Good Friday – No Youth

There is no youth group this week for Good Friday.  There is, however, a Good Friday service at Willowlake at 10:30 AM.  Other churches from the city will be joining us.  If you’re around plan on attending; Easter Sunday services are often hard to find a seat, yet Good Friday we find churches coming together in order to have enough people. 

To quote my New Testament professor, Benno Przybylski, “Isn’t it strange that so many Christians want to celebrate resurrection without first experiencing death? This is impossible. Before Jesus could be resurrected he had to die.  If we don’t experience the agony of death on Good Friday, we will never be able to fully appreciate the joy of resurrection on Easter Sunday. Death and resurrection go together.”

See you Friday!

Did you forget something??? :)

Hello everybody.

First, my blackberry is out of commission for a couple days while I wait for some parts to come in the mail, so if you need to get a hold of me email is the way to go until at least Wednesday.

Second, I'm guessing that a few of you have forgotten about SERVE???? I needed the deposits and waivers in last Sunday, and have only received from Micah, Willyn, and Baden. Please contact me this week if you need to make other arrangements financially. I need to get everyone's waivers into the CBWC offices next week!!!!! Thanks.

This week we will be meeting at the church on Friday, from 7-10! Hope to see you then!

Changes for Youth This Week

Hello everyone, I am home!  Thanks so much for your prayers, support, and understanding of my desire to go and serve in Haiti.  Right now my mind is still in Haiti; I’m finding it hard still to think clearly and am still processing all that I experienced there.  Please pray for the people and country of Haiti; God is definitely at work there, but so is evil and corruption.  I’ll post some pictures below for you to take a peek at.

I have some unfortunate news for our youth group; Siloam Mission has decided to strictly enforce their age limits and legal requirements which has effectively made any further involvement for our group and Cornerstone in the near future virtually impossible.  This week we will, as a result, meet at Willowlake from 7-10PM.  I will make a presentation to the teens on my trip and we will talk about possible ways we can help, even as teenagers half a world away!  I look forward to seeing you all again.  BRING A FRIEND SO THEY CAN HEAR ABOUT THE MIGHTY WORK GOD CAN DO EVEN IN THE DARKEST MOMENTS OF LIFE!!!!

This is where my team and I stayed; camped out on the roof of a house!

The sweetest little boy you will ever meet! 

A church in downtown Port-au-Prince

That’s all the pictures you get for now; you have to come Friday to see the real pictures and hear the stories!

Love you all,

Cliff

Youth for March 5th & 12th

As you all know, I will be travelling to Haiti for a short mission trip from March 6 – 12.  Unfortunately, this is going to have an affect on youth group for the next two weeks. 

This week, Friday March 5th, we will meet at Willowlake for a shortened youth group from 7-9 PM.  This will be a games night so bring a friend; the more people the better the games!

I arrive back in Winnipeg Friday March 12 at 8 PM, but I’m guessing after a straight 24 hours of travelling that I won’t be up for youth.  My faithful volunteers are busy on other possible nights for next week, so I think we will just cancel the youth group for March 12.  I’m hoping that Sunday, March 14 I will be able to talk a bit more with the youth about my trip, so make sure you’re in church and Sunday school that day!

If the times this Friday don’t work for you with the earlier pickup please do your best to make alternate arrangements.  I would really like to see all the teens before I leave, but I know that the 9 PM pickup time might be hard for some to swing with other commitments.

Peace