March Newsletter 2007
April 2007:
Coming up in April...
U 2 can make a difference ..SURGE
19 – 22 April 2007 in WANGANUI
By day participants work up a sweat working hard in the community, by night the sweat is worked up celebrating the life Christ has given.
ontheroad ’07 Rock Solid Camp
WHAT YOU GOT? Use what ya got, use it....
How exciting! It’s not very long now before EXPRESSIONS Talent Quest.
It’s now time to register if you’re 13 to 29 years old. What you got? Go to the web site EXPRESSIONS to register right now!
If you wanting more info or a Youth group leader please contact us (northland@yfc.org.nz or phone 09 438 6059)
Welcome!
Greetings from Northland!
Firstly we would like to THANK all those who are faithfully supporting us in prayer, those who have willingly given up their time for us and those who continue to support us by generously giving to keep our mission wheels turning. It is, and carries on being, a very challenging and rewarding journey in our mission with the young people, and God continues to pull through for us in those times we need him the most. Also, the change process of YFC is now complete here in NZ. We are fully operating with the new mission. Please read on and sense our excitement of what God has done and continues to do in our lives and amongst our young people.
Do you want to get involved?
Goodbye Juanita!
Juanita Coffani
One of our very committed, key volunteers is heading over to live in Australia with her mum.
Juanita has been an amazing, faithful leader since 1997 in Rock Solid.
Her commitment to the young people has been outstanding and she will be greatly missed!
Please pray for her as she re-establishes herself for her future over in Aussie.
We wish Juanita the very best and pray that she will impact young peoples lives over there as she has over here. We will miss you!
Juanita Coffani
Janine’s Report
Half of my time is already over. I had a great summer and enjoyed the work at Summer Harvest where I helped out in the busy kitchen. In January my parents came to visit me. We made a trip to the South Island where we had a wonderful time. Now I'm looking forward to April when the next camp is coming up. It is a good opportunity to show the kids how a life with God looks like.
Personally I found my new favourite hobby for my spare time: Bushwalking! My goal is to know all the tracks around Whangarei by the end of my time here. For me it's also an opportunity to meet God in the nature. I never took the time before for just "walking around". I was rushing from one thing to the next and never stopped to get a rest outdoors and to listen to God's voice.
Bye bye!
Janine
SUMMER HARVEST 06/07
We had an awesome time at Summer Harvest over New Years. This year was slightly different as the whole working team played a part in the running of the show. Scott (Northland), Ness(Auckland) and Mark (South Auckland), also known as the leadership team, helped to lead the workers together.
We had such a great volunteer team working at Harvest Camp. It is also awesome to have such enthusiastic youth groups joining us, using Harvest camp as a part of their evangelism to their mates, as they are able to invite them to come along and join in the fun.
The weather, this year, seemed quite touchy. Although, for the majority of the time, it was pretty good, the rain stayed away most of the time and it wasn't too breezy. We were very happy!
We were blessed to have the band, 'the Lads' at Harvest this year. Not only did we have the privilege of hearing them play, but Mark also shared some of his faith experiences with the young people. Summing everything up: our team grew, the young people were presented with the life-changing message of Jesus Christ and everyone had heaps of fun.
Planning for next year has already started and we are so excited about the ideas, which have been put forward so far, to come into practice. If you would like to be involved in Summer Harvest next year, bring your youth group or promote Summer Harvest in your school, please, don't hesitate to contact us at northland@yfc.org.nz.
the LADS BAND in Concert
In December the band 'The Lads' traveled up to Whangarei and presented us with a concert at the Cross Roads Church. A 'big thanks!' to The Lads for coming all the way up north for the concert. Many young people from around Northland turned up and were challenged about their faith in Jesus.The Lads challenged them to think about making Jesus the central part of their lives and letting him direct them to doing something amazing for God.
Catatac Bay of Islands Fundraiser Cruise
FUNDRAISER A big thank you to Alan & Karen for a great day out for our Catatac fundraiser in January. We raised $1500 towards our work with young people at Youth Zone.
Thanks also to our hosts Mike & Valarie and all those lovely people that came on the day!
THANKSAnd Thanks
Project Serve FIJI SAFARI CAMP
As you probably know, Fiji had a coup last year just as we were about to go out and help YFC Fiji with their safari camp in Lambasa. Unfortunately the camp was cancelled and we couldn't go. Air pacific were very kind to reschedule our tickets. Janine and Justin are going to be heading over in May 2007 to assist with the Fiji Rock Solid camp on the coral coast and Scottie is going over in December 07.
Scottie & Renate Family Support Update
We had a strange short break after Summer Harvest this year. It felt a bit different not going anywhere. Jesse is growing up fast. He's got his first bottom and top teeth now and zooms along the floor with his very unique crawling style. This means though that we can't leave him in the middle of the floor and be content in knowing he'll stay there!
