The Parish Magazine January 2024
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8 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Parish</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> - <strong>January</strong> <strong>2024</strong><br />
the parish noticeboard — 2<br />
STAY on Sunday<br />
St Andrew's Youth<br />
<strong>The</strong> STAY on Sunday youth only met once in<br />
November as we remembered those who had given<br />
their lives in war on Sunday 12 November at the<br />
annual Remembrance service.<br />
We continued our water theme and looked at<br />
how Moses didn’t drink any water or eat any food<br />
for 40 days while he was up Mount Sinai receiving<br />
the 10 commandments from God.<br />
We thought about where else we see the number<br />
40 in the Bible and what it represents. It rained for<br />
40 days and nights when Noah built the Ark and<br />
God flooded the earth.<br />
For 40 years the Israelites wandered around in<br />
the desert before reaching the promised land.<br />
Jesus spent 40 days and nights in the<br />
wilderness, was tempted by Satan, before starting<br />
his ministry of miracles and healing.<br />
We worked out that the number 40 often<br />
represents a time of testing and trial followed by a<br />
time of blessing and fruitfulness.<br />
STAY on Sunday also gave over 10 bags of items to<br />
the Woodley Food Bank (picture right) and we used<br />
a reverse Advent calendar to help guide the things<br />
to buy. This was a great way of getting the youth<br />
to think about those who have less and those who<br />
need our love and support at this time of year.<br />
STAY at Reading Youth Event, Wycliffe Church<br />
Following the successful Reading Youth Event last June at KVFC, the Reading Youth Wo<br />
young people again for an amazing night of ‘Life’s Big Questions’ with the guys from Re<br />
from London. We also had great fun playing opening games, including; head, shoulders<br />
games master calls heads, shoulders etc, and when they shout shoes the first player to g<br />
STAY on Friday<br />
At our weekly youth club<br />
we gave the young people a<br />
suggestion box and boy, did we<br />
get some cracking ideas about<br />
what they would like to have<br />
on a Friday night . . .<br />
Floodlights, Astro pitch,<br />
go kart track and boxing ring.<br />
All we need to do is get the<br />
funding and we are sorted. I’m<br />
obviously joking!<br />
We did also get some<br />
very practical and helpful<br />
suggestions such as; timed<br />
turns on the PS5 & Xbox, a<br />
wider selection of games, more<br />
organised games by the leaders<br />
and savoury snacks at the tuck<br />
shop.<br />
We also had some final<br />
thoughts to provoke their<br />
thinking, including:<br />
'I am me. And that should be<br />
enough, it always has been<br />
enough. I was the one who didn't get tha<br />
writer. I'm a person. And a good one at t<br />
realest people get treated the worst, but<br />
you that' - Tupac
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