To all you lurkers, posters, parents, the Youth Alpha guys and the Free* Cafe crew.

The Broadway Youth program of events is taking a break over the Christmas holidays, but we'll be back to the usual high jinkery very soon.
Check back this way every now and again as we'll more then likey post some stuff between bouts of tripe watching on the telly.


Here's a festive challenge: according to Nintendo your brain goes red when you read out loud, but it goes all grey when you watch TV. Red = good. Grey = bad. ( I expect there is some science behind it.)



Try reading from the bible out loud for 5 minutes twice a day over the holidays. Click here if you want something to get you started.
You can't loose! Let me know how you get on.

Have a great Christmas!

PS
This Sunday at Broadway Baptist Church ( Chesham, UK ) there's an all age service with drama and all sorts of stuff.
+ I'm doing the talk on Christmas day.
Both start at 10.30am. Everyone is welcome.

We love UNIVERSITY OF THE KING

Oh boy do we.... so imagine our joy at seeing this:





The latest free download on U of the K label website Zang productions, it's one of the best songs I've heard all year (not to mention a right merry festive treat for your MP3 player).
There's also a fun cover of the crimbo classic 'let it snow' and if you've never been to the site before there are another 3 Christmas treats for you to download (inc' The Visitors by the Custodians - only one of the best Christmas songs of the last two thousand years).
Click here to go to the Zang download page.
We were playing these songs at Free* Cafe' last week so if you liked them there you really should get clicking.

Here's the Free* Cafe' video that I made with Rob last year. It's been on youtube and myspace for ages now but I don't think we've stuck it on the blog before.


Isn't he sweet!

We love THE PARK RACE....

....so much that we've nicked this stuff off their myspace profile to celebrate the fact that Broadway Youth beauty Simon Dwight is back in the UK. Yay.



Have a look at these natty videos of what he got up to in the USA + hear some decent tunes. Enjoy!










Click here to see an important note about using videos we link to or embed.

YESSSSSSS!

My brain age = 24.
Helen's brain age......





..... 44!
(brain ages as calculated by Nintendo, scroll down a couple of posts if you're not sure what I'm on about)

Oh, by the way, FBI tomorrow, yay.

Youth Alpha on Sunday

This week it's about God living in a tent (called the
Tabernacle) so he could be near his people.




















Get your head around that!

Chesham Victorian Night - No Youth Alpha

Those Victorians certainly knew how to have fun!
When they weren't playing golf at sunset they were stuffing Tiny Tim up chimneys, picking on poor Bob Cratchet and going late night shopping. Or something like that, I might be getting mixed uo with the Trojans.

But which ever, there's no denying that tonight is in fact Chesham's annual Victorian shopping night. That special evening once a year where the town centre is full of people eating candyfloss, giving to charity, riding the carousel and generallly having a grand old time.

Broadway Baptist Church is joining in the historically flavoured fun by welcoming passers by inside for a hot chocolate, a bit of cake and some carol singing in the warm.
There's no Youth Alpha tonight as a result, but if you and your family are getting all Victorian tonight then pop in and say hello, it'd be great to see you.

Walking on by....

Here's a few pictures from last Friday's Youth Alpha, the group for school years 7 - 11 at Broadway Baptist Church.
We've been following God's master plan through history and we've got as far as the Passover, an incredible and pretty scarry event that points a big finger to what Jesus would do. Just click this link for some interesting stuff about this from Jews for Jesus.






















These photos show some of the doors at church which we covered in paper and then painted with ....




.... red paint (not lambs blood like in the original passover, click here to read all about it from the Message Bible paraphrase).



We painted the door frames as an prayer, to show our willingness to follow God. Just like in the original passover, it wasn't enough to just be born Jewish on that night, you had to follow God's intructions if you wanted to be part of his people. The alternative just wasn't worth thinking about. Just like now, we have to make the decision to follow God, we can't rely on our parents or our family tree to do it for us.
Just like it says in John 3 verse 16
“For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life" (New Living Translation).