Leigh-on-Sea Extreme:UNITED Saturday 3rd March 07

I have just returned from Blenheim Primary School where we worked on creating a new garden space as part of Extreme: REBUILD last Easter 2006.They have asked us to help out again this Saturday moning coming on March 3rd at 9am.

They would like us to help construct three raised flowerbeds for the children, which shouldn't take long if we get a good number. You will have to be 14+ in age unless you are with a parent, who can also help and take part this time.

Please drop me an email with your name, church and phone number by 9am Friday morning so I know who is coming. I will also need you to get your parents if below 18 to sign a consent and registratione form - you can't take part without one, sorry. I will email this back to you if you email me david.elcock@lovesouthend.org

I am not sure what time it will finish but you can give as little or as short time as you have. Please if you have it bring along your Red EXTREME Tshirt or Blue one, wear old clothes and bring some refreshments/packed lunch.

God bless
David
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David (Elcock)Love Southend Extreme:UNITED
Leigh Coordinator
david.elcock@lovesouthend.org
www.lovesouthend.org/extreme
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Surprise meeting with satsified customer

Summer seems a long way distant as we get ready to celebrate Jesus' birth again. However memories are strong in those that were affected by thw work of Extreme Rebuild in th Summer. Paul Drage of Southchurch writes about a surprise meeting with satsified customer, be encouraged...

I was just finishing my shopping in Sainsburys when I noticed a boy waving at me,I was thinking what to buy and then suddenly noticed he was still trying to get my attention. I didn't recongise him as a relation or a BB boy, then the penny dropped, Woodgrange Estate and the name process in my head started, I tried one name and it was correct, his mother smiled as we spoke, she seemed so pleased to meet someone of the team who had made her son happy during the summer holidays, she thanked me, I expressed my thoughts we may be back but then the boy started recalling his joyful memories of scoring the vital hit in a game.Seeing him again was worth it and the joy which the team led by Ros and Sonia created and the lasting happymemories in the children's minds. The final thought can be summed up in an old hymn To God be the Glory...
Paul D

Happy Christmas - God Bless

Prayer @ SHSB Friday 8th December

be at Southend High School for Boys

Friday 8th Dec

7.30 - 9.30

Live worship,

DJ SqueekyClean,

prayer for this and other local secondary schools, and the young people of our town

JACKY xx

Youth prayer night - 8 December 2006 SHSB

Hi all

Please come and support the next school prayer night   with your youth obviously! - at

Southend High School for Boys
Friday 8th December
7.30 start - 9.30
worship, prayer and a bit of socialising!

(Please note, this is not just for people who go to Southend High for Boys, it's to pray in that school, for that school AND lots of other local schools and issues dealing with our young people.)

Please pass this round as widely as you wish - thank you!

Jacky Rossi  xxx

Keepy Uppy Champion Gets More than He Expected Outside TALK Nightclub

Dan Magness expected to hear about Jesus at his local church.

He would even have settled for a weekend seminar on the Bible or how to pray.

Instead, Dan – the UK football freestyle champion – discovered Jesus at 3am outside a Southend nightclub.

He says: “I was in Southend with a couple of mates and must confess I was full of another kind of spirit.

“We saw some street pastors talking to clubbers and I thought to myself ‘I want to go talk to them.’

“Minutes later, they were telling me about Jesus and I knew then as I stood on that drizzly pavement, that Jesus was my Lord.”

 

Dan, 23,  shot to fame earlier this year as the man who trained the World Cup stars to do spectacular tricks with a Pringle’s can in the hit TV commercial.

The ad, featuring big name such as Steven Gerrard and Roberto Carlos, delighted millions of viewers when it was shown between televised games.

Adds Dan: I spent three days with the players in London doing that commercial. It was great fun and they were marvellous to work with. I felt very humble that such great footballers praised my talent. They loved the tricks and asked me to give them a few tips. It made my day.”

Dan is also a familiar face at half-time at some of the biggest premiership clubs up and down the country where he performs his dazzling tricks which include balancing a bicycle on his head.

