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Operation Christmas Child - Thank-you

Christian Selvaratnam — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:48:18 +0000

A BIG thank-you to everyone who brought an Operation Christmas Child box this Sunday. All together St Mikes have produced 171 boxes - 18 of these were from G2 on Sunday. These boxes have already left the country and are going to children in need in Serbia.

Thank-you.

Nehemiah - Put God First

Luke Smith — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:38:59 +0000

Here is the powerpoint from this Sunday’s talk on putting God first in the city.

Operation Christmas Child collection - Sunday 16 Nov

Christian Selvaratnam — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:24:20 +0000

Just to remind you that this Sunday (16 Nov) is the date to bring in your Operation Christmas Child boxes.

Operation Christmas Child is an initiative of the Christian charity Samaritan’s Purse. It enables individuals, families, churches, schools etc. to bring joy and hope to children in need throughout the world through gift-filled shoe boxes.

If you haven’t made a box then have a look at www.operationchristmaschild.org.uk for all the info you need to make one for Sunday.

Family Focus - Sat 22 Nov

Christian Selvaratnam — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:18:26 +0000

The next Family Focus event is on Saturday 22nd November at 4pm. It starts with soup and bread at 4pm.

Family Focus is a new event to make space for families to pray and praise together and pick up tools to help with this at home, and to encourage parents in bringing up children as christians.

For more information please contact James Simister. Please let James know if you are coming.

Glo - Sun 30 Nov

Christian Selvaratnam — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:15:09 +0000

The next Glo event will be on Sunday 30th November from 2.30-4pm in the St Michaels church building. Glow are extraordinarily fun events for children aged 5-11 to enjoy and to invite friends to.

For more information please contact James Simister.

G2 does Fusion 08!!!!!

pippa — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:42:59 +0000

So… G2 is going to Fusion in two weekends’ time (21st-23rd Nov), and its gonna
be awesome!

Check out the details and let us know if you wanna come along
(luke20smith@gmail.com)

Basically, its gonna be great!! :)

pippa

St Mikes Men’s Weekend - 23-25 Jan 2009

Christian Selvaratnam — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:04:45 +0000

Dear Men, you are invited to join us for the 2009 St Michael le Belfrey Men’s weekend at the Jonas Centre in Redmire from 23-25 January 2009.

This will be the 9th St Mikes Men’s Weekend and, we hope, the best yet. The weekend is a great oppertunity for men to spend time away together, to get to know other men in the church and to be inspired by a great speaker. 60 Men, great food, 2 barrels of beer and Jesus! Here a short write up from the 2007 weekend.

Bookings are limited to only 60 places so don’t hang around. See the link below for more information and booking form. You can initially reserve a place by emailing christian.selvaratnam@gmail.com, but you will need to send the deposit or payment in full for it to be guaranteed. Payment in full will be needed 2 weeks before the weekend.

Booking form and further information here.

Comedy and Breakfast

Luke Smith — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 12:37:14 +0000

The Comedy and Curry event this Friday night is sold out now! 120 blokes. It will be awesome.

There is comedy and breakfast the next morning though and there are still tickets available for that if you are interested. It is a full cooked breakfast with a different comedy set from Paul Kerensa. He will be talking about his life as a comedian and how being a Christian affects that.

So, Saturday 8th Nov at 7:45am in the Spurriergate Centre.

£8 per gentleman. Let me know if you would like to come along. Some people are going to both events.

Luke@g2york.org or 07912 361450

Free Entry to Next Generation this Sunday!!

Luke Smith — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 12:19:22 +0000

We have free entry to the Next Generation gym for 50 G2 people this Sunday (9th Nov)!! This is something that we have negotiated with the gym to happen every term. It is complete entry to the whole gym and swimming pool for the day. We can get entry straight after G2 finishes.

Lots of us will be getting a bite to eat in the restaurant as well so it would be great if you could join us.

It is strictly first come - first serve and limited to 50 people (including kids) so if you want to join us, please contact Luke on Luke@G2york.org or 07912 361450 to reserve a place.

Prayer and Gift Week 2008 - 9 Nov

Christian Selvaratnam — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 11:27:44 +0000

This week is St Mikes chruch annual Prayer and Gift Week. It provides an opportunity to look at where we are going as a church body and also to help support the church in prayer and with our personal resources of money.

On Thursday we will have a Thirst711 prayer event to pray for our church. It will be in the church building in the centre of town. I would strongly encourage you to come and pray with us. It would be great if you could be there for the whole 4 hours, but if not come for as much as you can.This year we will be raising money for the following things:

Church painting (£20,000); Church lighting (£20,000); New Church Staging (£9,500); Stonegate Flat Renovations (£15,000); West Window Blind (£5,000); Belfrey Hall Ceiling (£6,000) - total £75,500.

We will be giving away the following:

YoYo (£5,000); Family Matters (£1,000); Apha North (£1,000); New WIne North (£1,000); Andy Roberts work in Brazil (£1,000); Cambodia ministry (£650); Jinja School (£16,000) - total £25,650.

The full booklet for Prayer and Gift week booklet which gives more details on these items is on the link below.

At G2 on Sunday 9th Nov (next Sunday) we will be taking a collection toweards Prayer & Gift week. This is an opertunity to give a one-off gift of money, or to set up a regular monthly donation. More details will be given on Sunday …

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