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From Kids to Adults – Individuality

If I am completely honest with you all, I don’t love every topic that Orange does.  Every month has important truths that our kids need to hear, but sometimes they just miss the mark.  However, this month hits right on the target.  Our theme is Individuality.  Identity is something that is becoming more and more of an issue.  People are trying to figure out who they are and are attaching to things that don’t define them well. When I was…

From Kids to Adults – Service

Last November I decided to wake up early to do some black Friday shopping.  There were some good deals on and I wanted to see what the big deal was.  I woke up early that morning and headed off to Walmart.  With some excitement, the parking lot was not full nor was there a line.  I was a little concerned as the store opened 5 minutes before I had arrived.  I walked in and it was jam-packed in some sections…

Podcast – 9:31 Growing the Church in Canada

Pastor Jon has been featured in the latest instalment of Heritage College and Seminary’s podcast: 9:31 Growing the Church in Canada. it is a 2-part interview with each lasting a little over 20 minutes. You can catch them on iTunes here.

From Kids to Adults – Self Control

February’s Curriculum is called Operating System which I believe is quite clever.  See Computers run off an Operating System and they are never perfect.  They need updates in order to keep running well.  How accurate is that to us as humans.  We aren’t perfect and we need constant updates to better ourselves.  At least I know I do, I can’t speak for you. The theme verse is 2 Peter 1:3 which says “3 By his divine power, God has given us…

The Power of Fun

Youth Group is an interesting thing to handle.  In some ways it is like a mini-church service except let’s be honest, we don’t play games at church.  There aren’t any church services I have been to that has said before the message we are going to play tag or dodgeball.  Yet for most youth groups games are a part of the rotation.  Is this because the youth leaders are trying to fill time or perhaps there is something more intentional…

Rob and Kathryn Fleming

Warmest early Christmas greetings our friends:                                                Winter, 2018 Tokyo Christmas doesn’t really “Deck the Halls” for us in a country where less than 0.5% of the people identify as followers of Jesus. But that doesn’t stop the holiday sales! As in Canada, as soon as Halloween has mercifully faded away, selling in the name of Santa is…

Bedlam 2018

I listen to a youth ministry podcast called Rethinking Youth Ministry.  This is a podcast with a bunch of the youth pastors that work for Orange and write our curriculum.  These people are smart as they have been in youth ministry for a long time.  A couple of weeks ago they were talking about retreats and as I was in the final prepping process for our Bedlam Retreat, I turned the volume up and settled in for their wisdom. One…

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Jonathan and Bel Griffiths Update

Dear Fellow Travellers, It is the beginning of October, and I wanted to give you an update on where things stand as of right now and things you can bring before the Lord in prayer. August was a power-packed month of documenting and handing over 15 years of ministry to different people within TWR Europe and CAMENA. To add to the strain, many of these people are setting up home, and the new office on Cyprus so connecting became difficult…