19th October 2014

This week the core team from IoW YFC traveled to Wales for our annual retreat. We spent the week investing time in our relationships with each other and with God.

We took loads of time out to pray, read and chill with God. We sang together, some of us climbed Pen Y Fan, we played some games, went white water kayaking, chatted about our team values, listened to some christian podcasts and just generally enjoyed being 'away from it all' together.

Back on the Island, youth work continued. Some brilliant leaders ran Rock Solid on Monday with lots of fun games, some time for discussion and a craft. 

Today in Rising Tide we're continuing our 'Jesus the healer' theme and looking at a passage from Mark 3.

We're soon planning to launch two new groups - one a kids club, and the other a cluster group. If you'd like to be a part of the team that runs them, we're having meetings about both this week so please get in touch! Its a great opportunity to join a fantastic team of people and to get to be a part of what God is doing among the young people that we work with.

12th October 2014

It's been another busy week here.
Rock Solid on Monday was particularly exciting as we made rice crispy cakes! We also talked about the fact that although we can't see God, we know that he is still there (with the help of a crayon and some water-color paint!)

This Friday some of the girls from Gunville Rock Solid attended 'Rock Solid Night Hike' in Niton with other Rock Solid groups from across the island. We had so much fun walking around and completing lots of exciting 'spy' challenges.

As the YFC team we've been learning a lot about each other with an afternoon of Myres Briggs training on Monday to think about how we can work together even better. This coming week we're all off on retreat together in mid Wales, so we're looking forward to spending lots of quality time with God and with each other!

Moorlands brought another busy day this week with lectures on incarnation ministry and Old Testament studies.
I've also been to toddler group and a couple of meetings talking about future ideas for the church.

In a couple of weeks time we're planning to launch a couple of new groups - its a great opportunity to get involved in youth and children's work, so if you can do anything from making toast to leading games, get in touch and we'd love to welcome you to the team!

5th October 2014

We had a very noisy Rock Solid on Monday with 16 talkative girls! We learnt that God thinks we're beautiful inside, and he cares about what our hearts are like rather than our outward appearance. We also played a couple of games and continued a craft that we'd started last week.

I went into CTK on Friday to chat to the young people there at lunch and saw lots of our girls from Rock Solid and chatted with them and their friends. Its a great opportunity to continue to build relationships and to have a bit more input into their week.

With YFC we ran 'Catalyst' youth event on Friday evening with some sung worship, a great talk from Phil about making good choices, and we even gunged one of the leaders!

I've also been to Moorlands this week and had some lectures on Cross Cultural Studies and on the Old Testament, and I've been writing my first essay of 2nd year all about leadership.
As well as that, I've had a few meetings, including our first church council with our new minister where we spoke about having a vision group for the church which was exciting!

Today in Rising Tide Sunday school group we had a bible study about Jesus healing people and the going off to pray and chatted about how we can pray for others as well as other questions that came up like "did Jesus ever get sick?".

This coming Friday evening will be our Rock Solid Night Hike in Niton. It happens annually for Rock Solid groups from across the island but it will be the first one for Gunville Rock Solid so we're very excited!

If you want to get involved in youth work in any way, please do get in touch!