The youth of Scott St and Fairview Mennonite Brethren Churches make up North End MB Youth (a.k.a. NEMBY). Here is where you can find out what's going on. Make comments on events. Ask questions.
*We typically meet on Fridays at 7 pm at Fairview MB Church.
It's finally here!! This friday is the friday you've all been waiting for... CHARITY'S CRAFT NITE!!! Now keep in mind there are a few things you need to remember to bring, so I've attached the flyer to remind you.
Everyone needs to bringa 20cm square piece of fabric that you feel represents you. It doesn't need to be new. It can be cut out from an old t-shirt, or from wherever you can find a scrap that you like.
You will have a choice of two main crafts that we will be doing ...
1) French Memo Board- for this you do not need to bring any supplies
2) Stencil something - you will need to bring...
whatever you want to stencil onto
a drawing or printout of what you want your stencil to be of (keep in mind that you will have to make a stencil out of this so it shouldn't be too complex)
Also, if you can, please bring some money to help with the cost ($5 suggested)
And the most important thing you need to bring is...A CRAFTING ATTITUDE :)
Bean wrote a great email that I want to get out to all our youth...so I'm sorry if you get this more than once...I hope you all read it AT LEAST once!Here it is:
I don’t know about you, but I had a great time on the retreat this past weekend. Spending time together in nature reminded me again, of the beauty of community and I appreciated the reminder of how important it is to be a part of a group that is not only a safe place to be myself in, but is a safe place to grow and be challenged in.
Mark talked about the importance of the choices we make and I really appreciated the honesty you guys shared with during the sharing time. It’s hard to see the impact that the choices you are making now will have in your future; who you hang out with, how you spend your time and money, the way you treat your family, even the movies you watch and books you read. All of these things will effect the person you become.
Who do you want to be? I read a quote once that said, “Life isn’t just about finding yourself, it’s about creating yourself.” And I guess I want to challenge you to be intentional about exactly that, about creating yourself and becoming the person you want to be. Don’t just go with the flow of things and end up being a person you don’t want to be. Think about who you want to become and then make decisions that will help you get there.
Mark ended the weekend by summarizing the parable of the soils and gave us each a packet of seeds and asked us to think about the type of soil we are. I don’t know if any of you have done anything with that packet of seeds…I’m assuming that most of you haven’t, but I do want you to think about what type of soil you are and how you are or are not allowing God to work in your life and make you into the person he created you to be.
Back to me (Tom)
This Thursday for Bible Study we're going to skip a week with Shane Claiborne and instead talk about some of the things Mark talked about on the retreat. Don't worry if you weren't there, it'll still be good! So think about what Bean wrote and come this Thursday! We'll get back to our Irresistible Bible Study next week (Chpt.12)
Well I got some buttons made and here is what they look like:
If you want one (or more) they're $1 each. The Aids Care Now button isn't for sale though...I'm going to use that one as incentive for something we'll be doing in the fall as a group...but collect all the other 5! They'll be available at bible study tomorrow and at youth on Friday! Just one more reason that SSMBY truly is "Group Awesome!"
So this weekend is our retreat...if you don't have your forms in already you need to let me (Tom aka youth pastor extrodinaire) know ASAP if you're coming.
I need a rough idea of how many ppl. are coming this weekend so I can plan for rides and food.
Also, if you have a tent, could you let me know ASAP.
However, if it rains...then we will be making our own movies and watching them afterwards! So, to recap...Friday, movies=Loads of fun! Feel free to bring all your friends!
Pastor Tom out...
*Take note of the 2 different spellings of weather and wether as well as their use.
Thanks for those of you who were praying for me and the rest of our group who were in Montreal!
So, I'm back, and that means so is Bible Study!
We're still going through Shane Claiborne's book, the Irresistible Revolution...if you haven't been out yet for one of these talks I strongly encourage you to do so!
It of course helps if you're reading the book...this weeks chapter is Chapter 10 [Extremists for Love]. So, if you have a copy of the book read that chapter and make some notes and come prepared to talk about it...if you don't have the book, then just come prepared to talk, listen and learn!
Well, I'm off to go see Transformers tonight, hope you're all having a great summer!
Peace, Tom
P.S. If any of you are free during the day sometime, I'd love to go out with as many of you as possible during the summer...email me and we'll hook something up!
Hello everyone. I suppose you've all been wondering if we've arrived safely and how we're doing so here's a quick update. We arrived a little later than expected yesterday due to an unforseen amount of traffic, uggghhhh! But we arrived safely nonetheless. We had a little time to get aquainted with our new home and what we're up to this week and then we went out for dinner at a really cool restaurant. Today we went to a french speaking Mennonite church pastored by a Congolese pastor, it was an excellent service, they even translated for us. The rest of the day was free for us so we roamed the downtown, took in some jazz and explored a couple giant churches, one of which even let Jordan play their pipe organ (see the picture). Anyways tomorrow the work begins. Please be praying for us, we've a long week ahead. Au revoir. (that means good-bye in french)
It's finally here!! This friday is the friday you've all been waiting for... CHARITY'S CRAFT NITE!!! Now keep in mind there are a few things you need to remember to bring, so I've attached the flyer to remind you.
