YouthZone Northland

November 2006:

Coming up in December...

the Lads Band in concert

Summer Harvest 06/07

Where will you be this Summer? Find your place in the sun....

How exciting! It’s not very long now before Summer Harvest is here again.
It’s now time to register if you’re 14 years to 21 and want to do something cool over New Year. Go to the web site www.summerharvest.co.nz to register right now!

If you’re wanting to help at camp as a worker, tent town parent or cluster group leader please contact Scottie (scottie@yfc.org.nz or phone 09 438 6059)

Welcome!

Hi! Thanks for picking our newsletter up. As you read we hope you are inspired about what Youth for Christ are up to with young people. You will read about...crazy October. We finally made it! YFC has been involved in all sorts of mission projects from the beginning of October with Spring Breakaway taking intermediate aged young people to Taupo on camp, then into YFC Charity Auction and then Y-One came into Northland for two weeks. We also had a great YFC Ball and we finished October with the Awesome Auckland Adventure at Rainbow’s End as well as our weekly club work with Rock Solid.
You can see we have survived and now we are focusing on our Summer Harvest promos in schools and of course getting Summer Harvest site all ready for summer. The Lads also have a concert in Whangarei in December and are helping out with Summer Harvest.
Do you want to get involved?

Becky's Report

Our dream and vision at YFC

is that you see our heart for mission. Not all the stuff we do...but who we are as followers of Jesus
YFC’s core VALUES are:
A Jesus Centred: We are committed to following and imitating Jesus
B Mission Through Service: We have the privilege of being co-labourers of the servant Jesus, bringing good news to lost young people
C People Focused: We are committed to the God given dignity of all people
D Priesthood of all believers: All of us are called to serve God in mission
E Generosity: We will generously commit all we have to Jesus and this mission
F Creativity: We honour Creator God with the best of our expression
If you have a heart for bringing good news to lost young people please contact Youth for Christ! scottie@yfc.org.nz or phone 09 438 6059

I can’t believe it’s November! Now I have finished one year at Bible College. I hear in December if I have made it through to next year for my Diploma of counselling Course. It’s been a hard but rewarding year and having the first anniversary of mum’s passing come and go was strange for me. For those you don’t know my mum passed away in October last year of cancer. So this yearhas been an interesting year for my family and I. But God is faithful and I see how He has been faithful to YFC too this year. Financially we have made it through and are looking good so far.
The Charity Auction gave us a boost that we needed. Another highlight was the success of the Ball.

Anyway I would like to say a personal thank you to those supporting me. It always comes at the right time. I’m hoping to be accepted into my course next year and again I’d like to ask for your prayer support while I’m at Bible College and I think I will be needing a new car since mine is getting old. The weekly trips to Auckland are wearing the car down. So prayer is much appreciated. Finally Merry Christmas (that is coming up very quick!) and Happy Holidays! I pray that you feel God’s presence with you and that the real meaning of Christmas touches your hearts. Love, Becky and Asher x0x0x

Janine’s report

The past few weeks were really busy but I appreciated the results we achieved though it was a little stressful and I didn’t sleep much. "They were worth it"! I got some new experiences like running a charity auction and managing an office and it was a very challenging time that let me grow. The Spring Breakaway Camp was a great experience for me and I really hope that some of our kids came home as new people and touched by Jesus. I absolutely enjoyed the Ball even if it was painfull (for my feet!) afterwards. It was great to see how God is looking after me because my Ball dress arrived from Germany on the same day. I made some good friends with our Rock Solid kids and I'm looking forward to the time I can spend with them. I hope that God changes our hearts and the hearts of the kids in Fiji in December. Bye bye! Janine

Y-One 2006

… are 6 young people who have given their whole year to the mission of sharing Jesus with young people all around New Zealand and Samoa. They would have performed to 60,000 young people by the end of this year. Y-One were in Northland for two weeks spending one week around the far north. During their time here they played at 11 schools and at our YFC Ball and had 3 night concerts. This group had such a servant heart and helped YFC a lot while being in Northland. They performed in Whangarei, Kerikeri and Dargaville. The young people had an opportunity to respond in which they have. In Whangarei as part of our follow up we have started a discipleship course called RockONZ which is designed as a discovering Jesus course. Please pray for us as we share our faith in Jesus with these young people.

In this year's team we had our very own Leah Purves who came to Breakfast club and also performed in many Expressions.

