Pirate Night!

Uprising is on again tomorrow night (8 May) with a normal Uprising. Next time (22 May), we have Pirate Night! Check out the details:

Hey guys, here's the flier for next weeks uprising. One big change is that it will now be at Hawthorndale Christian Centre instead due to a double booking. We'll either see you at Hawthorndale, or there will be vans running from ICC from 7pm.

Ray


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Uprising Starts this Friday!

News - Uprising Youth

Hey everyone,

Some really exciting news this week. I've just created a blog specifically for the Friday Knights age group (years 5-8) called Uprising - you can check it out at http://uprisingyouth.blogspot.com . We're still working on some of the ins and outs of what it will look like, but the idea is that it will be a relevant place for kids (particularly non-Christian kids, who make up about 2/3 of the overall group) to find information on events and happenings, as well as providing another connection point to the local church. Watch this space!

Friday Knights

Hey guys!

Friday Knights is up and running again tomorrow night. The ice cream olympics have been postponed to a later date so we can advertise and get as many people along as we can, because it should be a fantastic night.

Tomorrow, we're looking at playing some schoolyard games, and promoting our new Ground Rulz programme, which is the focus for this term's Kid's Church. As well as friday knights being a safe environment for our kids to hang out, it's also a great opportunity to get children connected with the church. Church is a great place to learn some essential values, and grow into all that God wants us to be. I'm excited about how future generations are going to be impacted by the awesome young people we have rising up.

Mr Ray

Ground Rulz

Is love just fun and Games? The teaching will be set in a school playground, looking at life in the playground amongst their peers. The challenge is for the kids to be a positive influence in the playgrounds they spend each school day in. We are looking at the Colossians passage that talks about the importance of the way we look on the "inside" rather than the obsession this generation have about how they look on the "outside".

Colossians 3:12 -14 talks about how we should behave as God’s chosen people. It teaches us in 3 verses the way we need to behave towards others so that we can live in unity. The world is always talking about peace and how we should live in harmony. God tells us how this could be possible in these three verses.

Children are looking for ways to live, rules to live by, ways to function successfully in our culture. "Clothing" and how we look on the outside is very important to children nowadays. The media have made children very fashion conscious, to the point where parents just can't keep up. God talks about another way we should clothe ourselves that is not only longer lasting but will never go out of fashion.