Due to our faith support being so low Renate managed to score a very good after school job teaching drama classes to 5-8 year olds for two hours on a Thursday. I quickly zoom home to do some baby sitting and work from home all Thursday afternoon. We are very much in need of some more supporters to help us with our faith support. Please contact us if you can help, we would be so grateful. We still have a long way to go of getting regular support in. If you’re able to support us $20 a month of even $200 a month please set up an Automatic payment for the Scottie & Renate's family as they try to raise support to meet their $500 per month short fall in support. Being faith supported missionaries God blesses us in many ways. Please journey with us to reach young people in Northland!
God bless Scottie, Renate & Jesse
Children’s Day – Mair Park
Rock Solid offered to help Barnados and other organizations out with Children's Day. The kids loved jumping around in the sack race, playing giant volley ball and scaling the heights of the earth ball. It was so rewarding to see the smiles of the children when they had accomplished the task in hand. A big 'thanks!' to Juanita, Janine and Jasmin who came and helped on this very full day. There were about 2000 people/children at this event and we estimated that we had about 1000 children through our activities during the day!
Fiji Safari Camp 2006
We are going to help serve Youth for Christ Fiji with their Safari Camp in December. We still are $3000 off raising our team target. If you want to help us get there to assist Fijian young people who don’t know about Jesus to be impacted please help us with a small donation, join our team or pray for us for safety over this uncertain time on the political scene.
Our team leaves 30th November and returns on the 10th December.
We will travel 12 hours by boat from Suva to Savusavu then travel 3 hours Fijian styles by buses to Lambasa on one of Fiji’s northern islands. Please pray for our health and well being there!
New Face at YFC
Hi! I am Caleb,
I am another young person that was helped on my journey for Christ by YFC through the camps and activities like Summer Harvest and Spring Breakaway.
I walked in the door of Scottie's office to see if there was anything I could help w
ith whilst I do 2 years at bible college and to my surprise after 10 years…. Scottie remembered who I was and luckily he was in great need of my help!
Therefore, I will be giving my time to help other young people to know how great God is and that a life living for him is simply the best!
I am looking forward to going on more road trips and being part of the camps as a leader rather than a young person. But most of all, I'm looking forward to getting to know all the young dudes and dudettes!
Thanks for your enthusiasm and your great help! We really appreciate having met you. For us you have been sent by God just for the right time.
Rock Solid Club
The Rock Solid Club happens every Tuesday night. We have been up to all sorts of exciting and challenging things here in Whangarei, from messing around on 4-wheel bikes, running around town and getting to know Jesus.
At the end of last year we had a great time with a bunch of young people who wanted to find out more about Jesus. We had the privilege and awesome chance of doing a 'Discovering Jesus' course with them. Also, Dargaville Rock Solid is starting up in May, after Y-ONE comes through Northland. Please pray for the new team led by Nigel and Jae. Pray that they will get the numbers and the strength for it to be a success. So far this year we have got a great bunch of young people regularly attending Rock Solid and numbers seem to be growing, even seeing some new faces the other day at the Famine sleepover. Still, we really need your prayers for new leaders to become available as we are losing some of our key volunteers.
Surge
To reflect the changes of YFC in NZ there is a new project for young people in April. It seems that the problem today is the way our faith is confined to being in church. We, at YFC, had this crazy idea of taking young people from all around NZ to Wanganui for 3 days to serve the community. We will be doing all sorts of projects, from painting houses to rebuilding walkways, working alongside the locals. The young people get a chance to work hard during the day and then party hard at night at the various activities YFC will put together. People, young and old, are all getting very excited about serving the community of Wanganui.
YONE 2007
Y-ONE are due on the shores of Northland from the 29th April to the 13th of May. They will tour schools all around Northland and put on a concert for all those 11-14year olds. They will also be performing at 'Expressions Talent Quest', run by YFC in May, and hopefully, helping to launch Dargaville Rock Solid. We are still in need of more places for them to stay whilst visiting us here in Whangarei and so if you are able to provide a room etc that would be such a great help to the team and to us.
Please pray for the Y-ONE team as they continue to travel around New Zealand, expressing their love for Jesus to the young people. Pray that they will make a difference here in Whangarei and the young people will be impacted by their visit and their willingness to serve God and the community all year round. Also please pray that we will be able to find sponsors to support the Y-ONE concert at Forum North so as to keep the cost low for the young people who want to attend.
We Need You...
We need helpers for the following events and programs for 2007:
We need volunteers for the following projects in term one:
- Rock Solid leaders (especially female)/drivers weekly
- $20 YFC Backbone Club
- help @ Expressions talent quest (security, door etc)
- sponsors for kids to go on ontheroad camp
- drivers/leaders for ontheroad camp
- Scott & Renate need more financial support to help with monthly expenses well below target
- billets for Y-ONE 2007 team
- people to come with us to Wanganui for Surge to serve the city
Who's at YFC Northland?
Scottie
(Team leader)
Full-time
Becky Joyce
(Accounts)
1 day a week
Janine Soder
(German volunteer)
Full-time
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