Another day of meeting with creative and wonderful people today.

One person was Tom who directs Kick London, YFC’s football ministry in the capital. He has such an exciting vision. It was great to hear his plans and dreams for the centre.

I ended the day before going to lectures by catching up with Rachael from YFC Church Resources in the members room of the Tate Modern. It was great to share plans and listen to each other against the backdrop of London going into darkness. It’s easy to forget how spoilt we are, and what a great urban creation we have in London..

This is a funding request post!

Today is personal support day for all national YFC workers.

This is a day when we do no other work than pray for, contact and write to our supporters and potential . That’s what I should be doing – but the ideas and content of my letters are currently on my melting laptop.

You may feel sorry for me – but you could cheer me up by emailing me and saying you’d like to contribute to my personal support … if you are interested I have a range of fantastic people who donate from £5 per month to £185 per month to YFC for my salary. I always have vacancies for more personal supporters … could you be the next one to join my splendidly wonderful supporters!?

By praying and by supporting with regular gifts you will …

* Be giving thousands of young people the chance to encounter Jesus!

* Enable YFC youth workers to bring God’s love to young people who have no contact with Christians and the Church.

* Receive Intoview – our exclusive partner magazine: packed with the latest information, testimonies and stories from around Britain.

* Receive personal letters thanking you for your support &keeping you up to date.

* Have the satisfaction of knowing you are helping to transform young lives.

* Gain priority access to any breaking news about YFC’s pioneering projects.

* Help to train young people in mission.

* Empower YFC to develop brand new youth resources for churches & schools.

* Be taking God’s love to young offenders & socially excluded youth.

* Enable young adults to serve Jesus using sport, theatre, music & dance.

* Be establishing new YFC local centres – which impact whole communities.

If you email me I can chat more about this with you and/or send/bring you a supporters form. I’m more than happy, too, to meet in a coffee bar, bar, wherever to meet and chat about the ministry of YFC and how you can support us.

Thanks for listening … err I mean reading!!

Another privileged day as another group of centres met with the YFC Leadership Team. Another group of diverse people united in their passion to see young people reached with the gospel. Another group of people who make daily sacrifices to see God’s mission work out in their lives.

Today I feel yet again that I have met up with friends rather than colleagues. It was good to be able to chat to so many good, both old and new, friends and hear of their highs and lows. It does seem that we are in a special time of ‘favour’ with loads of new doors opening which will enable us to share the gospel. As is always the case in all mission, there are also the many struggles that we experience and feel hopeless to intervene in.

As we prayed with each other at the end we were reminded by God that he is central to what we do, and that we need to feed our relationships both with each other and with him which can often be neglected in exciting times such as these seem to be. Ending the day by sharing bread (which had been baking all day in the bread maker at the front of the church)and wine was a great way of bringing this to the front of our minds.

Another 5am start this morning for the journey to head office to meet friendfs and chat with some of the others in the Local Ministry team. We had a great day where we shared ideas and our visions for our roles. I love days when you meet with friends, all have a common goal, and all able to share and encourage and challenge each other.

One particular new thing is a new role we have created for our team and based at head office. I think its a key role to how we develop YFC centres. Have a look at the job description and get in touch if interested – or pass it on to others who may be interested:

LOCAL MINISTRIES COORDINATOR
An enthusiastic self-starter is required to join the Local Ministries team. This person will coordinate all areas of YFC’s relationship and support of the new and existing local Centres. The role will entail communicating with Centres and being the point of contact for advice, support, wider ministry resources, and best practice.

This role requires someone who is a good communicator, highly organised and has an eye for detail. Experience and knowledge of the Christian youth work world is needed.

Salary:In the range of£16,137 to £20,235 a year according to experience

Application forms (returnable by 22 November 2007) are available from Leon Coates or Chris Nightingale at Youth for Christ, Coombswood Way, Halesowen, West Midlands B62 8BH, call 0121 5029620 or email chris.nightingale@yfc.co.uk. .

Inside Out is part of Reflex, a YFC ministry that does some excellent work in young offender institutes. Below is a great opportunity:

Male Actor Needed Urgently

YFC’s theatre company InsdideOut is looking for a male actor to work in prisons as part of their HMP Hope Tour, visiting every Young Offenders Institute in England.

So if you can act and want to take the gospel to some of the most marginalised young people in the country then contact us now for more information.

Tel: Jo Pinchin 07974173729

e-mail: insideout@yfc.co.uk

At YFC we are experiencing major server problems at the moment. Since Thursday I have not been able to send or receive email – so if you are waiting for a reply from me please accept my apologies. As my facebook says – I am having a fast from email!

The servers will be up and running soon and normal service will be resumed.

The experience has made me think about how I communicate, and I do like the brief rapid response and solution the email presents. On Thursday and Friday I used the phone the lot, but while it was good to talk, lots of people were out and leaving a message can sometimes be difficult.

But one question … what DID we do before email?