YFCONE BIG DAY!
yfc one is the team brought together by Youth for Christ to transform the young people of Britain. Combining different gifts in one team enables yfc one to bring a diverse and united approach to mission and evangelism. Do you...have a heart for young people?... want to step out of your comfort zone?...want to see God stretch you?...love meeting people and being part of a team? Not sure what to do, but know God wants you to do something? Answered "YES", then yfc one BIG DAY is for you - set to be a fantastic day of fun, spiritual input and a great opportunity to explore what yfc one could mean for you. On the day - activity workshops with inspirational bands, DJ’s, drama companies and sports coaches. Tournies, performances, talks, opportunities to chat with yfc one staff and volunteers. Who: 15- 25 years. Family and friends. Youth groups/churches. Teams: Creative Arts/Sports/Youthwork/Young Offenders Focus: mission in the UK/overseas, this year or near future. 3/6/11 months Location: YfC, Coombswood Way, Halesowen, West Midlands B62 8BH. When: March 15th. 10.30am-3.30pm. More: www.yfcone.com or Beckie Allport on 0121-502-9624 or on beckie.allport@yfc.co.uk , to register your interest/approx numbers.
An Evening with Rosemary Conley
Wearside YFC - NE1
During the first week of the school summer holidays 1,000 young people came to camp at Herrington Country Park just outside of Sunderland as part of the NE1 event. These young people were involved in just over 100 different social action projects all over the North East ranging from gardening and painting to running sports activities and cleaning up parks ...
Warrington YFC - SOAR @: SMITHS
The concept for Soar @ Smiths was birthed in September 05 when Steve Biltawi (Director of WYFC) was out prayer walking and sensed strongly that God wanted him to go to Mr Smiths nightclub. On arriving at the building he found the door open – so he went in ...
Importing Oxygen from around the world!
Oxygen, Kingston YFC was established in 2001 by 20 churches across Kingston Borough who came together with the support of the local youth service and other youth work providers to establish a much needed work that aimed to serve and build relationships with its young people. Kingston is hosting an international team of youthworkers as the project has welcomed five young people from five different countries and three continents to work with the Oxygen project ...
Bath YFC
If I have learnt one thing in the time that I have been working with Bath Youth for Christ, it is this: Neither I or the team can take the good news relevantly to every young person in Bath on our own.
Wearside YFC - NE1
During the first week of the school summer holidays 1,000 young people came to camp at Herrington Country Park just outside of Sunderland as part of the NE1 event...
Lee Jennings, Wirral YFC
This is the story of a year 13 girl that we work with in Wallasey. She was part of our E:Merge (EQ) course, and this year has been a year where she has developed from a shy school girl into a hardcore, life changing evangelist!
The prodigal comes home
This is something that happened here in Burton the other day, which doesn't happen too often in youth work.
Moving on up!
I was starting my second year as a volunteer with YFC, and re-launching a youth club with Rock Solid material in a church I had not previously worked with. A member of the church spoke to me, concerned her daughter might drift away from the church and from God as she was moving up to secondary school and starting her GCSEs, a key time in the life of many young people.
Neighbours, everybody needs good neighbours…….
Tina and I moved to Kenilworth over 5 years ago to take up our role as Co-Directors of Kenilworth Youth for Christ and found ourselves living opposite to a young girl called Vicky. Vicky is a really nice girl, friendly and chatty. She came along to our local secondary school lunchtime club, S-Cape and to ASK, our After School Club along with her friends who just happened to be Christians.
Positive Peer Pressure in Preston
Preston YFC has worked with Christian rock band My Spoon a number of times. Recently the band was asked to play in a local Girls High School as part of the fundraising to enable the school to become a specialised college. Getting a Christian rock band into a schools` mainstream event isn’t usual ...
Living it for real…..
Erika had attended church as a member of the Choir. She was preparing to be confirmed and didn’t really understand exactly what it was all about, but had been told it was the right thing to do as she had been baptised as a child ...
The Power of the Holy Spirit
Michael had been attending Gillingham YFC`s drop-in for about 4 years, always adamant that Jesus wasn’t real, that we were all nuts, and that Christianity wasn’t for him. Over a period of time one of our youth workers got alongside him, and loved him for who he was ...
Patient, persistent prayer pulls prodigals!
Isn’t it amazing the impact Jesus can have in a short space of time. Malcolm Smith first met Sarah during his first week working for Gillingham YFC. She was anorexic, had low self esteem, a broken family, was drinking lots and experimenting with drugs. And yet just 4 months later she said Yes to Jesus.
Chocolate Evangelists
Most of us just put on weight with every bit of chocolate but Richard Dawson’s Nottingham team, who are clearly a highly creative and inspirational bunch of folk – put on their Gospel shoes and began to march for God!
Blackburn’s Night Watch
YFC leader Gill Mott gives the low-down on all-night activities in deepest Lancashire…... Last July we started to "night watch"......spend all night with God, just trying to connect with him through worship, prayer, bible reading, fellowship, eating, etc
Building Relationships
Angie Thomson from Inverclyde YFC says, “As part of my year out I am living in James Watt student accommodation with a varied group of people who are influenced in a great way by our music culture and ways of the world! I love it!
From Taunton with love
Raising £22,500 is no small task. And neither is taking a group of 14-18 year olds out to Nairobi. It all began two years ago when we started discussions with Scripture Union to raise funds for a SoapBox Trust project in Kibera, Nirobi where the current school will soon be demolished because of new building regulations - and as it’s on a slum they won’t be entitled to compensation.
Sponsored Marathon
Youth for Christ have needed a new office and training centre for many years. We have finally aquired a facility that is in the process of being built. To this end four of our team (Dave & Liz Newton, Barry Mason, Simeon Whiting & Gavin Calver) are running the Dublin Marathon (www.dublincitymarathon.ie) in October. We would love you to stand with us in raising the required funds for this building by sponsoring these five brave runners.
Send Us Your Stories
YFC are collecting your 60 second stories for a new book...
Joy Farrington ... A Testimony
Joy Farrington has worked for North Staffs YFC since September 2005 as an Aurora Gap Year Student. In her first weekend at the centre she was involved in leading the teaching at a local residential weekend for about 100 kids.
A question of commitment
Nottingham YFC leader Richard Dawson met Danny at school about 4 years ago. “He was in one of my drama classes. We used to get on well, mainly we’d chat about football but occasionally chatted about the assemblies I had done for his year”, Richard says.
Persecuted but still following Christ
If we`re being really honest most adults would struggle to stand up to being really persecuted for their belief in Jesus Christ. Samantha from Nottingham is however just 14 years old.
Solent Rocks!
"So what are we gonna do that’s different from what we normally do" was the question we started with. After much discussion and copious amounts of Coffee (never a good idea when Ed is involved) we came up with "Popsters", a singing competition for young people in the Solent area with a prize of a recording of a CD with a local recording artist!
YFC'S METTLE TOUR HITS THE ROAD
Mettle - Youth for Christ's new cutting-edge resource designed to build Courage, Spirit and Character in 14-18 year olds - hits the road this year with a major tour that will reach the length and breadth of the UK.
