This Sunday we continue our I AM series. Both age groups will combine, challenged by the thought of God being both the beginning and end of all things. Where do we fit into that?

We will be thinking about how as Christians we walk the narrow path between two trees.

Intrigued?

Get along on Sunday night. Let’s have a huge turnout as we seek to be those who follow Jesus in our world. Also this Sunday night – fun game (you will love this one – trust me), interview with Myles, worship with Jonny Parkes and food after. You gotta love Sunday evenings. 8pm as usual.

Cell group tomorrow night will not be as usual. Instead, I think it would be good to support the ‘Waiting on God’ evening in church.

In case you didn’t hear – this is a time for folk in Woodlands to seek God. Here’s what this weeks announcement sheet said: ‘In our ever-increasing secular world the voices we hear telling us how we are to live are the voices of men. We consider this a tragedy, especially for us Christians. We need to take stock…pause for a while…and hear the voice of God again. To that end some special times of prayer are being arranged, the first one being Wednesday 1 Feb, in church, 7:30-9pm. Please make a note and plan to be there’

I want to give you guys the chance to be part of this. I would love you to and it would massively encourage our church. Also, in light of what we’ve been studying it would be good too.

I’m going to try to pop in as soon as rugby is over.

Hope to see you there.

We will plan to have Cell back at Hags NEXT WEEK.

Stuart

Come and join us at 8pm as we seek to do this. Love RADIANT nights!!

Stu

Scripture:

Prayer: Pray today that God would give you a heart that seeks to ‘act justly’ in our world.  Ask him to open your eyes to the real needs of people around us.  Pray that we would ‘love mercy’…and that we would live this out.  Pray too that we would always ‘walk humbly’ before God, always acknowledging that He alone is God and holds all our days in His hands…

Challenge: It’s Saturday again…the chances are that most of you will be out and about today in Carrick or even Belfast.  It might be good to pair up to do this.  So, today’s challenge:  keep your eyes open for a homeless person or someone who clearly is in need.  Buy them a bottle of juice or coke or something.  Don’t just give it to them and walk quickly away…think of something to say that might give them some hope.

I now realise that 25 days of consecutive challenges is hard enough…thank you for sticking with it and for giving this a real go.  We are so keen that you feedback here…I’d love to hear any stories from today’s challenge so please let us hear…

It’s that time of the year again. People are breaking out the advent calendars and stocking up on tins of sweets. This year we are hoping to bring back the Project 25 work (check out stu’s blog archives from December 2009). 25 acts of kindness during December to try and spread a little love coming up to Christmas.
If you want to get involved just check the website each night for the next days challenge (we will try and post each day’s challenge the previous evening) and post either on the website or on our Facebook about your experiences!

Here’s the post for day 1, let us know how you get on!

“Be prepared. You’re up against far more than you can handle on your own. Take all the help you can get, … prayer is essential in this ongoing warfare. Pray hard and long. Pray for your brothers and sisters. Keep your eyes open. Keep each other’s spirits up so that no one falls behind or drops out.” (Ephesians 6:13-18)

You don’t have to go through anything alone, the youth leadership team and the Woodlands prayer chain are always here, always willing to help.

PRAYER PHONE: 07517371880
(no-one’s number will be stored on this phone so all requests are anonymous unless you put your name at the end)

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