Let God Grow

I'm in one of those periods of time where there is much that needs to be done but it's not the stuff I want to do. I don't know if there's anyone else that gets like that. I have a mass of loose ends to tie up and a bit of prep to do but the thing I want to focus on is the creative and from my perspective more fun stuff.

The fun idea is a discipleship course called Let God Grow that was the brain child of Dave Steell when we worked together at SBC. When we first launched it back in 2001 it was a phenomenal success. The basic principle is to link an experience with a Christian principle or theme.

What would happen was that the group would meet at a mini bus one evening a week. The people on the 8 week course would have no idea where they were going but we would introduce the theme for the evening, for example faith. We would then go on to drive them to a place such as the tallest building in Luton where we got access to the roof and took the group up there (don't worry it was quite safe) to look over the town. Whilst up there we would get the group thinking about how being on top of this tall building reminds us about faith. We would then let the discussion develop before heading home. On the way back we gave each of the group something to remind them of the experience and the theme (for example something like a small piece of concrete might have been used in this example). We would do this for 8 weeks thinking about a variety of themes

Faith - Tall building
Journeying - motorway service station.
Guidance - Luton Airport
Aim - Driving Range
Spirituality - Church Ruin
Christ - St Alban's Cathedral

Well the idea that I am hoping to develop is to use this idea around the Easter story during Holy Week.

My plan is to get a small group of young people and to help them to journey through the Easter story in the week leading up to Easter Sunday by looking at a particular part of the story each day and by linking this to an experience and to something that they can take away with them each day.

I have developed some ideas that I think will work for it and am excited about the opportunity to be creative. I'm taking along our Pastor for the week as well as we think about whether this is something that we could do with adults in the future.

If anyone wants the full Easter Course drop me a comment and I'm happy to share it with you if you have people you might like to do this with.

Psalm 139

I got our youth discipleship group re-writing Pslam 139 in everyday language. Here is one of the offerings.

Lord you know all about me
And you know everything I do and think
You know all my actions
You know what I'm going to say before I say it
You protect me everywhere with your power
You know more than I can understand
I can't hide or escape from you
You are with me everywhere
No matter where I go, you will guide me,
You're like Tom-Tom, not Jack-Jack
You'll protect me with all your strength
Your light will find me,
Even in the darkest places.
You are creator, you created me in my mum's tum-tum, not tom-tom

MacBook

It's here and seems to be working. Still finding my way around and I don't have too much time to play as i am teaching this afternoon and have my first one on one with a young person that i am discipling which is exciting. Anyway everything seems fine with making the blog work and it even shows everything it is suppose to unlike my dell.

Does anybody out there know how to move songs from an ipod into itunes? I'm sure it's possible and would save a hell of a lot of time.