Well March has been another busy month for me
in my role as Youth and Children’s Intern at Ebe… and time flies when you’re
having fun! I have had opportunities to lead Bible studies for my home group
and Pick & Mix this month, as extra tasks to my general work. This has been
really encouraging and has taught me a lot. I have also been involved more with
The Word on Sunday mornings and I have been planning for another Girlz Group
and preparing to start a Youth Alpha course. So here’s a little more about
these activities.
The Word
My first month’s tasks as part of the team of
volunteers for The Word have been very interesting. I have been praying about
and planning the Bible teaching for the spring and summer terms this year. I
have met with the young people on a number of occasions within a youth group
setting and I have been able to get a bit of an idea of their personalities and
where they each are on their personal journeys with the Lord. This has really
helped me to decide what topics we should be looking at each week. I have felt
lead to focus on some of the basic foundations of Christianity and some
principles of Christian living and discipleship. It is my hope that looking at
these within a relatively short space of time will give the young people an
opportunity to think once again, about where they are personally in their
relationship with God. My prayer for these young people is that they will each
have personal encounters with God, that they will seek Him whole-heartedly and
that they will desire to know Him on a deeper, more personal level. The
following is the plan of teaching for the rest of this academic year. I ask
that you will keep a copy of this plan somewhere and pray for the young people
each week, in relation to the topic in hand. Please also pray that the leaders
will have wisdom in their teaching and will be lead by the Holy Spirit.
Youth Alpha
We are starting a Youth Alpha course on the 22nd
of April which will last for nine weeks. We have invited a mix of young people
from The Rock and from TGI Lates. Some of these young people have already made
a commitment and others have not. So I’m sure we will have a good mix of
questions and responses. Myself, Claire Stoney and Jack Teasdale are running
the course and we will hopefully be having some people from Ebe coming in to do
some of the talks for us too. There are about eight young people who have shown
an interest in attending the course. It will run on Sunday evenings alongside
The Rock from 7-9pm, so they will get a chance to mix with the people who go to
The Rock for games and snacks. This has all come about quite quickly but it
seems to be great timing because we have been able to invite some of the young
people who have registered to go to Hill House Camp. This means that, if they
come, they could potentially continue on with learning more about Jesus through
the summer as well… great news!
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Please
pray that we get a good number of young people sign-up to this course and that
God prepares each individual’s heart in the run up to the start.
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Pray
also for us as leaders, that we will have wisdom to answer questions and to
deliver the content in a way that is relevant to the young people.
Girlz Group
I am also going to be starting another Girlz
Group with a different set of girls at Orchard School. This will begin on
Thursday 26th April. It will be the same course, running for six
weeks and the same people will be helping me to run it. I have given the names
of a few girls from TGI Lates who would benefit from being in the sessions and
so I am praying that this will be a really great link between the stuff going
on at church and the school. These particular girls have also been invited to
Youth Alpha, so this will hopefully form a bit of a circle of support and input
for them.
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Please
pray that the girls who will be invited will choose to come along to the
sessions, as it’s a voluntary group.
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Pray
that I will be able to share more of my personal story with them and that this
impacts upon them as individuals.
I really appreciate your support in prayer and
in practical ways and I wanted to say a big thank you to all of you who do so.
I also really appreciate hearing any feedback you might have about the work I’m
doing or if you feel that God is speaking to me through you… so feel free to speak
to me anytime about anything or to leave comments here on the blog!
Bless you all, Kate xxx
