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00:00:00 2am MyLife
00:07:35 Ashby Youth for Christ
00:11:07 Hands still in the air and a Vinegar Shot
00:14:30 Chop Stick World record attempt
00:21:36 Gaming Livestream 1
00:42:54 Jon and Laura still fresh!
00:50:00 Spin the Wheel
01:03:29 3am Cycling Fundraiser Update Jack and Vince
01:12:00 Dorset Youth for Christ Update 30 hours of Radio and Football
01:21:27 Newmarket Youth for Christ Walk
01:26:30 Spoken Word – Jon
01:32:50 Wyre Forest Youth for Christ Update An all night 12 hour Dart-a-thon
01:50:47 Spin the Wheel
02:05:39 Merry Christmas!
02:06:10 4am Gaming Livestream 2
02:29:12 Merry Christmas!
02:30:14 Cambridge Youth for Christ Triathalon
02:35:30 “What’s Punting?”
02:40:28 Spoken Word – Kwesi Mills
02:50:00 Spin the Wheel
03:03:21 5am Phase Trust
03:20:00 Visit Cycling Fundraiser
03:25:45 Youth Group Games 1
03:36:45 Youth for Christ Video
03:38:14 Spoken Word – Strategy
03:46:27 Spin the Wheel
03:59:49 Interview Neil O’Boyle and YFC Quiz
04:15:50 6.20am Magnitude Worship
04:50:54 Spin the Wheel
05:03:50 7am Morning Devotion
05:23:09 Pray for Youth for Christ
05:39:12 Visit Cycling Fundraiser
05:46:44 Spin the Wheel
06:00:46 8am How’s my Hair? & Emergency Coffee
06:08:24 Taskmaster Part 1 Replay
06:38:38 Building Your Breakfast
06:50:44 Spin the Wheel
07:03:07 9am Visit Cycling Fundraiser
07:05:39 Cambridge Youth for Christ Triathalon
07:21:28 Marble Run 1
07:34:54 Phase Trust Update Crazy Golf Challenge
07:52:38 REPLAY: Youth Updates Podcast
08:29:34 10:25am Spoken Word – Kwesi Mills
08:32:36 Dundee Youth for Christ Walk
08:50:00 Spin the Wheel
09:01:12 11am Newmarket Youth for Christ Walk
09:23:06 Cycling Fundraiser Update Johnny and Sam
09:26:30 Dorset Youth for Christ 30 hours of Radio and Football
09:44:37 Spin the Wheel
Watch part 3 here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4CSIjRMqdI
Hello, my name is Aaron Riby and I’m the my life lead at Youth for Christ. I want to share with you why the My Life program is so vital and how it addresses the critical challenges facing young people in the UK today. The stats I’m about to share with you paint a sobering picture, but they also highlight why intervention is not just necessary, it’s urgent. Let’s start with school exclusions. In the 2023 academic year, 790,000 suspensions were issued in schools. A staggering 36% increase from the previous year. Even more concerning, 9,000 permanent exclusions were recorded, marking a 44% rise. These young people often face a bleak future. Did you know that 42% of prisoners in UK were permanently excluded from school? This connection between exclusion and the justice system is undeniable and underscores the need for early targeted intervention. Now let’s talk about youth offending. Over 32% of youth offenders aged 10 to 17 reaffend within 12 months with an average of four reoffenses per person. Violent offenses make up 26% of youth crimes which highlights the importance of addressing the root causes often related to a lack of guidance, support, and a positive role model. The mental health crisis among young people is another pressing issue. In 2024, over 20% of children aged 8 to 16 and over 23% of those aged 17 to 19 were identified as having a probable mental disorder. Poor mental health doesn’t just affect their well-being. It drives disengagement from education and employment and sadly increases the likelihood of offending. And finally, let’s look at youth unemployment. By late 2024, 851,000 young people aged between 16 and 24 were need basically not in education, employment or training. This highlights the urgent need for programs like My Life that focuses on building skills and resilience. So what is My Life? My Life is a portfolio of seven courses designed to equip young people with the essential life skills that foster character development. It’s a resource created to support practitioners, teachers, chaplain, and mentors working with young people. Each course is carefully crafted to engage young people, particularly those at risk of offending or making unhealthy lifestyle choices. The courses focus on nurturing skills like resilience, empathy, integrity, and self-control, helping participants navigate the challenges of life with confidence and purpose. We know my life works because we see the transformation in the young people who engage with it. The program is practical, hands-on, and designed to meet young people where they are. It equips them with the tools they need to overcome barriers, build resilience, and create a brighter future. Let me share a story with you about a young person I’m currently working with. For the sake of confidentiality, I will call him James. So James is 16 years old and currently in alternative provision because he struggles to engage in mainstream school. As part of my role as a school life pastor, I have the privilege of working closely with him. James is in the care system and in just a few months he will be leaving his foster placement to move into supportive accommodation. For a 16year-old this is a monumental transition. He will need to learn how to manage his budget, cook for himself, and take care of all his daily needs, all while navigating the emotional challenges of leaving his foster home. This is where my life has been an invaluable chore. Through the program, James has been developing practical skills like budgeting and cooking, but also building resilience and the confidence to face the challenges ahead. The sessions have given him not just the knowledge but also hope and a sense of direction. One of the most powerful moments was when James said to me, Aaron, I finally feel I can do this. That’s the impact that my life has. equipss young people with the tools they need to transition into adult life while also showing that they are valued and capable. To our supporters, I just want to say a heartfelt thank you. Your contributions make a real difference and we couldn’t do it without you. If you don’t already support You for Christ, I’d love to invite you to join us. Together we can reach more young people, see more lives transformed, and create a bigger impact. Your gifts allow us to deliver life ch changing courses like my life. Equipping young people like James with the tools they need to thrive. By giving, you are not just helping a program, you are changing lives. Amazing. And that was Aaron, one of our workers at British You for Christ, speaking about one of our resources, My Life, which is an incredible resource and is really, really good at engaging uh young people that otherwise wouldn’t really be engaged uh with education and I absolutely love it. I just realized still got I realized that as well. You you’re wafting a suite. I’m wafting a suite around. Um uh as we’ve spoken about throughout this live stream, we’ve got 60 centers across Britain uh that are doing lots of amazing work. So here’s a short video about Ashri Youth for Christ. At Ash Youth for Christ, we do a load and loads of different activities. We are working with churches, working with schools, we do um like youth groups, detached work, mentoring, and um we also partner with other organizations. Um for example, girls brigade. We’ve been working with a local girls brigade and um kind of making a support network by kind of linking up multiple youth groups. And one of the things we’re going to do with that is go on a residential to the limitless festival in small. And as well as doing all these things actually for Christ, we really really enjoy working in small groups. For example, last autumn we were working with a small group of girls and um a little bit crazy. We were a bit high there actually. And uh 90% of the time we were kind of running around doing cartwheels and gymnastics and high jump and other things like that. Um but with a little bit of Bible that we squeezed in, we kind of finished this 10e course with them coming to a church service and acting out the Christmas story being this big angel thingy which was successful and we can now continue those relationships with some of the stuff that we do in the schools. Another thing that kind of makes us unique and a bit different is um we have an outdoor activities license. So we do gill scrambling and paddle boarding and walking, mountain climbing, rock climbing, you know, all of that, etc. And um we really enjoy doing that with small groups because that’s a really really great opportunity to talk to young people um in a more relaxed setting. And um you know, just spend time with them um without the crazy world around them, but just in God’s nature. And I think that that’s really, really great. Hey, um I’m Warren. I come to You for Christ because I like um meeting other people here and uh we learn about Jesus as a collective instead of just as an individual. We uh do Bible study, we do different activities and uh I really find it helpful that we all learn our own different way and there’s really something for everything and everyone. I am a youth for Christ because I love God and God loves me for Christ because I like to learn about outside of church and I like to speak for people who um also like to learn about a youth for Christ because I’m a young person who follows Christ. Being a youth for Christ has really helped me to identify my purpose and has helped me to sense um a feeling of God’s calling for in my life. Amazing. Great to hear from Ashes for Christ. You might be thinking, why does it look like we’re being held hostage? Well, there was a No, we’re not. Help us. Please give money otherwise I won’t be able to leave. Um no no um see the camera right now. Anyway anyway no um we were meant to do a challenge every hour was supposed to do a challenge. Me and Laura both forgot about the challenge of sausage or finger fame pointed out he pointed out we didn’t have our hands above our heads. So now we have to do a vinegar shot. Can I ask a question John? Are we allowed to put our arms down to the shot. Otherwise, this is done now. No, no, no. It’s every time you put your hands down, you have to take a shot. I hate this. This is our life for the next hour. I hate this. This is our life. Yeah. And so, we both need to take a shot of vinegar. So, we’re going to do that. But we can put our hands down. Well, if I lowered myself, I wouldn’t have to. Yeah, I think you do. I’m now on the floor. Oh, this stinks. Like, what’s this? You know what? Do you know what I’m delighted about? That this is going to combine with the sausage smell that’s currently on my fingers. Oh, it’s sausage and vinegar. Now, we need some salt. Do a salt shot. Cheers. Cheers. Three, two, one. Feel the burn. I love vinegar. It is burning. I got You got to give me some recovery time. I can feel it. I can’t go hand straight. It’s currently there. Oh, I can’t. I feel so alive. This is a I got to pull my trousers up. I can’t show everyone my junk on Teddy, can I? I got to do something. Do another shot. You should hear this. You can’t hear it. I’m getting destroyed by all the people out there. They’re calling at me. What are we doing here? It’s a fundraiser. Go on, Laura. How’s the fundraising going? All right. Yeah. Yeah. We got money in some. Don’t know why I turned to We got money in. We got money in. We’ve got some in, but we please like some more. Uh if Oh, it burns. This is not pleasant. It’s not pleasant. Um, so if you would care to help us, help us please. The reason we are doing this is because we want to see more young people come to know Jesus. As Youth for Christ, we are passionate about the local church. We’re passionate about seeing the local church reach out to and engage with and build relationship with young people in their community so that their lives can look the way that God intended. And that is healed, whole, full, and primarily in relationship with him. So please, please, please, if you can give money as you watch this, as my insides burn, my arms drain of blood. Uh we are doing this because we want to see young people come to know to know Jesus and we need your help in that. Uh so please do give. Uh we are going to continue with the program. So do you want to we’re going to watch something that happened right at the beginning. Yeah. Wow. Right back at the beginning of the beginning of time 10 hours ago when Jesus created the world. When God created the world, we watched this 10 hours ago. We did a world record attempt earlier, which was how many Smarties can you eat with chopsticks in a minute? I tell you what, everyone back to this camera. Back to Would you like to see what happened? Let’s go play the video. Welcome back. We are back in the studio. Now, if you have had your eyes peeled on our social media, you will have seen that we said that we are going to try and break a Guinness world record live on this live stream. Now, we wonder, have you ever tried to break a world record? Maybe put it in the chat. And if you’ve never tried to break a world record, maybe say which one that you would have an attempt at doing. Now, I have the privilege of knowing someone who has an actual Guinness World Record. Now, they’re not here with us today, but they have pre-recorded a video in which they’re going to say what their Guinness World Record is in and what their challenge is going to be to some of our hosts today who are going to try and beat their record. So, we’re going to see a video from them right now. Hi, my name is Cather and I hold record for eating the most or M&M’s with chopsticks in one minute. My record’s 65 M&M’s. I challenge you to have a go. Good luck. So there we have it. The record is 65 Smarties/M&M’s. Either brand is fine to eat 65 in one minute with chopsticks. And we thought which two people are going to be the most spectacular with the chopstick skills. And we thought, of course, it’s going to be Bella and John. So Bella and John, if you can please uh join me. So and if you could take a pair of chopsticks each. We’re going to do this live on air and we’re going to see if you guys can do it. So, we’re going to go one at a time because I can only count one set of uh smarties at a time. So, you’re each going to have your own personal bowl, but I um John, we’ll go with you first in a moment. Uh we’re going to have someone off the screen who’s going to be setting up the timer for this. Now, a couple of rules for you guys. One arm must be behind the back. Okay? One arm behind the back, other one. Now, have a little practice. See you. Okay. Don’t eat too many. John, are you going to John’s pretty rapid at this? Okay. Okay. I actually can’t use chopsticks. So, I think we know who’s going to be the winner, do we? Okay. I’m going to try. I’m going to try. You know, trying is the best thing that you can do. But that doesn’t matter. Yeah. And just remember what Mr. Pineapple would say. Everything’s going to be fine. So, one arm has to be behind the back while you’re doing this. We’re going to do it one at a time. Uh, now also, uh, we’d like to know, right, Bella says she’s not very good at chopsticks. John’s are all right so far. H in the chat as well, could you just put how many you actually think that Bella and John are going to be able to do? Is it a humble two? Is it a magnificent 66 to break the world record? We don’t know. Um but John, we’re going to start off with you first. If you want to pivot around a little bit so people be able to see you. Uh I’m going to be counting how many you have got. Uh and our host Hannah is just off camera with the timer so we know the 60 seconds. I’m going to count you in. I’m going to say three, two, one, go. And then at that point, you can try and eat more than 65 in a minute. That’s more than one a second overall. Okay, just to put it into context. He knows maths, everyone. Okay, so ready in three, two, one, go. One. That was Teddy before the count. That was fine. Two, three, four, five. He’s trying it. Six. We’ve got the llama on. It’s the llama. Seven. Eight. You know, is this one a second? I’m not sure, but he’s pretty good. Okay, I feel like some background music. Nine. D 10. D 11. 12. Okay, he’s doing pretty well. 13. And he’s also getting free chocolate here as well. Pretty much a bonus if you ask me. 14. You’re a quarter of the way there. 15. Frustration. Or 16. I think I’ve lost where I was at. 16. No, you missed it. Okay, come on. The Come on. That sneaky one’s getting away. Sneaky one’s getting away. Sneaky one’s getting away. 17. Five, four, three, two, one. Stop. You got 20. However, however, I would like to say you did have one before I said go. So, technically 19. Okay, John, how would you summarize your feelings about that attempt for me, please? I want I want V. I want V. You want V? Because I reckon I got that in as you count it down. So, I think you’re the cheap. But do you know what’s okay about this? Even if you did get it in, you haven’t broken the world record. So, we don’t need to split hairs over this. It is. You know what? It is a PB. But you know what? You know what your constellation prize is? More Smarties. A bowl full of Smarties. Yay. Bowl of Smarties. Okay, Bella, how how are you feeling about this? Honestly, I’m not that confident. No, there’s some games that I’m like, I’m going to destroy you, but this is not one of them. This is not a destroying game. No, it isn’t. But, you know, you’ve got to give it a go, so I’m going to give it my best shot. Do you think you can get more than John? Um, no, probably not. That was a very solid no because I think you’ve got to be real. Like, there’s some games that I will, as I said, I’ll push it out the park. Push it out the park. Push it out the park. That’s a new phrase. Get all your ducks in a basket and your eggs in a row. There is But this one might not be one of them. But I’m gonna try it. Someone’s got to. So, here I am. You might find that you’ve got a super superstar skill right now. Okay. Here we go. Okay, Bella. Now, don’t do what John did. Wait till I’ve said go. Okay. We like the rules in this house. Okay. Okay. Get ready. Take your pose. Three, two, one, go. She’s currently trying to get the uh Yeah, someone online has said they think you can get 12. So far, you’ve not got any, but there’s someone thinks you can do 12, which is which is nice. Scoop like a spoon. I don’t know. [Music] Welcome to Bella learning how to use chopsticks. Everyone, Bella, you don’t have time. You don’t have time. Someone’s Someone’s banked on you getting 12 here, Bella. I feel like Welcome to our live stream. What? That’s not the rules. She’s gone rogue. She’s These don’t count. You need to at least get one. I believe in you, Bella. You’ve got nine seconds. Bella, someone said you could get 12. They believed in you. They believed in you. Three, two, one, done. Whoever said that Bella was going to get 12, what I love about you is your enthusiastic encouragement of her skills. Oh, no. That’s really kind. That is very kind. Thank you. I really appreciate that. Like, that means a lot. But I didn’t. No, you didn’t. But like John, you can get a consolation prize. So, there you go. You can take your Smarties with you. And we’ve got a spare set of chopsticks as well that are knocking around here as well. Uh, so that was our wonderful Guinness World Record for all of you guys. Uh, and we are going to move on to our next thing now. Amazing. Uh, that was loads of fun. I almost won but didn’t get the world record. So, shame. Uh, we’ve got lots of stuff going on. So, we’re going to get cracking straight to the Darn it. I did it again. I’ve done it again. Oh, why? I still burn. We’ve got to get Got to do We’ll do a shot later. But, we’re going to go straight to one of our gaming ministries run by Nick Blanch, uh, who’s playing a game of Fortnite. So, you guys get to go watch a couple of games of Fortnite. Go for it, Nick. Um, Right, they’ve backed off a bit. Oh, for goodness sake. How did you do that? We gone from bot lobby to like crazy lobby. They knew we were too good. Oh boy. That was the first thing you said on your stream. How did you do that? This is crazy. Oh man. I’m just I’m just running. I’m running. I’m running. I’m running about it. I’m running. I’m running. I’m running. I’m surrounded on all sides. Okay. I can’t buy all your reboot cards. I’m in the raging torrent and I can’t move. No, water. You’re pushing me away. Oh, wait a minute. Maybe. No. Come on. Bored. And oh, why can’t I get up there? Oh, okay. I’m just going up to the top. We got medallion squad on us and I’m just uh Yeah, I need that. I’ll stay. I’m behind cover. You cannot shoot me. Okay, I’ll take those. Just give me a car or something. Where are you? If you are joining us in the stream, we keep coming second and third, but not many. Well, we had had one first place, haven’t we? Um our second of the night. We came really close on our last match, but because I got a bit distracted uh cuz we had to swap over the stream, we didn’t quite get there. We came close. Uh right, you guys are both out now. Oh, no. Back, you’re still in. Yeah, I’m still in. Where even are you? Oh, you’re in the storm. I’m in the middle of the storm. A million miles away from anyone. But I’m just being tracked by this medallion team. I I feel like they’re tracking me. Oh, jump pad. Nice, nice, nice, nice, nice. Oh. Uh, I could bring you back brutal box cars. Or do you want to go further a field? I feel like this is Yeah, there’s a car here. I’m going to go further a field cuz the medallion team are quite close. Yeah. Oh, yes. There’s a car. We’re in business now. I’m just hiding. Do you think they saw me? No, not at all. You got away with that one. Do you want to ride? I have got a car in front of me. In fact, I’ve got two. But this this team just came past me and just started Yeah. shooting. Where Where are you? You’re there. Right. Where are we going to go? I think we need to go here. How How did you get so far away? Or how did I get far away? I think they just used that reboot. Okay, let’s let’s Why don’t we Okay, let me buy the Yeah, we could do now. Um Right. I I don’t want to do it on my own. We need to do it together. We need to do it together. That medallion team might turn around when they hear it. Yeah, they’re moving in. They’re moving the other way. They’re moving the other way. This is a good time. Okay. Oh no, that’s This is not a good time. I’m sending. No, you’re not. We’re going. Go, go, go, go, go. No. Run away. Go, go, go, go, go, go. Oh, okay. [Laughter] No. Well, that went well. That was not a top three finish. Uh well, well done everybody. We tried our best. Um cool, cool. If you’re joining for the stream, obviously we have raised more than £195. That is my own personal target that I’m trying to uh reach, but all of my friends are now asleep, so I’m hoping that they will donate tomorrow. Um, cool. Right. Okay. So, if we were going to evaluate what went wrong in that in that game, can we not evaluate it that is it just everything just everything went wrong. Literally the last game we’re in felt like almost like a a bot lobby. It was like much much simpler and then this one was just Yeah. mental. I’m just going to turn over because we’ve been dropped somewhere kind of calm this time and it was calm for about two minutes and then yeah, just got swarmed. Uh I think as well I think with the now you can reboot people back in so much easier. I do think end games are a lot more chaotic. That is true because you don’t have to like pick up the reboot card. It doesn’t time out or even if it does you can buy them back in. I just like we’ve had several matches where at the end it’s like it’s really down to the wire. Three sometimes four teams in a small circle. Um I think you’re much more likely to be in end game with a bigger number. Yeah. What do you think about that change of being able to buy and re takes away the strategy of oh you have to go get your teammates’s card and yeah maybe epic kind of dive into the storm to get their card back plays. I I kind I kind of like it though at the same time. Yeah, I I kind of like it because it does mean that rather than like if you can’t as a as a team player, it is quite nice to I love the music. I love the music when you come back in. It’s so good. Right, let’s go. Let’s go get Darth Vader, shall we? Um, let’s do it. I I just love that whole like if you if your friend dies really early and you don’t get the reboot card forever m, it’s like true. Okay. Well, we just keep either we keep playing and that could be like another 20 minutes of playing the game without somebody um or you just you just crash out early. You just go, “Oh, well, we just be a bit silly with it and just to get the game over with so you can start again.” Right. So, yeah, that’s a very good point. So, that’s what I like about it. It does make it I think probably a little bit more chaotic at the end. I’m going to go a thing already. Oh yeah. Okay. There’s a lot. How’d they get here so quick? No. No. No. Attacking. Is that So, I’ve just given you my final bits that I have available, Nick. A Thank you. Uh to to this tree. Hopefully. Where is he? Where is he? up in Darth Vader’s palace. Oh, okay. I see a stormtrooper here. He’s a little short for a stormtrooper. There’s two of them. Oh, I didn’t see you, bro. Darth Vader can’t see like that. I think he just force pulling me. Did he just pull you back? Yeah, he just force pulled me in. Why? Why is he staring? Cuz he started later. That’s why. I got him. Good. Did you join our team? It’d be good if you joined our team. Yeah. Well, can you just get his special abilities or something? Yes. Oh, here on me. It’s a bit late. I’m following Darth Vader into portal of death. Okay. Knocked one down. Knocked one. You’re the You’re the best, Nick. Oh my gosh. My game is glitching on a rock. There you go. Oh, thanks. Where are they? Where? Okay. I don’t know. But I’m going to get We can get his reboot card. Oh, over there. Oh, on the roof. On the roof. I don’t even see him on the roof. Uh to your to the right a bit. Uh, I can’t see him. Uh, uh, they dropped down. They’re not there anymore. Oh, there’s knocked. Nice. Oh, 186. These snipers are too good. They’re amazing. Right, so it’s just one more then if we go push them together. Hold up. Wait a minute. Hold up. Oh, where’s he gone? Has he run away? No. He’s a stormtrooper. He blends in. Oh, no. He’s He’s exactly where I think. You got him, Nick. You got him. Yes. Easy. Easy. This thing. You’ll be much better at it with than I will. Uh oh. Come on. Pick the right thing up. Right. Let’s get you boys back in. Um where’s the There it is. There it is. You know what? I’m feeling it. The energy is high this game. Right. Are you ready? I I’m going to make a jump. Go on then. Do it. No. [Laughter] I literally just looked away for two seconds. I wor I meant to jump. I meant to jump that and after doing an epic win in in that moment and then epically falling to my death. Oh my. I I hope the other team was watching and found that um equally hilarious. Oh, do I have a Do I have a um There we [Music] go. You can’t hear that, but got some sad music in the background. Oh. I’ve also got this. I think I’ve got this one as well. Star Wars theme. I find your lack of faith disturbing. Yes, I’ve got a Darth Vader sound. I could like just like push in all these buttons to get all these sounds up. I have managed to clip that on your YFC account. Oh, thanks. That the bit where I I took out the last fella or or the bit where I just decided not to jump when I needed to jump. It was It was me going, “This is it, guys. I’m feeling it. We’re taking out Darth Vader. The energy’s high.” And then you’re going, “Watch this epic jump, guys.” Watch this, guys. Didn’t even need to do that jump. I could have taken the long route and gone on the bridge. That’s the silliest part about that. Oh dear. H Well, there we go. this guy. I’m just I’m just going to go and go for a swim. I think it’s the best thing to do. Remember how we were like, “Yeah, when it switches over to us, we’ll be in like the end of the game, probably like about to get the the victory before it switches away. Let’s start the game now because then yeah, we’ll be at the point of like winning a game.” No. Uh-huh. Oh, man. Okay. Um, where where are we going? Where haven’t we landed yet? No, I do you know what? Do you know what? I think we need to go back there. Okay. We We need to redeem ourselves. Exactly. Having worked so hard for it. We need justice. Yeah. No justice. No. Darth Vader. Okay. So, Nick, I’m wondering, can you give me any tips to be better at this game? Uh, tips to be better. Yeah. Yeah. Um, so don’t die. Nice. And shoot the other person. Ah, didn’t think of that. Thank you. He’s run away. This is a running joke. This is all of our every time we play any game together, it’s like this is the tip. Uh I’m I’m going to run through. I’m going to run through. I’m not running through. Oh, stop shooting at me. Where’s the Oh my gosh. There’s the enemy team. One in the uh thingy. I think I’m Oh, you’re in the I just jumped off the roof. Okay, that’s good. Do you want to take on your fire? Where did that person come from? Got you. Right. I could do with some heals. Ready? Yeah, mate. Uh, come over here. What is this guy doing? Oh, there’s a bunch of slurp things here. Cool. Oh, Jared, I’ve got some minis. Go back. Wait, back up. There’s slurp behind you. Who’s this? What are you doing, fella? This guy There’s a storm trooper trying to pickax. Oh, Darth Vader’s here. Next thing. Oh, hello. I’m in uh What are you in? You’re You’re hitting him with the TIE fighter, are you? All right, he’s dead. Darth Vader is down. What’s this guy doing? What’s Who are you? There’s some people over here. Uh I’ll take that, I think. in. How do I get in? You need There’s someone over this way somewhere. Oh, yeah. Cool. Hey, Darth Vader. Darth Vader. Are you shooting at someone back? No. Someone shot me. Was from the west. Didn’t see where they were. Ouch. my shield, man. Oh, what are you? Oh, stop shooting at me. His shield is damaged right below you. Oh, that was an epic one. Well done to you, sir. Right. That was that was the