Please pray for the Y-One team which has finished their year on the road and gone home. We want to thank them for what they have put into young lives around New Zealand. One opportunity we had was performing at the Otangarei Primary School. On that same day they were having a march against violence in their community. Y-One were invited to perform and Scottie did an inspiring talk about if you want changes in your community it needs to start with yourself, then spread to your home, which in turn flows into other people in the community. You can make a difference by treating others the way you would like to be treated. As a result YFC has been asked to help the school out with its 11 to 12 year olds. The school replied back with a very powerful haka. Praise God for these opportunities! As a result we have 4 new Rock Solid kids from Otangarei now.

Charity Auction

Thanks to those businesses and individuals that gave us a hand by donating goods and their time! We raised an amazing $6739! A big thanks to all those who attended the Auction. We really appreciate your help & support for YFC and what it does around Northland. Young people...they are worth it!

Rock Solid Club

Term 4 ...has been really good for Rock Solid. We picked up new young people from school promos and Y-One concerts. Each event/camp totally filled up past our capacity. A big thanks to Grant, Rebecca and Jasmin who have joined our Rock Solid team. The main thing is pray for those young people that are discovering more about Jesus at RockONZ our brand new follow up for new Christians. Rock Solid has some expansion plans for Whangarei and want to get involved with young people that don't go to church. Please invest your life to help us reach Northland youth! Maybe in 2007 we need your help? If you have a passion for reaching young people…contact us NOW!

Awesome Auckland Adventure 2006 Imagine 5 van loads of very excited Northland young people arriving in Auckland to go ice skating and then join in with 860 other kids for Rock Solid’s annual take over of Rainbow’s End. The young people had an amazing time and Y-One performed to them at the end and shared testimonies as well. A BIG thanks to our drivers and leaders who were exhausted afterwards.

Freedom Ball 2006

250 young people all dressed up beautifully danced the night away celebrating their freedom. We also focused in on WOZA, a group of persecuted Christian women in Zimbabwe who don’t have their rights to freedom. Our young people helped to sign a letter to the president to ask for them to set free. We thank Amnesty International for allowing us to work with them on this project. Using the ASB Lounge turned out to be a successful move along with new challenges. There was an amazing atmoshere, great lighting (thanks James!) and great yummy food (Thanks Lana & Megan!). Thanks to DJ Clay and Y-One who diod a great job. All in all it was a very busy time but wiorth while. As a result the ball was able to raise $700 to send off to Amnesty for the women of Zimbabwe.

Slykerman Family Support Update

“Glory to God”! Our family is so grateful to those who have donated money to us over these last two months. We have received some wonderful one off gifts that have meant we have been able to pay all of this months bills. Different story to last month when we wrote out our last cheque. All I can say is God is good. 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 Slykerman 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

Spring Breakaway Camp

Northland & South Auckland Rock Solid Clubs joined to invade Turangi during October holidays. We had a great bunch of young people journey down with us in 5 vans. A big thanks to Mark and the great team of helpers at camp. Most of our leaders were from overseas (Germany or USA). Our trip to the snow was disappointing as it was blowing and miserably cold. Our kids still managed to have fun sliding down the slopes on tyre tubes. Oh well, can’t have it perfect every year! Through all the games, sports, activities, chapel times and making friends we had many opportunities to share and talk about Jesus. Please pray for our leaders as they continue to build relationships with these young people.

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

It was a little wonder that we met Jasmin, an exchange student from Germany studying at Pompallier College, who is now a very faithful volunteer for YFC Northland. Whenever we desperately need someone, we can count on Jasmin being there! Even though we just got to know each other she came to the Spring Breakaway Camp and afterwards she got involved in almost everything during our crazy “Rocktober”. 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.

Area Profile: Dargaville

Hi there my name is Jae Carey. If it wasn't for YFC where would I be….. interesting thought. I grew up in one of those homes where anything attached to a church was not our thing. But when the Y-One team came to my school in 1992 we thought they were great & went along to the concert night which started the relationship with YFC which saw me at Campus life, Breakfast Club, Summer Harvest, any other camps that eventually lead to me giving my heart to Jesus so after 15 years and 3 children I find myself back in the north where my husband is a pastor in Dargaville, we are really excited about the prospect of having more YFC things been done in our little town. I often think to myself how can we reach those kids that won't go near a church? I guess the simple answer is to meet them when they are at in the schools, in their sports teams so we are praying for opportunities to reach the non church youth of Dargaville. Thanks, Jae and Nigel

We Need You...

We need helpers for the following events and programs for 2007: - Rock Solid - Breakfast Club (discipleship teams) - Summer Harvest - help @ events (security, door etc) - the Rock

Who's at YFC Northland?

Scottie Slykerman (Team leader) Full-time

Becky Joyce (Accounts) 1 day a week

Janine Soder (German volunteer) Full-time