Hey all,
I have really beeen slack in updating. Sorry bout that :p.
Have had a really good year so far with uth! Also got married in march :). Married life is awesome! Went to Mauritus for honeymoon. Thats an amazing place!
We also had a fashion show again on the 26th of April 2010! It was awesome! Thanks guys for all your help!
Have a fab week (even if its short :))
Wednesday, 28 April 2010
Sunday, 01 March 2009
YouGo 2009/02/28
Hey there,
Our ISP has finally sorted out our gmail settings. Now I will post regularly again :).
Yesterday we had a YouGo at our congregation called 'Listen up'. We started at 14:30 and ended @ 21:30. There were unfortunately not as many teens as I would have liked to see there, but nevertheless we had a very good time.
The praise and worship was led by 'Seekfirst', a youthband. They were VERY good. Thanks guys!
I did my input very different this time. In fact, for 15 minutes or so there was total silence. Can you imagine that? Total silence with over 60 teens for 15 minutes! One of youth leaders said that I must always do my input like I did cause then the teens will always listen :).
My input consisted of a number of power point slides in which the text seemed like it was being typed. It was about becoming silent before God, to listen to Him again. To make time to listen to God. I got various comments from people, which were all very positive, so I think that the message came across well. Thanks be to God who made this possible!!!
Next week Friday we are going to have a 'Action Night' at youth. Basically what that means is that we will play action cricket and action soccer in our action-cricket field and then we will have a braai afterwards. Its gonna be a relaxing evening. Will start @ 7pm. Bring ur own meat. C u there!!
Our ISP has finally sorted out our gmail settings. Now I will post regularly again :).
Yesterday we had a YouGo at our congregation called 'Listen up'. We started at 14:30 and ended @ 21:30. There were unfortunately not as many teens as I would have liked to see there, but nevertheless we had a very good time.
The praise and worship was led by 'Seekfirst', a youthband. They were VERY good. Thanks guys!
I did my input very different this time. In fact, for 15 minutes or so there was total silence. Can you imagine that? Total silence with over 60 teens for 15 minutes! One of youth leaders said that I must always do my input like I did cause then the teens will always listen :).
My input consisted of a number of power point slides in which the text seemed like it was being typed. It was about becoming silent before God, to listen to Him again. To make time to listen to God. I got various comments from people, which were all very positive, so I think that the message came across well. Thanks be to God who made this possible!!!
Next week Friday we are going to have a 'Action Night' at youth. Basically what that means is that we will play action cricket and action soccer in our action-cricket field and then we will have a braai afterwards. Its gonna be a relaxing evening. Will start @ 7pm. Bring ur own meat. C u there!!
Friday, 23 January 2009
Hi
Hey,
Im baaaaccck. I fhave not been posting here for a long time cause I could not get access.
I just wanna wish you all a very good 2009. I hope that it will be filled with God's blessings and that you will have lots of fun in this year. Tonight we at Holy Culture are kicking of with youth again. We will have youth till the 27th of Feb. I hope to see many of you there.
Till lata. Gotta go prepare for 2nite.
Jurgen
Im baaaaccck. I fhave not been posting here for a long time cause I could not get access.
I just wanna wish you all a very good 2009. I hope that it will be filled with God's blessings and that you will have lots of fun in this year. Tonight we at Holy Culture are kicking of with youth again. We will have youth till the 27th of Feb. I hope to see many of you there.
Till lata. Gotta go prepare for 2nite.
Jurgen
Sunday, 01 July 2007
Winter week
Wow, what a week.
This past week we had our Incredibles Kids Winter Week again. It was very tiring but also VERY rewarding. These kids just warm my heart everytime. It's so cool to work with kids, because they totally trust you. Now this isnt a ticket to tell them anything you like. Just making sure you understand that :).
I took a bit of break from blogging during the last couple of weeks cause I was so busy with all the preparations for winter week that I didnt get time to do much else. Sorry
Well I will take you through the week now. The theme of the week was Take Five. The kids were taught that through Jesus Christ, they are more than conquerers. We took them through the Bible book of Joshua. i.e. how they (the israelites) conquered the Promised Land and how the different stories relate to their lives. The kids had to identify some problems that they face in life, and then they were taught that with God on their side they can overcome these problems.
