Happy New Year! Well 2012 is upon
us, bringing us all fresh challenges and, prayerfully, fulfilled promises. As
it’s the first week of the year I thought it would be great to look back on
2011 and reflect on the massive things God has done at BASE. It puts into
perspective the lows of the year and helps us all get excited for what he has
planned in 2012!
Cafe Church
Cafe Church continues to grow
both numerically and spiritually and it’s great that the whole church has got
behind it, making it not just a youth thing, but a multi generational thing.
The messages given are all about how you can move on with God in your life and
seem to be impacting the youth in a big way. We are seeing our young people
stepping up and grabbing the opportunities that God is giving them, with new
young people leading and organising the services as well as new people on the
sound and vision team. Looking back to how we started in 2010 and how far we
have progressed you can see Gods hand on the whole thing. Keep praying throughout 2012 as we see new
people stepping up and replacing the older youth who are preparing to leave for
university.
Lifegroups
Lifegroups, or youth housegroups
started in 2011 and are now firmly established, with new groups being planned
for 2012. The Lifegroups started as Youth Alpha, and after the course was
finished we progressed into boys and girls groups, with teaching that affected
both sexes. The groups are still developing, but it’s really encouraging that
the majority of our young people attend. (and the curry nights are awesome!)
The Band
Youth Worship Band ONE53 is now
called The Band. Julia Bing has done
an awesome job of leading our
talented young musicians over 2011, with great new songs learned, and The Band
becoming established, not just at Cafe Church, but at UPC as well. It’s great
to see new faces in the band too who are developing into mighty young people of
God, and brilliant musicians. Please pray for Julia as she leaves for
university this year and has the daunting task of finding and mentoring her
successor.
FUSED
Numerically, FUSED has grown
amazingly over the last year. The first event had 60 people there. The last
event at the end of October had 160! FUSED has been based at UPC, but now we
are going on the road, with the next event at Dalton Zoo in February, Broughton
Victory Hall in May and then a FUSED weekender in July at Coniston, before
returning to UPC again in October. We have had some great guest speakers, and
will continue that trend in 2011. We have seen people give their lives to God,
and whole attitudes changed towards their faith. 2012, is going to be a massive
year!
Our Youth
This is the biggie! The youth at
BASE has grown yet again! Every time we seem to lose people to university, God
replaces them with double! That’s not the main thing for us though. The main
thing is seeing how much the youth are coming on in their walk with God. They
are reading their bibles frequently, praying constantly, and asking questions
about how they can become more involved in the BASE Project! It’s so
encouraging to see, and I’m sure that the church in general is encouraged too
to see a generation who are prepared to take Gods kingdom to the next level.
It’s such a privilege to be part of this and to be part of their lives. Please
keep praying for our young people as they hit all the hassles that teenagers
face.
So there you have it. Pretty
awesome eh? We haven’t even mentioned, Adored, The schools work and the
Christian Union starting in UVHS, The IHEARTULVERSTON campaign, the intern and
The Youth Alpha Course! We are believing that 2012 is going to be even bigger
than 2011, so please keep us in your prayers, but more importantly, keep
thanking God for the great work He is doing in our area!
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