Life after Prayer Space....

Hi Folks!

I am so sorry for all the delay to post it!

Last post I’ve explained about the Prayer Space which happened in the High School. We received a lot of compliments for all the effort and a good response from the School’s staff and students. It was really good to see the young people engaging with the Prayer Space. There is an article about it on the Prayer Space website as well (click here to open it), which I've heard it was a Hit. After the success of the Prayer Space, we’ve been working on The Big Questions, which is a way to try to discuss with the students about the questions that they made while the Prayer Space. We’ll be at School at lunchtimes on Wednesdays at the same room. We already started this week and it was really good the first meeting we had.

With the youth groups, we’ve been helping in a sleepover on the church in Broughton basically watching film, playing games, eating and trying to have some sleep as well. In Ulverston we’ve played laser tag and had a pancake party. In Urswick we’ve played the church bells, which is quite an interesting thing to do here, because it has a right way to do it and it isn’t just about strength. Other thing that we are preparing for the youth here is a residential with all the groups together, which we are all really excited to do. We had our first  meeting to plan it and hopefully the young people around the ages11-14 (ish) will like it.

I got more involved with the worship group in the Café Church and had lead it as well which was a really good experience for me. I also had a presentation about myself and what we are doing around the Deanery on the Deanery Synod meeting. It was really good to share a little bit about my life, what I’ve done and my hopes for the Youth in this Deanery.

For me this time had been really good to engage with the young people and to learn a lot of things. I hope to learn even more and develop what I need to. I am really impressed on what God had done here and what He is going to do. And what about the future? I’ll let God deal with that because I know that He will guide me and open the doors for what He wants me to do.

For fun, I’ve been on Carlisle United football(soccer) match, in Chester with Gary and Jane, having a lovely time cycling, etc. It has been really good fun all I’ve done so far. Hopefully I will go to other new places and do some new stuff as well. Well, actually this weekend I am going to have a walk and adventure with some people from the church. It’ll be a good fun…to not say epic or legen….wait for it….dary….hehehehe

Well, That’s all for now… Hope you all have a great time of Lent and hopefully I’ll update sooner this time.

Thanks for reading…. 

God bless You all…

Bye…

Ha det… ^^   

         

Prayer Space

Hi Guys!
How are you doing??
Well... I think I am a little bit late, but I was really busy(still a little busy actually, but It's easier to do that today)...
After the New Years party and the small Holiday that I had I started to work hard with Vic on the Prayer Space in Schools... Because it is our first time doing it we needed to prepare a lot of stuff, but the good thing was that we've received a lot of help as well... Which made things a little bit easier...
The Prayer Space in Schools is a Space that the students will find creative ways to make a prayer, which is the Assembly's theme and is one reason to do the Prayer Space. Each station deals with different issues like personal (worries, Self-image, Hopes and dreams, etc) and some World issues (Corruption, Human Trafficking, Weather, etc). Well, our work at the School started on Monday setting up the room, followed by an Assembly on Tuesday and the Prayer Space officially started today in Break and lunchtimes in UVHS (Ulverston Victoria High School) and will be there for the students until 07/02. Our hope is to make a good impact in this School and on those students life.  I really feel encouraged to see the School door's opened to us and to see that people are interested in prayer but they sometimes just don't know how to do that.
Vic and I will be involved in some lessons as well talking about prayer. Which is a good thing, because we have a whole room settled up for the lessons. I just hope that they could take it seriously and spend some time doing it, enjoying everything what all the stations could offer.
Besides that I had lead this Sunday the Cafe Church with Vic and I am starting to sing more often on the Cafe Church as well which is good.
Pretty busy but exciting at the same time...
Well...even though I was really busy doing those things I had time to cook some Brazilian things, to go to the zoo, to go to watch a film, etc...
I hope you could enjoy and get excited as I am...
And I am sorry again for delaying to update the blog...
That's all folks

Many thanks for reading...
Tusen takk...

Ha det (Bye)

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Happy Christmas and New Years!!

Hi everyone...
I hope you had a good time of Christmas and I hope you all have a great 2014. I hope the light that comes from Jesus Christ shine in your heart and bless you...
December was a pretty busy month because Christmas is really important event for church. Well, in Ulverston the Christmas time starts with the Dickensian festival, that I had written on my last post. I've been in 5 Christmas parties before the Christmas day and I really enjoyed them, because it is full of games and fun. I could feel how England celebrate Christmas like the opening of presents, the food, the different traditions between families, etc. I could feel a really "magical Christmas" again, with people helping each other and giving Christmas cards one to another. I've got some presents and gave some as well, received a lot of cards and send a lot as well... It was really a good fun, playing the games, singing carols and having good time with friends...
For New Years, I've been in Edinburgh which was the place to be. It was good fun to see the traditional Torchlight procession on the 30/12 and to be on the Street Party on the New Years Eve. I've been in Glasgow as well, which was good but could be better with a fair accommodation and in a different time of year, because of the bank holiday almost everything was closed.
Well...
In the Parish Church a lot of things happened for Christmas, like Christmas parties for all groups (house groups, youth group, toddlers, prayer team, PCC, etc). We had also some additional services as well, like the Saturday Morning service, Carol Service, Christingle, Midnight Service and Christmas day service. We went as well to sing some Carols in Costa Cafe which was really good time to get to know better the people and was really good to sing there for fun and some coffee...hehehe...
They seemed pleased to watch us singing there.
The Carol Service was really good, because we had a really good choir and the feedback from the crowd was outstanding. I think we achieved our objectives and it was really pleasant time singing with the choir and the whole congregation. Our setlist was: Oh Holy Night (Alison),  God rest ye merry, Gentlemen (Choir/Church), Joy to the World (Choir/Church), O little town of Bethlehem (Choir/Church), Silent Night (Choir/Church), O come all Ye faithful (Choir/Church) and The Norwegian Blessing (Choir/ Andre solo).
The Christingle Service is a really interesting service, because it gets busier than the Remembrance Day Service. Well, Christingle is something traditional here which the orange represent the world, the candle represent Christ The Light of the World, the 4 sticks represent the 4 seasons, the candies represent the fruits of the land and the red ribbon represent the blood of Christ. A lot of children go there to hold a Christingle with the lights off in the Church. It was beautiful to look all those children holding the Christingle while we were singing Away in a Manger with just the candle lights on.
Well, I think that's it for now.... I hope to write more often...
I hope you enjoyed it and could learn more as I am constantly learning here...
Thanks for reading...
God Bless you....

Ha det

Andre Kioshima

                                            Chocolate Log and Mince pie

                                              Raspberries Trifle (I've made that)
 

                                           Christingle Service                                          

                                            Christingle with Katie, Julia and Megan

                                          Christmas dinner (Carrots, sprouts, sausages, turkey,                                                                              potatoes, parsnip, stuffing and cranberry sauce)