Hello again!

This was meant to be a video blog from last year. I've only just got round to editing it and believe it or not I do actually hate the sound of my own voice especially when videoed. 

I'll up load it to Youtube so you can get a flavour of what our youth club looks like, albeit before the youth arrive. 

I'll do another video blog this week so keep an eye out for that. I should say that we've been really blessed by the prayerful support of everyone. I've mentioned before we had some issues and since rebooting the ministry for the youth there have not been any of concern for us. I also understand that some people are not getting our prayer/news letters. If you're not and you'd like back copies and future copies please e-mail me and I'll sort that out.

News in brief

• The Christian Union in the school is an initiative I'm involved with but it struggles in terms of numbers. Carys and Ellie are 2 pupils who lead it along with Mr Taylor. They've got a great heart and passion to see the pupils reached for God.
• Our Sunday morning Impact group is okay number wise but due to a wide age range it's split in two. Pray that the leaders would be able to find common ground so that it functions a whole. 
• Leading on from that, Colin, is hoping to start an new Youth Christianity Explored group.
• I've already mentioned that the new Wednesday and Friday night groups are going well, please continue to pray for them. We also do a short 5 minute epilogue (well middle-logue) which works well and the young people respond well to. 

I'd like to thank everyone who is involved with the group and gives up their time to serve the young people in the church and community, and everyone who prays for this work.

Thanks

On schedule

I would like to say that September/October have not been the most fun times Lizzie and I have had in Caerleon. Sadly it's not been fun for a variety of reasons. To start off the people we're staying with have been ill and they have passed it on to us. To be fair to Ruth & Owen one of their friends who were staying with us shared it with them. It has been since shared and shared alike, so a few others in the church have been ill too - to the extent the youth club was cancelled due to a lack of leaders.
The youth club has since been 'modified' as part of an updated strategy. Modified is a funny word for cancelled and suspended but it's not all doom and gloom. Yes the Wednesday club is no more but we're starting a new church youth night on a Wednesday and we're refining the Friday night group with an official relaunch in January. This was brought to fruition by a culmination of events since July. There had been issues with a small minority of the kids who had been coming along with the final straw being a few of them running down the road damaging the church's neighbours' gardens and kicking their front doors. I'll fill you in as we move forward towards Christmas and the new year.
Sadly Ruth's (the lady and her husband we're staying with) dad had a heart attack at the start of October. Away from the Lodge Farm and life in Wales there have been 3 deaths in our extended families during 2012.