"Out of the Box" Goes West...

Love Southend Youth’s monthly “Out of the Box” meeting goes west this Sunday 4^th May to a new venue, Westcliff Free Church.

We are delighted to be able to enjoy a new venue for May, then will be returning to the usual home at Christchurch for 1^st June.

It would be great if you could bring your youth group and/or 18s-30s along to join us for worship, prayer, and a short talk. This month we will also be enjoying some dance and drama!

The meeting takes place at Westcliff Free Church, London Road, Westcliff (opposite the BP garage) and starts from 7.45pm.

For more details please contact Jill or Suzie Simmonds on 01702 313140 or 07725 197220

Particularly if you would like to host a future “Out of the Box” meeting in your building.

God bless you all, and thanks for the continued support and encouragement.

Steve Dalley
Southend Christian Fellowship
Love Southend Youth

Prayer Event For Southend Street Pastor's

Southend Street Pastors have been faithfully going out on the Streets each weekend for almost three years now. They have successfully supported the launch of Street Pastors in other locations around the country but sadly last weekend they were unable to send out a team due to staff shortages on the Street Pastors team in Southend.

So you are invited to come to an urgent gathering to seek God for his favour on the Street Pastors of Southend and to cry out and ask that God would provide new volunteers to join the Street Pastor Team.

Do join us for Prayer For Southend Street Pastor's
Clarence Road Baptist Church
6 Clarence Road,Southend-on-Sea
Essex SS1 1AN
on Friday 2nd May 2008 at 8pm

Other information about this event: We will pray for the Street Pastor Team before they go out for the night. We would be delighted if you were able to be with us on the evening and would kindly ask you to publicise it in your local church. If you aren't able to come we would value your prayers and any insight that the Lord may reveal to you. Thank you for your prayerful support. We realise that some of you live in other continents and won't be able to be with us, but would really value your prayers. Travelling to Clarence Road by car. Clarence Road is a one way road running from Clifftown Road (north) to Alexandra Street (south). Shortly after passing the Church on the right the Clarence Road (Southend Borough Council) car park can be seen. All adjoining streets have pay & display roadside parking. Travelling by train Connecting Southend to London Fenchurch Street the Central Station entrance is located in Clifftown Road adjacent to Clarence Road. Southend's other railway station - Southend Victoria on the Liverpool Street line is situated at the north end of the High Street close to the Victoria Plaza Shopping Centre and the Odeon cinema complex and is approx a 7 min walk away.

Route One: Sponsored Cycle

Route One sponsored cycle - sign up now!
We would love more people to join in. The ride is from Rayleigh to Shoebury covering a distance of around 11 miles.

It will be great fun especially if you can get a group of friends to ride together. We do need some more adults/over 16s to ride but anyone over the age of 11 can join in as long as you are a competent rider. Please see poster above (click on it to see it bigger) and ask a friend if they want to join in.

For more info or to sign up to ride please send Simon an email – simon@routeone.org.uk

Thanks
Route One
EXPERIENCE THE MESSAGE
Simon Ford
07896 326116
simon@routeone.org.uk
www.routeone.org.uk - visit this site for info on what Route One is.

Southchurch: Update Day 2 Tuesday Extreme Hope

So today was April Fools Day and fortunately everyone was so focussed on God that no one pulled any pranks - either that or they were all too shattered.

The morning started off with worship led by Tim Churchward with his unusual hair. He talked about our identity and our hope in Jesus, quoting lots of chunks out of his dad's sermon from Sunday so brownie points to him!

We then had a kid's club where there were about 60 kids and 30 or 40 adults on top of that.

The theme for the afternoon was Noah's Ark and they made masks, collages, colouring in, pictures of animals and iced biscuits. The mums were treated to a bit of pampering and a bit of 'them' time too. We also had football over the park which had to be 15 a side. A good time was had by all.

The evening was back to SCF for grub and games in the evening including a huge game of empires which was won by Rachel Macclean.

Del

Southchurch: Extreme Hope Update Monday 31st March

Today kicked off the start of extreme Hope 2008. It all started in the morning with some worship and the giving out of bright yellow t-shirts - you certainly wont miss us this week!!!! Steve also gave a talk on Hope and what Hope means. He told us we can put our Hope in Jesus - the author an perfector of our Faith.

In the afternoon it was the fun day and this involved the police, bouncy castles,  face painting, water catapaults, ducks, football, frisbees and some very messy games involving eggs, wotsits, pegs and shaving foam!

 

The local children really enjoyed getting me as their teacher with the shaving foam!!! It was a good day and God ensured the weather was nice. We are back there tomorrow (Tuesday 1 April) to host football, pampering for parents, and craft clubs for the children.

In the evening we had a quiz and that was good fun. Did you know charlie chaplin once came third in a charlie chaplin lookalike contest?

Why not sign up to Extreme Hope08 Southchurch facebook group whose link is: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=10946645762

 

Cheers, Del T