 

He won the UK football freestyle championship with an amazing variety of ball control skills – not least keeping a ball off the ground for a staggering thirteen and a half hours without a break.

 

But growing up as a football mad youngster in Guildford, Dan always felt something was missing in his life. None of his family were Christians and he’d only ever been inside a church for weddings and funerals.

 

He finally found the answer to what he was seeking when a Christian friend gave him a book about another award-winning sports star to read.

“The book was Taming the Tiger by Tony Anthony,” he explains.

“Tony is a former three times World Kung Fu champion who killed people and finally came to Jesus while in prison in Cyprus. I’ve never been a big reader but I read Taming the Tiger in a weekend. It really touched my soul.”

Unknown to Dan, Tony Anthony is based in Southend – the very town where he and his friends chose to go clubbing a week after he finished reading Taming the Tiger.

“God has perfect timing,” laughs Dan.

“When I went up to the street pastors I told them I’d just finished Tony Anthony’s book. They said they knew him, in fact they shared a house. I couldn’t believe it. Tony’s book had started me thinking about Jesus and a week later, here I was talking to guys who knew him personally.”

Less than a year after becoming a Christian, Dan says his life has changed dramatically: “I don’t drink anymore or smoke and above all, I have a prayer life.

“I also have a joy in me that is difficult to explain. I used to be bad tempered and impatient but now I control both.

“God has given me a talent and I want to use it to praise His name. I don’t go out Bible bashing but it’s amazing how often I get to talk about Jesus to perfect strangers who come to watch one of my demonstrations.

“I’ve also spoken to a lot of Christian footballers who give a great witness by the way they play the game and things like tithing.”

 

Although Dan had a youth contract with Wimbledon, he has never really wanted to play professionally himself, although he is a big Liverpool fan and hopes the club can repeat its European success again this season.

While some football writers might claim that is a tall order, Dan Magness  believes in miracles. As he says: “Amazing things happen when you least expect them – even in Southend.”

 

By James Hastings - Freelance Journalist

 

If any of the LRBC FC team want to read a copy of Taming The Tiger, let David Elcock know and we will get a copy. Tony Anthony is a member of Leigh Road Baptist Church

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L7Z at Radiate across the border

Are you 10 -14 years old? If you are why not check out and go along to our friends in Thundersley at Radiate. Check out their website at www.radiate.faithweb.com for more info. Saturday 14th October features LZ7 (Lindz West) all the way from Manchester. A former member of the Tribe. Not to be missed.

Keep checking back at www.lovesouthend.org/extreme for all the latest happenings and update with Love Southend Youth!

Southchurch Update 19 August

Sonya Low is one of our volunteers, at work every Tuesday & Thursday
afternoon, from 1-5.00pm. She's one such volunteer from a variety of
churches, involved with extreme:REBUILD at the Kursaal (or
Woodgrange) Estate. Here, she kindly gives us an update from last week:
 
We had the great fortune of being able to do three days work here this week. The youth club on the estate asked us to come and do something as one of their activities that had been planned was cancelled,so we worked on wednesday as well. There were fewer delegates as the yearly pull to soul survivour was great, however
this did nothing to alter the effect God had here this week.

 

We got to spend more time with specific children this week and help encourage them in their sports activities, one young boy in particular has become an enthusiastic player and now is eager to join in and try. In the begining he wouldn't participate as
willingly.

We have noticed several them blossom over the last week or two in their abilities and confidence with us as they are encouraged by the delegates.

In your prayers this week could you please pray that they will begin to encourage each other more, we have noticed alot of abusive and derogatory talk and names etc if someone doesn't play so well, however we are praying that our example of love and encouragement will rub off as we all work together more.

One of the highlights for me this week was when we were litter picking one of the boys who was helping us called up to his dad in the block above where we were cleaning. "Look Dad I'm doing something good" His dad came out onto the balcony with his mum and they both stood and watched him working. Thank you God for that lovely moment

Sonya

 

Please pray for our urban regeneration team. For more information,
please e-mail Rosalind Butterworth at agapes_grip@hotmail.com or ring
Elizabeth Butterworth on 01702 333319.