A really cool thing that happened was that on Wednesday it snowed. Yea you read right. It snowed right here in good ol Jozi. Hasnt done so in 25 years! So obviously we had a ball of a time in the morning, skiing down slopes, building a snowman, throwing snowballs at each other etc. It was SO AMAZING! We are all so greatful to God that He gave us this snow. We never expected it.
Im going on holiday next week for two weeks, but before that, I have to preach on Sunday next week. I still have no clue as to what Im gonna speak about :p. This coming week is also my birthday. I turn 25...a quater of a century old :). Hectic. It feels like Im getting old :).
The pastor and his family are leaving on Tuesday for the coast to go on holiday. He really deserves it. As far as I know the kids pastor is also going on holiday next week. God knows we all need it.
Incredible Kids and Youth only starts again in August (the 17th). Also in August the old youth pastor is coming to visit for a week.
Signing out
Yours in Christ
Jürgen
This past week we had our Incredibles Kids Winter Week again. It was very tiring but also VERY rewarding. These kids just warm my heart everytime. It's so cool to work with kids, because they totally trust you. Now this isnt a ticket to tell them anything you like. Just making sure you understand that :).
I took a bit of break from blogging during the last couple of weeks cause I was so busy with all the preparations for winter week that I didnt get time to do much else. Sorry
Well I will take you through the week now. The theme of the week was Take Five. The kids were taught that through Jesus Christ, they are more than conquerers. We took them through the Bible book of Joshua. i.e. how they (the israelites) conquered the Promised Land and how the different stories relate to their lives. The kids had to identify some problems that they face in life, and then they were taught that with God on their side they can overcome these problems.
A really cool thing that happened was that on Wednesday it snowed. Yea you read right. It snowed right here in good ol Jozi. Hasnt done so in 25 years! So obviously we had a ball of a time in the morning, skiing down slopes, building a snowman, throwing snowballs at each other etc. It was SO AMAZING! We are all so greatful to God that He gave us this snow. We never expected it.Im going on holiday next week for two weeks, but before that, I have to preach on Sunday next week. I still have no clue as to what Im gonna speak about :p. This coming week is also my birthday. I turn 25...a quater of a century old :). Hectic. It feels like Im getting old :).
The pastor and his family are leaving on Tuesday for the coast to go on holiday. He really deserves it. As far as I know the kids pastor is also going on holiday next week. God knows we all need it.
Incredible Kids and Youth only starts again in August (the 17th). Also in August the old youth pastor is coming to visit for a week.
Signing out
Yours in Christ
Jürgen
Monday, 04 June 2007
so so soorry (like my dad would say) :)
I was rapped over the fingers so to say by a certain Ms Volker (http://bex88.blogspot.com) for not publishing a new blog on this blog last week. So so sooorry. :) Actually I did post a new blog, but it was on myspace (http://www.myspace.com/lierj).
So last week was very busy especially doing the SORTd magazine for the church youth group.
Friday at youth went very well. We watched a talk on a DVD on then one guy gave his life to Jesus for the first time. That was AWESOME since we had been praying for him for about a year if I'm correct. Alot of the teens also recommited their lifes, so that was also very cool.
This week we are gonna watch the film Amazing Grace as a youth group together. Please pray that the teens will get the message of the film namely that they can make a difference in the world and that God's grace makes all the difference in this world.
God bless and have a good week.
Jürgen
So last week was very busy especially doing the SORTd magazine for the church youth group.
Friday at youth went very well. We watched a talk on a DVD on then one guy gave his life to Jesus for the first time. That was AWESOME since we had been praying for him for about a year if I'm correct. Alot of the teens also recommited their lifes, so that was also very cool.
This week we are gonna watch the film Amazing Grace as a youth group together. Please pray that the teens will get the message of the film namely that they can make a difference in the world and that God's grace makes all the difference in this world.
God bless and have a good week.
Jürgen
Monday, 21 May 2007
brrrr
Greetings from a VERY cold Joburg,
When I was watching the weather news this morning, the predictions for the day's high in Joburg were only 12 degrees celcius. I don't know how much that is in fahrenheit. That's not cool. I mean not hot...u know what I mean. So ja, my hands are pretty cold at the moment cause I didn't bring any gloves with, and besides, it isn't very practical to work on the computer with gloves on.