last it was an instant instant kill. So that that was the last of their team. So I think we’re all good. Look, I don’t have to res anybody. I might just try and do that leap just to see if I can actually do it. Well, we’re all alive. We’re all alive. This is what should have happened. Where Where is it? Where is that leap? This is This is the leap. Right. Okay. Here we go. Oh, there’s somebody else here. Oh, y Oh, where is he? He underneath on the roof. No, he’s he’s over here. Come on. Oh, he’s so close. Got him. Well done. Right, here we go. He’s like this. I’m watching. Still, there we go. I did it. I did it. You landed on the thing. Okay. Yeah, fair. That’s sort of There we are. I can do it. Right. Where did this fella go? Oh, there he is. I see him. Oh, Nick, I didn’t quite do it. I’ll crawl my way to you guys. Ah, how could you be so silly as to like fall off a jump like that? Ridiculous. I jumped I jumped a little early and uh you have to make sure you grab the line. Yeah, I tried and I I was right at the bottom and I pressed it and it just didn’t chuck you over there. Thank you. Oh, okay. Oh dear. There we go. Oh, can’t believe you’ve done this. Can’t believe you. You You’ve let yourself down. You’ve let your friends down. You let the stream down. Maybe even let your mom down. Oh, no. A mom’s there’s nothing here. I don’t like this weapon anyway. This heavy blaster. I can’t seem to hit a shot with it. Yeah, it’s so weird. I think um bit too heavy for your little puny arms. Is it? No, it’s just he’s just all over the place. What’s this one? Is that the same one? Oh, no it isn’t. But that that’s good. Uh there’s a med kit over there if anyone wants one. I actually could do with one. Yeah, I can carry a [ __ ] Yeah, you Yeah, I’ll just heal myself up. I saw you. I didn’t want I don’t want it. I don’t want it. Yeah, you do want uncommon. All the things are just uncommon. I don’t want uncommon guns. Oh, I tell you what. Let’s take out the guards so we can know where the next storm circle is. You know what? I’ll tell you what. Let’s Yeah, let’s do that. Nice. I could do with one of them. You want to take Okay, I’m going to take that one, I think. We’re being shot, army. No, it’s just me just firing. Actually, I’m going to take that. If anyone wants some pots. Yeah, I got three. I got three big pots and a medic. All right. So, now we can see the other [Music] storms. Oh, no. I don’t. So, we I reckon resistance base is going to be where the last ring is. Where resist? Oh, should we just head there or should we Oh, she’s some fights going on over. Oh, hello. Let’s have some fun in this actually. It’s gold. We’re going to leave you on a cliffhanger there. Sorry, everybody. Uh cuz we’ve got a program to go on. Uh but if you want to go check out uh Nick’s uh uh Twitch stream, I’m sure you can go figure that stuff out. Uh but we’ve got more to go today. If you’ve only just joined us, we are still streaming. We’ve been streaming for more than 10 hours and as you can see, we’re still really, really fresh. I’m really fresh and I’m feeling really awake and I love that my boss has asked me to do this. Thank you. I didn’t put my hands down. I’m not doing a shot. I think losing it. I think it’s all got too much for him. Uh, we have spun the wheel. We have had our arms up nearly an hour. It’s almost over. Arms in the air is almost over. Praise God. So, I’m excited about that. Uh but we have got some uh adverts we would like to show you. Before we do that, we wanted to thank TA who are our sponsors. Absolutely. Uh who have given money to enable this to happen. So you will find out about them in this advert break. Thank you TA. It catches my eye because um added like all of these wonderful colors on it. They were really pretty and I’ve never seen pictures like them before. Like I couldn’t imagine it being a Bible. It looks way better. The waves are just bigger and it looks like it’s an action shot. It just looks like it’s actually happening. I like how it’s displayed and easy to read and how it has loads of chapters and verses. The rainbow is kind of just there and you’re like, I want to read this. when they’re in key stage two, when they’re getting to year three, and they can then use those Bibles. So, every time they have collective worship, if they do that in their schools or RE lessons, I think it makes really good sense. I think you’ve got that the chance that you give a child a book at the end of the school year, they take it away and it goes on a shelf and they they won’t be looking at it. Um, in school, we want to be able to use these uh these these books and and this resource in a way of engaging with worship and the teaching of of reh. So we have already decided as a school that from when we’re doing like our RE lessons and collective worship from next year, so from September, um that we will start using those [Music] [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] How can we make a Bible that works for everybody? That’s the big question. How can we make something that is quite inaccessible accessible for a whole family to do together? [Music] We really want to gather your thoughts. Everything that you say is going to have impact. Lots of pictures bright by the front cover. Um with uh when reading it, it’s not like a tricky font to read. If you’ve got like every one or two pages something you can do, you’ll think, “Oh, I can’t wait to get to the next page.” having loads of like family comments and pictures and like that it would be something that everybody could [Music] enjoy. It’s just good for the time we spend to be something we can all take something away from um a verse in our head or something that we’re going to do that day. [Music] There’s space on it, inside it, on the back of it, on the front of it to write down things, to draw things, to make notes, to engage in the Bible together, and have a space that would be uniquely yours. [Music] An opportunity for the parents to engage with their young person in the Bible is just a whole new thing and a something that’s actually really exciting. There’s a real lack of things for families to do together. There’s the children’s and there’s the youth and there’s the adults. But a family a Bible is a great idea. This resource is going to be really helpful to explore the biblical stories and how they impact the way we live out our lives today. It is a Bible that invites the whole family to participate. It’s a Bible that stays open in the middle of your living room or your bedroom and it invites the whole family not just to read scripture but to actively engage in it no matter where you are in your faith. [Music] [Music] [Music] The night shift. Yeah. The night shift. The night shift. What? What? The night shift. What is it now? The night shift. What we doing now? The night shift. Okay. We are still insisting on keeping our arms in the air because that’s what we do cuz we just don’t care. But we do care about some things like the wheel. Like the wheel. We’ve been streaming now for 11 hours, 12 hours. So many hours. So many hours. And we are loving it. Right. We’re here as part of British You for Christ trying to raise funds uh for uh the charity that shares Jesus relevantly with young people across Britain. And we love it. But it is time for another spin the wheel. If you’ve only just joined Should I quickly explain the wheel? Tell everybody. If you’ve only just joined us, the idea of the wheel is this is deciding our fate. If we spin the wheel and it lands on something, it’s effectively like a bit of a forfeit for the next hour. We’ve got things such as Christmas hour. I wouldn’t mind it being Christmas for an hour. No. This is also why our hands are up here, by the way, because we always have to put our hands up. Uh we’ve got draw a portrait of the other host. I think we’d be quite good at that. Uh, table tennis. Keep up. The one that I’m sure Laura is wanting the most. Wear a sleeping bag. That is the only one I’m interested in. The only one. I want to wear a sleeping bag. Yes. Let me wear a sleeping bag. Okay. So, are we going to spin the wheel? Yeah. Oh, we do. You’ve got to say spin the wheel. All right. Uh, three, two, spin the wheel, please. Sleeping bag. Sleeping bag. Sleeping bag. Sleeping bag. Sleeping bag. Sleep. Wacky hairstyle. Sleeping bag. Sleeping bag. Sleeping bag. Sleeping bag. Sleeping bag. Sleeping bag. Sleeping bag. Sleeping. Oh, draw a portrait of the other. I really thought he was going to land. My arms can go down. I’ll just take joy in that. Oh, it hurts so much. Yeah. So, uh, you any good at drawing? Not really. Okay. Neither am I. So, let’s do it. Sorry. With our eyes closed. Let’s do that. What? There’s some eye masks somewhere. With our eyes Yeah, you could. You don’t need an eye mask to keep close your eyes. I can’t. I want to I want to see if I could do it. Actually, no. Okay. Well, now I feel embarrassed through the possibility of it. No, cuz you’re good at drawing. Let’s go. I’m I’m Just for the record, I was joking. I’m terrible at drawing. Oh, are you really bad? I didn’t know that about you. No, I really am not. Okay. Are we timed? Is it a time thing? Otherwise, we’ll be here in 20 minutes. Uh yeah. Uh can we Yeah. You ready with a timer? 2 minutes. Two minutes. Let’s go. Two minutes is a long Okay, fine. Two minutes. Uh, if you wanna I might you might be able to get a shot of me starting to draw maybe. Um, uh, I’m gonna start. Oh, I’ve not even done this in the middle. Hang on. Smile, Laura. Smile. I don’t like it. I feel self-conscious. Feel uncomfortable. That looks about right. I don’t like I feel really uncomfortable that someone looking at me. And then lips around the smile. Some eyes and some glasses. All you are right now is eyes and some glasses. You look like a superhero mask. Uh, I look like a superhero. So, that’s what I’m hearing. Thank you, citizen. Uh, I am worse at drawing than I thought would be my first part of my feedback. Oh. Oh, dear me. Please don’t be offended by this, John. There’s a 30 seconds gone already. Ability. Oh. Uh, no. That’s bad. Really bad. Your hair’s quite complicated to draw. Am I thinking the rest are coming out? You’ve got eyes and you’ve got eyelashes. I do have That’s the thing about you. Have I got eyebrows? I’ve got eyebrows in actual life. Oh, dear me. I’m sorry. I’m so Oh, one minute. Flipping it. Yeah. Yeah. And you’ve got hair. I’d like some. And you’ve got hair that’s wavy. It’s wavy. Oh my word. You look like a grandma. I’m really sorry. And I didn’t. And you’ve got wavy hair and you’ve got a neck. like an elf. A grandma elf. I feel like I’m nailing mine. Uh, how long left? 34 seconds. 34 seconds. What’s going on? What’s going on with the chin? Nothing’s going on. Don’t ask that question. And then you’ve got a nose ring. Double chin. A nose. Did you say double chins for me? Yeah. Oh, I thought you meant for me. Make sure you get all of the chins. I’m really sorry. Please don’t hate me. And then uh you look like a Christmas grandar elf age or neck. You’ve got a neck. It’s really long and some t-shirt shoulders. Oh dear. Okay. Right. So, uh I’m going to be honest. Whatever you’ve done, mine is much better. Oh, yeah. I’ll just sign it. Hang on. The official John Jackal signature. And if you’re watching and would like to buy these, I’ll take a donation of £15 and you get this beautiful thing. Right. Uh do how we going to do this? Do you want to reveal after three? So if we reveal this camera, I should go forward and move in. Yeah. Yeah. And then we’ll have to go one by one to this camera, I think. Does that sound right? Okay. Right. Uh three, two, one, reveal. Oh, you can’t see. You can’t see it. Let’s move them in. Move them in. There’s one. There’s one. That’s John. This is the grandma elf. Yours is genuinely better. And this is mine. I do look a bit like that. And if you look you What do you What are you saying? What are you saying here? Back. Back. There. There. You’ve got a nose ring. Yeah. You’ve got you’ve got lips and teeth. And then basically all you ever say, which is just written there. Can you read what that says or finger? Sausage or finger. What a joy to be alive. What a How much are you going to charge for yours? A flirted crib. If someone gives 30 quid, we’ll post that to you. We will post it. And if you give Who wouldn’t want that on their wall? Imagine waking up in the morning to that on your wall next to your bed. My wife has that privilege every day. You wake up in the morning and this being the first thing you see for only £30. And then for this, it’s 15 because uh it’s not as good. And and you can get them both as a bundle for £40. So £40 you get the both of them. Right. Done. So we’ll store those over there. Uh yeah, let us know. Uh and we’ll work out knowing where to post them to donate and maybe put it in the notes or something with your donation. Yeah, actually we can only uh post UK only. So it can’t go internationally. Sorry everybody. Um, okay. So, we Yes, we would like to go and Have we got an update? We’re here because we want to fund raise money. Uh, not just not just fogg our art. How much has been given? We need to nail this. So, it goes this. So, you’ll look there and then you’ll look at the thing on the side of the screen. Yeah, we do. Yes. We need to stand this side to get the money on that side. Okay. And then we’re going to go onto this camera. You ready? Three, two, one. Camera. I’m going to be pointing at the money. We have raised 5338. Wow. 5,338. Thank you so much for your generous giving. Thank you so much for bearing with us. Thank you so much for those millions of people that are going to pay £40 for both pictures. In fact, if millions of people do it, we’ll just give a week to drawing more pictures. We’ll make prints. We’ll make I mean, yeah, we’ll draw draw them. Put them on t-shirt. Draw them. Yeah. Get some Get some Laura face merch. Oh, who wouldn’t want that? The sausage the sausage and finger merch or finger. Not both. Never both. Only only one. That’s intrusive. Yeah. One. One. Just one. Uh, so thank you for giving. We are so so grateful. And please keep giving. We are still here, John, for another three hours. Still here for another three hours. We are halfway through our shift. Oh, it’s bad. So, uh, please, please, please keep giving. Yeah, absolutely. And if you’re wondering how to give or where to give, uh, the number that you can ring is 01215029620. The number again is 0121502962. If you’re looking for a link to give, it’s wyfc.co.ukdonate. That again is www.wyfc.co.uk. uk/donate. But right now, we’re going to hear another story from National Youth for Christrist. My name is Chris and I’m the youth lead here at Hope Church Houndso and I’m here at our good sheeperd location where we’ve been working with young people who live on the nearby Meadows estate since 2019. across the six years that we’ve been serving these young people, we’ve been able to get to know so many young people and journey with them across the whole of the secondary school years. But recently, we’ve we’ve begun to see these young people move into adulthood. So, that’s a challenge that we’ve been facing over the last few months. Um and towards the back end of 2024, I met Anelisei who works for Youth of Christ and she began to share about her role for Youth of Christ and her mission towards launching more youth work on the states in this area of London. And so we’ve started a new after school club for year fives upwards and we’ve been able to partner with the local primary school which is Beaver’s School. We were faithfully going in there week after week sharing about the club. And since we’ve started, we’ve seen almost 20 young people from the school in year five and six come directly from the school to our after school club. And this has been made possible by Youth for Christ and the amazing work that they’ve been doing in this area of London. Hi, my name is Lana and I do a number of things here at the youth church. Usually help with arts and crafts and things. I enjoy it because I end up meeting lots of new people and I enjoy I enjoy meeting new people and uh I feel like it’s a real nice community here and everyone feels included. Hello, I’m Anna Lacy and I’m urban lead for Youth of Christ in London and I’m very happy to be talking about the Meadows Youth Club today. Um you have met Chris before um and he was talking how the youth work came about when we met each other and at the mother’s youth club every Monday we provide a safe space for young people to come and we we use one of our programs that is called heat and eat. So we often cook with young people, teach them how to cook and we eat with them. Whilst we eating we have discussions about all sorts of things. So we we get to listen to them their hearts, their problems and we also pray together. So it’s been amazing to be doing this in in the medals um for now I think six months and we we do believe that this ministry will grow and it we couldn’t have done it without you. So we want to say a big thank you to all of you that support British you for Christ and we are very very happy to see that the the seeds you have planted throughout your donations with your donations are bringing young people faith uh food joy and a safe space to be here in Hlow. Hi my name is Sapphire. I come to the middle youth camp because it’s really it’s so much fun. Um, we also like we like in the garden we get to play like football or like we get to like because it’s a big garden we get to like do cartwheels and do stuff that we like. And there’s a big um tennis uh table tennis table and um when we come in there’s like cookies and like there’s cake on like the table like um like a snack for when we come in and um and it’s so much fun. Hi, my name is Amber and I come to the Meadows Youth Club every Monday. I come here because I enjoy playing football and table tennis and I love like um making all the foods and playing all the board games. It’s really fun cuz you get to like do arts and crafts and play all these fun games and we even made like this club sign with all our hand prints on it. Hello, my name is David and I always like to come to this youth club is because when we get to make our own food, we always have these discussions about like the world like and about um God and Jesus. And also we also talk about social media and yeah, stuff like that. I’m Al and every single Monday we at 3 to 5 5:30 we come here at Hope. I like coming here because we have different sess sessions and we play different games and we say thanks to God and say grace for food and have a nice time here. Play different games. Uh play also football, play tennis, everything and give big hugs to everyone here. Hi, my name is Rachel. Hi, my name is Angel and these are the reasons why we like Meadows Youth Club. We like Meadow Youth Club because every time we come in, there’s arts and crafts on the table and there’s a big tennis table and we get to play on it every week. I love Meadows Club because we get to make our own food and we get to go outside and play football and we get to play games and it’s really fun. I’d like to say thank you to all the people who donate for us to have all these amazing equipment. Hi. Thank you for giving money to Youth for Christ. And so it has been a little while since we have been with our cyclists and I can confirm that we have done over 200 miles on the bike which is absolutely amazing because we are just under we are nearly at halfway from Dudley here in the West Midlands to Disneyland on an exercise bike. Uh and we have cycling right now Vince over this shoulder and Jack over this shoulder and these guys have got it going on. They’re giving all their cycles. So, uh, are we gonna have a chat with Jack because Jack has not yet, uh, been introduced to you guys. So, we’re gonna have a little chat. Jack has just come in. Uh, it is 5 3 in the morning. I reckon you were here about half two maybe. Um, uh, is I think. So, Jack, how’s it been coming in? How’s the team? Uh, tell us about first impressions of being in. Yeah. Um, so I got in, it was dark. So, that was my first impression of, uh, coming in. and the team are a little bit hallucinating. They are going through it. So, I feel like I’m bringing in a fresh bit of energy. Hopefully, he’s helping them get through it. They’re really persevering through this for you guys. So, think about giving, think about giving, please. Yeah, he is literally bringing fresh legs. So, uh he has got the cycle going on. Um Jack, you take the mic. Tell us a bit about what it is that you’re doing todayish, like 3 o’clock in the morning, but what are you doing today? Um, so I am cycling Yeah. from Dudley to Disney. Hopefully I want to Can I just say personal goals of what I want to get to? Yeah. So there’s 30 miles from Neil, our CEO, and I want to beat Neil. Do you? I’m competitive, Neil. So I’m coming for your high school, and I want to beat it. So I’m going for 40 miles. 40 miles. Yeah. I’m going to try. Let’s see if I can get it. Yeah. Amazing. Okay. And what is it that you’re doing on team? What is it that you’re What are you helping out with behind the scenes? Okay. So, I’m helping out with tech. So, whatever that looks like. Cameras, holding cameras, doing stuff. That’s what I’m supposed to be doing. But I’m also on a bike. Yeah. So, that’s also what I’m doing. Yeah. Lovely. Absolutely brilliant. So, Jack, um, tell us what is it that you do for Youth for Christ when you’re not trying to beat Neil’s 30 mile record? Yeah. So, when I am not beating Neil’s 30 mile record, I create resources for youth workers to reach unchurched young people. So we have a stream of resources that is called community resources and it’s all about reaching the unchurched. How do we get out of the church building and see young people’s lives changed by Jesus? So I currently hold a resource called heat and eat which is all about bringing young people together with food speaking about Jesus. Those kind of vibes. Amazing. Great. And Vince, I’m going to come around to you briefly. I know you didn’t want me to talk to you, but I’m going to. Uh Vince, how are you feeling? Uh tired. Tired. And Vince, how how long have you been here to What time did you get here today? Uh 9:00 on Friday morning. 9:00 on Friday morning. And so you’re nearly at 24 hours. You’re at like 19 hours right now. Uh and you’re cycling. Um what has been your favorite thing so far of being here these 19 hours? I probably enjoyed the sausage game probably a bit too much but yeah I’ve enjoyed doing the cycling to be fair. So yeah. And what uh what are you doing here during the fundraiser when you’re not on a bike? What is it you’re helping within the team? Um so I’ve been doing the refreshments for eight hours and then I’ve been doing the running. So when we’re changing the scenes and and things like that behind the scenes. So yeah. And can I say in the office Vince make you Vince make you make an incredible cup of tea. Vincent is like like just at the it’s like you have a natural sensitivity to when people need a cup of tea and uh things will all be going chaotic and then Vincent will turn up at your desk. Do you want a cup of tea? Yes. And it is exceptionally made. So it’s almost like he’s got a superpower there. Um so Vinc, do you know how how far you’ve done on the bike so far? Uh 34 miles all together. Well, you’ve done more. Yeah. Okay. Jack’s not happy about the fact that he’s just heard there’s a 34 mile target now been set. I feel like when I leave this room and there are no witnesses, Jack may well like push Vincent off the bike sideways just get back and push him off. Jack has Yeah, Jack’s really passionate about Disney. So, it’s about getting to Disney first. Jack’s going to get his cycle on. So, we will I I will I will keep you safe in here, Vince, as long as I can. So, when you’re not here at the fundraiser, what do you do at National? I’m the I’m part of a three person team for finance assistant. So we deal with all the donations that come in and the invoices and things like that that keep the the company going I guess. So So essentially what we’re asking right now is for people to give to make your job busier. Yeah. So So just to keep Vince busier if Vince he he does a lot in the office but we’d love him to do more. So, if if you could help Vincent out by by giving and donating, that would be absolutely amazing. We would really really appreciate that. That would be so great. Have you got to share? Yeah. Okay. Jack has a highlight that he’d like to share. I’ve got a few. Okay. A few. Please share away. So, I have been watching online, too. Um, when I’ve not been in the building. Highlight was Sean and Bell eating cold beans. Okay. That was up there for me. They dropped beans on his slipper. He’s wearing slippers. Sean, why are you wearing slippers if you’re watching this back? Come on, mate. Like, shoes is minimal. Um, and I also liked you getting shot with Nerf guns cuz on my desk I um I hold Nerf guns in the office. I got shot in the face by Dave. I’m holding It’s in my mind. It was ruthless. Yeah. And that was great to watch cuz we didn’t get to see the guns, but what we got to see was just bullets flying in. So, it was great. Um, those were some highlights for me. Great. also Dorset with Jake when they were doing the radio stuff. I didn’t know they were getting up to that. That looked incredible. And in the morning, Jake is doing our morning devotion. So, uh I think the time of it I think the morning devotion is around 7ish. Um we can confirm that when I’m back upstairs in front of a program, but Jake is doing and it’s good. It’s a really really good one. So, uh if you are I mean the like I’ve got to be honest, if you’re watching now, the likelihood is you’re not up at seven to watch a devotion. However, if you are that keen, then in the morning, Jake is doing a devotion. Well, I’m Jack. I’m absolut Yeah. 7 a.m. I’ve heard in my ear. I’m I’m delighted I know the program that well. That’s made me really happy. Um, so if you fancy one, two, three, four hours sleep. Less than four hours. And to get up and hear Jake’s devotion, you should. Uh, so Jack, I’m delighted that your highlights were beans on the floor of me getting hit in the face. Uh, absolutely wonderful. Um, you now have a new target. So, Vince, oh dear, I just kicked What did I kick over? Oh, your stuff. I’m sorry. That was that was in in rebellion of you mate liking me being hit in the face. Uh so Vince, where are you up to currently? What how many miles? Uh just going up to 35 there. 35 miles. Jack, how are you feeling about that, my friend? 35 miles. I reckon I can do it on confident. