Hello.
I hope you have had a good weekend. This week is looking busy as term is well underway so here's how this week is looking for your prayers.
Wednesday: I have my weekly mentoring session at Chalkstone Middle which is followed by a Youth Services meeting to see how this work is going and how we can improve it.
Thursday: I'm in Clare for the Churches Together meeting in the evening.
Friday: I'm starting the morning off with an assembly on Commitment (yes more baked beans and jelly) with the whole school at Castle Manor followed by a year 10 RE lesson on 'Prejudice' which is the first of five lessons in Castle Manor. These are the first lessons and the first assembly I have taken at Castle Manor so please pray that it is received well and opens up great discussions.
I hope you have a good week.
Tuesday, 30 January 2007
Friday, 19 January 2007
Monday 22-Friday 26th January '07
Hello.
Hope you have had a good week so far. Just a quick update and to give you a few things to be praying about for next week.
It's been a bit of a slow week but I had a great time at Chalkstone Middle on Monday and have started to mentor a student there which is a great opportunity, please be praying for this work as it is so important.
I have also been to a meeting about Haverhill Methodist Church's holiday club 'Going Banana's' which is taking place in half term which I'm getting involved in.
With it being a little quiet at the moment it has given me a great opportunity to reflect on what I gained from the conference and to look forward to this term. Already I have been in conversation with Samuel Ward about setting up an after school Christian Union this term, hopefully we can set up something more definite next week...so keep that in your prayers.
I have also been looking into how I can set up a Rock Solid club at Parkway Middle, this will be a fun club run at lunch times, which again will hopefully start after half term, however I am praying that someone may be able to volunteer their help to assist me with this one lunch time a week...any ideas please please let me know.
I'm really excited about these opportunities, it will deepen the work so that relationships can be built outside of the classroom environment so that the youth can really explore what it is to be a Christian! With all this I still have a lesson to plan and an assembly for Castle Manor and I am hoping to organise a fund raising quiz night...so watch this space.
Next week will be more of the planning of these developments as well as more of the mentoring, I won't be around on the Friday 26th and Monday 29th as I'm taking time out after last week.
Please keep praying for the young people and the schools, prayer is more powerful than we can understand! Have a great weekend.
Hope you have had a good week so far. Just a quick update and to give you a few things to be praying about for next week.
It's been a bit of a slow week but I had a great time at Chalkstone Middle on Monday and have started to mentor a student there which is a great opportunity, please be praying for this work as it is so important.
I have also been to a meeting about Haverhill Methodist Church's holiday club 'Going Banana's' which is taking place in half term which I'm getting involved in.
With it being a little quiet at the moment it has given me a great opportunity to reflect on what I gained from the conference and to look forward to this term. Already I have been in conversation with Samuel Ward about setting up an after school Christian Union this term, hopefully we can set up something more definite next week...so keep that in your prayers.
I have also been looking into how I can set up a Rock Solid club at Parkway Middle, this will be a fun club run at lunch times, which again will hopefully start after half term, however I am praying that someone may be able to volunteer their help to assist me with this one lunch time a week...any ideas please please let me know.
I'm really excited about these opportunities, it will deepen the work so that relationships can be built outside of the classroom environment so that the youth can really explore what it is to be a Christian! With all this I still have a lesson to plan and an assembly for Castle Manor and I am hoping to organise a fund raising quiz night...so watch this space.
Next week will be more of the planning of these developments as well as more of the mentoring, I won't be around on the Friday 26th and Monday 29th as I'm taking time out after last week.
Please keep praying for the young people and the schools, prayer is more powerful than we can understand! Have a great weekend.
Sunday, 14 January 2007
Youth For Christ Staff Conference
Hello, and a slightly belated New Year!
I just came back from North Wales on Friday after having spent a week in a Castle for the Youth For Christ Staff conference. It was amazing week....the food was great, plenty of it! I got loads out of the week too, there were some great seminars with lots of information for me to take away and think about what more we can do in Haverhill and Clare to move HSI on! It was great to link with other people in similar situations, especially other new staff and others working on their own.
Hopefully 2007 will be a great year for HSI and we can move the work on and reach more children and young people making a real impact on their lives!!
This term is starting slightly slowly, I have a meeting at Chalkstone this Monday morning about some mentoring, so praying that will go well.
Hope you have all had a great Christmas and New Year and are feeling well in the swing of things now!
I just came back from North Wales on Friday after having spent a week in a Castle for the Youth For Christ Staff conference. It was amazing week....the food was great, plenty of it! I got loads out of the week too, there were some great seminars with lots of information for me to take away and think about what more we can do in Haverhill and Clare to move HSI on! It was great to link with other people in similar situations, especially other new staff and others working on their own.
Hopefully 2007 will be a great year for HSI and we can move the work on and reach more children and young people making a real impact on their lives!!
This term is starting slightly slowly, I have a meeting at Chalkstone this Monday morning about some mentoring, so praying that will go well.
Hope you have all had a great Christmas and New Year and are feeling well in the swing of things now!
Friday, 15 December 2006
Last week of School Term
Hi again.
