Saltmine Theatre tonight

Tonight’s a biggy at Broadway Baptist Church. We’re hosting Saltmine Theatre company who are on a UK tour with their latest play ‘3 Wise men and a Baby’.
Saltmine played the Chesham Elgiva earlier this year with their own adaptation of the classic book ‘The Cross and the Switch Blade’. It was a sell out and everybody I know who went thought it was great, so don't miss tonight's show.

The show starts at 7.45pm but you’ll want to get down here in plenty of time to buy your ticket and get a seat. Admission is £1 for under 18’s and £3 for everybody else. Quite the bargain huh kids!
If you go to Youth Alpha, Free* Café, Solid Rock @ Chesham Park school or Chesham High school Christian Union then come and say hello.

Here’s some pictures of the Saltmine team looking theatrical and a video about the work of the Saltmine Trust.

Pirates Trilogy-athon!

How evil is your TV?

There is a whole bunch of high quality stuff happening at Broadway Baptist church in the next couple of weeks and it all starts tonight with Youth Alpha.

From 7.30 till 9.30pm we’ll be thinking about TV – What’s good about it? What’s bad about it?
Would Jesus watch it if he had an evening to himself?

If you’re coming please bring along something that inspires you (or something that represents inspiration to you).

Then tomorrow it’s…….

YOUTH ALPHA IN NOVEMBER

For the next couple of Sundays YA will be taking a short break so we can join with the rest of the church in marking Remembrance Sunday and in celebrating the 15th anniversary of Chrysalis Arts Trust (click the link to find out about them).
But Friday nights will keep chugging away.

Tonight we start a new series taken from The Word on the Street by Rob Lacey.

Tonight is entitled NEEDLES and we’ll be looking at 2 Timothy 3:1 to 4 (along with some other stuff).
And playing a bit of…. Ah but that would be giving it away!


The next few weeks look like this:

Friday 16th 'The Crowd' – Ephesians 4:17-24

Friday 23rd 'TV' – Matthew 6:22 – 23 & Philippians 4:8-9

Sunday 25th 'Where did I come from?' - part 1 of a brand new thing, more news soon

Thursday 29th 'Saltmine Theatre present 3 Wisemen and a Baby'
£1 for under 16’s, £3 everybody else.

Friday 30th 'Victorian Shopping Night in Chesham'
No YA tonight but come to church to say hello and get yourself some hot chocolate.



For those who don't know:
Youth Alpha is a group for people in school year 7 to 11. It meets at Broadway Baptist Church on Friday nights from 7.30 til 9.30pm and Sunday morning from 10.30 - 12pm (during the main church service. All meetings are at Broadway Baptist Church, Chesham unless otherwise stated.

Doing the impossible

This Sunday's Youth Alpha will consider some impossible stuff from 1 Timothy 1 verses 12 to 17.
See if you can beat 'the impossible quiz'.
Apparently it can be done. Just not by me!
Play The Impossible Quiz

Youth Alpha Fireworks at Chesham United

Here's the flyer with all the details of this Friday's Youth Alpha trip to the Chesham United grounds for the fireworks display.

Youth Alpha Pirates trilogy-athon

9.30 - 7pm,
Nuff said.

FREE* CAFE'

It's back again this Wednesday. Jolly Good.

Cheerio HALF TERM

Good bye half term & hello again school.
I hope everybody related to the wonderful world of Broadway Youth (Youth Alpha, Free* Cafe', The Chesham schools Christian Unions, etc) had a great week. I certainly did.
There's no Youth Alpha tonight what with it still being half term & all. But we are back on Sunday morning and we'll be unleashing our events program for November & December. There are an absolute ton of quality things coming up, and we'll publish the November dates on the blog on Sunday afternoon so check back here from about 3pm on Sunday if you can't make it to church this week to get your paper copy of everything that's going on.

On Sunday we’re in REVIEW mode. The term is half over and the year is almost gone, so it’s a good time to reflect on where your life is at the moment.

See you on Sunday!

(Youth Alpha is a Christian group for people in school year 7 to 11 & meets at 10.30am till 12pm at Broadway Baptist Church, Chesham during the main service)

Youth Alpha this week - time & venue change!

On Friday night (5th October) Youth Alpha are meeting up with our friends at
Newtown Evangelical Baptist Church
301 Berkhampstead Road,
Chesham, Bucks, HP5 3AT

from 7.15pm to 9pm. Please note the different time to usual!!!!

Here's some directions to Newtown:

Driving north along the A416 from Amersham you pass through the town of Chesham. Pass the park and pond on the left, then two further roundabouts. Pass the neon loveliness of the Mighty Bite take on the right as you drive north along Berkhampstead Road. The church just after a zebra crossing and Newtown First school on the Right. There is a car park behind the church.

Approaching from Berkhamsted and the A41 drive down Nashleigh Hill into Chesham. Follow the road round sharp left at the bottom. You are now driving south along Berkhampstead Road, passing St Columbus church on your right. Newtown church is about 400 yards along on the left hand side. There is a car park behind the church.

By Underground (Metropolitan Line): outside the station turn left down into the main shopping area. Then turn right and follow the High St north, past Sainsbury's. Continue along Berkhampstead Road past the neon loveliness of the Mighty Bite take on the right. The church is on the right just after a zebra crossing and Newtown First School. The walk from the station takes about 15 minutes.

