will be videos, talks and some reports (financial etc).

Also, not there will be cake, biscuits & coffee & tea!

It’ll be an AGM unlike any that you have ever been to before!

It won’t be Abysmal.Gloomy.Mediocre. Our A.G.M will be Amazing.Great.Mind-Blowing!

Please do come along and spread the word.

LLYFC Showcase (with AGM), Gloddaeth Church, Llandudno, 7pm start.

We hope you can make it!

A design for life…

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The title, as with a lot of my titles, is a sort of pun. It’s actually a Manic Street Preachers (a Welsh Indie Rock band) song title. I chose this, as last Monday night we held our penultimate Monthly Meet training evening before the Summer holidays, and during the evening, we looked at the whole issue of design; specifically graphic design.

It was a brilliant session; with loads of interesting and informative theory about design; advertising & the styles that have historically been used to reach each generational group.

we also had plenty of practical opportunities to create our own designs following a design brief. This was good fun and also eye opening to see how our design ethos changed following the training. It was great to see the before and after designs we made.

Unfortunately it was not as well attended as normal; perhaps due to people thinking that learning about good design work within Christian spheres is not high on the priorities list? However, I believe that as Christians we should be the most creative and design conscious people on the planet; after all we are made in the image of the great Creator and are in daily relationship with Him.

“Make a careful exploration of who you are and the work you have been given, and then sink yourself into that. Don’t be impressed with yourself. Don’t compare yourself with others. Each of you must take responsibility for doing the creative best you can with your own life.” – Galatians‬ ‭6:4-5‬

God wants us to be creative people who demonstrate aspects of His creativity to those around us. God can give us new, creative ways to look at things, to solve problems, to share His love with others.

Our next Monthly Meet training night will be on Monday 19th June at Ty Llywelyn Community Centre. This will also be out last before the Summer break; so it’s definitely one not to be missed.

We hope you can do your creative best to be able to make it for what is sure to be an amazing night.

Be blessed