Been a busy week. Had a great final lesson with the Yr7's at Parkway Middle on Monday, unfortunatly they had to cancel Tuesday's assembly. Meeting with Youth Services was great, I'm going to be doing some one-to-one work with one of the kids which is a really positive thing I believe that we can work with the Youth Services. I ended up going to Parkway Middle Christmas Concert which was superb! And I've ended the week with some great meetings looking ahead to the coming year with some lesson and assemblies planned.
Next week is the last week of term, they finish on Tuesday so the only thing booked in is spending the afternoon at Parkway Middle on the last day of term to join in the fun. After that the weeks up to Christmas will be planning the coming lessons.
I won't add any blogs now until the New Year so Merry Christmas, have a good one and I'll see you all in 2007!
Been a busy week. Had a great final lesson with the Yr7's at Parkway Middle on Monday, unfortunatly they had to cancel Tuesday's assembly. Meeting with Youth Services was great, I'm going to be doing some one-to-one work with one of the kids which is a really positive thing I believe that we can work with the Youth Services. I ended up going to Parkway Middle Christmas Concert which was superb! And I've ended the week with some great meetings looking ahead to the coming year with some lesson and assemblies planned.
Next week is the last week of term, they finish on Tuesday so the only thing booked in is spending the afternoon at Parkway Middle on the last day of term to join in the fun. After that the weeks up to Christmas will be planning the coming lessons.
I won't add any blogs now until the New Year so Merry Christmas, have a good one and I'll see you all in 2007!
Friday, 8 December 2006
The work of Monday 11th-Friday 15th 06
Hi after a busy week I'm just writing a quick update for the coming week...
Monday: Meeting with Kathie my mentor in the morning and a Yr7 RE lesson on 'Growing Up as a Christian' at Parkway Middle, then the HSI Exec meeting in the evening.
Tuesday: Yr7 assembly at Parkway, 'A Christmas Gift' theme.
Wednesday: A meeting with Youth Services.
Friday: Meeting with RE Co-ordinator at Castle Manor.
Things are quietening off now due to the Christmas activities in school so I will be looking forward to preparing things for the New Year.
Have a good weekend.
Monday: Meeting with Kathie my mentor in the morning and a Yr7 RE lesson on 'Growing Up as a Christian' at Parkway Middle, then the HSI Exec meeting in the evening.
Tuesday: Yr7 assembly at Parkway, 'A Christmas Gift' theme.
Wednesday: A meeting with Youth Services.
Friday: Meeting with RE Co-ordinator at Castle Manor.
Things are quietening off now due to the Christmas activities in school so I will be looking forward to preparing things for the New Year.
Have a good weekend.
Sunday, 3 December 2006
The work of Monday 4th-Friday 8th December '06
Hello again.
This week coming is fairly busy again...here's what's happening;
Monday I'm back to KEGS with BCY in Bury for another Yr9 Christmas lesson with James Tennant.
Tuesday I've got a lesson with the Yr7 RE group talking about 'Growing Up as a Christian', another chance to share my testimony and answer questions.
Thursday I'm back in Parkway with another Yr7 RE lesson.
Friday I have a late morning lesson at Parkway again with Yr7 RE then I have to rush over to Clare Middle to do a Christmas assembly.
Hopefully it will be another great week especially with the lessons so please pray for an openness from the young people and staff.
Have a good week.
This week coming is fairly busy again...here's what's happening;
Monday I'm back to KEGS with BCY in Bury for another Yr9 Christmas lesson with James Tennant.
Tuesday I've got a lesson with the Yr7 RE group talking about 'Growing Up as a Christian', another chance to share my testimony and answer questions.
Thursday I'm back in Parkway with another Yr7 RE lesson.
Friday I have a late morning lesson at Parkway again with Yr7 RE then I have to rush over to Clare Middle to do a Christmas assembly.
Hopefully it will be another great week especially with the lessons so please pray for an openness from the young people and staff.
Have a good week.
Friday, 1 December 2006
The work of Monday 27th November to Friday 1st December '06
So this is where I start with what I will be doing week by week, but for now I'll leave you with what has happened this last week so you can begin to get a feel for what has been happening...
This week I have been relatively busy.
The week started by having a link with Bury Christian Youth, a similar project in near by Bury St Edmunds. I assisted James Tennant with a Yr9 RE lesson on the Christmas story, an interesting lesson which was hopefully good fun too.
On Tuesday I went into Parkway Middle, my second assembly there this term, I had already done the Yr7 assembly but this time was the turn of the Yr8's, I presented the idea of commitment and my faith as a commitment, an assembly with plenty of cold baked beans, jelly and wet sticky cold pasta, all with items to find whilst blindfolded! The girl who dared to face my challenge well deserved her prize at the end!
Thursday morning saw me visiting Castle Manor Business and Enterprise College to spend the morning sitting in on a Yr10 and Yr12 RE lesson.
And of course last night was my commissioning at the AGM at the Methodist Church.
Latter today I will be presenting the Christmas story to Mudflaps, an after schools group held by Jan Watts.
And then comes a rest this weekend. Can I thank people for praying for Simon (my husband) as he has been searching for work since we moved here, he just found out he'll start work on Monday for Cambridge YMCA as a key worker for children!
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