And here's some blurb about Youth Alpha:
YA is a group for young people in school years 7 to 11 run by Broadway Baptist Church. We meet on Friday nights during term time to have fun, build friendships together and learn more about Jesus Christ. We also meet on Sunday mornings during the main church service. For more info call the church office on 01494 772244.

Youth Alpha is (also) BACK!

From tonight Youth Alpha is back on Fridays (7.30 - 9.30pm) and Sunday mornings (10.30 - 12pm) @ Broadway Baptist Church.

Tonight we kick off the term with some chit chat, games and (most importantly and inkeeping with traditions dating back all of 18 months) we'll be dipping food into chocolate and eating it. For tonight is the legendary

YOUTH ALPHA CHOCOLATE FONDUE SOCIAL NIGHT.

Oh good.

On Sunday we start our regular program with a look at John 2 verses 12 to 25 from the bible and a think about 'Why do you come here?'.

Here's how the rest of the month is shaping up:

Friday 14th Sept - Anger night!

Sunday 16th Sept - Belonging to God from John 10 verses 1 to 30

Friday 21st Sept - The Source from John 15 verses 1 to 11

Sunday 23rd Sept - Trust and Faith from John 16 verses 17 to 33

Friday 28th Sept - a social night (give us your suggestions of what you'd like to do)

Sunday 30th Sept - Commercial break (a critical look at adverts and other things that surround us every day) from 1 Timothy 1 verses 3 to 11


(Youth Alpha is for young people from school years 7 to 11 and is part of Broadway Baptist Church, Chesham, Bucks, UK.)

FREE* CAFE' IS BACK

Here's a sneaky peek at the promo flyers for the new season of Free* Cafe'.
We're opening up ours doors again on Wednesday 19th Sept at 3.30pm
If your in school year 6 and above or (in more normal terms) aged 11 to 18 then come along and let us know what you think.


As ever Free* is based at Broadway Baptist Church in Chesham, and run in partnership with the the Parish of Great Chesham.

LONDON BABY!

Today was the Youth Alpha London shopping trip, high lights included:

Everybody arriving in time for the train (woot!)
A tone deaf man singing the theme from superman in order to sell little radio controlled helicopters which he claimed were 'the best toy in Hamleys'
Foam sword fight!
A bear that blew a whistle and played a drum, which Dan loved. Why?
Lauren brought a carrot
The Pizza Hut waiter who poured Pepsi on my hand. Bah.
Stephen blowing bubbles
Is a pocket sized hand sanitizer really such a shameful thing Sarah?
The electric shock dueling game
The filthy-dirt-filth smell by the cash point
Gob stoppers the size of tennis balls. Who has a gob that big?
Wondering if massive gob stoppers bounce, only to find out they don't (sorry Chris!)
Stephen's white lips.
We got the right train home at the right time. Cool huh.

Jango frets his way to 10K viewings

Like it says up there, our Jango's Frets video has finaly had ten thousand viewings.
Not bad for a throw away video made for a Sunday Morning Kid's Church lesson on the spur of the moment.
Why not watch it again to enjoy the cheap and cheerful production values!

Spiderman 3 video gets 10K viewings

Remember about a year ago when I excitedly posted that the Superman video for Free* Cafe' was the most popular thing on our youtube channel with a whooping great 200 viewing?

As of this week the Spiderman 3 video is our first one to break the 10'000 mark (with shoddy masterpiece Jango's Frets hot on it's heels at 9776 viewings). To mark this momentus occassion here's the spidey video in all it's glory:

New video

Added to youtube today is our good bye tribute to Matt & Lizi Ingle:

'the A to z of the Ingles'

Matt has been working as a ley worker (or an 'intern' to our american chums) for the Anglican churches in Chesham for the last 2 years. Matt & Lizi both played a big part in developing Free* Cafe', F.B.I., Solid Rock at Chesham Park school and Intense (among plenty of other things) and they will be greatly missed by the local youth leaders and yoing people alike.

The video consists of some very 'Ingle' style humour and features me interviewing them about some of the things God has done in their lives. Hope you enjoy it.

Ben

And...

... this was the 201st

200th post

Check it out, this is the 200th post on the Broadway Youth blog.
We've posted 200 of these things now.

This the 200th post. I thank yooooooo.

Cinema shinanigans

Hey folks,
Last nights Simpsons movie cinema trip was a lot of fun (my favourite line: "Dooms day is family time")
This weekend the Bruce Almighty sequel Evan Almighty opens across the UK.
From the trailer 'Evan' looks like a pretty straight forward modern retelling of the 'Noah's Ark' story from Genesis with a lot of animal gags.
If you do go and see it be sure to let the rest of the Youth Alpha, FBI or Free* Cafe' crowd know what you think.

Here's some clips and a little review of the movie from Youtube.



Click here for the full story of Noah from The Message bible paraphrase. There's so much more to him then building a big boat. He's a true hero, but also a mixed bag of good and bad like most of us (check out the part where he gets drunk and shouts at his kids).

Youth Alpha cinema trip

Wanna catch up with people from Youth Alpha?
(It has been a whole week since we last got together!)
Wanna see the Simpsons movie?
Wanna go to Hemel Hempstead?
‘Course you do. Doesn’t everyone?
We will be leaving the church at 7.45pm on Thursday night (2nd August).
If you want to come tickets are £5.50 and we need to know to book one for you by the end of end of Wednesday.
Get in touch in the usual ways (see http://www.broadwaybaptist.org.uk/ if you’re not sure how)

Juice yourself up by watching the trailer below: