MySpace Club 4 Teens - Transformed: The Thieves On The Cross!

 

Tomorrow afternoon we'll have our
My Space Club 4 Teens
for this school year.

We organize this club for local kids,
in partnership with Budrio Town Hall
as part of their after-school programme.

In this way, we've been given a room in Budrio's Library and social workers are sending some of the kids they follow. 

As part of our club, we also offer help
with their English home-works.

 

 

 

 

Together we'll engage with the YfC Rock Solid material, interacting with the theme: Transformed: The Thieves On The Cross!

We'll play lots of fun games like: Chick Flick, Hot Cross Bun Raisin Race, Odd One Out, Who Knows Best?, Bop or Flop, Set in Stone, Flip Your Opinion, which will serve as illustrations to Nino's Talk from Luke 23:26-49. In the thief's heart transformation, we have a specific fulfilment of Christ’s prayer on the cross. As soon as Christ had uttered, “Father, forgive them” (Luke 23:34), the Father answered that prayer by turning a once-reviling criminal into a Christ-glorifying saint. Often we hear from irreligious people that they will simply believe before they die, like the dying thief did. This isn’t what happened here! The thief didn’t believe in Jesus as a last-second effort to cover all of his afterlife bases. No, the dying thief believed that this crucified, cursed man was a King, and a Saviour, and a Treasure. This is the beauty of the Gospel. It takes the most hopeless situation, even the warranted crucifixion of a criminal, and offers the very opposite— life. «And Jesus said to him, "Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise".» Luke 23:43

Sunday Service: Visiting Preacher - Emmanuel Giuni

Tomorrow we'll have our morning service to worship God together and to proclaim His Word in Budrio.

 

 

 

 

 

We are glad for the Lord's provision of the meeting room at the social center Magnolia, a well known cultural meeting point right at the centre of Budrio.

At 10.30 we'll start our service and Emmanuel Giuni, from the Evangelical Church in Volterra, will preach on "Contemplate Christ" giving us an overview of Paul's Letter to the Colossians. 

If we are clear about who Christ is and who we are in him, then we can live differently, taking off the old clothes of the man who has already died to put on the new glorious clothes of Jesus Christ.

 

 

During the service we'll celebrate the Lord's Supper and we'll have a children's talk where kids will engage with the same Bible passage.

 

MySpace Club 4 Teens - Transformed: The Woman Caught Red-Handed!

 

Tomorrow afternoon we'll have our
My Space Club 4 Teens
for this school year.

We organize this club for local kids,
in partnership with Budrio Town Hall
as part of their after-school programme.

In this way, we've been given a room in Budrio's Library and social workers are sending some of the kids they follow. 

As part of our club, we also offer help
with their English home-works.

 

 

 

 

Together we'll engage with the YfC Rock Solid material, interacting with the theme: Transformed:The Woman Caught Red-Handed!

We'll play lots of fun games like: Red-Handed Who?, Wipe It Off, Spring Clean, Questions Questions, Second Chances, Weighed Down, Paint The Pebble, Take The Weight, which will serve as illustrations to Stefano's Talk from John 8:1-12. «Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more".» John 8:11 If Jesus acknowledges that this woman is a sinner, how does he then demand that she sin no more? The offence that her single sin caused to God's justice and holiness, added to all the sins committed by that woman throughout her life, added to all the sins committed by each of us throughout our lives, was costly paid at the cross, when Jesus took our place by taking our sins, and giving us his justice. The shocking fact is that what Jesus shows the woman, and us today, is that his love and grace results in the transformation of our hearts! It is at this point that Jesus says to the woman: "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life". John 8:12