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. And what are you on at the moment? Oh, okay. What are you on at the moment, Jack? I’m on that nearly six miles. I’ve only been on for 20 minutes. Okay. Only 29 to go. Yeah, that that face looks less enthusiastic than I’m trying to do the maths is what I’m trying to do. And um I write things. I don’t add things up like I can’t do maths actually. I’m not that’s way beyond my capabilities. But these guys are not doing this because they love cycling. They are not doing this because they love Disney. Although Jack does love Disney. They are doing this because we would absolutely love it if you will give and donate so that more young people come to know Jesus. We want to make Vinc’s job busier. Uh we want to see lives changed and we cannot honestly cannot do that without you. If you can’t commit to give financially, please please please could you commit to pray for us? Uh that would mean so so much. So please do give us a call, sign up on the website yfc.co.ukdonate. Uh maybe maybe you can only give a small amount, but any amount makes a huge difference when it comes to young people knowing Jesus. Okay, even give more than 80p, but even if you gave 80p, that could give a young person a new to faith pack when they say yes to Jesus for the first time. So, uh I believe uh we have some friends joining us uh who are also staying up through the night. We are going to go back to the studio. Go back to John uh and we are going to hear from Dorset Youth for Christ. John, I’m gonna hand over to you. Amazing. Thank you very much, Laura. Uh, as Laura makes her way up the stairs, I’m just going to remind the three tiers of giving. Uh, if you’re unsure how much to give, these are some of the suggested donations. £30 helps a young person in crisis receive essential mentoring and support. £50 provides resources to a youth leader that will assist them in schools outreach. And £65 could support 15 churches with the resources to guide and provide for youth ministry outreach in their local community. Now we are live with Dorset Youth for Christ. You still there, Dorset? Yes, we are. Hello. Here he is. We got Sam with us. Smashing life. Sam. How’s it going, brother? It’s all right. It’s all right. I just tried to have a nap. That was underwhelming. I’m not going to lie. I tried to give a bit. It’s amazing. It’s going really well. Good. We currently got some Jason Upton on the uh station. It’s gone into the automatic playlist, so it’s choosing the songs for me. So, I don’t have a clue who Jason Upton is, but I’m sure he’s a great singer. Yeah, I’m sure he’s great. J, shout out to Jason Upton. Um, how’s the night been going for you so far, mate? Are you How are you lagging? You doing well? How’s it going? So, um, I got the short straw to do this shift and I’ve just had to wake up from a bit of a nap to do it because I’m in gone into rest mode for a moment. Yeah. But it’s going okay. We’ve, um, we’ve been getting prayer requests and stuff like that in as well. So we’ve been praying for people before we kickstart again properly when everyone wakes up in the morning. Amazing as well who are listening and watching. Brilliant. Sam, I’ve had the privilege of working alongside you for a week when I come and join uh Dorset Youth Prize for a week. Is it okay because I know you do some work in primary schools. It’ be good to know a little bit about that as well. Is that okay if you share a little bit about what you do in school? Absolutely. Go for it, bro. Absolutely. So I um so I’m one of the team that does you for Christ. some youth work and digital manager but what I do is I work in a small fishing town called Bridport which you might know of Bridport if you watch broad church on the telly so my as John saw my drive into Bridport it goes over the rolling countryside Dorset overlooking the coast as I drive into my schools and so I do I work in two primary schools uh so I’m a school life pastor in both of those schools so in one school I spend a day there um just mingling with the teachers doing oneto ones with students um getting involved where I can, playing Uno in the mornings um with them and I get called a cheat regularly. Is that because you cheat Sam? Sometimes. Sometimes sometimes going to be honest you you got to get the game over like they can take a long time to play a game of Uno. Um so we do that and then um in another school as well in a small little uh Church of England school uh doing oneto ones in there as well and it’s just incredible the work um that is happening over in Bridgeport. We’re just a church has asked us to help run an after school club as well. So we’re going from school into after school club as well and reaching um primary school age and families with that as well. So it’s really exciting the work that’s happening in Bridport at the moment mate. and I was so encouraged to come and join you guys. It was amazing to be with you. And what’s really rare for your center, which is not the case for for for many centers, is that you’re both doing high school and primary school as a as an actual and middle school, which I didn’t even know still exists, but there’s middle schools as well, which is amazing. Yeah. Which is which is crazy. like we so when John came in so we had John in for admissions week and we did we went into the primary school we went into the middle school and just one of the pieces of feedback we had from the primary school was from a TA we were in the assembly it was in the vicers assembly so every Thursday afternoon the local vicers come in and do the assembly it’s the most teachers I’ve seen in that vicers assembly including TAS it’s the most students because there’s a high uh SCEN need as well that um chose to come into the assembly as And one teacher looked at me and said, “If church was like this on a Sunday, I’ i’d go along.” So that’s just something there from John. And then another little bit that he probably doesn’t want me to say, but I’m going to. We went to the middle school. We had kids asking for autographs for for John. And we honestly we had kids out of windows like trying to get John to sign pieces of paper as he was walking around the playground to get autographs. Yeah, that’s obviously really normal. I have that everywhere I go. Uh but no. Yeah. I mean, what was amazing was the appetite and and the openness of the young people endors it from what I found actually to to talk about God and to talk about faith. What I’ can I ask one more question? Is this okay? Can I ask another question? I don’t know how much time we’ve got because I’ve lost track of time. Sam, another thing I noticed when I was in Dorset was the difference because I spend a lot of time with inner city young people in particular and obviously Dorset is is a stark contrast, isn’t it? It’s totally totally different. So, what do you notice about young people particularly in rural areas and and what are their how are their needs different? Um, I know that’s a big question and I haven’t told you that I was going to ask that question. No, that’s fine. I think what’s really interesting in Dorset is like you said, we sit across three different areas. So, we sit across city, coastal and rural. Um, and it’s all very different. So, with the rural side of things, um, rural young people get missed. So, we do a youth club um in a village. They’ve got a youth club there. It’s been there for years. Uh we had an incident where we needed to talk to the police and because it was so rural, the nearest police were like a 45minut drive away. Like that’s how rural it is and it’s and the young people they get missed because it’s a posh village on the edge of Dorset. So, they don’t think that there is a need there. And as as a center, we’re there with that need. as well with coastal is that um with Portland, you got Portland and Wemouth um and they’re two very different areas even though they’re connected and they’re connected by one road, but you get young people that are in Portland that kind of can look towards and the country and just go like that’s where I want to be and it’s that aspiration because they’re on an island um as well. And so we just reach the work that we’re doing is just trying to connect with the young people like that and it’s just incredible the the you know so with Bridgeport that’s very rural um and I did some work with a young person the other day that um helped them get a place at a college course because they were so they were so nervous about the questions didn’t know what they were going to say so with some bullet points and chatbt we managed to we managed to write them some sentences that made them shine and get and get this college course. That’s amazing. Amazing. Amazing. And such a testimony to you guys doing amazing stuff in Dorset as well. Um I I think if I’m not wrong, there’s a video as well to to for Dorset. Am I right? No, I am wrong. That is a different one. But Sam, if there’s one thing we can pray for for you over the next period of time, we’ll also talk about how people can give to Dorset as well. Uh but if there’s one prayer to get you through the next period of time, what do you want that prayer to be? We’re we’re really we’re at a really exciting stage with resound. So our our church is together and youth service that we do throughout the year and our next one in July is set to be our biggest one yet. We’re looking at doing a day festival seminars, silent seminars, start like the whole shebang. So as we plan for that and as resound grows resound radio as well so what we’re doing here um I’m a trustee for the radio station now because of what we’ve done through resound with Dorsey youth for Christ so just our our growth in the media world in the digital world for young people we’re looking at doing courses with HPM as well for young people to learn and stuff so the growth of resound and as a center as we look to grow our digitalness our digital Amazing. How can they give Laura? Uh, I believe there’s a the website. Is is that right? That that anybody could could go to to Yeah. So, if they go to www.dorsitc.co.uk bigchallenge, they will get taken through to our stewardship page and they can donate there and all the money is being raised from there is going to help with our next round. If they put hope in the message, we’re gonna split it with Hope FM just to thank them for the amount of hours station manager Dan has put into this broadcast over the these 24 hours, 30 hours. That’s so good. That’s incredible. Well, we won’t keep you any longer. We’ll let you get back to the radio so it goes off that automatic playlist uh and you can get stuck in, brother. Uh but it’s lovely to see you. I’m sure we’ll Are we catching up with them later? I’m sure we are. Probably. We’ll probably see you later. Good to chat to you, Sam. If you want to endorse it, follow those links and we’ll catch you in a bit, bro. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. You know, our centers do such amazing work around the country. And as John said, we have over 60 uh centers around uh around the country doing amazing things, seeing young people’s lives changed uh forever by the work that they do uh caring for and loving for young loving young people that would otherwise be missed. So, we’re actually going to hear from another of our centers now, which is New Market Youth for Christ. So please do lean in. This is New Market Youth for Christ. We are New Market and District Youth for Christ. This is our team. We’re about seeing young people’s lives changed by Jesus. And we strive for that by taking the good news relevantly to every young person in New Market. We work in schools delivering lunch clubs, lessons, and assemblies. New Market Academy, Elely College, Sen Village College, Fister Academy, Littleport, Milen Hall College Academy. We deliver youth work, youth events, rock solid clubs, summer festivals, and youth leaders gathering. [Music] A small contribution every month goes a long way and makes a huge difference to our small charity and the work that we do. For the price of a Starbucks coffee or tea for two at a garden center, once a month we could fund a YFC staff member to lead one lunch club. Donate [Music] today. Hello. Um, please start by introducing us with your name. Hello, I’m Robin. I’m 14 years old and I go to New Market Community Church. Where do you see us in your life? I go to one called Rock Solid and also one called Youth Church. Rockolid is weekly and we just get together and talk and stuff, have snacks. It’s great fun. And youth church is once a month and again we just get together, play games, meet new people. worship together, stuff like that. Fantastic. What keeps you coming back to our clubs? What means you keep returning to us? I really enjoy learning more and being able to learn more with people my age. I also love kind of answering questions and getting to know other people and God’s word a lot more. So, we have questions about the Bible and just about general kind of life and stuff, which is really interesting to explore. Um, so, uh, lots of the work we do, Robin, uh, we love to go into schools and teach, uh, lessons and assemblies. Um, and I believe we go into your school. Um, what’s it like when we come in? Yeah, it’s really great. Um, it’s really nice being able to hear about your own lives and being able to kind of use that as a comparison to our own and also to be able to learn with people from my class and also people around the school as well. Yeah. And it’s also really great being able to see the impact of the lessons on other people around me and to explore my own faith as well within the lessons. So what has changed in your life or what have you noticed has happened since coming to our YFC clubs? I think that um possibly for me I’ve become more confident because before I was really nervous when meeting new people and now it’s become a lot easier to be able to get to know people. Also, I’ve been able to meet with new people my age because at our church, it’s lovely, but I’m one of the only people my age. And it’s really nice to be able to have the It’s really nice to be able to have the combination of both. being able to experience church with preachers and people talking about what they’ve learned, but also be able to kind of explore it with a group of people and answer questions and talk to each other and kind of make decisions and stuff based on what we’ve read. Thank you. So, I guess the last question is there’s people out there that are desperate to pray for you. Um, what specifically can they pray for you for? For me, I think it would be great for people to be able to pray for me about um I’ve got my GCSEs coming up. I’m in year nine and just going into year 10 and we’re going to start that and it would be great if people could just give support. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They’d love to. Thanks. Well, thank you, Robin. It’s been really great to have you. Thank you for having me. Jesus told this story that recently we’ve been reading. It’s about this rich man and how he’s going away and soon he would be leaving. But before he leaves, he gathers together three of his servants. And he gives them all bags of gold, all for a specific purpose. He gives the servants bags in groups of one, two, and five, all according to their skills. He hands over the gold. He turns around and he walks into the hills. Years go by and the servants do what they think it’s best. And then the rich man comes back to see how they progressed. Two of the servants invest, and the rich man was well pleased to the point where actually he gave them more for all that they had achieved. But one servant, see, he didn’t do that good. He dug a hole and put his gold in the ground. He didn’t do what he should. The rich man scolded him and took away the gold. In fact, he even banished him and threw him in the cold. At Youth for Christ, we’ve been in this place of reflection, 40 days of prayer, asking God for a new direction. And we were silent. We weren’t that vocal. And in that silence, God spoke and he said, “Serve the local. Serve the hungry that can’t eat. Serve the people that are so cold they can’t sleep. The local that teachers say they can’t teach. We’re going to serve the local youth because it’s who we’re called to reach. So, back to that story that Jesus told, that parable about about the bags of gold. So, whether it’s 1, two, three, or five, we’re going to serve the local youth to keep hope alive. And in these times when funding’s being cut, house prices are changing, and energy is going up. The country’s just a mess, and it’s starting to look rough, a Youth for Christ will respond with Jesus love. Jesus love to every underresourced community. for Jesus. Love will seize every God-given opportunity. And after all that, Lord, we pray they’ll hear us because it’s all about seeing young lives changed by Jesus. We’re all about seeing young lives changed by Jesus. That’s why this charity exists. That’s why we’re doing this live stream. For all the being shot in the head with Nerf guns and for all the silly games that we’re playing and the spinning of the wheel, it’s all actually for a really quite serious and pivotal cause of sharing Jesus, sharing life with young people. We want them to go from death to life into relationship the most significant and amazing relationship that they can have in their life to the point of actually where we talk about when we’re not on this earth anymore. We’re talking about eternal life. We’re talking about in my opinion the greatest possible cause that you can give to. Um during the course of this last like 11 hours, I’ve forgotten how long it is now. Uh we’ve raised already over £5,000. But the thing is, £5,000 is amazing, but it’s still not enough. It’s not enough for us to share Jesus with every young person in Britain with 5,000. But you know what? It’s an incredible start. So, if you’re watching and you feel stirred and you feel moved and you want to give to this incredible cause that we really incredibly believe in, that’s been founded for over 75 years and has already shared Jesus with millions. If you want to give, you have the opportunity today. If you’re not sure how to give, well, we’ve got a few suggested donations that you could possibly uh uh give.30 helps a young person in crisis receive essential mentoring and support. If you know young people, right, you only need to go into a high school or or hang out with them for 30, 40 minutes. And actually, mentoring and and mental health provision is something that is so incredible and actually is really significant for young people. The second choice is £50.50 £50 provides resources to a youth leader that will assist them in schools outreach. Young people need trusted adults around them that are going to try and push them forward towards a positive goal and introduce them into relationship with Jesus. £65, which is the third option, could support 15 churches uh with the resources to guide and provide for youth ministry outreach in their local community. This is one of the biggest issues at the moment in the UK. I don’t know if you’ve seen the recent statistics, but actually young people uh are interested in going to church more. However, when we speak to local churches, they simply don’t feel equipped. So with that £65, what that would do is it would help us uh provide provision for churches but also help train them in in how to do youth work. Well, there is no time like the today. So if you want to give, please give. The ways you can give is they’re obviously on the screen. The number is 01215029620. It might be 3:30 in the morning, but we are still answering the phones. That number again is 01215029620. And the website you can go to is www.wyfc.co.uk/donate. That again is www.wyfc.co.ukdonate. The work that British Youth for Christ do is not just us as a national center, but we’re also part of 60 centers across Britain. And here is some information about one of them that we’re going to be joining shortly. And this is why Forest. Hello, I’m Bridget and I’m the center director of Why Forest Youth for Christ. Let me tell you about why I’m so passionate about young people. I am from this area. I love the W forest and I’ve spent the past 15 years working in child and adolescent mental health services on the front line of the mental health crisis impacting young people. I felt challenged to combine the expertise that I have in mental health with the hope that I have in Jesus to be able to offer support for young people in the wire forest that incorporates both their spiritual and their emotional well-being. Here in the Wire Forest, we have nine different schools. We go into schools to ask how we can serve them. We offer holistic support for both spiritual and emotional well-being. That can be through RE lessons, chapency support, through assemblies, or even following a traumatic incident. We host regular events for young people and youth leaders from different church traditions across the W forest. These events help build connections ready for when we all go to a Christian summer camp each year. We’ve seen amazing things happen from climbing to the top of climbing walls to making commitments to follow Jesus. There are two ways in which you can partner with us. One, please pray. We’ve got thousands of young people across nine different schools in our area that will need people praying over them. The other way that you could support us would be by financially partnering with us. Your generosity will make a huge difference to the work that we do. We have young people desperate to know about Jesus. We want to keep going into schools. We want to give out free Bibles to young people who want them. And we can’t do that without your support. But together we can see Jesus change the lives of the young people in the White Forest. Amazing. And we are going to go back to why Forest Youth for Christ who are doing a through the night dot challenge. So we are excited. Bridget, are you there? Yes, there you are. I am here. How are you? How’s 3:30 in the morning looking for you guys? How How are we guys? Everybody all right? We’re still going. We’ve just had sweets, so we’re good to go. Good. Well done. Well done. Yeah, I finished my lunch. I love your shirt, Bridget. There’s like, you know, it’such, isn’t it? It is fully. Good. Have a look at what you could have won. Hey, is it a yacht? Is it a yacht? We were talking about We were talking about the yacht and uh but I couldn’t remember the tune. So, John started pretending to pull a thing and then I started the tune but couldn’t remember it partway through. I’m now realizing this is a rubbish story and I’m Bridget, do you remember the tune? And would you be willing to tune it for us? Remember the tune to the No, I don’t know. Maybe I should have rehearsed this a bit more. I know it’s not that, but I feel like maybe it was. Anyway, so you’re doing well, right? You’re smashing it. Yes, Bridget. [Music] I can’t remember it still, but you’ve got it. That is it. That is I’m wasted here. A I was so happy when you remembered it in that moment, Bridget. You made me so happy. Ah, great. So So what have your highlights been so far, my friend? What what what good has happened? I can see Barry Mason’s legs in the background. Yeah, I was going to say that is a large youth. That is a large youth. What have your highlights been so far of the dartathon? Yeah. Okay. So, the the best bit so far has been Izzy has not played Izzy’s uh throwing now. She’s never played darts until tonight and she’s on her third bullseye already. No. Wow. Well done. And how many times is she on the leaderboard? She’s on the leaderboard once. Yeah. Michael. Michael got a top score of 99. Pretty good. Michael, have you played darts before today? Have you played darts before today? No. No. No. First time. I know. We’re having a good time. Are you good at darts, Bridget? Yeah. You’ve got you’ve got the shirt. I know, right? I know. I know. I know. I uh we’ve got a dance board in our house and I’m not allowed to play because I value the walls too much. And we went went to um It’s in Birmingham. There’s a place called Flight Club and they actually had to remove people having dinner from around where I was playing because I couldn’t hit the ball. I kept I’m awful. Like I’ve told people how bad I am and then I went out to a place where we played arts with them and they realized I wasn’t exaggerating. We celebrated every time I hit the board which would maybe hit like one in every two go. I’m really and I really tried to be good. Like I’ve really tried but it’s just not something is in my in my in my capacity. Are you going to die? Of course it’s not. Not really. No. We played darts together when we were Anyway. Yeah, we’re not good. Um, so are we going to do like I heard are we going to issue you a challenge? Can we issue them a challenge? They issuing us a challenge. What’s happening with this? We’ve got we’ve got a challenge for you and we didn’t know whether you wanted to be part of a challenge for us. Oh yeah, both. All of it. Which one do you want to do first? Do you want me to tell you your challenge for you? Can I give them their challenge? I think I’ve got is that during this call, which let’s say is another seven minutes, I want to see one bullseye, right? One bullseye. What do you think? Is it possible? Izzy, just get Izzy up. Get Izzy. Go on, try it. Well, there you go. That’s in the next couple of minutes. What’s your one? Oh. Oh. What’s your one for us? Well, we have been between throwing darts because we’re all taking it in turns on one dart board. We have been building card houses out of our Yeti cards. Happy hour. And we have we the royal we aka a youth worker Paul has managed to build a 18 card lower level of several houses with a roof on top. Wow. Very impressive. Which uh we’ve got photo photo evidence of. So is that 18 along the bottom? So 18 cards alto together. How many um pointy bits? I have to count it with my phone. Nine pointy bits. Right. It’s two per what’s it? Ah, no. Because he he did some sort of um structure where it was like doubled up. This is professional, isn’t it? So, he had one, two, three, four pointy bits on the bottom and then he had a back support with six on top. Okay. I’m just going to clear the table. Yeah, 100%. How do you feel about this, John? Yeah, I’m feeling good. While we’re doing this, Bridget, I had a question for you. Can I ask you a question? Cuz we’ve hung out. We had a coffee. Do you remember? We did. Loved the coffee. Talking about youth work. One thing I found. Am I okay to ask you a question? Is this okay? It is about How many pointy bits? How many points it say again, mate? Four pointy bits. Four pointy bit. Four. Four pointy bits. Four pointy bits. 18 cards. Bridget, you’ve recently obviously taken over uh as center director, haven’t you, at W forest. Now, what is it that kind of moved you because you went from was it you were a therapist? Am I right in saying that? Yeah, I still am. I know you still are. But but what’s moved you? What has been like the significant move for you into doing youth work? Because that’s a big thing, isn’t it? What is it that God said to you or what is it that inspired you about young people that made you go, you know, this is the thing that I want to do? You know, I’ve always served the local church where I can as a youth worker and I just feel like so many young people that I meet are completely and utterly desperate for Jesus. And in my role as a therapist, I can’t I can’t say that. And actually um this is a real privileged position to be in because you can merge my expertise in mental health and the stuff around like the love I have for Jesus and the hope that I have in him. Um and I don’t think that those two things are particularly different. um where I just felt really God stirring me about like he he’s put me in this position and he’s enabled me to be able to do these things for my other job and um what that would look like, how I could serve the work forest. Um so yeah. Yeah, it’s a big step. It’s really exciting for me actually. No, it’s incredible. Laura’s delighted because she finally got one triangle. I don’t know if you saw that. I celebrated and it fell over and then she celebrated and it fell over. How are you doing for a bullseye? Are you close? How are we doing for a bullseye? Anyone going to get there? Okay, we need we need Izzy up again, right? Bring Izzy up right now. We need to see Izzy throw. Hang on. I need you to join in. Oh. Oh. Do you want to do some higher and lower with us? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Hang on. If we if we total Paul’s score, um, can you see Paul throwing out dots? Yeah, we see that. So Paul’s total score is 21. So Izzy Izzy’s higher. She’s going to be higher. Higher than 21. Izzy. Higher or lower? Higher. Definitely higher. Higher. Higher. Higher. 100% higher. Higher. You better at this than I am, John. I’m abysmal apparently. I thought I was quite good at cards towers, but Izzy was baptized a couple of weeks ago. Amazing. Congratulations. Izzy came with us. Yeah. 19. Go on. See, she’s got 19 already. So, Izzy. Whoa. That’s already higher than 21, isn’t it? She smashed it. Came with us on youth camp last year. And her spiritual journey has been amazing since then. So, it was a privilege to baptize her a couple of weeks ago. Um, right. Michael’s up. What was the last score? I want to know if I’m going higher or lower. Higher or lower than 44. Michael. Oh. So, Michael’s top score is 99. Oh, wow. Higher. Higher. Michael’s going to get a top score. I feel like he’s the guy that when the pressure’s on, it kicks off. One. What was that? One point. 19. 19. Oh, is that triple 19? Piece of cards. Not a triple 19. 27. Ah, unlucky, Michael. Right, we’ll go for the next one. I’m going to say higher than what was that number 27. 24. Higher than 24. Higher than 24. I’m doing it. I’m going for it. Mason, do we believe in him? Go on, Mason. I believe in you, Mason. You can do it. 19. Go on, Mason. This 18 37. Well done, Mason. No one’s got a bullseye yet. Laura, I’ll be honest. Sorry. There is a pitiful pitiful thing that’s going on here at the moment. Higher or lower than 37? Higher or lower? I’m going to say lower than 37. Bridget, if there’s something we can be praying for you as a center very quickly because I think we have to move on in a moment. What would you like us to be praying for and then tell us how uh people can give to you? So, they’re the two things if that’s okay. That would be amazing. I I really would appreciate prayers over the summer. We’re going to go back on youth camp. all of us young people from churches across the district, please pray for us as we go on youth camp. Um, and if you feel like you want to partner with us, then we would love that. Please visit the website um wildforest.wyfc.co.uk. Amazing. Thank you so much. Right, we’ll do three more darts and tell me, we need a bullseye. Right, these are the final three and then we’re going to move on to the next section. Right, who’s got this? We got Who’s got a bullseye in them? Max. Max has gone. Come on, Max. It’s all down to Max. The final three. Come on, Max. We believe in you. Go on. First one. He’s throwing it. What’s he gone for? Go on, Max. Oh, good try. Oh my gosh, that wasn’t far off. Close. Far back. Come on. Final dart. Well done. Double 10 ain’t bad, though. Thank you so much, Wire. I’ll be honest. Why a forest? Laura’s been rubbish. You’ve been amazing. And we’ll see you guys later. We’re gonna go to a video. Well done. Well done. Keep going. You know what? I Sorry, but I thought four isn’t many. It is many. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Youth for Christ and the Bible Society working together uh in partnership to I guess reimagine what it might look like to have a Bible for young people that’s u really easy to use but equally really easy for unchurched young people to pick up um really encourages young people to share faith with their friends as well uh and it be a Bible that they feel isn’t intimidating or outdated but something that is easy for them to navigate and that they want to engage with and pick up as well. As a Christian, I believe that it’s actually not only important to read the Bible, but to be able to share it. What we talked about a lot is like making it more engaging. So, bits where you can write notes and questions about the passage you read. We’re thinking of adding more color and having a chapter page with like a summary of the book. and we’re adding maybe some drawings and some other bits and bobs. It’s been a really enjoyable process to work on a Bible that’s so creative. I think that lots of young people um don’t pick up a Bible because they think it’s boring. Um I’ve seen my role as graphic designer really to to bring this book to life to make it as interactive and as accessible as possible for young people. We’ve had loads of great creative ideas floating around. So, it’s been um a real challenge, but also lots of fun to bring all those ideas together and come up with this end product that we think will um really reach young people. So far, I’ve talked very generally about what they think of the Bible and their habits, but now we’re kind of going through the actual content of the Bible itself, seeing bits they do like, bits they don’t like, and show us, I guess, what they find helpful and what will help them engage more. We’ve asked the young people to be here because of who they are. So, our hope is that the more honest they are, the more helpful we can be to helping them engage with the Bible in a new way. It’s so important to ask young people what is helpful to them. Um, they have their own ideas, thoughts, opinions, and they’ve actually already come up with some really interesting ideas. So, yeah, it’s great. I am just so excited about You for Christ involvement in the Good News Bible Project because the Bible changes lives, doesn’t it? It’s God’s message to young people. And so many young people today are biblically illiterate and we’ve just got to change that narrative. We need young people to be engaged with scripture in a way that just brings life to them and that they get it and they want to immerse themselves in it. We had a young girl on our gap year project who actually didn’t even know who Moses was. We got to change that because this is God’s word and God’s word changes lives and we need to get his word out to as many young people as possible. That’s why I’m excited that we’re involved in this. Do you volunteer or work with young people? Yes. Well, you aren’t going to want to miss what we want to tell you about. Starting at just £40 with our early bird tickets, we want to invite you to our weekend. We love youth workers. It’s a weekend event designed to inspire you, equip you, and refresh you. taking place at Whitemore Lakes in Lichfield from the 5th to the 7th of September. There’ll be main gatherings with inspiring talks and worship, seminars to equip you and build up your knowhow, activities and times of retreat to unwind, a goodie bag on arrival, and evening to celebrate you and the amazing work that you do. This is just some of what is in store. Interested? Well, grab your early bird ticket now, and we can’t wait to see you. As a church, we’ve planned this summer to use one of the Bible reading plans at the front as the basis for our summer series. [Music] [Music] So, welcome. I was going to say night shift. Well, oh yeah. Okay, go. We’re back on the night shift, everybody. We’re here. The night shift, baby. But we also have to thank sponsors, baby. Yeah. So thank you so much Taylor particularly for all that you have given and for all that you do for us as a movement as well. We are so grateful for you guys and thank you for giving in a way that has enabled us to do this event. Thank you. Thank you. Now John, I think it’s fair to say that the we’re hitting the wall. Thank you. Yeah. See, that’s that’s what it looks like to hit the wall. John, talk to me about what you’re feeling at the moment. What’s your like physical representation of where you’re at? What’s your body doing? What am I feeling? A physical representation. Could you could you make a sound that that describes what’s going on inside of you? Oh, that sounds quite bad. Are you okay? It’s not good. No. Well, clearly. No. I mean, are you loving life? You make a sound. I mean, I don’t think I’m that bad. Go on. You make a sound then. Um, that’s a rubbish sound. Hang on. I’m getting there. I’m I’m I’m inwardly reflecting. You got to do it to the camera. Apparently, that one [Music] probably more like that. Goodness me. It’s more like a kind of help noise rather than a there’s a dark kind of No, no. For me, I always feel just a a massive level of of like body uh wiggliness anyway. Like always, that’s kind of my default. It’s kind of a neurodiversity thing, I think. Oh, yeah. All that. So now, right now, everything’s kind of sensory too much over tingly. But weirdly, I feel like sometimes that just makes me more entertaining. So, so it’s like it’s like you kind of want me not to you want me to drink lots of coffee and not to sleep just so you can laugh. All right. So, I hope you’re enjoying it. Parts of my body parts of my body are starting to it like it’s starting to section off. So, this arm right now is in a really dark place. Yeah. And this leg. But this leg Hang on. Wait. No. Which side’s that? This arm. That could be a stroke. Oh dear. I might be having a stroke. A stroke could be happening, right? It’s obviously not. And we shouldn’t make a light of those things. Sorry. Genuinely, like this is aching here. This arm’s not as bad. So, I don’t know whether I just need to lie this arm down. Yeah, sure. Maybe I just need a bed for parts of my body. I think the answer is we all just need sleep. Probably is the reality. Probably. Probably. Is it? And you know what’s it? Look, just for the record, for our own sanity, if you’re watching this, can you put a comment in, please? Please, can you just put a comment in so that we don’t feel alone? So alone. Uh, we’re going back to Spin the Wheel. Spin. Spin the wheel if you’re only just joining us, which why are you only just joining us? Cuz we’ve been streaming for 14 hours. 14. That’s one four. So, what’s going to happen is we’re going to spin the wheel. There’s effectively a a um a forfeit for the next hour that we’ve got to do. What have we done? Let’s recap. Let’s recap our time together. What was our first one? I can’t remember. Throw things. Throw things. Throw them and catch them. Was that that one? That was that one. We did that one. Then there was the drawings. Uh drawings whi which we’re which we’re going to auction off for £40. For £40 if you want both of them. Hands in the air. Put your hands in the air if you’re happy. And then uh Nerf guns. Cuz do you remember Dave shot you in the face? And you got shot in the face a lot as well. I did, but you like it looked like it hurt you emotionally. I think I just didn’t expect them to shoot that well. There was It’s like they’ve been practicing which feels a little bit sinister. And when you when they thought they could shoot you, they were particularly excited. Yeah, they Yeah, I thought there was an aggression behind you. Yeah, I thought I They’ve been waiting for this moment. Yeah, I think they don’t like you. I think that’s true. Um, should we True. Should we spin the wheel? Yeah. Uh, what could we win? letting that really settle in that the production team might hate me. Thanks, guys. We can’t say the for an hour. Oh, no. That’s going to be a nightmare. I don’t even know how that’s possible. Forfeit of lemon juice every time you do. I’ve still got that vinegar in me from the hands one. Yeah, me too. What happens when you mix vinegar and lemon juice and shake it up? Oh, we about to find out. This arm’s going to be in a world of pain. Christmas hour. I’m still down for Christmas. Shoes on hands. I don’t mind that. wear a sleeping bag. Please, Jesus, let me wear a sleeping bag. I want that. Please, please, please, please spin the wheel. I’m going to say it. Jesus, if you’re real, you are. No, don’t say those. He is real. Don’t say those words. Don’t say those words. Never say those words. But Jesus, I would really, really, really, really like to wear a If you’re watching, can you leave a comment, please? Right, we are going to uh spin the wheel. Ready? Three, two, one. Spin the wheel. [Music] Yeah. [Music] Christmas hour. It’s going to be Christmas. 4:00. Happy Christmas. Oh, Christmas time. What’s the Christmas song? Christmas. Christmas. Christmas. Christmas. Yeah. Right. It’s all coming in. We’ve got Christmas trees going in. We’ve got tinsel. Let’s get a bit of this on. Yeah, a bit of this. Yeah, I’m gonna have this. It’s happy Christmas everybody and a merry new year. I don’t know anymore. Christmas time. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Have we only got tinsel? This was the extent of our thought. No, there’s more Christmas in the cupboard, I think. Christmas. Well, I think we just need to decorate. I think in a minute we’ll spend some time decorating for Christmas. Happy Christmas, everyone. Is there like an ad break or a video where we can Yeah, we’re going to we’re going to properly go for this Christmas up. Yeah. Oh, we need to do a fund update. So, um I’m just busy. Uh we’ve just done an advert break. We’ve got we’ve got we’ve got a national story in a minute. We’ve got a national story in a minute, but first we’re going to find out how much money we’ve raised. So, the reason we’re here, the reason we’re doing our thing, sorry. The reason we’re here is we’re trying to raise uh money for an amazing cause, the organization we work for called British Ruth for Christ that shares Jesus with young people across Britain. Last year we shared Jesus with 1.8 million young people. That’s quite a lot. Um and we’re really excited to be raising money for an amazing cause. Now during the course of this live stream, I’m going to go this side. We because in this one on right here, the amount that we’ve raised is going to come up. So the amount we’ve raised so far Christmas and then it is happy [Music] Christmas 5,486. Happy Christmas everyone. Yeah. Ho ho ho. Yeah. Nice. Thanks, Santa. So, so, uh, thank you so much for all of that that’s been raised already. It is so exciting. But you know what’s even more exciting is the fact that we’re barely over a third of the way you can still be giving and can give. So please be calling call be messaging message and uh if you are wondering the number you have to ring. We’re still up now and we will be answering phones. The number is 01215029620. That number again, Laura is 0121502 962. I flagged at the end. I flagged at the end. And the website is ww.wyfc.co.uk/donate. What’s that website, Laura? www.wyfc.co.uk with me. Donate. Amazing. So, we’re super excited that we can be doing this. Can we go back to this camera? this camera. Uh, basically, uh, now that’s so amazing. We’re going to go, I think, to a national plug, right? Yeah. We want to hear a national story. Amazing. We would love to hear a national story from British Youth for Christ. Well, actually, we’d love you to hear a national story uh from British You for Christ. Roll the video. Hi, my name is Anna Lissi and I just had a conversation with Tony Joyce. He’s a trustee for Tambridge Wales Youth for Christ and he wants to share a little bit of what he does in the center and how one idea became a life transforming things for young people in that town. Hello, I’m Tony Joyce. I’m chair of the trustees at Tumbage Worlds Youth for Christ and we’ve been going well we’ve been chartered for over 15 years. Um but the reason we really wanted to set up Tumbridge Wells Youth for Christ was um we’ve been supporting Youth for Christ, my wife and I, Polly, for over 35 years. That’s on a national basis. And about 18 or 19 years ago, we thought, well, here we are. We’re supporting National Youth of Christ, but what are we doing locally? I mean, we were involved in our local church a little bit, but we weren’t doing anything locally. And so we prayed about it and um got some churches together, spoke to various different people, friends who became trustees. A lot of our close friends became our first trustees. We have seven at the moment. So we thought, well, what can we do? How can we make a difference? And how can we make a difference and show the passion of Jesus at the same time? And so we started working first of all outreach working on the streets. Then we started um going into the schools. We were given a youth center in a fantastic place in Tumbridge, Wales on the hill where five secondary schools, the kids walk by there every day on their way home from school and we have probably 25 30 children who young people who come in every day. We couldn’t really get more than that. And it has made a real impact because we do quite a lot of other stuff in in the town. We do acts of worship and um uh in the schools we do assemblies, we do Christian unions, that kind of thing. Um but we also have a thing um called uh Unite. So once a month we have this amazing event where 60 odd children come along where we have a speaker, we have worship, but we also have fun and games. We give them pizza and it is very very popular. The most important thing of course is the message. But there’s one particular boy I’ll tell you about. He’s great lad. um no father figure at home, mother and sister. Um English is not his first language, but he started coming um just to the youth center initially. Then he started coming to unite and very recently he gave his life to the Lord and was baptized. So it’s absolutely amazing. We’re we’re over the moon. Perhaps in one year we have contact with a unique individuals. I should think about 1500 a year. So that’s direct contact with with individual kids and we have the opportunity in the youth center to tell them about Jesus which we do. We’re just um unfolding them in love and showing them that there are people out there who care for them and and then we tell them about the good news. That’s amazing. Tony, can you also tell us a little bit more of what is it being a trustee? So what do you think the right skills are to be a trustee and support the work of youth for Christ? Well, first of all, they must have passion for young people. You know, changing taking the good news. A trustee must be a Christian and it must be a Christian who really cares about young people in the town. There is responsibility as a trustee. If you commit to it, then you must, if you like, attend, meet with the other trustees and and then we plan together how to um take the good news forward through our program. Time is probably the biggest thing for a trustee. It’s useful to have a skill. So, for example, accountancy skills are useful or secretarial skills are useful or um counseling skills, something like that. So if there’s something you’re good at, um, that helps. And it’s good to have a mix of different skills in your trustee group. But to be a trustee, the most important thing is you need to love Jesus. You need to care about young people, and you need to have a passion to really help. That’s amazing. What would you say to people watching us today? What would they do to start something in their cities, in their towns? Well, I think I think first of all, you need support of other people. So, you need to get together a group of people who all have share the same passion. If you can get churches involved, fantastic. We’re a resource to the churches. And we get involved in all different churches through the town. It’s good to have um someone in each church who is effectively going to be a champion for what you’re doing. It’s someone who has a passion for youth. if you can get them involved and get a group together, you discuss it and then you get a framework together. Would you be able to say one or two highlights of your uh experience as a trustee? Um I I think what what I’ve discovered is there are seasons. So once you start doing something as trustee, don’t think it’s just going to change. There are seasons. The youth workers change, your premises change, your supporters change, your vision changes. You know, as you develop and you grow up um a as a center, things change. You’ve got to be prepared to put things down. Let’s just reappraise. Let’s have another look and take things forward. But there are seasons um as a trustee. I think the biggest one for me was being given this youth center because our work changed totally. Thank you very much for sharing with us, Johnny. And I hope many people watching us today will be excited and fired up to be trustees for our local centers as well. And maybe we’ll have new centers. Thank you very much. It’s a great blessing to be a trustee. I will say that it’s a blessing. Okay. Bye. Bye. Bye. I hope you enjoyed this interview and the experiences Johnny has shared. And I just want to reiterate the importance of these fundraiser. We wouldn’t be able to run our clubs to have our centers and the support we give to our centers without donations. So if you haven’t donated yet, please do so. We really need your support and we know that we can grow and we can bless even more young people in this nation. Merry Christmas. We have had a very busy six minutes. Ladies and gentlemen, happy Christmas and soon a happy new year. Uh, welcome to Christmas. Any gifts wanting to be given, please send them to 01215029620 or www.wy.co.uk/donate. At Christmas, we give gifts. We do. I would love a gift of a donation to Youth for Christ, please. Um, just to big up, we are going to go over to Nick in a moment to carry on gaming with him. Nick has been amazing in this fundraiser. He has been moderating, he has been cycling, he has been gaming, he has been doing the relational fundraiser, he has been filming marble run. What’s your face? Some people would say he’s a saint. So, we’re going to Saint Nick. Sean, that was what the coffee was for. That’s what the coffee was for. That’s what the coffee was for. So, over to Saint Nick with the gaming. The other guy is potentially involved in a fight. Are we going to go and help that? Why is it Christmas? It is Christmas on the You for Christ stream. All right, here we go. There’s someone over there as well. Oh, he’s he’s got them all, isn’t he? Where’s he gone? Yeah, he’s [Music] dead. Okay. Oh, I can see that we’re on the Youth for Christ stream again. Hi, everybody. Um, I’ve been left all on my own now because uh my buddies have done a sensible thing and gone to bed and uh so I am gaming solo at the moment. Uh yeah, that’ll do. Um yep. So I’m just I’m playing squads, but I’m playing squads with randoms, which may or may not be a good idea. We’ll see. Um, okay. Where are we going, Mr. Chan? He wants to go this way. So, I’m just going to follow him. How are you all doing? Are you staying awake? Are you staying alert? Um, this really is the graveyard bit. If you can push to the point where the sun starts coming up, your body starts to adjust again. I am enjoying the Star Wars theme though. This goods. Oh. Uh, okay. Yeah. Nice. I’ve got lots of Oh, yes. Green one. Cool. Cool. Okay. The other two seem to be dillydallying in the storm. Dillydallying. What a great word. Let’s go shoot some uh storm troopers. Uh nah, I don’t need any of that. Oh, could do with just you. Get me up to full health. There we go. It’s at a point where you just have to keep making like silly noises. Silly noises. Talking away to yourself, having a big stretch every now and then. I do that thing where I like when I get really into the game, I’m like I really lean in. Um like I’m like staring at the screen. So yeah. If you see me do that, you can have a good laugh. Uh, is that the same weapon I’ve got? Yeah, it is. Is he bringing the key or what? Yeah. Come on. Bring the key. Are you bringing the key? Are you bringing the key? I’m not sure if that helped. I tried to blast him. Anyway, um I’m very much enjoying trying to do trying to look out for this the um stream though. That is I don’t know where the yellow fellow Why is he going into the storm or is he just taking his time? I’m enjoying watching the stream though. Enjoying seeing every these little snippets people with uh Well, I enjoyed Laura and um John’s shot of vinegar. That was uh that was fun to watch. Uh yep, definitely. Uh that that is one I need to clip. I think go back and clip that in a little while. Um and I’ve enjoyed seeing everybody have a go on the bike ride. I understand you’re halfway, which is incredible. Uh this is a quiet match. We haven’t seen too much happen so far. Uh let’s grab a car. Let’s get over here. Oh, he put that lamp post in the way. Going to take a little tickle from the storm here. Oh, come on. Oh, okay. Seems this car can’t do fences. Oh, we can reverse through fences. Just can’t go forwards in them apparently. Oh, here we go. Tie fighter. going to need to find Oh, he’s got a car. I don’t have a lot of faith in my team. I have to be honest. At the moment, they’re sort of a bit all over the place. Um, but we’ll see. Sometimes I have been surprised. Uh, they’re shooting at the TIE fighter, which I guess we could do. Wait, you don’t don’t let you What’s nice thing about the Star Wars thing is there is no um you don’t have to worry about ammo. You always have ammo, but they do overheat very quickly. Uh, right. We probably need to guys, we need to get to the next storm circle. Oh, there’s a tree there. Team are being a bit slow again. I don’t know. Here comes that TIE fighter again. Right. Who’s that guy? Shoot. I’m going to go and help them. Let’s go run somebody over. There we go on that blue one. There we go. I mean, they would just someone behind me. I think these guys are just bots. Oh, he is running away though. No. Is he upstairs or outside? Outside. There we go. All done. All done. Oh, look. Even the sun. The sun is coming up on Fortnite. Look at this. It’s a beautiful day. Come on. There we go. Let’s learn the ways of the force. There we [Music] [Music] are. We still only got Where are Oh, okay. Nine squads. 27. Where is our fourth person? This is what I mean when I say I’m not sure how we’re going to do cuz our like I think he’s Has he checked Oh, has he checked out? What’s he doing? I don’t know. I thought he’d lost connection or something. M. Oh, you just cleaned up your desk. You can jump on a little while if you want. Yeah, absolutely. Definitely. Let’s get it. Let’s get some more. Let’s get some games on. But just keep going. Shake that shake shake. I just thought I’m going to jump out of that because of the music. Um, should have put my streamer profile on so it doesn’t have that music on. We’ve already got the key, so we don’t need to worry about that. He’s going to go Oh, there we are. Shots been fired over there on the bridge, maybe. Yeah, up on the bridge. I don’t know why he’s We could see future ones already. Oh, but who was he shooting at? Oh, that fell. Again, I sort of feel like these are bots. Yep. Nice. Oh, I need that. Yeah, nice. Oh. Yep. Thank you. Oh. What’s he doing? He’s gone in the water. Silly friend. Uhoh. That one’s hitting me. Yep. Oh, he’s 24 white. Uh-oh. Oh, he’s There was someone behind me. Oh, there was another team there. Ah. Oh, that was my own fault. I didn’t realize there was a team up there. Well, team didn’t ping that they were there. By pushed in a bit too readily. That guy. That was the one that got Well, he didn’t even get me. Ah, I’m annoyed about that. I should have checked. Got squished between two people. My card is still there. Now it’s five squads, 10 players. So, but it’s only one person now. Oh dear. That’s That’s bad news. He’s just going to hide in the bush. Why? He’s dead. I don’t know. I don’t know why. I don’t I I would have just waited for him to have gone past in the bush. Just stayed. Got teammates read them and back. Um you’re going to the supermarket beyond in 15. Okay, no worries. Your housemate is watching. Right. Well, let’s play with another team. Oh, wait a minute. go back to return to lobby first because whenever I just continue with a match and go straight into another game then um that’s when it that’s when I end up going into like squad with half the people in. So it’s best to go back to lobby start again. Um yeah well it is 4:22. We have been going for uh 12 hours. Come on. Amazing. All right, let’s go again. I can’t even remember what what was the um where did we come on that? Was that third or fourth or fifth? I don’t know. Anyway, and man, we’re doing we’re doing all right. I still staying in it. We’re still sane. All right, let’s see if we can have a better match. If you’re in If you’re in the studio, say hi on the YouTube. Tell me that you are, how you’re doing. Tell me whether or not you’re doing. Yeah. Are you hanging on in there? Uh are you winning? Basically, I um I I feel like this was a bit of a godsend. never buy uh Monster drinks uh or like energy drinks, but I found them in Littleles today. They’re special sugar-free energy drinks. I’m like, “Yes, I never buy energy drinks because I feel like they’re so packed with sugar. So bad for you.” But uh yeah, no sugar-free energy drinks. So, that is doing me well at the minute. I bought two and they’re only 60p. Amazing. Um so, I’ve had one. I think that’s going to get me through this stint. And then I’ve got another one as backup somewhere during the day. So if I feel like I’m like struggling, that’s when I pull the next one out. Well, we’ve had two wins tonight. One in the squads, one in a trios. Um, hi from the guys in studio. Christmas has arrived. Yeah, I saw that. Tinsel and Christmas trees and all sorts. That seemed like fun. Although tinsel around your neck, that’s horrible, right? Where is my team wanting to land? Oh, okay. I haven’t actually been there tonight. So, yep. So, yeah, I’m going to go where they’re going to go. There seems like that’s where we’re all dropping. Here I am rocking the Mandalorian look because it’s Star Wars theme. May the Fourth be with you on uh on Sunday. Lots and lots of Star Warsy things going on. Well, everything is Star Wars. And apparently what Epic are doing is every week they’re going to do another little update and add in another POI with a Star Wars theme. So, they’re going to milk this quite a lot. I don’t know if that will be um this is going to be a mini season. Usually, a season is about 3 months long. I don’t know if they’ll do a slightly shorter season than normal. Oh, why can’t I get up there? I don’t know. Where is he? Right underneath me somewhere. Where is he? Whoops. Probably need to have some heals after that. Someone else around here. He did not see what was coming. Where are they shooting? Is there someone else here? They feel like they’re shooting at someone, but can’t see anyone here. Uh yeah, I’ll take that. Thanks. Okay. Oh, someone should have that. I’m going to stick with this one, I think. Who’s he shooting at? Or is he just testing out the guns? Oh, this guy’s like just started playing. Look, he’s testing out the guns. That’s fair enough. That’s where I was about like 10 hours ago. Like, basically, the new season has come out today and like all the guns are different. So, it’s taken me a while even to know what these guns mean and how they operate. Yeah. Nice. Okay. Oh, okay. Let’s go and learn the ways of the force again and take another. Okay. Okay. What’s this one? Is this the force push one? Yeah. There we are. Like that. Okay, let’s not go running off without my teammates, seeen as that’s the thing that I always complain about other teammates that they do. Although, this team seems to be um playing it very safe is the way I describe it. They’re just standing around shooting the inside of the building. So whether or not I end up getting bored by cuz they’re not wanting to push any fights, I don’t know. We will see. Right. Okay. Come on. Come on team. Where are we going to go? Oh, someone. Let’s go. Let’s go over here. Come on. Yes. Okay. Look, blue and red are following me. This is good. Maybe they just need some leadership here. Maybe I’m just waiting for them to show me the way. And actually I’m the Mandalorian. This is the way. Yellow is dragging his heels a bit, but he is coming. Let me give him a little chance to catch up. Right. Merry Christmas. Ho ho ho ho. And if you would like to leave a gift for British You for Christ, please do it in the form of a donation. We are currently fundraising part of our 30hour fundraising stream for British You for Christ. At British You for Christ, we aim to take the good news of Jesus relevantly to young people across Britain. What you just saw there was one of our workers, Nick Blanch. Part of his ministry is he shares Jesus through streaming, through gaming. So what you were watching just then was a man play Fortnite and attempt to talk about Jesus which I love and I think it’s amazing and his ministry has been really really effective in lots of ways. He was previously at Norwich a director at Norwich You for Christ one of our local centers and then now works with us at British You for Christ. Um over the next period of time we’re going to be talking a little bit about uh different centers that are going on and throughout the last 30 hours that’s what we’ve been doing. We’ve been highlighting certain people from certain places and this next video is all about Cambridge Youth for Christ. At Cambridge and District Youth for Christ, we want to offer every young person in Cambridge and the surrounding areas a pathway to fullness of life in Jesus. We know that there is a crisis in young people’s mental health and well-being. Every week we meet young people who are lonely, who are anxious, overwhelmed, or simply searching for something more. Our openhouse project aims to create safe spaces for young people, promoting positive well-being, building healthy relationships, and sharing the love of Jesus. Our mentoring program currently runs in two secondary schools. Staff from Youth for Christ alongside volunteers from local churches spend time getting to know young people, listening struggles and helping them to make positive life choices. I remember when we started the program, young people were still recovering from the pandemic. There was a girl that came to one of our early sessions and she wouldn’t take off her face mask and she’d barely make eye contact with anyone. Fast forward to today and she’s completely changed. Uh she’s so confident in her school and she’s the life and soul of any room she finds herself in. On a Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, we open up number 40 to a drop in after school. Young people can come along, hang out with their friends, or meet new ones. Got card games, Nintendo Switch, there’s table football, coloring, and we always have free toast and squash. There was a young girl who came along one week when it was fairly quiet. And then a week or so later, she came back again, and it was a lot busier, and there were other people from her school here, so she went to leave. but we were able to chat to her and get her to stay and play a card game with some people that she hadn’t met before, but she enjoyed herself and has come back many times since. We have also been running well-being workshops uh that help young people in growing in their self-confidence, building community, and learning new life skills. Some of our young people have really enjoyed the Butter Bakery this term. It’s a baking workshop where we take