Happy Birthday Jon!

Yessiree... Jon (who's world-famous in RY) is the birthday boy today.

Hope you've had a great day mate. You are a huge blessing to us all at church - keep being who God made you to be, and try not to injure yourself next time you fall off the stage ;-)

/symon

Thanks Endless Praise!

If you couldn't make it to one of the services this weekend or the worship workshop on Saturday morning then you unfortunately missed out on a rather remarkable time. Both the Friday night Flame youth service and the Sunday morning Praise Celebration with all the CRF churches united (no, not Hillsong United) were led by Endless Praise and were a huge blessing for all who could make it.

From everyone at CRF we want to say a massive thank you Endless Praise! And we'll hopefully see all you guys again next year.

/j

Some photos from the weekend

Endless Praise this Friday!

If you are in Whangarei this Friday night then come to Flame (CRF, 2 Tarewa Road) at 7pm with a mate tagging along beside you. Awesome Australian worship team Endless Praise will be playing, and best of all it's FREE!

If you are a part of any of the CRF churches, on Saturday morning from 10am-12pm we have three workshops with Endless Praise focussing on vocal technique, worship band dynamics and vocal harmonies. All are free but please bring a shared lunch.

Endless Praise will also be leading the Praise Celebration this Sunday (26th) at CRF central.

The Endless Praise website can be found here

/j

Transition Camp Pix

Last weekend Joe and Becks Pyle ran a Transition camp with 30ish kids ages 10 to 13 (yikes). I take my hat off to you guys, and to everyone who helped out also... THANKS SO MUCH!

And Isaac... thanks for shooting Luke instead of my son ;-) Goodtimes!

Click here to view the camp pics.

/symon

Flame Deluxe, Arcticly Cool

If you had the privilege of attending Flame Deluxe last Friday (26th June), then you will know that it was a huge success and everyone who went had a fantastic time. It was simply copacetic, laudable, meritorious, sublime. A huge thanks to the legendary Dave Wiggins, Les Boucher, Jamie Garrick, Viewmaster, Buchanan duo, the waffle making extraordinaires and everyone else who worked hard to make the night possible. You guys rock!

If you missed out then you'll definitely need to come along next time, or better yet, come to Flame youth church on a Friday night.

/j

Dylan... Jon Dylan

For those of you who don't yet know, RYM has its very own living legend... Jon Dylan (otherwise known as Stephen Garton). Jon/Stephen has graciously accepted the offer of keeping this blog regularly updated with a whole plethora of new and exciting posts, pics, clips etc.

THANKS JON!!!

So, until Jon starts transforming renewalyouth.com (and the RYM noticeboard) into a visual masterpiece, check out his blog here.

Sayonara

Congrats to Dave & Arna!

A mammoth CONGRATULATIONS! goes out to Dave and Arna on the arrival of their awesome baby girl, Lily. Look at her... She's praising God already! You are an awesome family, and may God bless you more and more!

New RYM hoodies and tees this term!

This term, the 09 renewalyouth tees and hoodies will be produced (insert loud applause here).

Start saving your pocket money now, and make sure you post-a-caption for the retro Star Trek pic to be in to win a free hoody for winter: click here.