General News

Update from Matthew on front end youth work and what is being planned in the lead up to Christmas holidays.

Christmas outing has been arranged for December and the young people who were at the weekend away earlier in the year are excited to get together again.

A Christmas party has been arranged with the slightly younger children, they have had a high attendance since September and they are keen to get involved on Sunday mornings.

Illuminate is having good discussions and the children there are keen to listen and take part as well.

Young adults have kept the same group this term and they continue to have good numbers. One-to-one is showing good progress and has lead to good discussions.

Riverbank are on hold with restart of SU. The head teacher was waiting to get more consent forms back, so that the group can get started. Football is restarting next week and the interest has been good. SU will be busy, with 3 groups running back to back in the lunch time. 

Radiate has been mainly girls attending. They have never heard the gospel before, so it’s great that they keep coming back.

Illuminate is going well too. A bigger group of mixed young people are focussed and keep attending, so this is promising.

Youth drop in is getting good numbers and is creating good witness opportunities with the young people who are mostly coming regularly.

One to one is going well and continues to keep Matthew busy.

The weekend away with the young people was very encouraging in October. The young people are listening well despite initial issues with a few young people. A good mix of nationalities was there.

Schools work is getting back to more of what we’d hope.

TLG not certain when retarting at the moment.

This has been the busiest 3 weeks since the Pandemic started.

The Cage is now off the ground., it was back out on a Friday night in August, with 20 people coming down. Since this night, it has been successful with around 40 people coming.

A new girl came down to the youth drop in and has since been coming to the Illuminate each week, she is really keen and is enjoying the groups.

Each group has been going well, with lots of new children from the drop in and the cage events. Radiate was especially well attended by 20 children from the cage event that was held the week before.

School Pastors at St. Machar is back on and the young people have attended at the school after recognising the YFC events around Tillydrone.

Radiate – Has stopped for summer at the moment, as most kids attending were P7  Illuminate

Illuminate – P7’s have been integrated in to Illuminate and have managed really well. This should help transition over summer. There is now 12 or 13 each Wednesday.

Holiday Bible Club will be running in June and July. MJH has been preparing this, it’s going well. Numbers being capped aren’t necessary for this any more, so we could have a bigger group.

TLG has started back up, so that’s a relief for MJH and the school have been relaxed in letting him back into the classroom.

1 to 1 is going well. Outdoor coffee’s and walks are seeing young people being keen to talk.

Police in the area have been overrun with Anti-social behaviour in the streets, so MJH has been planning a more hand’s on outreach in the community where this is happening, to offer an alternative for young people.

One of the young people has done a good job of the painting of the walls at the church building, and has been keen for a leader to take him under their wing

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