iconic snacks and we say, “Can we make these at home but better?” Our boys have really enjoyed coming along doing some baking. At first there was hesitation from them. Like baking wasn’t really for them is what they said, but they’ve been coming along and they’ve really grown in confidence, not only in their relationships with one another, but also in their baking ability. It’s been great to see them thrive. Um, would you mind telling us some of the challenges that you faced growing up? I’ve like struggled with like family relationships with my dad and stuff. That’s just been really hard. Just anxiety, I think. Where have you felt anxious the most? At school? Yeah. Out in public. Okay. What were your concepts about God or faith? I knew, but I didn’t pray or anything. I just knew. Were you already Christians, do you think? No. Okay. Okay. So tell me about that then. Uh I was at New Day. Yeah. And then I started like Jake Oh, you flew started praying for me and then I started crying and then Yeah. In a good way. Yeah. He didn’t have really bad breath. Um I remember that moment very well. What about you, Alice? Um I started coming youth and then I met you and you started talking to me about it. Yeah. Do you remember when you became a Christian? I think it was after I was one time. Yeah, I think so. And has life changed much since becoming a Christian? And in what way? I feel like things have just got better and like I know that there’s someone out there that like I can speak to or pray to whenever like I feel like I have no one. But you? Yeah. Things have got a lot calmer. Like I know. Yeah. I just feel a lot more like calmed down. I did before. Okay. And tell me about when you um were walking to school with someone. Do you remember the time? Yeah. Um I had a friend and he said he knew he about he knew about God and then we started praying for him and then he became Christian. Cool. That’s so cool. And um is being and it’s cool also that you both your sister and your brother have started coming to church and became Christians too. You got any hopes and dreams for your family? I just like hope that my little brother doesn’t like struggle with the same things that I have. I hope that he can like talk to me about it and he should notice that. Yeah, you’re both amazing and we’re really proud of you. That was an amazing video from Cambridge Youth for Christ. And we get to be live with the guys from Cambridge tomorrow who are doing a triathlon through Cambridge. That is crazy. But you know what? Instead of doing a swim, they’re punting. I don’t know what punting is. Really? No. Oh, so you’re in a boat and you got a stick and you’re pushing the boat along with a stick along like a river or a canal. So, a trifle will be normally run, swim. Oh, I’m tired. Cycle. They’re cycling. I think they may be walking or running and punting through Cambridge. Oh, I see. That’s cool. That’s cool, isn’t it? So, we’re going to be with them tomorrow to see how they are getting on with that. That was an absolutely wonderful video. And even just then that the worker Angie as she was on, she is just so wonderful as well. She’s so we love her so much. So excited to be with Cambridge tomorrow. But if you are with us this fine morning, I’m going to say that we’re 40. Yeah. Happy morning. Good morning. Good good morning. Good morning and merry Christmas. Uh we would absolutely love for you to give to the work of youth for Christ. We are so passionate about local churches reaching young people in their communities. Um I have been a youth pastor church myself. I have been a volunteer on the youth team that I am a part of for maybe 16 years. Uh and to see the work that local church can do in the lives of young people in their communities is absolutely outstanding. Uh seeing young people go from generation to generation coming in when they are small and going through and becoming young leaders themselves. I have the the absolute honor that as I started in the youth work in our church, uh there were a whole load of girls who were like year six, year seven and then you be the youth pastor them as they went through our youth program and now they are the youth leaders for my kids in our church and it’s so beautiful seeing what we invested in them as a youth team be poured into the generation underneath them and you get to be a part of something incredible when you are investing in the lives of young people. And so we want to support volunteers, youth workers, church leaders who are choosing to do that, not only for the young people that already know Jesus, but whose hearts are broken and passionate for those who don’t know Jesus in their communities, too. And so we strive to make moments, make resources so that we can make moments uh for young people to encounter Jesus for themselves. So we would absolutely love it if you would give to enable that to happen more. Um, we have huge plans as Youth for Christ, things that we really would love to do to serve not only our local centers, but serve the church in the UK more effectively, but we honestly cannot do that without you, without your finance and without your prayers uh as well. And I really just get a sense that at the moment is a really opportune time. Uh, people are coming back to church. Young adults, particularly men, are coming back to church. And it’s the same with young people. And we cannot miss this moment. It would be such a shame if there was a spiritual hunger. And there is a spiritual hunger in our nation. And we missed it. Not on our watch, not in our generation. And so please, please, please, would you give anything that you can? And you can do that by going to www.wyfc.co.uk/donate or you can call 012150296. Thank you everybody. Oh, you say it. You say it. And that number one more time. Thank you. Because she didn’t say it right. You know what it was? I was looking over there. I forgot it was written there and it’s covered up my piece of paper. 01215029620. And if you’re looking for like a suggested amount, if you’re like, “Oh, how much can I give?” We have Well, yeah, the suggested amount is probably 17 million, but uh the three ones that we’re highlighting today is for30. 30 helps a young person in crisis receive essential mentoring and support. The second one is £50.50 proide provides resources to a youth leader that will assist them in schools outreach. £65 could support 15 churches with the resources to guide and provide for youth ministry outreach in their local community. The reason that last one is so important is partially what Laura was just talking about actually. The young people, there’s such a hunger in the nation now and local statistics, well, recent statistics have seen more than three times more uh uh young men in particular looking like they want to attend church. Now, the churches in the UK, a lot of the churches that we speak to actually don’t feel equipped and prepared for an influx of young people. So that £65 would support those churches actually to help us as youth for Christ come alongside them grow their youth ministry and actually help them provide youth ministry for themselves and for young people in their local area which we feel particularly excited and passionate about. The next section that we’re going to go into is going to be there’s going to be a spoken word from our friend Quacy Mills. Now, these videos are used across schools in Britain through one of our resources called our request. Why don’t you take a look? Not simply a building, though there are plenty of them around. Ornate and beautiful, grand and majestic. Stained glass windows entice sinstained souls to look higher whilst pews present parishioners with the opportunity for corporate prayer. Not simply a service though on every weekend holiday and special occasion one is held thoughtful and organized engaging and inviting. Music moves spirits and words frame worship. Pastors share messages unpacking life’s mysteries. [Music] Not simply an organization, though multiple denominations exist. Mission statements and structures, admin teams and programs, conferences to gather Christians and equip them for successful living. Charitable acts to bless those in [Music] need. Not simply a building, a service, or an organization, but people. Church is a group of people. A people who’ve been called out from the ways of the world but still live in it. Church is living bricks of people cemented together by the Holy Spirit and built on the foundation of salvation. It’s a community of lives that have been transformed by saying yes to Jesus. In this patchwork family are individuals as diverse as sand is countless. different nationalities, ethnicities, languages, cultures, ages, and interests. United in a shared love for Jesus, God saves us to place us in this family. A family not without his hang-ups since we are all still works in progress. But each brush stroke of paint is guided by a wise and skilled hand to beautify a canvas that is a space for belonging, connection, provision, and transformation. All under the leadership of Christ. Not simply a building, a service, or an organization, but people. A family always with an open hand asking you to come on in and experience what new looks like. When life with Christ begins. [Music] Do you volunteer or work with young people? Yes. Well, you aren’t going to want to miss what we want to tell you about. Starting at just £40 with our early bird tickets, we want to invite you to our weekend. We love youth workers. It’s a weekend event designed to inspire you, equip you, and refresh you. Taking place at Whitemore Lakes in Lichfield from the 5th to the 7th of September. There’ll be main gatherings with inspiring talks and worship, seminars to equip you and build up your knowhow, activities and times of retreat to unwind, a goodie bag on arrival, and an evening to celebrate you and the amazing work that you do. This is just some of what is in store. Interested? Well, grab your early bird ticket now, and we can’t wait to see you. [Music] It’s like really awesome and it has like different illustrators. So then it’s like really like beautiful in a way. Everything was just amazing. They were really pretty and I’ve never seen pictures like them before. I think it was really nice to look at. I like the rainbow on the front cover. If I were to use it in my classroom, every RV lesson, I would get it out and look through a verse or a chapter. I just think it’s so much more interactive. So, as children like open the Bible, there’s so much more of it that catches our eye. I think in a media kind of infilled world where they just need to have that be captured and stuff. I think by having the visuals and things in it, it just makes it just so much more interactive for them, which I think is brilliant and means they’ll probably read the Bible more and interact a bit more, which would be [Music] brilliant. Uh yeah, I like the first picture and the Noah’s Arc one because that one just inspires me. I really like it because whenever we’re doing our re and there’s something that you’re stuck on, then you can just grab out your Bible and just read through the verse that you’re stuck on and find the answer to the question. I’ve had the other Bible and it this one is way better than the other one because it’s got questions and activities that you can do. Probably how small it is, which makes it easy to carry around, but then it but then it can hold a lot of information inside it, which is which makes it really [Music] good. I think it makes really good sense. I think you’ve got their the chance that you give the child a book at the end of the school year, they take it away and it goes on a shelf and they they won’t be looking at it. Um, in school, we want to be able to use these uh these these books and and this resource in a way of engaging with worship and the teaching of of reh. Yeah, I can’t see any reason why any headteer wouldn’t be uh be really grateful to receive a set of Bibles and this version in particular to use with their pupils. [Music] [Music] [Music] Hey. Hey. Hey. [Music] [Music] As a church, we’ve planned this summer to use one of the Bible reading plans at the front as the basis for our summer series. [Music] Yeti is all about life, faith, and the occasional dog on a skateboard. Yeti covers a whole bunch of topics from dating and money to superheroes in church. Not only does it provide people with a good time, but with a chance to connect with God a little deeper. No matter where someone is at with faith or whether they even believe in God at all [Music] [Music] Merry Christmas. You and Mary are unhappy. Happy Christmas. I don’t I always say merry Christmas though. I don’t know why Christmas doesn’t doesn’t it doesn’t stir my insides. I understand that. But I don’t use merry in any other context. That’s why for me it’s special at Christmas time. It makes it special. Yeah. Merry, merry, merry. I think of that as like someone’s had a little bit too much cherry. Well, that is every Christmas at the S household. Yeah, they love Sherry. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. Christmas. Uh so, we’ve been doing our fundraiser for the last uh how long now? 14 hours. I’m going to say 14. Five years. Five years. It’s felt like five years. All of this wouldn’t been possible without our sponsors. uh the sponsors of some of the videos that you just saw in particular Tila who have helped us out in so many ways and not only have have sponsored this event but also we have a relationship with them because they help us out uh with different stuff that we’re doing help us enable absolute legends. So thank you very much to TA. You’re even getting a round of applause TA in the room. So there you go. Uh thank you so much. We It’s comes that time again. I know you’ll be delighted. Come on now. Uh, it is going to be spin the wheel time if you’ve just joined in uh at 5:00. What the heck are you doing with your life? But thank you for being here. I normally get up now. My wife You get up at 5. Yeah, not by choice. I just wake up now. But this now I’ve 24 hours. 24 what? I’ve been awake for now 24 hours. Yeah, that sentence didn’t work. Good morning. Wake up. Wake up. Amazing morning before. We have been through the series of this live stream. Every single hour we have spanned this beautiful wheel. I say beautiful but actually I want to burn it cuz what happens is we spin it and then what happens is like a fourth it comes up that we have to do for the next hour. So for example right now the reason it’s Christmas here. Yeah probably clarity is important is because it said Christmas time and we had Christmas for an hour. So these ones include can’t say the. Now, I’m actually going to say I don’t think that is possible for an hour of a fundraiser where I just don’t think it’s possible. But you’ve got phone a friend. My gosh, I hope no one wants to be called at 5 in the morning. Table tennis keep up. Uh wear a sleeping bag. I’ll be honest. This is the last one we get to do because this is our last hour of me and Laura hosting together. I don’t think we’re going to get that. What? I’m sorry. Why have you Why? And there’s also wacky hairstyles. Can’t use your what? Where’s your hope gone? I don’t understand why all of a sudden we My hope is in Jesus, not in sleeping bags. I like both a lot. Uh, you know. Anyway, uh, what do you want? Tell me what you want, Adam. Okay. I don’t mind. Can’t use your arms. Be funny, but it’s a real pain. So, I want somebody else. I want to watch somebody else not use their arms. Um, I don’t I don’t want this now. This for me. Shot of vinegar every 15 minutes. I actually think I’ll vomit. I nearly I’m not into that. I’m not going to lie. I nearly vomited when I went to toilet like five minutes ago. I’ve already had one large shot of vinegar. I I’m done on that. I don’t want that. C Can we pass them on to people if we can’t do it? No, I don’t think we’re nominating. I think this I just want this. I don’t want this cuz people will think like something’s happened. I just want to go home. I just want to go home. I don’t want to go home. Amazing. So, should we spin the wheel? Yeah. What do you want? What do I want? I want Where is go home on there? Where is that? Is that Is it No, that’s the next spin. I’d still be cool with wacky hairstyles. I think that’s fine. Right. Uh, you ready to spin the wheel? We say it together. Spin the wheel. [Applause] [Music] Oh, it’s a nightmare. How is this going to be possible? We are going to have to speak very slowly and figure out the figure out words that we say during this period of time. My problem is that I don’t think and speak. I just speak. So thinking then speaking is a real problem. Indeed, our links are going to take ages. Indeed. Where are we going now? Can fundraising. Shall we talk about the per shall we talk about our raising of funds? Let’s So far, how much have we raised? La we have you need to stand over here. Indeed and look at this camera. Indeed. Indeed is a safe word. We have raised a grand total of [Applause] Whoa. 5,539. What an incredible amount of money. Thank you so much if you have donated to that total. We are so so grateful for your generosity. It doesn’t sound sincere. It really is. I’m just thinking. You know what also now we don’t have to do? Oh, we don’t have to pretend it’s Christmas anymore. We don’t have to pretend it’s Christmas. No. So that’s tinsils going. I’m I’m taking down the tree. No, you said you said it. Think about it. Oh, trees going. Tinsel out of here, baby. Oh, I’m a bit sad. This was my favorite. I didn’t get shot by anyone. Yeah, Tinsel. Tinsel was pretty good. I mean, Christmas was pretty good. What’s the next section? looking the next section. We are going to now hear a story where a change has been made in someone’s life because of work our national team have done. You know, you’re not speaking at a normal speed, don’t you? I’m still thinking. And so, please watch the ah following story from National Youth for Christ. Indeed. Hello, my name is Matthew and I’m the urban mission pioneer here in Glasgow. Today I want to share with you a story of one of the partnership projects I’ve been working on for the last couple of years now. In the spring of 2023, we were approached by a church called Emanuel Christian Ministries. They’re a Tamil speaking church in the center of Glasgow and they’d been teaching English and maths to young folk who had just come across to Scotland. And they wanted our help. They wanted to share the gospel with these young people, but they didn’t know how. They didn’t know where to start. They weren’t sure what to do. We sat down with them and we started dreaming. We started planning together and we came up with this idea to just start running a youth club on Saturday mornings. We’d start by approaching topics like bullying and um mental health and anxiety. And slowly over time using the Youth for Christ rocksolid resource, we’d introduce them to who Jesus is, what he’s done for them, and that he loves them. The Illuminate Youth Club launched in the August of 2023 and by that November we had 15 young people regularly attending experiencing the love of Jesus for the first time. Some of these young folk were going to the church but the majority had either been going through that English and math tutoring or were friends of the young people in the church. It was amazing from the get-go. In November we gave them an opportunity to meet Jesus for the first time. One young person responded to that and said yes to Jesus, which was amazing. Over the last two years, we’ve seen three more young folk raise their hands in opportunities like that. And we’ve handed out 11 of the Youth for Christ new to faith packs to these young people. And Illuminate has now taken them on a disciplehip journey going through what it looks like to have faith in school, the role of our faith in things like anxiety and mental health and worry. I want to share with you a story of one of these young folk. We’ll call her Sarah. In one of our sessions, we asked her the question of what gives us value? Are we valued? Do we matter? And do we feel like we matter? Her response was was this is she said that she doesn’t matter yet. She’s not old enough. It’s only when we’re an adult do we have value that what we say matter. We were able to share with her that day that God loves her for who she is now and today. That who she is today matters. That she has incredible value to God. And that Jesus loves her so much that he would die for her and rise again. Illumina isn’t just led by myself or the Youth for Christ team here in Scotland. We are doing this in partnership with the church. There’s a team of volunteers and their fantastic leader Mary who have been growing this whole time and are now in a place where they can take on and deliver this project by themselves long term. This has been the plan from the get-go so we can build up the team there and release this local church into youth ministry for the long term. The support you gives us allows us to do things like that. It allows us to use the resource at this club. allows us to bring games and creative activities so the young people can express themselves. It allows us to deliver team days and training days for the volunteer team and it allows us to build up this this church long term and their leaders and it allows us to create the new to faith packs we even handed out to those 11 young people. I want to take this opportunity to say thank you first of all. Thank you for all you’ve given. Thank you for all you’ve been praying and as you’ve heard it clearly makes a massive difference to the young people and to the project we’re doing and to these this the leadership of this church as we’ve supported them. But if you don’t already give, I want to take this opportunity to ask you to prayerfully consider if that’s something you would do so that we can see more projects like this across Glasgow and across the United Kingdom and so we can see more young people’s lives transformed by Jesus. Thank you. And so that was some of the work that we do in Glasgow with young people there. We are so passionate about seeing young people’s lives changed by Jesus uh in particularly in urban environments where maybe young people have some really complex stuff going on. Uh and Matthew does a brilliant job doing that. Hey, if you are watching this, maybe you’re just waking up. Maybe uh you are kind of just checking back in with us to see if we’re still alive. Yes, we are. But we’re not supposed to be saying a certain word. I don’t think you said it. It really? Oh, that’s So, so there’s we’re not allowed to say the word ‘the’. Uh, so that No, I know, but that was it. I could have there were many options. There were no I did that badly. But, uh, so during these links, we will avoid that. And so, that is our working glass. We are so passionate about saying that. If you can at this point in the day, early in the morning, start your day with a donation. What a great way to wake up on a Saturday morning. Please, please give. Please, please do. John and I have been here, well, it feels like most of my life to be honest. Well, we arrived yesterday. We arrived yesterday morning. Uh we went live online at 4. Uh we took over presenting at midnight. Midnight. Midnight. Uh and we are here for another hour. Please, please, will you give so that young people can come to know Jesus? uh the young people that need him most. You can do that by going to www.wyc.co.uk donate. Uh but right now we are going to look at uh centers video and a h a center interaction I’ve all my words have gone that we did yesterday. Yeah. Uh of one of uh the centers that are geographically closest to us at national and that is Faze Trust. face have recently celebrated 25 years of effective and powerful youth ministry in Hellzo and the Dudley Burough. Um Oh, I said it. And uh to celebrate that they did 25 hours of crazy golf. Yeah. Uh with young people there as well, which was just mad. So they have finished theirs and they are sleeping now. But this is what we saw from them last night. Before we go to them live in just a moment, what we’re going to do is we’re going to cue a little video. Uh this video will give you a little bit of detail about Face Trust, the work that they do, and then afterwards, we’re going to come back with one of our good friends, uh Hannah, who’s part of Face Trust, and we’ll ask her some questions in just a moment. Um but check out this video quickly before we go over to Faze Trust. 1999, this was our birth. Youth workers coming together to help kids find their worth. We’ve come a long way. It’s been a long phase. From the lunch clubs, assemblies, these were the old days. Got to keep moving forward, not stuck in the old ways. Standing with and for young people is what we knew. Inspire, equip, transform lives is now what we do. Started with two which grew and grew. As a team we stick together like glue. The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Maybe in the future what we need is you. We hope to see every child, youth, and parent we work with to make the best choices. We listen and hear their voices. Their voice and choice is important. We help them to think first, have that winning mentality, get them moving forward with a boost and hope. We see issues and risks reduced. At times we see sadness, sorrow, pain, and worse. It can be hard to see the hope for tomorrow, which makes them curse. Grief and beriement. I’m not living your life, but I know it hurts. Our heart breaks from allegations, situations. Young people often wanting time to reverse. It’s hard to hear, but it’s real. Young people fear, but over time they can heal. Help they may need, but struggle to admit. Young people getting blamed, and we wonder why they lose it. Home is where the heart is. So where is your heart at? Are you connected on a path that is right or inside? Are you divided, undecided? which to choose. You want to win, but you’re afraid that you might lose. Confused on which path to choose. Minds messed up from all the abuse. It feels like people don’t understand cuz they’ve not walked in your shoes. Young people living hard times. Young people live these hard lives. So where’s the hope for these people being called no hopers? It’s no joke. It’s a joke that we don’t believe in the next gen. But believe we see you. You can dream. Be a dreamer and dream too. Believe in yourself and dream big because we do what you need to believe it and dream big, too. Life, it can be tough. It can be rough. Sometimes parents have the mountains, which can be hard climbs. You need to know that you’re enough. Keep working on your stuff and then sure enough, you leave behind bad times. Life is full of transitions. Early years, primary to secondary, you move up in position to college, six form, or making your next big life decision to suddenly you’re 18. Adulthood is stood waiting. And it might feel like people in your life start vacating. But just remember, it’s your life you’re creating. So many things are now underfunded and we see daily the frustrations of waiting lists or cancelled appointments. It’s the waiting game. Different services strain, but we can’t wait for change. Programs don’t change people, but you do. We can’t be narrowminded. We need to have a people’s view. We love that we get to work alongside those in health, social, and education. We know there can be challenges you face. From kids not wanting to connect or give you respect. To the kids that hide while you seek to the ones that won’t engage or even speak. But we want you to know we see you. We really do see how hard it can be. You’re expected to be so much more. You’re sewing seeds but may not see the rewards. Kids emotions and lives are up and down like seesaws, but so are yours. We don’t see what goes on behind closed doors fighting wars. Let’s stop and pause. What’s the cause? We often say the need is everywhere. But where is our calling? And all the areas we work, it’s hope we want to be installing. We are no longer building the plane as we fly because we hold on tight to our why. And sometimes in life, it can feel like we are crawling and we want to try and stop people from falling. But at times we might need to be the helping hand to lift you up and make a stand. Inspire, equip, and transform is what we do. And we hope people see this as true. Understanding people’s story is a must because we are trust. [Music] That is uh amazing um to hear a little bit about FaZe Trust and what they do. We are going to go live to Faze Trust right now with a good friend of ours which is Hannah. Hannah, say hello to us. We can’t quite hear you. We can’t but we think but we can definitely see you. Oh, where’s the sound? Have we got the sound? We can hear you, Hannah. Hannah, this is amazing. Um, Hannah, we’re gonna talk all about FaZe Trust. We’re going to talk about what you do. And of course, I know you are deep into your fundraiser right now as well. Um, Hannah, we’ll come to that in just a moment. Okay. Um, I’d love to know a little bit about Faith Trust, a little bit about you, what you do, who you work with, what’s the kind of ministry you do. Give us a little bit about Faith Trust, the ministry you do. Yeah. So um phase trust has celebrated 25 years this year and so this has actually come at the perfect time to end our 25th year um and so we’ve kind of been doing loads of things this year but we are a charity that work with children young people and families across the kind of Dudley Burough and I personally am the exploitation lead. So I work with children and young people that are either being um at risk or being exploited either criminally or sexually. But also we do loads of stuff for the community. So tonight we’ve got our drop in. So we’ve got loads of young people across um the rooms. We’ve got some in the sports hall in the lounge, some here doing the crazy golf fundraiser with us. So there’s lots going on. That is so good. And and Hannah, I uh got the privilege of of working alongside you a couple of weeks ago at Spring Harvest and saw you absolutely