If you are looking for anything to do with Love Southend Youth you have come to the right place. This blog will feature updates on all the church youth activity across the borough, so if you have any church youthy type notices or events please do email details to us: www.lovesouthend.org/youth
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The LSY planning team are currently preparing our community work for the holiday period, and we would like to invite you and your youth group to get involved. Working together we can achieve significantly more than if we work on our own.
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Our latest project, which is still in the planning stages, is being called “Extreme Hope”, to reflect the work of Hope 08 locally. Events are also being held under the same title in Shoebury.
I would love to see the various denominational groups across Southchurch coming together to bless and serve this area over the school holidays. We all know that our neighbourhood is one of significant social and economic need, and that we, as Jesus’ church on the scene, are called to love our neighbours.
Below is a plan of the events we will be hosting over the Easter Holidays; with more volunteers committed to the cause we would be able to look to arrange events for the second week of the holidays too.
· Monday 31st March – Community Fun-day in Bournes Green.
· Tuesday 1st April – Indoor crafts, games, pampering at Whittingham Methodist.
Outdoor football tournament and other sports at Bournes Green.
· Wednesday 2nd April – as above.
· Thursday 3rd April – Community Tea Party in St Edmund’s Community Centre (TBC).
· Friday 4th April – Work Party and Acts of Kindness in the St Luke’s area.
· Friday 11th April – Evening event with DJ Squeaky Clean & Resolute @ Plaza Centre.
We currently have a relatively small group of enthusiastic volunteers from a small number of Southchurch-based church and youth groups. We would love to see this group extended and involving other local church and youth groups. Would you and your youth be interested in helping us to serve, bless and love our local residents by joining up for some or all of these events? If so, please contact me (
Land line: 01702 461616 (SCF Plaza Centre – daytime).
Mobile: 07948 271383 (call any time!)
E-mail: steve.dalley@lovesouthend.org (I check this regularly!)
Also, are there areas of your church’s outreach and community work where you are struggling for volunteers? Do you have plans/vision but lack helpers? If so, feel free to get in contact with me and it may be that
I would love to hear from you so please get in touch. It would be great just to spend some time getting to know you and finding out what God is doing in your church/youth group at the moment.
God bless.
Southend Christian Fellowship
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The venue is The Memorial Hall, Great Wakering.
More info at http://www.wakeringawakening.co.uk/ or call 07906 477146
Tough Talk is a registered charity dedicated to sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ in an informal way that appeals to people who would not normally go to a church meeting.
Tough Talk is made up of a group of men with backgrounds of ex-hard men from the East End of London, ex-bouncers, ex- debt collectors,ex-drug abusers and ex-violent men who, having let God into their lives, have turned their backs on their past. They now feel an urgent need to share their experiences with the hope of helping others. They have found that the message of hope in Jesus Christ reaches people from all backgrounds and age groups.
Powerlifting is the sport that they are all involved in. The team travel throughout the
HARP do great work locally in supporting and caring for the homeless in Southend. However, this work can only be carried out by way of Local Government funding and the generous donations made by HARP’s supporters. HARP is currently threatened by the imminent prospect of funding cut-backs, combined with a general fall in the amount being given by local residents who support the work of HARP by making donations.
Love Southend Youth are, therefore, taking a small step to raise finances and awareness amongst the public to aid HARP in whatever ways we can.
On 29th February 2008, the eve of the Leap Year, a small group of Love Southend Youth supporters will be sleeping out rough in the car park of the Plaza Centre, Southchurch, to spend just one night the way that many across Southend are forced to spend days, weeks, months and even years.
We will be foregoing our evening meal on the Friday night, and congregating around a large open fire in an old oil drum to keep warm. We will spend the night worshipping the God of the broken, poor, and hopeless and praying for the homeless of Southend.
On the Saturday morning (1st March) we are hoping to hold a fund-raising fry-up where all profits will be given to Harp.
I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE YOU TO SUPPORT OUR FUND-RAISING EFFORTS IN ANY OF THE FOLLOWING WAYS:
1- Consider holding a similar event in your church/youth group.
2- Come and join us for the night in the car-park.
3- Make a donation to HARP, and encourage others to do the same.
4- Sacrifice your evening meal on Friday 29th Feb and donate the money you would have spent on food to HARP.
5- Pray for HARP, that God would release finances and bless those who serve the homeless.
6- Join us for the fund-raising fry-up (I will confirm this event nearer the time!)
Your support would be much appreciated.
God bless,
Steve Dalley,
Love Southend Youth,
Southend Christian Fellowship.
