16th March 2014

An insight into what I get up to as the YTP student in Gunville

At Gunville Methodist Church this week:

• Rock Solid:

Rock Solid is continuing to grow and we had two more new girls come along this week. We played a bunch of games and agreed some rules and consequences which the young people came up with and signed. Kristy led a craft session making friendship bracelets with Rock Solid advertising on them to give to a friend who doesn't come along.

• The Space:

We ventured outside into the sunshine at The Space this week and gave out lots of free cake to young people walking home from school. Although no one stayed it was a good opportunity to bless people and to tell them what we're doing and invite them to come back with friends next week.
We will need people to make some cakes for this Wednesday so let me know if you can do that.

• Rising Tide:

We looked at Psalms and what we can learn about God from them. After learning lots of things about God, we used all of that to write our own psalm.

At Moorlands this week:

We had hermeneutics lectures in the morning about interpreting the Bible and we specifically learnt about genre and the narrative genre in Genesis. We didn't have any lectures in the afternoon so I made use of the library to make some headway on my Exodus essay.

With Youth for Christ this week:

• 24hour prayer

Ben - a YFC youthworker who works in South West Wight, is setting up a 24hour prayer space at the end of the month. As this is something that I have a lot of experience in, I went to a meeting with him to help out with ideas for it. I also got to go to his Rock Solid club in Brook just beforehand.

• Team meeting and Prayer Breakfast

Like usual, we had our prayer breakfast and team meeting on Monday. We thought about praying for people that we know who aren't Christian, and we planned a couple of upcoming Friday evening events.

And the 'boring bits'...

I finished my Exodus essay (including a map!) so that is ready to hand in on Tuesday. I also had a few meetings this week - most of them were to talk about what I'm doing, how I'm getting on and what I need and want to be doing in the future. It's exciting to think about possibilities and opportunities. I really want to provide lots of new experiences for the young people that I work with as I think that this is really important for discipleship.

Things to pray for:

- Thank God that Rock Solid is continuing to grow and pray for all the young people that come along.

- Pray that we get some more young people coming along to The Space.

- Pray that ideas for the future would become realities - that God will make his plan clear and that he will bless what we do.

Lorna Randall

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