flourish in what you do. You were such a blessing. Honestly, I was so encouraged by the ministry of you and I know that is echoed with FaZe Trust. Uh you guys are working with some amazing young people. Um where do where do you do your work Hannah? Where where is Face Trust based? So we’re based um in Hoen. Um but we work all across Dudley and we work in schools and in the streets um here in our building where we partner with the local church. Um you name it, we’re there and everywhere. I love it. Uh Hannah, if there was um one encouraging thing that you’re seeing kind of God do through FaZe Trust, within FaZe Trust, just some of the things that you’re encouraged by right now with your ministry to young people specifically. What would that be? And I apologize for dropping you on this because I know this is a prepped question, but what would that be? I think obviously we get to reach some of the hardest to reach young people. Um whether that’s because of anxiety and mental health or whether that’s because of family issues or behavior stuff going on. And I think we just love that we get to be in a space that a lot of other people don’t get to be. But I think also um we have done for the first time ever, we’ve just finished a youth alpha with some of our dropping young people that are here tonight. And we have just seen God do incredible things. So young people going, I’m an atheist, so like I’ve got no interest in going, maybe I’m 50/50. And we’re like, we’ll take that 50/50. So, and like seeing young people get kind of healed from bad dreams and all sorts of crazy things that we never in a sense would think would be possible um or like even imagine would happen with some of these young people and have those conversations. So, um we’re also tryinging some of your content which has been great and we’re starting a prayer room. So, we just really feel like God is moving us into a space that’s really exciting spiritually at the moment which we haven’t maybe done for a while. So, that’s probably one of the most exciting things for us. So good. One of the things I I love about what FaZe Trust do um is I don’t from from my understanding, Hannah, from seeing you and and and part of the team there, I don’t think there’s any place where you wouldn’t go um for the sake of reaching young people. Uh there’s no place, no suburb, no area that you wouldn’t go to if there’s a young person there that you can help. And I absolutely love that about about FaZe Trust. Hey, there’s there’s going to be things on the screen in how people can give specifically to uh FaZe Trust and and we would really encourage you to to think about this. FaZe Trust doing amazing amazing work in Hales Owen and uh you can give directly to them. So again, this is one of our centers that we’re having in across this live stream in which you can specifically donate to. Um so if you are inspired by just some of the things over the next few moments and have been already about the ministry of FaZe Trust, then uh you can give to them. Hannah, what would um any income that comes to you, what what would you do with this finance, how would you use it to try to reach young people? Yeah. So, one of our um we’ve got some lads coming literally right up there. So, I’ll just maybe move slightly over. I don’t want to disturb them including that the golf. But I think one of the main things is our Friday night youth club. Um we food has become a massive part and we’ve been doing this for 25 years pretty much and um we have not really seen the need for food as much as we do now. So we do toast every week and however we kind of so often we want the money to be able to do pizza and night and I mean hot dog things like that just become more and more important than ever and we’ve got young people coming that literally have not had a meal. So I think some of the money that we will get will 100% go kind of feeding young people here on Friday and so just doing fun things and getting fun activities in for these young people maybe some trips whatever we can do with these young people and give them opportunities that maybe they don’t have elsewhere same opportunities as the young people that’s what we were that’s so good well is going to help us watch a video if you could stay with us Hannah we’d love to ask you some more questions about the fundraiser and what you’re doing right now afterwards if you want to give to phase trust trust. Uh you can go to their Just Goodgiving page just giving.com/fasetrust uh and start to donate to the ministry what they’ve gone. We’ve got a little video, haven’t we? Yes, we have got a video so um stay tuned and it is of a young person. So, hope you enjoy this. sessions with Pete. Sometimes Hannah like the long jumping the track bungee run. Then there’s I’ve done that twice the sumo wrestling. Then there’s like the smalls stage. He did the pizza creps toast. You do the fruit like fruit toast fruit. More people come because it’s various. It’s not always just toast. different things if people don’t eat before they come. So they have something sweet on their head. Yeah. And I actually have clean it. So just with dropping it just makes people more people want to come. So then you can do like the basketball get to watch the boys play football about you get to have jokes with you steal people’s shoes. I didn’t steal them. I hid them hid them in the locker. I don’t get how they didn’t find it but found it in the end so I can put them on. Yeah, cuz I think before I came to dropping, I’d normally like keep things to myself and that like wouldn’t really like my friends outside of school. But through dropping, I’ve made more friends and I started talking about my Facebook just right back. So good to hear. It really was a little bit of a young person story from Facebook. Absolutely. And Hannah, we would love to hear how’s the fundraiser going. What are you doing? What are you doing? What have you been doing? So we’ll do a quick have a look. Yeah. We have got an 18hole crazy golf. Oh, love that going now at the moment. So, we’ve literally been doing this for hours. We have got half an hour left. Wow. So, we’ve got half an hour left of our How many hours? 25 hours. No way. Yeah, we’ve got half an hour and I believe um is Lisa gonna come and tell me are you gonna come and tell me who who’s who’s won? So, we have also been doing a major vote for the ice bucket challenge which we are gonna be doing in half an hour. So, I believe are the votes in the votes. The votes are in. So, I’m going to get live while we’re with you, Lisa, to tell us who is going to be in the ice bucket challenge. Of course. Of course. That’ll be nice after a fun cool you down a bit. Yeah, it might cool you down a bit Hannah all the hard work over the last 20 hours or so. Absolutely. So, we have had people voting on Instagram, Facebook, Tik Tok for 25 hours, but also without a vote here. Wow. Wow. That’s a lot of votes. Wow. Who knew I was so popular? That’s so good. That is really good. If you know the Alen brothers who work for us, that’s quite an achievement to beat them in this. So, Yeah, absolutely amazing. Well, Hannah, we we hope you have an amazing time with the ice bucket challenge. We’re sure you’ll enjoy that a lot um as you go. And well done for all you’re doing uh with the fundraiser as well. And um again, just to reemphasize, if you want to give uh to the Ministry of FaZe Trust, you can do that on the Just Giving page. It’s in the link on the YouTube chat if you want to go find it there. Uh and it may be coming up. Hana, well done for all that you’re doing. Um we look forward to hearing more about the work of Faith Trust in the coming months and years. But um God bless you. We’re going to leave you now. So we’ll say goodbye and good luck to you guys. We hope the rest of yours goes really well and we’re thinking and praying for you. Thank you very much. Bless you, Hannah. See you soon. See you, Hannah. Amazing. That is just brilliant. Face trust. So much fun. It does. I love that. It’s a long one as well. They’re fully committed in there, which is wonderful. Hey, we’re going to go back to Welcome back. I’m talking I’m so tired. I’m talking I’m t I can’t talk. I’m talking into a microphone that I don’t need. You don’t need it cuz you have a lapel. I have a microphone already. I’m We are in. For context, right now, we are in a freezing warehouse at 5:30 a.m. in the morning. We’re delighted to be alive. You know why? Because uh this is all for an amazing cause. We’re currently doing a live stream as British Youth for Christ trying to raise money. You all right there? Honestly, what’s happened? trying to raise money uh for an amazing cause that is sharing Jesus with young people across Britain. At British Youth for Christ, last year we reached about 1.8 million young people, and this year we’re going for more. The aim is to reach every young person in Britain, but the hope at the moment is 2.5 million young people, 33% of the population. The hope is that we can reach them with the good news of Jesus. And part of the thing that we’re doing during this live stream is you might be able to hear the individuals behind us is we are attempting to cycle from Dudley to Disneyland Paris in 30 hours. That is a total of 438 miles. So many miles. You might be thinking, John Laura, how many miles have you done so far? That’s a great question. Me personally, I mean, not only have I been presenting, also been doing a little bit of uh cycling. Don’t mean to brag. I have put in 15 miles, which I thought was a good shot. Nice work, Joe. Thank you. I thought it was a good slog. I was enjoying it. Uh, do you Are you guys comfortable sharing how many miles you’ve done? We need a mic. Here we go. Your face. Why is that face? There you go. Jack, you go first. How many miles? Um, so my goal, if you remember last time when I was with Laura, was to beat Neil. Yeah. Yeah. And to beat Vince because I realized Vince had beaten Neil. He right when you were trying to beat Neil. Vince beat Neil. Yeah. So then I was just going for it and I am I can confirm I’m currently at 45 miles which is beating Neil and beating Vince and I plan to go to 50. Oh 50, you know. Round it off. Round it off. I wonder where where’s 50 miles away from here. What’s the actual We’ve been asking this. No. Don’t know. If you know where 50 miles I think it will be to my mom and dads and back, but I don’t think that will help you. No. No, cuz I don’t know your mom all. No, my dad. Lington Spa. Yeah. Well, Jack’s gone all the way to Lamington Spa. There you go. Brilliant. Great place. Well done. Is that Is that sufficient amount of warmth that rubbish? Yeah. No, actually it is. I feel Yeah, it’s great. It’s perfect. Amazing. Yeah. Laura, we have like literally like 30 minutes left of presenting. I’m delighted. So good. Stacy, my beautiful friend with beautiful uh hair. What? Uh, what? Thanks. Laura did your hair earlier. How many miles have you done now? Well, how do you follow 45? I’m getting off at 50, though. Thanks for coming to me. No, I’ve not done any at the minute. Laura’s done. I’ve done 16, but I’m really proud of 16 because I do knee operations. Absolutely. Yeah. Plus, I’ve been here since 8:00 yesterday morning and I’ve been stage managing and I’ve been feeding people and I’ve been making drinks throughout this whole time. Stacy has absolutely been smashing it. L Stacy has prepared all the food. Right, Stace? All the food. Stacy, don’t Stacy’s provided all the food for this whole thing for all of the staff. Uh, she’s been here since 8 a.m. Jack’s only been here since 3. So, I mean, at that point, doesn’t even count. Does it even Let’s see. Take off the 50 miles. Yeah, we’ll deduct it. Well, the doctor No, it’s amazing. Everyone’s contributing so much. The staff here, we’re loving it. Um, it’s hard work, but you know what? For an amazing cause. Yeah. Um, which is delightful. So, we’ve done so far, have I said how many? We’ve said how many miles? I don’t know whether we’re aiming for 43. Yeah, I don’t think we’ve actually We have done 251 miles. Come on, gang. I can’t blanket on. We are over halfway. We’re smashing it. We’re ready. We’re ready to rumble. Get us to Disneyland. I want to see Mickey. Get him out here. Jack’s going to Disneyland. Jack loves Disneyland. Disneyland. And guys, the reason the reason that we are doing this is not because we love Disneyland, but it is because although many of us do. It is because we want to show you how determined we are to see young people come to know Jesus. And our hope, if I’m honest, is that if we show you how determined we are, you might be willing to contribute and resource us to reach those young people. Our heart is for young people. Our heart is broken by young people. Um, and we we want to see Jesus transform the lives of young people. And so we do this and we are doing all of this to show you that we mean business that you can trust us with any generous donation that you might you might be willing. Thank you. You might be willing to give because all of this is because we want to see communities, young people, families, our nation changed by God doing what he does best. So please, please, please, if you are watching this live, if you are watching this behind, it is not too late to give. If you go to www.wearc.co.uk/donate, then you can give there. We we’ve got suggested amounts, we’ve got amounts that you can enter. If you want to give millions or thousands or hundreds, that would be wonderful. If you just want to give a few pounds that will pay for a number of young people to have new to faith packs when they become a Christian, that’s the kind of thing it could it could finance, then please please give. Absolutely. Why don’t you start your morning 5:30 on a great note giving to a great cause indeed. What’s next, Laura? I’m trying to remember. Uh someone will tell me in my ear. Oh, we both got the same time. So, we played a game earlier that I think is one of the worst games on earth, but Laura, well, you seem to love it. I love this game. Mainly because I don’t think the game itself is extraordinary, but people’s response to the game is extraordinary. And I hope you will see what we mean. They will absolutely see what we mean. Let us introduce you to Sausage or Finger. Welcome to the night shift with the duo for your favorite host. and John. It’s all happening. It’s all happen. Can we spin while we hostess with the most Can we spin? Can we spin? I’ll go that way. Are you spinning? We’re going that way. We’re moving. We’re moving. We’re doing a whole circle. We’re doing a whole circle. I’ve actually been to Dundee and hung out with those guys. Foreign spin. Foreign and spin. What’s wicked about Dundee Youth for Christ is Oh, I’m too tired. They do lots of great I don’t know what’s happening. I’m so dizzy. I can’t cope. They do Dundy Youth for Christ do lots of university mission with young people which unlike the majority of the centers majority of centers are either like primary school high school but they love just doing some university ministry. Um and actually I’m sorry I know we got to throw it but I also want to tell them about Dundee tomorrow are doing a sponsored walk. They’re walking sponsor. They’re walking in a sponsored fashion. Yeah. and and they’re going to be raising money and we’re going to hang out with them tomorrow. Yeah. They’re not walking now. It’s too late. It’s dark. No, actually, it’s not advisable late at night. Dangerous. Dangerous. Dangerous. Welcome to the night shift. So, we are We didn’t even go to the Didn’t even go to the camera. Quick, should we try it again? Be ready with the camera change in three, two, one. Welcome to We’ve got to say welcome to the night shift. I think Welcome to the night shift. You know what I’m saying? Can I run around the back of you as well? We’ll try and make it really fluid. Okay. Yeah. All right. Three, two, one. Welcome to the night shift. That felt good. Really good. I think like we got, you know, there by 6:00 in the morning, we’ll have nailed that. Welcome to the night shift. I’ll just be sobbing. Okay. So, what are we doing now, mate? What aren’t we doing? Well, we thought because we’re youth workers, we spend a lot of time playing games. Yeah. And so I thought we could play yourself, John. Don’t play no games. Oh, well, I’m about to change your world because we are going to play one of my favorite food games. This is a game that actually was inspired by Taskmaster. Nice. Um, and it is a game called sausage or finger. I am immediately skeptical of this game. Oh, honestly, I played at youth group loads and I absolutely love it. So, please bring on the sausages. You’re not joking. There are joking. So, what you do is we are going to welcome some friends to join us because you can’t play sausage or finger alone. So, we’re going to Are you in the middle or are you on the What are you doing? I’m dynamic, John. I’m just dynamic. I’m dynamic. Dynamic. I’m dynamic. I’m fluid. I don’t care what I do. So, we are uh playing this sausage or finger. You will need for your youth group. I’m equipping you in your youth work. Wow. Just some hot dogs. That’s all you need. Getting this one for free, guys. As well, friends. You need some friends. So, can we welcome Stacy, Leslie, and Come on. Yeah. Clapping in the studio. Clapping at home. Clap them in. These guys are all a part of the night shift. Oh, what just happened? What? John’s just kicked over all the Bible. Oh, it’s only a Bible. Jesus is sad. Uh, and so we Yes, I’m so strong. We’re going to play sausage your finger. The way that sausage your finger works is that we all stand in a line. We’re gonna all face that direction. This way. This way. Am I in the game? I really don’t want in the game. I don’t want a sausage in my face. Necks. Neck. It’s a sausage in the neck. Nothing to do with your face. I didn’t understand. And what’s going to happen is you each player will get a sausage. Like Oh, quite like the smell of that this time of day. Oh, come on. Like this. Right, John? Here’s your sausage. Am I holding? Come on. They’re all drippy. Yeah, you got to hold the sausage. This game’s going to change. Come on. Well, it’s in the stuff. Just take it over, John. It’ll be fine. Right. Can you smell it? Can you smell the sausy goodness? There we go. Happening. Oh, come on, Leslie. This is what This is why you’re here. John, you can’t because that’s not the game. Just eat it. Okay, we’ve not got any more spares. You can eat it after. Snack after play now. Right. So, the way sausage your finger works, each player has a Sorry, just put them dry down. sausage. Please show the sausage. Here is the sausage. Now, what you’re going to do is you’re going to one at a time, you’re we’re going to poke the person in front of us on the back of the neck, either with the sausage or with your finger, but I’ve not got a friend in front. So, you’re going to come do it to me? Okay. So, this So, Leslie, in a moment, I will, this is just a trial, poke Leslie with either a sausage or my finger. And Leslie has to guess, was it sausage or finger? If she get guesses correctly, then she stays in. This is the game of sausage your finger. If you guess it correctly, you stay in your room for the next round. So, everyone who No, guys, don’t be like that. It’s my favorite game. No one ever wants to play with me. Right. So, so respect for the sausages, please. So, I’m gonna go with Leslie first. Pray. Silence. You shouldn’t eat these sausages, by the way. Don’t put it on my head. Shush. Right. First up, Leslie. Sausage or finger? Was it sausage or finger? Finger. It was a finger. Leslie stays in. Okay. It’s Leslie’s turn now to poke in front of her. So, you can make a decision. Move now. Poke in the back of the neck with either your sausage or your finger. The right height for you. Sausage or finger. It’s It is a sausage. You are in the game. Correct. Right. You can make your next move with Stacy. Either sausage or finger. Sausage. It was a sausage. We’re going to need to up our skills here, guys. Is this how we’re living our lives? Yes. And it’s 1:30 in the morning. Stacy, you’re on with John. I wasn’t ready. Oh, John. You joking. Sausage. Your finger. Sausage. No. Incorrect. That was finger. You’re out. So you move aside. You can go and I’m so upset. I can’t believe it. I’m out. The night shift, everybody. You can you can go and eat your eat your sausage somewhere. Right. My turn. Leslie, sausage or finger incoming now. Sausage. No, it was my finger. Yes. Oh, okay. Go and eat your sausage. Fine. Right, Vince, you’re up. It’s not nice. Stacey, I wonder. be a victor. Uh you’re up. Uh you’re up Vince with Sace Sausage. Oh, she went straight in and she knew. She knew. Right. Okay. Say, you’re on me. Hang on a minute. Let me get the hair out. I’ve got loads of hair. Oh, I think based on the temperature it was a sausage. Yes. So great. Right. Okay, Vince, we’re on. Okay. Sausage your finger. Three. Come on. Three, two, one. Yeah, it was. It was. It was. I even tried to heat it up. Okay. Next up, you’re on with Stace. Stacy is never going to forgive me for this ever. Sausage. It was a sausage. Right. My turn. That was a finger. Yeah. Yeah, that was very firm. That one I knew. No, no, I didn’t mind if it helped me. No. Right. Did you just poke Stacy? No. No. I thought you I didn’t know whether you poked it. I wasn’t sure. I was like, don’t. It wasn’t your turn. That was just a bonus. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That’s good. Yeah. Right. Ready? Okay. Sausage or finger? Finger. Yeah, it was. Yeah. I thought I’ done that. Well, Sausage was it? Right. Okay. We’re gonna have like one more round of this. We’ll go one more time. See if we can get the person in front of you. All joint victors. Are you looking at the camera? No. Oh. Uh, I think that was a sausage. Correct. Yes. Okay. One more round. One more round. You need to try and outwit the person in front of you. It’s quite odd when you got a cold sausage in it. Yeah. I’m trying to I’m trying to I’m trying. Right. Ready? Three. Two. One. It wasn’t. It was my thumb. Yes. Okay. Stace. We’re in. Yeah. I tell you what. I’ll I’ll just face this way. What are you doing? I’ll just face this way. Well, yeah, but then that way. Yeah. No. And then we’ll just turn right. Oh, sausage. Yeah. Okay. Sudden death. Yeah. I’ll go again. Sausage. My thumb. Yes. Oh, my thumb has claimed my sausage up. Cheers. Sausage or finger victory, my friends. That is the game. Sausage or finger is your life changed forever. A sausage. No. No. I’m really That was That was so happy. I’m so happy. Was that Yeah, we’ve got more games we’ll play. That was the game. That was the game. You just lost. You were out so quick. You blink and you missed it. We’ve got a replay video. Ready? Really? Yeah. Yeah. No, not of this. The next thing. So, we just heard I’ve got a replay in my ear and I’m like, “Wow, we love Sausage and Vigor so much. We’re going to watch it all. We’re going to rewatch it in slow motion just to confirm.” No, it’s okay. I just I’m Is this like a fever dream? I think you’re the tiredness is kicking in. What are we doing right now? We’re going to watch a re a replay of what happened. Shall I just shall I take this bit of Neil? I think you’re in awe of the game. I think what’s happened is you’re in deep awe of what’s just taken place. It’s okay. I do this a lot, John. I can understand the wondering of the or wonder. create create a world of war and wonder around me based on you do you just intro [Music] right now millions of young people in Britain don’t know Jesus at Youth for Christ we want to change that we do that through our evangelistic activities and events and through our 60 local youth for Christ Ministries. We want to partner with and support churches to help them reach young people in their community because we believe Jesus changes young people’s lives. But how can they hear about Jesus unless someone tells them? We believe that the Bible and Holy Spirit can open people’s hearts and minds. We are simply the messenger. And last year we took that message to 1.6 million young people. As a result, thousands have come to follow Jesus. That’s fantastic, but that’s not enough. We have a bigger vision. 2.5 million young people in just a few years. That’s 33% or one in three of all young people in Britain. But we won’t stop there. And not until we reach every young person in Britain because they matter. But we can’t do this alone. Will you stand in the gap for this generation? Make a difference in their lives. Give, act, pray. Will you stand in the gap for them? [Music] Let me set the scene for you. It’s 1944 and the world as we know it is about to be in a time of postwar. Buildings have crumbled and millions have lost their lives. And humanity as we know it had to fight to survive. And in a time where I’m sure hope for many had been lost, God was stirring up a movement inspired by the cross. People started praying and asking what’s next for the coming generations. Then God spoke and gave the same vision to multiple nations. From Chicago to Britain, God was speaking despite the distance. He wanted young lives changed by Jesus and called Youth for Christ into existence. Many years have gone by and we’ve shared Christ with millions of broken souls. We’ve gone to clubs, pubs, churches, even sharing Christ in broken homes. Now, at one point, YFC was the abbreviation, but you can’t abbreviate salvation. There’s power in Jesus’ name, and youth for Christ is blatant. Throughout the nation, we stood and we proclaimed, “It’s Jesus. We’ll shout his name, and we’re not ashamed.” All that time with 75 years of profound, incredible moments, we couldn’t help but feel maybe we’d lost our focus. As we planned our programs and did our activities, we couldn’t see the fruit in many of our ministries. We needed to hit return and rewrite the sentence. Jesus at the center, not just in hashtags and mentions. If we wanted to get this right, we needed time of reflection. 