Flame's First Birthday!

Tomorrow, Flame Youthchurch will be celebrating its first birthday!

Seamless is playing (and will be intro-ing another great song), the anticipated mysterious 'item' is rumoured to be happening, and I'll be bringing a vision-cast-new-direction-ish message (among other raves)...

The night's gonna rock! I'll see you there ;-)

Easter Outreach rocked!

Once again the Easter Weekend outreach in the pasrk was a blast! A huge thanks to Prem and Richie (and their awesome team) for overseeing the event and all the hours of hard work they put into it. Next year's Easter Outreach promises to be bigger and better, and is already in the planning stages with some very exciting concepts being talked about...

You may have seen the following pics on Kristy's blog, but if you haven't... there they are.

See you tomorrow night at Flame! GBU

Symon

Blast from the past

The legendary Jon Dylan posted this archival video clip on his blog yesterday. Definately worth a look, even if it just to see a baby-faced Jason in handcuffs sniffing his armpit.

Now that you're curious...

Post a caption, win a hoodie!

That's right folks... I've found yet another random retro sci-fi movie still (above). All you need to do now is create a caption for it, make it a comment on this post, and perhaps you will win you an all new new-design renewalyouth hoodie!

The competiton will run for around a month and you can make as many comments as you like. (No dodgey captions please.)

Emil: Wildman Missionary

Emil phoned me from Peru this morning. He's been living with some remote Amazonian tribes the last few weeks... Just doing the normal stuff, like eating monkeys, turtles, hunting wild pig, seeing huge anacondas, getting impregnated by insect eggs while sleeping, telling people about Jesus... AWESOME!

I was extremily challenged and humbled by Emil's hunger for, love and devotion to God.

Please keep him and his team in your prayers.

Emil and the lost Amazonian Tribe

Last week Emil phoned me from Peru.

By now, he is a week into a 2-week journey (up the Amazon river by boat, then on foot) where the destination is an isolated tribe of Indians who have never been told about Jesus. This particular tribe has only been in contact with Westerners on a couple of occasions, and the reception was less than polite.

Emil won't be able to contact us for at least a couple of months... the deepest darkest parts of the jungle don't have good cell phone or internet coverage... yet ;-)

Please pray that Emil would have continued divine protection, anointing, health and that the tribe will welcome them, and it will be start of a great spiritual awakening there.

Loud!

At last week's Flame service, Ben Larrit won our somewhat impromptu shouting contest with is whopping 116 dB! The current Guinness World record is 121.7 dB. Ben wasn't that far off (although, we don't know how far from the shout our dB meter should be). Ben's shout was equivalent to a sandblaster. Heh.

There has always been debate about how loud is too loud when it comes to worship band volumes.

Maxed-out worship at Flame Youthchurch is around 100 dB (for anyone who is wondering). At that volume, we could have a two-hour non-stop-maxed-out worship time before there would be danger of permanent hearing loss (for anyone who is wondering).

Click here to discover more. Isn't it interesting how loud a clarinet is ;-)

Fellowship of the Flannel

Any church-going kid growing up in the 70's will remember flannelgraph only too well. It was THE Christian storytelling tool back in the day. Nowadays, it is nothing more than a nostalgic memory (although I'm sure some retired Sunday school teachers would still swear by it.)

I love reading, especially stories which strengthen my faith in Christ. I also love recommending good books to others. So, I have come up with a cunning plan. To create a blog where myself and other like-minded friends can share our views on the various novels we've read... hopefully encouraging you to buy them, read them, be encouraged, and support the authors in using their gifts to glorify God.

What better name to call this... than 'flannelgraph'. Click here to visit the site. Please click the FOLLOW button once you arrive, as there will be a review posted every day or two. Go flannel!