Get God!

You may be aware from previous posts that we have developed an increasingly strong relationship with Stockland Green school. We were originally involved with Stockland Green through Space teaching Sexual Health & Relationships lessons and this gave us the opportunity to do some one-off RE teaching a couple of years ago.

We are now teaching in Stockland - either RE or PSHE (Personal, Social & Health Education) -almost every week but our main point of connection has been through the Get God club we run on Tuesday lunchtimes. This began as a gathering point for those intrigued by the original RE lessons and provides a space for young people in the school to explore what it means to know Jesus. We have different people showing up every week but there is a core group who seem to be really open to Jesus. As such we have been able to be increasingly direct with sharing Jesus with them.

Please pray that they genuinely encounter Jesus for themselves - pray for James, Letisha, Pascal, Georgia, Gary, Jordan, Anna, Jade, Kirsty, Katie, Sophie and all the others whose names I have forgotten.

Other prayer points this week:

Tuesday - Get God, Football Club, Girls Allowed, Meeting to discuss involvement with Perry Common Junior & Infant, Detached
Wednesday - Junior Club, Senior Football
Thursday - Kids Choir Practice for 'Carols In The City 2006', Meeting looking 'Lifelong Learning'

Please also pray generally for various funding applications we are writing this week and also that local businesses would provide prizes for our Kids Club Christmas Special next week.

Thank you so much for your continued support.

Schools!

We have had some fantastic developments in our secondary schools work this week. We have steadily built up a relationship with Stockland Green Technology College over the past couple of years - running a Get God club, assisting with RE and PSHE (Personal, Social & Health Education) lessons, taking the odd assembly and working with SPACE to deliver relationships and sexual health lessons. The most positive aspect to our relationship with the school has been our friendships with a couple of the teachers. Pray for Dan and Clare as they grow in their relationships with God and live this out in the school environment.

On Monday I had a really positive meeting with the heads of RE and PSHE which ended with us being booked for over 30 PSHE lessons and over 40 relationship and sexual health lessons. We will also be continuing to deliver RE lessons. They even talked about seeing if they could employ me for a day a week!

Please pray for us Thursday and Friday as we lead 2 Year 10 lessons on 'A Christian Response to Suffering'. We would also love your prayers as we write and deliver five PSHE lessons next Friday.

Girls Allowed!

I thought i'd update you all on how the girls group is going, it's been a while since i've said hello!

Girls Allowed is for girls in year six upwards (from the age of 11 for those who struggle with school years!), and is on for an hour and a half every Tuesday after school.

We recently had a club where the girls let us know what it was they wanted to do (using monopoly money!)and so now we have a curriculum based on that, which they seem to love!

We don't have a lot coming (we have got a faithful four and two girls who occassionally come along), so we've had lots of time to really invest in these girls, building up relationships with them, as well as building up their skills and self-esteem.

However, an area for prayer would be how we engage more of the young girls on the estate in the work of urban devotion, as even though i'm not after large numbers, i'm aware that there are loads of them that we have no contact with, who are missing out!

It's really encouraging to see how much my relationship with three of the girls in particular has developed over the time i've been with UDB now, when i look back i used to feel like i was never going to get a 'meaningful relationship' with any of them, but now they are so open with me, it just goes to show that trust in some of these young people takes a looooong time to develop!

So, there you have it, a brief rundown on what's going on with the girls atm!

Thank you all for your continued support - the prayer backing we get from you guys is vital to the work we're doing here.

Buckets of Blessings to you!