I had a good week last week. It wasn't so hectic untill I found out that I had to do the SORT'd magazine cause Tome couldn't do it. Well I finnally managed to get around to it...but only on Friday morning...and with all the other stuff that had to be done, you can guess what happened. I didn't manage to finish on time. So there was no SORT'd on Friday (sorry Tome). But I did finish it late on Saturday (after the bulls managed to sneak past the sharks and win in extra time...but don't worry boys, I still support them even if they lost. This is what real supporters do you know :)). The theme of SORT'd was "Don't overlook life's small joys while searching for the big ones". I'll speak to Tristan our webmaster to see whether we can make the mag available as a download.
So on Friday we went to Fire&ICE with our youth group. Big up for Dale and the team there. It was a good evening! The guest band called GEAR was also fantastic. Keep it up with the dancing and stuff. Tash, their leader, held the talk.
And another thing that was quite cool this week was when a good friend of mine from varsity came to visit us at church to do some research about Christianity and our church life. Hope I gave enough bro. And I wanna see that project when it's finished :).
And another special thing that happened this week was my sister Ester's birthday. I wish you all God's blessings for the year.
By the way, if you have any questions relating to life or spirituality etc, then drop me a mail at jurgen@wrlc.co.za. All mails are handled as confidential and I will never give out any information about you without your consent.
I want to leave you with the verse from Romans 5:8 :"God demonstrated His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us"
Have a fantastic week and please remember to keep praying for the Rädell family. The mom is still in hospital and needs urgent prayer for healing. Also pray for the family that God will show himself towards them in a loving way and that He will comfort them regarding the loss of their daughter and sister.
Jürgen
When I was watching the weather news this morning, the predictions for the day's high in Joburg were only 12 degrees celcius. I don't know how much that is in fahrenheit. That's not cool. I mean not hot...u know what I mean. So ja, my hands are pretty cold at the moment cause I didn't bring any gloves with, and besides, it isn't very practical to work on the computer with gloves on.
I had a good week last week. It wasn't so hectic untill I found out that I had to do the SORT'd magazine cause Tome couldn't do it. Well I finnally managed to get around to it...but only on Friday morning...and with all the other stuff that had to be done, you can guess what happened. I didn't manage to finish on time. So there was no SORT'd on Friday (sorry Tome). But I did finish it late on Saturday (after the bulls managed to sneak past the sharks and win in extra time...but don't worry boys, I still support them even if they lost. This is what real supporters do you know :)). The theme of SORT'd was "Don't overlook life's small joys while searching for the big ones". I'll speak to Tristan our webmaster to see whether we can make the mag available as a download.
So on Friday we went to Fire&ICE with our youth group. Big up for Dale and the team there. It was a good evening! The guest band called GEAR was also fantastic. Keep it up with the dancing and stuff. Tash, their leader, held the talk.
And another thing that was quite cool this week was when a good friend of mine from varsity came to visit us at church to do some research about Christianity and our church life. Hope I gave enough bro. And I wanna see that project when it's finished :).
And another special thing that happened this week was my sister Ester's birthday. I wish you all God's blessings for the year.
By the way, if you have any questions relating to life or spirituality etc, then drop me a mail at jurgen@wrlc.co.za. All mails are handled as confidential and I will never give out any information about you without your consent.
I want to leave you with the verse from Romans 5:8 :"God demonstrated His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us"
Have a fantastic week and please remember to keep praying for the Rädell family. The mom is still in hospital and needs urgent prayer for healing. Also pray for the family that God will show himself towards them in a loving way and that He will comfort them regarding the loss of their daughter and sister.
Jürgen
Saturday, 19 May 2007
Sad news
Hi to everyone who is keeping the Rädell family in their thoughts,
I just got the very sad news that Stephanie is no longer with us and has passed into eternity. Please keep the rest of the family in your prayers. The dad, Jochen, is out of hospital, but the mom is still in icu as far as I know. Please continue to pray for her, especially in this time of shock and sadness.
Even in this sadness, I do know that there is hope, because Stephie knew our Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ. She has been set free from this earthly body which was destroyed in the car accident, and she is now without pain in her Saviours loving arms.
Stephanie will be sorely missed by all who knew her. She was an awesome person who was always so positive and had this huge smile on her face and was always willing to give a hug.
