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)