Love Southend Youth Aim to Perform Fourth Annual 'Panto in a Day, "Jack and his Magic Beans".

The fourth annual “Panto in a Day” takes place on Bank Holiday Monday, 28th December, with the performance of “Jack and his Magic Beans”.

In previous years, teenagers from Love Southend Youth have staged 3 spectacular pantomime performances; “Cinderella”, “Aladdin” and “Snow White and the 7 Chavs”.

This year, the regular crew of actors and actresses, musicians, dancers, hosts, techies and stage-hands will turn their attention to Jack and his magic beans, so come expecting a few twists on a classic tale.

The young people, from various local church and youth groups, as well as university students, will gather together on Monday morning at the Plaza Centre, Southchurch, where they will be allocated their parts from a pre-written script. The actors and actresses will begin learning their lines that morning, as a volunteer army of teenagers begin to construct a set, design props, put together costumes, and practice extra material to be included into the end performance. A band of musicians will also begin practicing some improvised tunes to complement the drama.

The day is crazy and a little manic, but is always much fun, and it culminates in the evening’s public performance, in front of a packed crowd of adults and children.

The performance starts at 8pm sharp and tickets can be purchased from the Plaza Centre at a cost of £3 each. All proceeds go towards the work of Love Southend Youth in the borough.

So come along and witness a fantastic Panto performance, all for a good cause.

It’s guaranteed to be a great, fun-filled night for all the family (“Oh no it isn’t”…..”oh yes it is”)

For tickets, contact: Steve Dalley or Jenny Martin
Telephone: 01702 461616
Email: steve@scfplaza.f9.co.uk

Route One Update: November 2009

Well there's lots to say but we will try to keep it brief. For more info you can go to the website www.routeone.org.uk 

 

Route One in Schools
We recently took a team of 7 people from 5 different churches into Southend High School for Boys. We took lessons on the bus with year 7 on Jesus death and resurrection and also had the opportunity to have lessons with year 12 and 13 students who were allowed to ask some real life Christians any questions they wanted.
The two days we spent in the school were fantastic and we had a great time. The comments from the students and the teachers were all positive and the school have said they are very keen for us to come in again. This was a great first school visit for us, it really couldn’t have gone better and we are now keener than ever to crack on with the next event.

Bus at Hawkwell Baptist Church
We also recently went over to Hawkwell Baptist church at the end of an activities week for young people over the October half term. We went for the day and had a great time with some of the youth leaders in the morning who we trained to use the resource. They in turn became tour guides in the afternoon and showed the young people around the gospel experience. Again there was loads of positive feedback and we would even go as far as saying that for some people it was a life changing experience.

Come see the Bus
There are 4 events happening over the next few weeks leading up to Christmas and we would encourage you to get along to one of them to see the bus for yourself. We will be bringing the bus along to a Love Southend meeting on the - 10th Dec ember @ The Plaza Centre, Southchurch road  7.00pm-9.30pm This will be a great opportunity to see the resource for yourself and also find out more about plans for evangelism across the Southend area. Alternatively take a look at our website for info on the other events happening.

 

Please Pray
Simon our project co-ordinator is taking a step of faith in the New Year by giving up his job to focus on developing and delivering Route one full time. This will be fantastic as it will increase the capacity of the project and enable us to take more on but it is a step of faith for Simon and his family so please stand in faith with them for their needs to be met. Route One currently pays Simon a part time wage which will increase as funds allow.

Please pray for the upcoming events (see website for details) that we would be effective in connecting with and communicating with the people we meet.

Also have a think about ideas of how your church could use the resource.

Thankyou for all your support and prayers

Route One

07534 904488
info@routeone.org.uk   
www.routeone.org.uk

Route One Update 'n' Prayer

Just a quick update on the Route One project...

We are taking the bus out this Saturday to the Rayleigh churches Fun Day. The event runs from 11am - 4pm in King Georges Park, Rayleigh.

Feel free to come and see us and the bus. Please also pray for everything to work and that God would go before us to prepare peoples hearts to receive the Gospel.

This has been a hectic few weeks for us getting everything ready. However, the bus is looking great and we have 15 volunteers manning the bus on Saturday which is going to be a lot of fun. We pray it would be a fruitful learning experience.

Thanks for your prayers and support.

Simon Ford   
07534 904488
simon@routeone.org.uk 
www.routeone.org.uk  

Route One May Update

These are exiting times for the project as we near completion of the refit. Every element of the layout of the bus has been designed to make the bus as near perfect as possible for serving the vision. The process has been tiring but immensely rewarding and as we now see the finish line we also see the more important start line of running the project out there in the schools and communities we are a part of.

Thank you for your prayers. We have received gifts amounting to over £8000 in the last few weeks alone but please keep praying as we are not quite there yet. We need around another £4000 to complete the refit and then we will move into the new territory of running the project.

Here are some details of the work carried out on the bus in the last few weeks
We have now finished recovering all wall surfaces on the bottom and top deck. The flooring has been fitted downstairs and the ceiling is now finished upstairs. The upstairs now has a media screen, sound system, flush fitted lighting, heating and we will soon have air conditioning. The seating design is now finalised with two fitted benches and 13 double seats which are custom made for the bus.

Still to do:
Fit flooring upstairs, construction of 13 double seats, fit air conditioning, print and fit bible and church zones boards, design and fit church zone, recover driver seat, fit edging to stairs and sky lights, print handouts and worksheets, purchase 3 more computers and access ramp + other bits and bobs.

Please Pray

I was reminded on Sunday of Paul’s prayer requests. Let’s pray these same prayers over the Church here in Southeast Essex as we take the message to people:

Colossians 4:3
And pray for us, too, that God may open a door for our message, so that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ

Ephesians 6:19
Pray also for me, that whenever I open my mouth, words may be given me so that I will fearlessly make known the mystery of the gospel

2 Thessalonians 3:1
Pray for us that the message of the Lord may spread rapidly and be honored

Thanks for you support

Simon Ford
07534 904488
simon@routeone.org.uk
www.routeone.org.uk

Route One Bus Update: January 2009 - Interior coming along

Route One ground floor refit as of 3rd January 2009. This area will be a learning space and interactive discovery point for bus visitors. Got skills that can help this be a reality? Contact simon@routeone.org.uk