I was reminded now of the song from Tree63 that says that God gives and He takes away, but still blessed is His name. Lets thank God for the impact that Stef had in our lives and that we had the priviledge to have her amongst us. Please continue to pray for the family in this hard time.
It is truly like the Bible says; Life but is but a fleeting shadow, a vapour which is here today and gone tomorrow. So live every day as if it was your last. Make peace with those who you quarrel with because you might not see them tomorrow to sort it out. It is for this reason that it is so important that we invest our time in the right things. In things that have eternal value. Life is short. Make time for your loved ones. This life is a preparation for the life to come.
God's story – His plan for the world, if you will – is continually unfolding. And, everyone – believers and unbelievers alike – have a role to play. Make no mistake about it: You are part of God's story! God has chosen that people be given temporary charge of the planet. Further, Christ-followers are given temporary charge as God's ambassadors – His personal representatives to be His messengers to enlarge His place in the hearts and minds of people. (Stef certainly was a example of Gods love). With these "charges" also come responsibility and accountability. According to the Scriptures, there really will be a judgment day where we will have to give an account for our stewardship.
In a world of 6.4 billion people, it's easy to lose sight of the fact that in God's story, every person matters. You may feel sometimes like just another lemming in the crowd on the way to the end of the cliff! But, I believe that what God said to Jeremiah applies to each person, "before you were born, I knew you; before you were born, I set you apart" (Jeremiah 1:5).
In God's story, you matter! We may not be able to see beyond the current chapter of how our lives play out in His story. But as Christ-followers, I do know this: Our most important tasks involve doing the necessary things that lead to growth in our relationship with Jesus so that we may – in ever-increasing fashion – reflect Jesus in all we do. In this way, we pass-on this unfolding story of what God has done and what He is doing in the world. Then, at the end of our days, we can rest assured that we have kept the plot moving along.
Have a good week
Jürgs
I just got the very sad news that Stephanie is no longer with us and has passed into eternity. Please keep the rest of the family in your prayers. The dad, Jochen, is out of hospital, but the mom is still in icu as far as I know. Please continue to pray for her, especially in this time of shock and sadness.
Even in this sadness, I do know that there is hope, because Stephie knew our Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ. She has been set free from this earthly body which was destroyed in the car accident, and she is now without pain in her Saviours loving arms.
Stephanie will be sorely missed by all who knew her. She was an awesome person who was always so positive and had this huge smile on her face and was always willing to give a hug.
I was reminded now of the song from Tree63 that says that God gives and He takes away, but still blessed is His name. Lets thank God for the impact that Stef had in our lives and that we had the priviledge to have her amongst us. Please continue to pray for the family in this hard time.
It is truly like the Bible says; Life but is but a fleeting shadow, a vapour which is here today and gone tomorrow. So live every day as if it was your last. Make peace with those who you quarrel with because you might not see them tomorrow to sort it out. It is for this reason that it is so important that we invest our time in the right things. In things that have eternal value. Life is short. Make time for your loved ones. This life is a preparation for the life to come.
God's story – His plan for the world, if you will – is continually unfolding. And, everyone – believers and unbelievers alike – have a role to play. Make no mistake about it: You are part of God's story! God has chosen that people be given temporary charge of the planet. Further, Christ-followers are given temporary charge as God's ambassadors – His personal representatives to be His messengers to enlarge His place in the hearts and minds of people. (Stef certainly was a example of Gods love). With these "charges" also come responsibility and accountability. According to the Scriptures, there really will be a judgment day where we will have to give an account for our stewardship.
In a world of 6.4 billion people, it's easy to lose sight of the fact that in God's story, every person matters. You may feel sometimes like just another lemming in the crowd on the way to the end of the cliff! But, I believe that what God said to Jeremiah applies to each person, "before you were born, I knew you; before you were born, I set you apart" (Jeremiah 1:5).
In God's story, you matter! We may not be able to see beyond the current chapter of how our lives play out in His story. But as Christ-followers, I do know this: Our most important tasks involve doing the necessary things that lead to growth in our relationship with Jesus so that we may – in ever-increasing fashion – reflect Jesus in all we do. In this way, we pass-on this unfolding story of what God has done and what He is doing in the world. Then, at the end of our days, we can rest assured that we have kept the plot moving along.
Have a good week
Jürgs
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