I've had some of the busiest but most amazing weeks of my life this term, it's been an awesome journey. I'll give an overview of what each day generally included.
Mon to Friday include at least half hour of prayer and worship before. The day starts, which is just an awesome way to start off any day!
Monday - Mondays include teaching to start the week off, we've had awesome teaching from Jamie hill (department manager) to Marrianna Yates (course leader) to Lindz West (LZ), and many more which could go on for ages... They've all given us insite I many different topics and taught us a lot. Mondays avos consist of music tuition from the awesome Pete Treble, who's taught me to pick on my guitar and Jen out vocal coach, who simply had made my voice better! Then gym... Sometimes. The evening includes a mad youth club in Didsbury, which is always great fun!
Tuesdays are awesome, I have team challenge in the morning, which have varied from planning assemblies, to a solo performance of our musical abilities. In the afternoon, I work with Message creative, with projects from Twelve 24, LZ etc, which means I get to use my skills on the PC and camera, which is simply just awesssomeeeee! (The pic below is from when I got to help film on Twelve 24's acoustic performance: youtube.com/watch?v=TF1hAB0K6Uo). Tuesdays evening include another sixth form youth group which rocks, apart from when my bike got knicked from the church but hey I live in Manchester and Jesus is still Lord init.
Wednesdays are generally quite tough, cos I am normally pretty tired from the first two days of the week so I. Have to pray a lot into over tiredness! Wednesday start off with more teaching from some of the awesome people I mentioned earlier! The afternoons have been in a justice workshop, learnt about social justice & human trafficking, whilst planning a event to raise awareness for it, we managed to plan and pull off a pretty cool event to do that which was wicked. Avos include fitness with Marrianna whoop (like I said I'm normally tired, so this is a challenge) Lindz came for the last week and killed us all but it is always a laugh :D. I then have a night off!
Thursday rockssss. Tom Butler. The amazing Tom Butler, has come and taught us how to practically be better youth workers, (He's my favourite teacher so far) through biblical truths and practical teaching. Literally so good, I loved it it! Thursday avos I'm with LZ, in the light office which obviously flipping rocks, this goes from lyric and back video creation to filming a christmas vid this week, including egg nogg lattes from Starbucks, flipping love these avos! Here's a pic from when we went to Liverpool cathedral, sickk venue! it was rockiinnn. On thursdays I also have another night off and chilllll or edit videos i'm working on.
Fridays start off with reflections in the week, on what we've learnt, what a Gods been teaching to us! This varies in style from week to week bit is always helpful to stop for a few hours. Friday afternoons have been with Tim or Emma Owen looking at ourselves/ how we present ourselves on stage or in my performance situation, these are always really helpful, lovin these tingsss. Friday evening are the favourite of my weeks, we get to go on the Eden bus project in my area, all the kids are coming from the estate onto the bus, chilling, playing the games and we basically preach the gospel to them each week (even if they're playing FIFA), quite a few have come to church, which is awesomeeeee and some starting to really think about God, which just,flipping rockssss, always the hilight of my week!
Saturdays are my chill days. Well quite a lot of the to me they've been full, I played for brightline on one week, served on the production team at message vision night, loved it! Another included being on the video/ media team at prayer storm <<< This was soo soo sick. I've loved serving on these weekends, when I'm not doing stuff I've been chilling, even went to the cinema last week, whooooo!
Sunday is a lie in! Thanks to our church meeting at 4pm HAHAHA goodbye early Sunday mornings!! I'm either on the worship team or leading on the youthwork, which include silly games and A God slot, to be honest I think I enjoy it more than the youth do, coming up with ridiculous games and then watching the youth do it hahah! We then have food after and I'm loving getting to know people at church! Gooooood times!!
All in all it's been a real journey!! I've had so much fun and experience over the past term, I've been living the dream to be honest! I've had little time to stop, sleep or think but I've definitely had time to get to know God a lot more! I've only been I'll twice and missed just one day ( this is waaaay to good to miss). Pray for me as I now start this new term. Pray for my health to be as good as last term! Pray that I learn to say no this term and make sure I handle my time (& time off) really wisely! Pray that I have a siiiiick term getting to know God even more and that I let him use me the way he wants!!!
THANK YOU SO MUCH TO MY SPONSORS (YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE!!) You'll making this year possible... with an occasional caramelatte as well... lol. Seriously though you're all SICKK.
I've had an awesome break over Christmas, Here starts term 2 (& a healthy diet again). 2014 here I come. :D
