Friday 28 September 2007

Monday 1-Friday 5 October 07

Hello!

This will just be a short one as I have just returned from the depths of Derbyshire and after a 5 hour journey in heavy traffic and rain I'm feeling pretty tired-though the week was very good, but I shall write more about that sometime next week!

Prayer requests for the things we are doing this coming week;

Tuesday-
An assembly at Parkway Middle.
Castle Manor Christian lunch, Diana is sharing her testimony.

Thursday-
An assembly at Parkway Middle.
Rock Solid at Parkway.
Samuel Ward Youth Alpha begins.

Friday-
Rock Solid at Parkway.
Mudflaps in Kedington.

Sunday-
Church visit to Church in the Field and Youth Alpha for Haverhill Methodist.

Please keep us in your prayers. Sorry for the brief blog, but I'm back with you next week so I'll be adding more!

Friday 14 September 2007

Monday 17th-Friday 21st September 07

Hello.

Well Diana and I are preparing for lots of work ahead of us as we return back to normality!

This week is looking good with some old things continuing and new things starting. if you want any more details on any of the things we are involved in please don't hesitate to leave a comment and we'll get back to you.

Here's how the next week is shaping up...

Sunday evening- We are running a Youth Alpha with the Methodist church for 13+ in the evening. If you know of someone who would really like to come to this please get in touch with me via haverhillschoolsinitiative@gmail.com or phone 07875 485520. Youth Alpha is similar to the adult Alpha course but done with young people's culture in mind, it's fun and relevant and leaves space for lots of questions. Diana and her husband Jay, myself and my husband Simon will be running this. For more info on Youth Alpha check out http://uk.alpha.org/youth/

***Another Youth Alpha course will be starting at Samuel Ward College from Thursday October 4th from 2.45 until 3.25 meeting in the Conference room.***

Monday-I'm off to Newmarket Youth For Christ to meet with my mentor in the morning.

Tuesday-Castle Manor's Christian lunch starts back (note chnge of day), this is an opportunity to meet with other Christian staff and students, to encourage one another and discuss different things. We meet from 12.45.

Thursday-An assembly with the year 5's at Parkway Middle, and the start of Rock Solid again, meeting in the gym, year 5 & 7's.

Friday-Rock Solid at Parkway for years 6 & 8.

I will be heading for Cliff College to do a week of study later in the afternoon, please pray for safe travel.

There will be no update on the blog next Friday as I will be away, Rock Solid will continue with Diana whilst I am away.

Please pray for the work in the schools this year as we are taking on more and our diary is filling up, we appreciate all the support we recieve. Please encourage any young people you know who may also want to attend any of these activities.

Have a great weekend.

Friday 7 September 2007

We're back!! September 2007


Hello and welcome back to the HSI blog. It's been a while but we have been resting up for the summer and recharging the batteries for the new school year!


Over the summer, other than resting and enjoying a good holiday, Diana and I have been plugging HSI out in Haverhill at the Big Day Out which was back in July on the Rec in Haverhill. It was a great day, if not a little windy. We met with lots of young people and families through playing the game 'The Price is Right' just for a bit of fun to encourage people over. Hopefully it will have raised awareness of what HSI does to both children and their parents.


This term we will have Rock Solid up and running very shortly in Parkway and will be back in Castle Manor for the Christian lunch. We hope to get CU's and Rock Solid's into other schools as well as lots of assemblies and lessons.


As well as all this I am going to be undertaking some part time study with Cliff College, I will be studying for an MA in Emerging Church so if you have any ideas and thoughts it would be great to hear some! Hopefully this will help me explore some of the ways in which we can engage young people, in a quite contrasting culture with the true concept of Church.


Well, more on what's happening week by week later, please keep us in your prayers and pray for the staff and children back at school now.


Take care.