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Youth Ministry: Summerfest 2007

Summerfest 2007 (see here, here or here) finished yesterday. It was a great week of proclaiming the glorious news of Jesus with the people of the Central Coast. I’m not sure of the official figures… but we had over 200 teenagers come along to our two teenage programs, making a bunch of new contacts.

The highlight for me was one young guy becoming a Christian on Thursday night. Very exciting. He has been coming to one of our lunch time Christian groups for over a year – but this was the first time he came to a youth group event. After the talk he came up to me and said he prayed the prayer. We chatted for about 45 minutes about what he meant by it and if he was keen to become a Christian. PRAISE GOD!! I told him about a friend who celebrates 2 birthday’s: his biological one + his rebirth as a Christian. So I went and bought him a birthday banana smoothie!

His mates from school are pretty excited about it too. Pray for him that he’d now grow up in Jesus and persevere until the end.

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Prayer Friday #016

Thanks for praying for Row and me this year. Super-appreciated.

>I’m preaching at a wedding tomorrow. It’s my first one. Pray I’d speak the word of God faithfully and be engaging. Pray for Marty and Katrina that they’d have a marriage that honours Christ.
>Christmas etc – opportunities to talk about Jesus, good times with family and friends, greater trust in the King of Christmas.

This could well be the final post for 2006. Thanks for reading. I’d love to know what you want to see more/less of on eternal weight of glory in 2007.

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Youth Ministry: 12 days until Christmas

Eternal weight of glory has been a bit slow over the past 2 weeks. At least 2 reasons: 1) The blogosphere is a bit quieter at the moment and therefore less comments and 2) I’ve been posting each day on www.ccecyouth.com a 12 days until Christmas countdown. I’ve also reposted them in the bulletins section of myspace.com/ccecyouth

You can view them on our news page here or by clicking on each of the links below:

2 and 1 will pretty much be the best ones yet!! Stay tuned…

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Youth Ministry: Web Re-launch

I started playing with a youth group website back in 2002. Since then our youth group site has changed a stack of times. It has been an effective tool and I believe will continue to be an important means of communication in our youth ministry. At our church we have a significant number of newcomers each year. My guess is that at least half of them have checked our church website before coming (which is a big reason why it needs a significant upgrade!).

On February 1 2007 – we will be launching a brand new website for ccecyouth.com The front page and the news page have recently been changed – but they are only temporary.

I’d love your help… If you’re keen to help test the new site – please send me an email. If you know of any well designed websites – please put them in the comments. At the moment we are still deciding between joomla and wordpress – I think I like wordpress
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Here are our two latest YouTube videos. The first one is from our end of year party – madde by Renae. The second one is the announcements from Carols on Sunday night.