40 days of prayer to ask God for a new direction. We needed to relearn because we hadn’t been in his presence. We needed to pray not just for provision but youth for Christ needed repentance. Surrender all and bow down because God you called this mission. It’s not about our careers, our ideas and worldly wisdoms. And after all that time, what did God say? Well, this is what we feel like is his word for Youth for Christ today. Go and love the local. Support my church. Go back to being a missional movement from which you were birthed. Take heed you for Christ. Give me your heart. Pray and then go like you did at the start. The past was good. The present is better. But the best is yet to come. Go out into Britain. I’ll give you favor. Share with Britain. Jesus Christ, my son. It catches my eye because um has like all of these wonderful colors on it. They were really pretty and I’ve never seen pictures like them before. Like I couldn’t imagine it being a Bible. It looks way better. The waves are just bigger and it looks like it’s an action shot. It just looks like it’s actually happening. I like how it’s displayed and easy to read and how it has loads of chapters and verses. The rainbow is kind of just there and you’re like, I want to read this. when they’re in key stage two, when they’re getting to year three, and they can then use those Bibles. So, every time they have collective worship, if they do that in their schools or RE lessons, I think it makes really good sense. I think you’ve got their the chance that you give a child a book at the end of the school year, they take it away and it goes on a shelf and they they won’t be looking at it. Um, in school, we want to be able to use these uh these these books and and this resource in a way of engaging with worship and the teaching of of reh. So we have already decided as a school that from when we’re doing like our RE lessons and collective worship from next year, so from September, um that we will start using those [Applause] [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] How can we make a Bible that works for everybody? That’s the big question. How can we make something that is quite inaccessible accessible for a whole family to do together? [Music] We really want to gather your thoughts. Everything that you say is going to have impact. Lots of pictures bright by front cover. Um with uh when reading it, it’s not like a tricky font to read. If you’ve got like every one or two pages something you can do, you’ll think, “Oh, I can’t wait to get to the next page.” having loads of like family comments and pictures and like that it would be something that everybody could [Music] enjoy. It’s just good for the time we spend to be something we can all take something away from um a verse in our head or something that we’re going to do that day. [Music] There’s space on it, inside it, on the back of it, on the front of it to write down things, to draw things, to make notes, to engage in the Bible together, and have a space that would be uniquely yours. [Music] An opportunity for the parents to engage with their young person in the Bible is just a whole new thing and a something that’s actually really exciting. There’s a real lack of things for families to do together. There’s the childrens and there’s the youth and there’s the adults. But a family a Bible is a great idea. This resource is going to be really helpful to explore the biblical stories and how they impact the way we live out our lives today. It is a Bible that invites the whole family to participate. It’s a Bible that stays open in the middle of your living room or your bedroom and it invites the whole family not just to read scripture but to actively engage in it no matter where you are in your faith. [Music] Hello friends, we have news. It is the end of the night shift. We are now officially in morning. Not in like a sad maybe both ways in morning for the end of the night shift and also welcome to the morning. It is almost 10 to 6 and we are about to transition into what could it be the the the morning the I mean there’s morning shift but the morning shift. The morning show. The morning show. The morning show. The morning show. The morning show. Hey. They better have this much energy. Bearing in mind we’ve been up all night. We haven’t slept. So if they come in and they’re all sleeping like that’s not okay. It’s the morning show. [Applause] Hey morning. And you know why they got light bulbs? To signify the sun for the morning show. I’m not even in shot anymore. Don’t worry about it. I’m back. Okay. But we have a very important thing to do. Aside from the money and telling everybody how much we’ve raised, we have a very important thing to do before we leave. John, now what do you want to do first? Do you want to do the update first for money or then do you want because we could do the update first and then we can look at the suffering that we’re going to implement. Tell you what, I’ve got an idea. I’ve got an idea. I’ve got an idea. Why don’t we review our highs? How long have we got? Why don’t we review our the highs and lows of our time then do the fun we’re not we’re in the morning show. Um okay. Yeah. We’ve got ages. So why don’t we do what’s your highlight? Like low light first, highlight second. Okay. Of the last six hours. Of the last six hours. Other than just being with me clear. My low light. That’s my highlight. I thought it might be. No. My low light has been uh uh What do you think my low light has been? I’m going to say No, I’m not going to It’s low blow. It’s a lowblow scene. I knew you were going to say it’s a low blow. No, my knew you were. No, my low light. You went out first. Uh, no, I’m not. But I My low light was when we had to put our arms up. Hated it with a passion. Whoever wrote that on the wheel and decided to put it on there so we could spin it. You You are the lovely person cuz she’s in the room. I love the wheel. I love it. Uh, so that was my low light. My highlight um my highlight it’s has been the amount of money raised. I know that’s such a cliche thing to say, but absolutely. And the fact that it’s kind of just kept going up going up and going up going this elevator’s going up. Yeah. So that’s been pretty exciting for me. What’s your highlight and low light been? The low light is la is definitely when we had to drink the vinegar because of the handg I’m still burning here from that. The life we have led for the last I might have sustained internal injuries. Yeah, I think so. I think I could have burned my organs. You look like you might have as well. My inside I look like someone with my insides are damaged permanently. I think so. I think I could be. That’s my low light. My highlight. Well, there was a moment when I lay on the floor. Yes. Wonderful. Rob, who’s doing a put the cushions down and and kind of tucked me in to go to sleep and that was just wonderful. And also what happened was then I think he bought you a blanket and then he had some grapes and he just bought the grapes and then he was feeding you grapes. That was my highlight. Yeah, that was pretty good. Yeah, I felt I felt pretty good in that moment. Great. Yeah, I felt really happy. Yeah, it was amazing. and also telling you guys about why it matters so much that we share Jesus with young people. That is of course my other highlight obviously. So why don’t we now do how much we have raised up to this point. So shall we adopt the position for the final time? Oh, we need to like intro it though, haven’t we? No, I was just getting position. Get in position. The total that has been raised so far is [Music] £5,585. Can we have a round of applause in the room? I mean, that’s that is pretty impressive. And that is all down to your donations. Thank you so much. If you’re just joining in and you’re wondering what on earth is going on here, we we’re wondering the same thing. We don’t know what is this thing that we’re giving to. Well, we’re from British You for Christ. We can go back to the main thing. Uh this feels weird. Oh, sorry. Sorry. I’ve got a side now. We’re here at British. You do have a side at British Youth for Christ and we’re doing a live stream for 30 hours. We are currently in I’m going to say about 16 hours. Is that about right? 93 something like that. I’ve lost uh all knowledge of time. However, what we’re doing during this is we’re fundraising money. British Youth for Christ exists to share Jesus with young people across Britain to share it relevantly. And that’s what people have been giving to throughout this whole time. Um, anything else to add, Laura? I mean, we could say about if the suggest what the suggested donations are. Uh, yeah. Hey, uh, we we Sometimes it’s hard to know what to give. Exactly. Uh, we would love anything you would give, but if you give £30, it will help a young person uh, in crisis uh, receive essential mentoring and supporting in what they’re going through. 50 will provide resources to a youth leader that will help them to do outreach in their local schools. And you do the last one. 65 uh could support 15 churches. 15 churches whole churches. All of the 15 um 15 churches with the resources to guide and provide for youth ministry outreach in their local community. Now, there’s been some research that has came out recently that talks about young people, particularly young men, actually flocking uh three times more wanting to attend an attending church weekly. What’s happening is churches across the UK are coming to a place where there’s young people coming into their buildings and they’re not sure what to do. That £65 will help provide youth ministry outreach. Us as British Youth for Christ will come alongside a church and help them in their youth work in their local area. Yeah. So please, please do give. If you’re not watching this live, then please don’t let that stop you. Please just go to www.wfc.co.uk/donate or call 01215029620 and we would love anything that you are able to give to help us resource the church in this Britain to see our communities and young people transformed by Jesus. Absolutely. I think that might have been the last time. Well, we’re going to go home and have a sleep now. Obviously, we’re going to end we’re back later, but that could be the last time we do an ass during the night shift, which is really sad. We have one last thing to do, which is we’re going to do uh we’re going to pass over to the It’s the Passover. We’re going to pass over the morning to the morning show. Uh but first, we’re going to spin the wheel. Now, if you’ve only just joined in, what the wheel is for is we spin the wheel and then over the course of an hour, we have to do that thing. So, for example, it could be hosts swap socks, which is a horrible thing to do, and I’m glad I didn’t have to do it. It could be have shoes for hands. It could be can’t use your arms, which sounds really impractical. Um, so should we get the other guys up first, the presenters, welcome to morning show. Morning show. Morning show. I am not jealous that you’re well done. So Hannah and uh you’ve not got mics. Can we get two handhelds for the guys just so we can hear them for the moment? And then what we’re going to do is we’re going to ask you first what your favorite thing to get from here would be and your least favorite thing would be to get. Can I just say that if these guys get the sleeping bag, I will be so peeved cuz I’ve been wanting that the whole night for literally for the last six hours. All I’ve been asking Jesus for is the sleeping bag. We even pray. I do think though that would be detrimental right now because I am fighting for awakeness and a sleeping bag I think would not help that. We’ll just be having a little sleep. We’ll just we’ll we’ll lie on the floor from the floor like this. I’m sad I missed that. I think I need to go back and have a little look at that. Yeah, there’s a lot that happened. What about you, Bella? What is table tennis keep up? I’m do this. Oh, I would like to give that a shot. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Speaking of shots, I think that’ll be fine. No shot of vinegar. Do you not want that? I don’t want a warning. We have already done shots of vinegar and can confirm it’s horrific. I think we can take that one off. How many shots? Like, how many did you do? We just did one shot. We didn’t We came in without our arms in the air. It was a It was a forfeit. We forgot. There’s another arms one. That could be fun. That one will be a bit better. I think you should masking tape your arms. No, it’s cling film. It’s film. Cling filming ourselves. That is actually quite I say ourselves, someone will cling film us. It’ll be great. I don’t need shall we spin the wheel, see what you’re left with, and then let you guys uh do some hosting. The morning show. The morning show. The morning show will commence. You did so well. You don’t know. You weren’t watching. Um Oh, no. No. So, should we do spin the wheel? Who’s going to spin it? Go on, Bella. We have to chant it first. Oh, we Yeah, I know. But I’m saying she’ll spin it. We’ll say spin the wheel when we get to one. Three, two, one. Spin the wheel. No. Oh, no. I forgot. And then I got panicked. You nearly just knocked it on to swap socks. It is. Okay. We’re okay. We’re okay. It’s a good start to the day. I guess that means we can go home. We’re done for now. Until later. Until later. will be back. We will not be here for too long. See you guys sooner. Later. We’ve been We’ve been We’ve been the night shift. See you all soon. Goodbye from Goodbye from the night shift. We need to come up with a great day soon. What are we going to do? Welcome to the morning [ __ ] They said morning show. The morning show. We need to come up with something to get energy going. Absolutely. We’ll have some coffee. Uh but while we do that, why don’t you uh check out a video uh of some stories from National. So check this out and we will be right back for some table tennis. Keep your upy. Hi, my name is Nick and I work for Youth for Christ and I lead the team that oversees our regional work. Our youth for Christ centers are dotted up and down the country and every week I hear fantastic stories about how young people are being reached with the good news of Jesus and and so we are so passionate about seeing more youth for Christ centers being started up. Check out this story from a new center in Wales. Hey, my name is Grace and I get to serve as the center director of Bangor Youth for Christ here in beautiful North Wales. Uh, we are a brand new center less than six months old, which means that I’m the first employee and smack dab in the middle of some of the most exciting times of vision setting and growth and planning and dreaming and seeing what God might do with this work that he started here in North Wales. During these early days, I’ve been spending lots of time with other charity workers, with local council workers, getting to know our local churches to see what they’ve already done and how we can join hands in some of their work and how we can innovate to reach young people in this area. We’ve had a few wins already, which has been so exciting. I’ve had the opportunity to go into a few schools and teach some classes uh in RE and some other opportunities including today where I was able to go into two separate schools and speak to somewhere over you 500 students about Easter and about the sacrifice that Jesus made for them and the real truth that Easter offers for them. So, we’re having some really exciting times and building momentum towards some projects that we’re going to be launching in the autumn. And so we would just ask you to be praying for us. Uh that we would have favor in this environment, in this area, that we would have the nearness of the Lord just so so present in our lives and so so real uh as we engage with these young people and share the love of Jesus here in North Wales. We are so excited about how things are shaping up with Bang Youth for Christ. Grace in a really short time has driven things forward and is already making a difference to the lives of young people. And we have now other opportunities in South Wales where churches are beginning to come forward and say we would like a Youth for Christ center in our community. And so your support will enable our team to be able to provide resources, advice and assistance to be able to do exactly that. So, thank you so much because your support really does help to bring the gospel to young people across the nation. So, now we have a clipped interview from Neil O. Bole. We’re gonna let’s we’re going to have to hop over. Yeah, let me move over this way. This way. That was in unison. I know that was Neil, come join us. My my good friend. Round of applause for applause, everybody. Neil, I don’t know whether you should have to do this on one leg, but I’m going to permit that you don’t. Thank you. That’s that’s very kind of you. I just got off a bike, so it would I wouldn’t I wouldn’t. Yeah, I I get that. Neil, um you are our national lead of British for Christ and uh you’re going to actually quiz us and we’re going to invite Laura up shortly. I am. Um all to do with British You for Christ, which both me and Bella are really slightly nervous about. I’m excited about it. We’ve only recently joined, so that’s going to be interesting. got Laura who’s going to be joining us. She’s been here for years, so she will know all the answers to all the questions which will be really really helpful. Um Neil, tell us a little bit about your story and journey before uh you you quiz us about you for Christ. Um when did you come to follow Jesus? When did your journey of following Jesus start? How did it happen? Tell us a little bit about that. You’re really struggling leg thing, aren’t you? Yeah. Uh 16. So north of England. Uh I Yeah. I was 16 years of age and walked into You for Christ event heard the gospel and made a decision. Amazing. And where was that? What what event was it? Can you remember? No, I just said it was Christ. Well, actually, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I didn’t actually know that. Obviously, this one leg thing. It is. Yeah. Do you know? Can you remember who was anyone speaking? Uh there was someone speaking. Uh and I didn’t think they were very good. Oh, interesting. They’re not watching. Well, no. And that’s true, actually. Yeah. No, that’s true. I need to be careful. But I didn’t. And I didn’t understand pretty much anything they had to say. Oh wow. They kept speaking in words and language that I just couldn’t comprehend such as blood lamb and all that kind of stuff. I I give your life to Jesus. What does that mean? Right. Anyway, of course. Yes. So God managed to grab your heart within that space even with it with all the Christianities possible that was shared in that space. Correct. Amazing. Praise God. So Neil, where has God taken you? What adventures have you been on? Wow. Okay. So I actually have been on a few adventures. Uh yes I will. So very very quickly uh so moved to London from the north of England from Yorkshire and started Greenwich you for Christ. Yeah come on boys and girls keep keep on one leg here. Moved to Greenwich pioneered that and then felt called to move overseas. Got married to Joy. Felt called to move overseas and so we moved to Cyprus where I was the director of training for Middle East North Africa. Then we moved we were in Cypress for four years. Then we moved to Abu Dhabi. Started you for Christ throughout the Arabian Gulf. And then we moved to Thailand. I was the area director for Asia Pacific from everything from Afghanistan right across to Fiji, Samoa, India, China in between. And then moved to the US uh which was my last stop and I was the vice president of well really nothing. Uh but but that’s why I took up this job because actually I could get to do stuff that I really love doing which is uh hoping to create a strategy that makes a difference. It’s amazing. So good. You’ve been everywhere. I I was just about to say there’s been lots of places where you’ve been where where has been uh in terms of where you’ve lived, where have you enjoyed living the most? Ah, Abu Dhabi. Absolutely loved it. Yeah. Yeah. What what what about it? Well, you’d have to go to understand. Uh yeah, it’s a little different to Dubai, but Dubai’s just down the road. Um it’s just loved it. Uh I think the the fact that you have so many different nationalities all in one place, blend of cultures. Oh, just so good. So good. Well, um we’re gonna invite Laura up to here because we’re gonna allow this to flip the script a little bit. Okay. So, um we’ve just asked you a little bit about your life. Laura, come join us. I will join you. We’re going to No, we’re not going to hop. No, there’s a llama. Oh, it’s my llama. Your llama’s escaped. Good job. Sorry. I The llama join us. Can you go to this side? I just don’t want to hop again. I’m so sorry. My leg is so struggling is really struggling. Because you played football last night. I don’t know. I have no idea. I’m just saying if you could stand on one leg just 10 minutes, she’ll see. going to sweat. Need to pray. Thank you. You are rather sweaty. Yeah, I know. I just touched it. I don’t know why you Well, this is great. Um, everyone now knows that I’m sweating so and struggling and shaking and um I’m still happy to be here. You’ll be glad to know. Um, we’ve asked you some questions. Neil, you can now grill us. Now, just just going to caveat this before you do this. I’ve only been part of British Youth Christ for around eight to nine months. How many how long how long you been here for? Um, three. Okay. So, you should have definitely like a mid to level understanding and knowledge. What about you, Laura? How long? I don’t remember. I think Laura’s been here. Laura should know. I’d be really surprised if Laura doesn’t know every answer to the question that’s coming here. I’m really worried that I might know any. I don’t retain information. I I remember stupid things like stuff about trees that no one cares about. Yeah. The best way to make fizzy jelly, things that actually matter. I really Yeah, I struggle to retain. Okay, Neil. Neil, before you fry um throw some questions at us, can I ask an important an important question roast because that’s an entirely The important question is are there any prizes to Oh, this got to be prizes. Well, I I I feel like no, but I feel like if you don’t Oh, dear. So, maybe employment might be Okay. Interesting. Already helped. Lovely. It’s a lot of pressure. That is Neil, over to you. Go for it. Yeah. Great. All right. So, the way it’s going to work is one point for each question I ask. Right. If you get it right. So, you have to remember how many points honestly my fingers. All right. So, we’re going to start with you. How many questions doing it one by one? Yes. That’s why it’s going to be so great. Dead easy. First round. Actually, have sweaty hands. Okay. Good. All right. Laura, which city? This is an easy one. Which city in the United Kingdom Right. Started Youth for Christ at exactly the same time as Tory Johnson and Billy Graham were praying in a suite in New York as they launched Chicago Youth for Christ. Unbeknown to them in a city in England, people were praying to start and they called it You for Christ. What is that city? That city is Birmingham. That city is not Oh, no. I really was sure it was. Are you sure? Yes. Think about why I might ask you this question. Liverpool. Liverpool is the answer. I knew that as well. Yeah, I knew that. Knew that. Such a shame. If I had that one, I’d have got a point. So, can I get half a point? Be my second. How are you feeling about Liverpool? Feeling good this week. The football team. Excellent. Yeah. Good. Good. All right. All right. All right. Sean, Teddy, you seem you’re you’re you’ve been with us long enough to know the answer to this. Okay. Interesting. Oh, no. This is your question, Bella. Okay. Yeah. Sorry. What is the mission statement of You for Christ? The mission statement to see every young person’s life church transformed by Jesus. Is that the mission statement? Well, I’m not sure what statement that was. That was a mix of about every statement we have. Let’s start with I’m really bad on a pressure. I’m sweating. I know this out of this. I can tell you dead stroke. Yeah. Let’s start with taking mission statement. No. No. Let me help you. Taking the taking the gospel. No. making the good news of Jesus. Making it relevantly for young people. I don’t even know if that young person. We’re going to give you Well, you got some words in there. Thank you. Give you half a point. How about that? I don’t know if you deserve half. All right, Sean. Take the lead here. What are the four Ds? I know this one. I think so. I know this one. I think I do. This is one you should really know, Sean. You should really know this one. This one matters. Do they have to be in order? No. To demonstrate the love of Jesus. Okay. To declare demonstrate um disciple. Help him. Demonstrate. I can tell he’s the one. Disciple and decision. Yes. Thank you very much. Yes. And yes. Don’t cheat. All right. You’re ahead. You’re ahead by helping me get one point here. Our attack team also kind of helped me a little bit in my ears. Now, just say these were the easy questions. All right, so bonus easy question. I am winning though. You are. Thank you. What? First hand up. What does the Youth for Christ logo represent? A heart. Hands up. You said okay. So, what what is it about hands up with a heartbeat? You’re not even the one who got your hands up. Yes. Go ahead. God’s heartbeat for young people. Yes, that is exactly. That is exactly right. I didn’t have my hands up, but I did Oh, no. You just spoke it out. All right. All right. Slightly slightly more interesting. Hands up again. No, this is now back to you. Okay. With your zero points. No, I have one. I got that one. Oh, yes, you do. You do. You do. You do. All right. At a Youth for Christ event in Reading, a rather large individual heckled the Youth for Christ preacher. He then sat down, broke his chair due to his weight, continued to heckle while trying to get up off the floor, and was escorted out of the building. Who was the preacher? It was at a youth for Christ event. It was Did you say when? Say when I said okay. No. No. No pressure here. I don’t know the answer. Um, take a guess. Was it you? It’s the kind of thing that might happen. Well, it’s very true. Very true. Yeah, I have been heckled. But yes. Uh, no answer. Uh, no. I don’t have an answer. Have a guess. cover a preacher in you for Christ. No, that would be correct. Oh, my second answers are always the right answers. While speaking fell asleep. Yes, I have. Yeah, I have practice barely. It just comes with a turf, right? It’s what you expect. All right, Bella, over to you. All right. What r This is quite easy. What rural youth organization does Youth for Christ often get confused with? I know this one. Why? Wow. No. Can I say it if they don’t get it? I know this one. I shouldn’t laugh. I’m not laughing. But no is the young farmer. Yes. Come on. Have to wow. All right. All right. I just got panic. Okay. Remember your score. You got a full point there. One and a half for you. All right. Sean, here you go. Okay. At the national board meeting, a guest was invited to share a devotion who was 93 years old. She was then invited to head home but refused to leave the board meeting and sat through the entire meeting interrupting continually with her own views which mainly challenged us on our lack of faith. What was significant about that person? When was this? Before your time. Okay, fantastic. Um the significance of that person was it that it was someone’s mother? Oh. Oh, I don’t know. She was a mom. Uh, but that’s not the answer. Not someone’s mother in the room is what I meant. Oh. Oh, okay. Well, one of the board members. She was a mom. No, no, no. I mean that she was one of the people in the room’s mother. No, I’m just kidding. No, no, no, no. Who was Who? Who was it? Why you looking at me? I don’t know. You don’t know. I know. I’ve got that face. I know. The Birmingham D. All right. So the the significance is that she was the first youth worker for youth for Christ appointed by Billy Graham and she lived just down the road and we had no idea until she was 93 years old. Wow. She was right. She is great. Yes. Ever been to a meeting in over stage? You’re welcome. Most people in my meetings wouldn’t feel that. Okay. Well, how are we doing on points? Where are we at? So you’re at an one and a half. I’m not going to lie, guys. This leg thing is killing me off right now. Yeah, I’m on one point, but I wish I was on Yeah. Two legs, two points. Two legs, one point. How are you? I reckon we do one more. One more round. Oh, I’ve only got one more round for you. Brilliant. Lovely. All right. Are you ready? Yes. All right, Laura. At a heated discussion at the International Youth for Christ General Assembly, a n African national director publicly asked whether the national director of which nation was in partnership with the devil? I’ve got to guess the nation. Yeah. Oh. Uh I feel like the only right thing to say is us because otherwise it’s insulting 20 other nation. I don’t mean I can’t go like well that so I’m for for the sake of national relations. Well done. I’m going to say us because otherwise I feel like I’m being Aggie. You would be correct. No way. Is that a good thing? Should we celebrate that? We should celebrate that. I don’t know. I’ve still got friends. Yeah. Yeah. We we were not wellliked at that general assembly. All right. So, Bella, uh, when the international president visited British youth for Christ, who was the national director responsible for taking him to the wrong London airport, resulting in him missing his flight? Yeah. It was not me. A national director. Yeah. Can I go? Well, you can have a guess. Um, was it Gav Gav? It was not Gav. Was it Roy? Well, I mean by I mean we’re gonna have to go back. It was backwards, but I was going to go Roy as well. In Royy’s defense, he picked the guy up from Hebro and the guy didn’t tell him that he was flying out of Gatwick. Well, that’s understandable. Oh, so so easy. Okay. All right. Here’s the last question then. Okay. And then I have a and then I have a quick, you know, let’s see the last point. Okay. When I was hosting the You International board meeting here in Birmingham at the national office, Yes. In the middle of the international president’s devotion, the door flung open and in walked a member of the finance team unaware of who was in the room and offered everybody a what? Oh, I thought he was going to say who was it and I could name and I know I’m assuming it was the most the most common thing that you should ask out there is a cup of tea or a cup of coffee, but I don’t know if that’s too simplistic. Um, I’m going to go for a item of food. Okay, that’s just too general. A cake. It was not a cake. Was I wrong with Hobnob? You were wrong. A Polish sweet. It was a Polish sweet. Oh my goodness. That’s cool. You are ahead. All right. All right. All right. Here’s your chance to to just beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat Laura. All right. All right. So Laura can’t answer this. This is your chance to get ahead of otherwise she wins and you guys lose your jobs. That’s fine. All right. Okay. Are you ready? In the Youth for Christ motto are two words anchored and geared. What’s the motto? Anchored for the anchored. Anchored. Don’t help them. Times geared for the anchored to the rock. Geared for the times. Yes. Say that as well. All right. You guys anchored to the times geared for the rock. The only thing I’m certain of is that Bella did not win. Yeah, I think I did quite well. Well done. Participation point. I’m just leaving. Okay, great. There we go. Neil, thank you. Lovely. Well, I win. I won, right? No, you didn’t win. I actually do think Laura did win. I did win. I got it right at the end. No. Well, yeah, but I was not allowed to play. So, you need to color this out, my friend. To be honest, I need to color this out. You did win. Um, okay. We are We have a wonderful thing in our program, right? Oh, yes. Oh, here we go. Here we go. Oh, good. Oh, no. I’m doing quite well. Okay, so next up we have got magnitude worship which is a festival in the Oh no, I went a long way which is a festival in the summer that we as Youth for Christ get to be involved with and run a creative space which is fantastic. Um, so yes, let’s go over mac and [Music] cheese. I don’t want [Music] to hear it. I don’t want to fear the stor. I don’t want to fear the [Music] storing in the [Music] deep. I will trust the voice. [Music] speak. I’m not going to be afraid. I’m not going to be afraid. I’m not going to be afraid. I’m not going to feel stone. You are gater. I’m not going to fear the stor. I’m not going to fear it [Music] all. Peace be still. [Music] [Music] Please my eyes can see I will just see the [Music] word I’m dancing. [Music] Please see I feel justace [Music] [Music] overace. Sing again. [Music] Peace over me. Peace. Oh. [Music] [Music] [Music] Hands up. [Music] Rise [Music] up. Let faith rise up in me. [Music] Let faith rise up in me. [Music] [Music] rise still with you. I will touch the peace. Peace. [Music] Amen. [Music] Peace. [Music] Peace. Peace. [Music] Peace. Peace. [Music] Amen. Peace [Music] be will. my feet upon the sea till I’m deep. [Music] Build in [Music] I will be shon. [Music] on your foundation. [Music] [Music] [Music] There is no one like there is [Music] none who are fill with your heart Lead me in your love to those around [Music] me. Holy, holy, there is [Music] no beside you. [Music] Show [Music] me with your heart. Lovely. [Music] I soul Jes. I put my trust in my soul. will be my Christ. Grace is all we love. [Music] His love his arms are strong enough to call me by the grace of father. So I should say we brought his father of my soul is king of broken his love his love is like the mighty [Music] worship. You know, his arms are strong enough to count me through it [Music] all. We rest in your love. Your love for me will know your arms are strong enough. [Music] breath [Music] [Music] still grave [Music] Don’t be afraid for I know that the blind he My grace is my love for me. I know your arms are strong [Music] enough by the grace of God. You are the passion. You are the passion of my life. Jesus, you are the storm within my soul and my strength in my home. My Jesus of my [Music] life, you are the My soul, my strength, my hope, my Jesus, [Music] it’s our faith in you. It’s always Your love for me will never stop. I know your arms are strong enough to car. Praise the King of Kings. Praise the King of Kings. Oh, we’re here [Music] toship. Oh, we come to you. come to you. Oh, the only one worthy of our praise. Amazing grace, how sweet. [Music] Hallelujah. Christ is risen from the grave. Hallelujah. Christ is risen from the grave. He has the welcome home for the camel. [Music] Christ is risen from the grave. Hallelujah. Christ is risen from the grave. Oh death, where is your sting? Oh fear, where is your power? The mighty king of kings has delivered and redeemed. Eternal life is ours. Oh, praise his name forever. Hallelujah. Christ from the grave. And all throughout etal [Music] Christ has risen. [Music] [Music] on the day heaven sweet arms the beauty of your face and through tears of joy I lift my voice in everlasting praise. Hallelujah. Christ is risen from the grave. Oh death, where is your sting? Oh fear, where is your power? The mighty king of kings of you and redeel. Hallelujah. Christ. And all throughout etal hallelujah. Christve Christ throughout [Music] etal Christ is risen from the [Music] grave. He is moving [Music] us. Hallelujah. Christ is risen from the grave and all throughout etal. Christ and on the day you welcome me to heaven [Music] sweet and the beauty of your face and through tears of joy I’ll lift my voice in everlasting Praise. Hallelujah. Christ. [Music] [Music] You have loved us from the start to know the father’s heart and dwell in your delight. When we wonder and feel lost, you come running after us from heaven to our side. Oh, this is the love of Christ. [Music] Oh, our king has shown such grace and beaten in our place for us. All our sin left in that grave as her breaking away. Oh our Jesus is alive and we are free and you are Christ. So we [Music] singlelu you are We sing hallelujah. Lifting us to life. We’re in the love of Christ. Now the valley By your spirit we’re made near and know the father’s heart. You have called us your beloved children of the living God. All the moments of our lives held within the love of Christ. So we sing [Music] hallelujah. You are raining high. We sing halleluing us to life we [Music] see we Hallelujah. [Music] Hallelujah. We’re hidden in the love of Christ. [Music] Nothing is hidden from you, Jesus. We’re caught up in your love, your resurrection, Jesus. Oh, you’re a firm found. You’re the rock on, Jesus. Oh, how glorious the day where we see you face to face at last in your arms. All our tears you walk away in all things your love will rain. All this hope is un glorious. Oh, how glorious is the day where we see you face to face at last home in your arms. All our tears you wipe away in all things will rain. All this hope is safe. I’m sure that our future and you will turn it for good. So till then we’ll trust in you. We sing hallelu. You are rad. We sing. Hallelu. Hallelu. Lifting us to God. So we say hallelu. Hallelu. You are bringing [Music] hallelujah to the love of Christ. We’re in the love of Christ. We’re in the love of Christ. [Music] [Music] [Music] Youth for Christ and the Bible Society working together uh in partnership to I guess reimagine what it might look like to have a Bible for young people that’s uh really easy to use but equally really easy for unchurched young people to pick up. Um really encourages young people to share faith with their friends as well. uh and it be a Bible that they feel isn’t intimidating or outdated, but something that is easy for them to navigate and that they want to engage with and pick up as well. As a Christian, I believe that it’s actually not only important to read the Bible, but to be able to share it. What we talked about a lot is like making it more engaging. So bits where you can write notes and questions about the passages you read. We’re thinking of adding more color and having a chapter page with like a summary of the book and we’re adding maybe some drawings and some other bits and bobs. It’s been a really enjoyable process to work on a Bible that’s so creative. I think that lots of young people um don’t pick up a Bible because they think it’s boring. Um I’ve seen my role as graphic designer really to to bring this book to life to make it as interactive and as accessible as possible for young people. We’ve had loads of great creative ideas floating around and so it’s been um a real challenge, but also lots of fun to bring all those ideas together and come up with this end product that we think will um really reach young people. So far, talked very generally about what they think of the Bible and their habits, but now we’re kind of going through the actual content of the Bible itself, seeing bits they do like, bits they don’t like, and show us, I guess, what they find helpful and what will help them engage more. We’ve asked the young people to be here because of who they are. So, our hope is that the more honest they are, the more helpful we can be to helping them engage with the Bible in a new way. It’s so important to ask young people what is helpful to them, um, they have their own ideas, thoughts, opinions, and they’ve actually already come up with some really interesting ideas. So, yeah, it’s great. I am just so excited about you for Christ involvement in the Good News Bible Project because the Bible changes lives, doesn’t it? It’s God’s message to young people. And so many young people today are biblically illiterate. And we’ve just got to change that narrative. We need young people to be engaged with scripture in a way that just brings life to them and that they get it and they want to immerse themselves in it. We had a young girl on our gap year project who actually didn’t even know who Moses was. We got to change that because this is God’s word and God’s word changes lives and we need to get his word out to as many young people as possible. And that’s why I’m excited that we’re involved in this. Do you volunteer or work with young people? Yes. Well, you aren’t going to want to miss what we want to tell you about. Starting at just £40 with our early bird tickets, we want to invite you to our weekend. We love youth workers. It’s a weekend event designed to inspire you, equip you, and refresh you. taking place at Whitemore Lakes in Lichfield from the 5th to the 7th of September. There’ll be main gatherings with inspiring talks and worship, seminars to equip you and build up your knowhow, activities and times of retreat to unwind, a goodie bag on arrival, and an evening to celebrate you and the amazing work that you do. This is just some of what is in store. Interested? Well, grab your early bird ticket now, and we can’t wait to see you. As a church, we’ve planned this summer to use one of the Bible reading plans at the front as the basis for our summer series. [Music] Oh yes. Come on. Oh no, you’re beating me. We’re back everyone. Um and we are still table tennising. That’s quite good. You think it’s going to be my new skill. Okay. Um what’s next? Spin the wheel. What is next? We are going to spin the wheel once more and then we’re going to give you an fund update which is exciting. Okay, I’ve lost that now. Okay, so let’s have a little look what we got. Um, what would you like? This is our first kind of official one since in the morning show. The morning show. The morning show. Um, okay. Dress the other host in fancy dress. I feel like this could be fun. I was quite excited about that. Wear a sleeping bag. Oh, I might get a little bit I’m half excited about it, half scared that I might get sleepy. Yeah, wacky hairstyles. That could be fun. I wonder what I’d do with your hair. What would you do with mine? You’ve got hair bubbles, hair grips. Yeah, just do something wild crazy. Something. Yeah. Shot them in your 50 minutes. Don’t want that one. Terrible. Awful. Can’t use your arms. This could be fun. We’ll get wrapped in clean film. That’s a bit I don’t know if I’d feel a bit like panicked cuz I don’t like feeling trapped. I think that could be like you’d like to watch two people feel very trapped and possibly cry early in the morning. We want that. Shoes on hands. We’re We’re early in our shift, so hopefully our shoes should be freshish. Yeah. Yeah. Not sweaty. How new are your shoes? Which would be good. Hello all. Look who it is. Mr. Shorty. I’m sorry. Yeah. I’m going to give you this. Yeah. And you this because we’ve just hit a milestone moment. We are halfway through the 30 hours. Woohoo. Yes, we are. Halfway through. That is also exciting. So, we’re hitting it with a spin the wheel. Okay, let’s get on with it. Let’s do it. the best ever. Phone a friend. That could be interesting. Ready? Halfway. Let’s spin the wheel. Spin the wheel. Let’s have a look what we’re going to get. What’s it going to be? What’s it going to be? Oh no. No. I am so sad. I’m very upset. Like very very good way to start the morning. It isn’t though. I haven’t brought my toothbrush. I haven’t brought my tooth. Has anyone got like Oh, John’s got mouthwash. John has got mouth. I feel like that’s going to hit really funny. The first thing that my belly So, we need to do So, we need to do a first one in a minute after we do our fund update and then every 15 minutes. It’s not just as clarity. It’s not going to be a massive shot because I know I feel all of a sudden my tummyy’s gone. This is not good. I regret adding this onto the wheel. I know. What are you playing at? What am I doing? Okay, but firstly, let us have a fund update. So, we want to let you know obviously we’re halfway. Here is so much that we here is the amount that we have raised so far and we are going to drum roll here. Drum roll please. We have raised 5,637 which is amazing. We are so so grateful to you for everything that you’ve given so far and we’re halfway and that is so amazing. We are so so so good. I know. It’s good, isn’t it? Good. We’re halfway. Let’s celebrate with a shot. Oh, this is a bit of a throwback. Oh, no. Oh, it smells terrible. Sorry. Sorry. I apologize for that. It’s gone. It’s gone like in a funny place. We’re going to need a second. It’s gone in a weird place. Like it’s up my nose. No, I just knocked it back. Look at my eyes. Look at my eyes. Make you feel like you want fish and chips? No, it hasn’t. Thank you. Well, we’ll do it again in a bit. We will do it periodically through our next hour, which is very fun. Yes. Okay, where are we at? Almost 7:00. Next up, we have some stories. We like stories, don’t we? So, we’ve got some stories from National. We really hope that you enjoy them. Yes. And we will see you very soon. We’re going to go and recover. Drink some water, drink some coffee. We’re going to have a great time. Here are some stories. Check it out. Yeah. Hello. My name is Anna Lissi and I work for British You for Christ. Now I’m going to interview someone um that is like me doesn’t work from head office but she does an amazing work. Her name is Emily Tucker and she is our school’s work lead. Hello Emily. Hi Anise. Can you explain what is your role within you for growth national? Yeah. So my role is I am school’s content lead and outside of that for a local center I’m also center director. Um but with national as schools content lead I oversee everything to do with schools work. Um so that is our resources website. We now have a school section on it. So people might know us for our church resources but since last year we’ve had schools and communities resources on there as well and other brilliant resources. So we have lessons and assemblies on the website. Now we also have a connecting with schools pack um and there’s some training videos to do with schools work as well. And then the other side of my role is I oversee our request which is a free website for RE teachers. That’s people who teach religious education in schools. And it’s got lots of content that is written by Christians and is tailored to the curriculum. Good. But why do you think, Emily, you’ve got this special calling to work in schools? So, I was a schools worker for my local center um for four years before coming um before being center director. Um and so the main thing that I do in my center is schools work. So, we get to do lots of lunchtime groups. I get to teach the lessons and deliver them. I also train as the primary school teacher. So, I have a teaching experience. Um, so when we’re writing the resources, we know they’re going to be um tailored for kind of the teachers or for the classes that are going to use them. What are the main challenges nowadays for them to um explore maybe teach or what are the things that they are quite pleased when they receive or open our resources and say wow this is great and I want to use this. I think for many people teaching religious education in school, they aren’t re specialists. There are some brilliant RE specialists, but there is a shortage. So often teachers are being just given it and they’re a drama teacher or a history teacher and they’ve just been given a class of students and they don’t really know the topic. So having videos that is a Christian speaking about Christianity or even if they are a specialist in the subject, having someone who practices the faith talking about their faith um makes a big difference to them because they know what they’re teaching is actually the most relevant and authentic um representation of the faith that they can show in their lessons. um and for the resources that we provide for um church and youth workers and other people going into schools, it’s ready made to go. So actually if you’re a teacher in a school, you can have confidence that that person’s got a plan that is tailored to the curriculum and is saying the things you want them to say in your lesson, but also bringing their Christian perspective and getting to bring their faith in. A lot of teachers really value having visitors in school and people being able to say, “Well, we’ve studied this topic, but this is someone who actually believes it.” Um, and they’re going to tell you what they think about it and get giving the students opportunities to ask questions and hopefully have them answered or come back and say, “Not sure about that, but I’ll come back to you.” Um, and for us, it’s the gospel. That’s the good news of Jesus that those young people are getting to hear. But when I started the lesson, I find with a lot of lessons that young people have no prior knowledge. I like that those students will have gone away and been able to make their own decisions. We then go into like why that’s actually important for Christians. Yeah. Just want to say a big thank you to everyone who already supports us and to those who already sign up to our resources. just makes a massive difference because actually there are so many people who want to work with young people and they’re not really sure where to start and working in schools particularly um that’s where young people are at if they’re not coming through the doors of the church we need to go to where they are um and so people’s donations people’s support um is able to do that yeah so if you want to sign up to our resour resources, you can go to resources.wyfc.co.uk. You can sign up there for a free trial. So, you get to sample some of our resources. If you are a teacher or you know any teachers who are interested in our content for our our request, then you can go to rquest.org.uk um and they can sign up for an account where they create a board and pin all the content that they want on there. And we’ve recently in the last year launched a Welsh section to the website. So there are sections specifically for Scotland and Wales um on the website as well as for England. So that meets their curriculum there for them. Wonderful. Thank you very much Emily. Thank you very much. Bye. Thank you for donating. Bye. I really enjoyed talking to Emily today and I hope it gave you a small snapshot of the importance of what we do regarding school’s work. I just wanted to say a big thank you to you that already donated to you for Christ and I’m asking you that haven’t donated yet, please do so. We would love to get more workers within the schools sharing the gospel to young people. We already have the tools. We need more resources to do that. So, please help us, pray for us, and support us. Thank you. Hey everyone, welcome back. We’re back. How are we feeling? Honestly, my tummy is churning a little bit. I’m a little bit worried. We have to run off to the toilet or something. Yeah, I’m concerned that we’ve had this for breakfast. Pre-re. First thing we put in our belly is a bit of vinegar. Well, I’ve had breakfast. comment in the chat like do you have to have breakfast before you leave the house or are you like you can leave and you have it later on or maybe you’re not even a breakfast person. Yeah. Or you just like a shot of vinegar when you do have breakfast. What’s your breakfast of choice? Um I love Do you know what I love like porridge but I want Yeah. I like porridge. Yes, that’s what I do. And I also love like some like what else do I like? I like to put some cinnamon on it. I also like some peanut butter or some nut butter. I get a big dollop and I whack it on and I’m like, “Yeah.” So, I have all that like goodness in the morning. I also quite like a bit of Greek yogurt. So, I can do like a but not like I don’t want Greek style yogurt. I want that actual the actual Greek yogurt um with some type of fruit. How about you? What would you pick? So, I tend to have the same breakfast almost every single morning, which is a bagel and some coffee, but sometimes I mix it up with porridge. Okay. Do you have like not like together? That would be weird. Yeah. But you can dip it in. Why not? That sounds disgusting. Do you do like plain bagel or you like Oh, do you you don’t mix it up? I don’t mind a cinnamon and bagel. I feel like that’d be a bit overwhelming every morning. Okay. So, just plain bagel with some spreadable butter. Okay. My coffee for my coffee. Having a lovely time. Oh, that’s lovely. So, literally had that at what time is it? 4:30 this morning. Oh, okay. To make sure I’d had breakfast before I left the house. That’s so good. Are you a bit of like a coffee snob? Are you like it has to be this one about other host Sha? Oh, Shauny is a coffee snob. Battle of the coffee snobbery later on. That sounds fun. Yeah, not quite as much as Sha, but I am. It’s got to be a good I’m a milky frothy coffee kind of person, but not massively into like syrups and stuff like that. Just a good old flat white. So, you’d be like a latte. Flat white latte. Maybe a cappuccino at a at a push. Okay. Would you pick normal milk or would you be like Yeah, normal milk. I’m not an alternative milk person. Oh, are you not? Okay, that’s good to know. Good old regular milk. If anyone would like to bring me a coffee at any point during this live stream, I will be indebted to you forever. So, we are h gonna watch another video now. We’re going to have a little uh devotional which is led through uh by Jake. I’m really excited about hearing this actually. Just hearing getting our heads kind of in the right place in the morning. That’s what we need. Hearing a bit of a devotional and it’s going to be good. So, let’s have a little look and see this video from Jake. [Music] Hey, I’m really excited to do some devotional time with you this morning and I hope that you’ve been enjoying the fundraiser that we’ve been doing at You for Christ. Um it’s a really good opportunity to give to the cause and empowering young people um across the country. So, we’re going to look at the Bible together um as part of I’m encouraged that you’re listening to this devotional time. um it’s kind of like a private time doing devotional time, but equally you we’re watching this and we’re doing it together. So I hope that we can just read the Bible together and uh be encouraged by God’s word today. God’s word is living and active and um I do think that it’s one of the things that transforms us on the inside as well as you know the the decisions that we make on the outside. It changes us internally and as a result it changes thing things externally. Um, so before we start, I thought it’d be really good to pray. Invite God’s presence into the room wherever you find yourself. Uh, and I’m going to pray and I’m going to ask that God is going to speak to you right now as we open up the scriptures together. Heavenly Father, I thank you so much for you for Christ. I thank you so much for my brothers and sisters watching and listening to this devotional time. I pray that your presence would be in the room with them tangibly. I pray that you would speak to them. I pray that you would open up our hearts to know you more, to love you more, and to be more like your son, Jesus. We thank you for all that you’ve done for us. We pray that you use us today in Jesus name. Amen. I want to take you to a uh psalm, okay? And one of the most famous psalms, you probably know it already, is Psalm 23. We’re not going to read Psalm 23. We’re going to go to the one after. We’re going to look at Psalm 24 today. I’m going to read it to you and I really believe in the power and the authority of God’s word. And so when I read it, I’m going to read it like I mean it. Okay? So that’s the Pentecostal side of me. Um uh oh no, I’ve given the game away. I’m a Pentecostal. Hopefully you’re still going to continue watching this. Um we’re we’re going to read God’s word like I mean it basically. Okay. And um so uh hopefully I don’t get too um enthusiastic that I I wake any of my children up from sleeping. And my son’s having a nap right now. So here we go. The earth is the Lord’s and everything in it, the world and all who live in it. For he founded the seas and established the waters. Who may ascend the mountain of the Lord? Who may stand in his holy place? Those who have clean hands and a pure heart. who do not put their trust in an idol or swear by a false god, they will receive blessing from the Lord and vindication from God their savior, such as the generation of those who seek him, who seek your face, God of Jacob. I love the Psalms. I’m just going to read up to that verse, otherwise um we’ll be here all day. Um but I do really enjoy the Psalms. It always gives me life. It gives me encouragement wherever I’m at. Whether I’m feeling in a really good place with God or a really low place. I feel like the Psalms just brings um a level of adoration and praise. It kind of it uplifts your spirit. Um and uh and there’s so much theology in the Psalms as well. I feel like the Psalms gets a bad rep as being like, you know, it’s just a nice little like poetry song or something like that. But actually the Psalms, there is such great theology in what in what the Psalms has to offer and what David writes. Um, and uh, there’s a few things that I want to just point out to you and I want to speak about in part of this devotional time today. Um, and it’s this one word. It’s this word integrity. Now, it’s quite a kind of like, oh no, gosh, integrity is like, oh my gosh, what’s that? Like, well, always has like a serious nature to it. Like almost like whenever I hear the word integrity and I’m like, oh no, oh, I have to check myself like almost like a naughty school child or something like that that I’m like, oh no, what have I done wrong today? Sort of thing. And integrity can be kind of serious. It can be quite challenging, but actually there is there is actually so much fruitfulness that we can get from understanding what it looks like to carry integrity in our everyday walk and in in our dayto-day and in today perhaps as well as we acknowledge it together. But there’s three kind of layers to integrity that I want to pick up on and it’s kind of mentioned throughout the psalm. But the first layer is about personal integrity. And the it’s kind of it’s funny because I feel like oftentimes when it when I’m thinking about my own personal integrity, it’s like principles that I’ve kind of put within myself that I want to try and meet the standard at which my own personal integrity, you know, sets out for me. Last night, I’ll give you an example of this crazy like so bad. I feel guilty telling you this, but me and my wife, we run a small group in our house in our home and we stupidly we were putting the kids down to bed beforehand, scrambling to get everything like you know what it’s like getting all the house in order. didn’t eat anything. And then by the end of it, we were starving. Anyway, we’re both supposed to be dieting at the minute, right? At the end, I was I said, “So, should I go and get a McDonald’s?” And this is like like I don’t know, it’s like 10:30 at night, and she’s like, “We shouldn’t.” And I’m like, “Yeah, but should we get should we get a Mackie De’s?” And anyway, 10:30 at night, literally we’re munching down a dirty McDonald’s and our personal integrity is absolutely smashed on the ground in that moment. Now, um maybe um you’ve not found yourself quite in that kind of sticky position like we did, but genuinely that we all have those like those things that we know we want to try, those bars that we’ve set for oursel that we want to try and meet in our own personal integrity that we carry. Then there’s another thing which is social integrity and that’s the perception. So we’ve got we’ve got um the the kind of principles that we set out for ourel in in personal integrity and then we’ve got this other word which is the perception of others which is the social integrity. So other people’s view of of our own integrity and sometimes I don’t think we can get over overwhelmed by people’s opinions and stuff and that’s not healthy. But we do as leaders and as as children of God, we do carry a responsibility to represent Christ to those around us. And so it’s something to consider. What does your personal integrity look like? What does your social integrity look like today? And um I think it’s really interesting sometimes when we lose like a little bit of integrity in a moment with the people around us through perceptions or misperceptions or whatever, it can impact um how they how much they trust us, how much they they listen to us. And so it is something to think about if you feel like maybe your your social integrity hasn’t been great. It’s something to just to to think about and consider in the conversations and even pray about that God is going to give you almost favor, supernatural favor and influence to the people that you carry and speak to today. And um and then the last the the most important um uh kind of layer of integrity is the last one which is spiritual integrity and that’s about the purity of our own hearts before God. Now so personal integrity is something that we see. Social integrity is the people around us um looking at us and kind of like judging us and and reflecting on on the decisions that we make. But spiritual integrity is about purity. It’s about the things that God sees. And David, as he writes the psalm, we know that David was a man who was after God’s own heart. And so he was striving continually not just for personal integrity to kind of set his own challenges and to to you know to do well in in of himself and not just for social integrity to please the people but he was a man after God’s own heart and he was striving constantly for that spiritual integrity for purity. You know, when we think about like seeing miracles and seeing amazing things happen in the places and in the people that we’re around, often times I think we think about like, you know, I want to be speaking with authority. I want to I want to see healing take place. I want to see miracles. And do you know what? I think those things are amazing. I don’t want to belittle any of those things. But sometimes we can belittle the power of purity. And and I want to challenge that thinking. And I want to kind of like provoke you a little bit today to consider what purification could look like in your life and in your world. What that that that that striving for purity and knowing power in in the purification knowing that there is power available to you when you purify yourself when you and and David talks about this repeatedly. It’s kind of like he talks about this in chapter. says, “Those who have a clean hands and pure heart, who do not put their trust in in other gods, but they will receive blessing from the Lord, they receive vindication from God their savior.” And so I just want to challenge you to think about what ways maybe could you actually strive to maybe just like know that that inward transformation that that purification that takes place in your heart that maybe the Holy Spirit is just challenging you to kind of surrender some things that you didn’t even consider to to lay down at his feet. like integrity is um is such an interesting thing because I think as we talk about spiritual maturity and integrity sometimes we can think that maturity spiritual maturity is just how much we know God’s word like if you if you know everything then then if you know the Bible really well then you carry a spiritual maturity and and the Bible speaks kind of almost against that it says that knowledge puffs up but love builds up and so someone said this to me recently And it’s really stuck with me and it’s really challenged me when it comes to thinking about integrity that actually maturity, spiritual maturity is is actually the purification process that we go through. It’s it’s when we make mistakes, which we all do. Like I hold my hands up. I had McDonald’s at like 10:30 quart to 11 last night and I felt guilty, right? Dirty McDonald’s. I mean it was it was filthy, right? But I hold my hands up. I make mistakes regularly. And um and maturity, I believe, spiritual maturity is closing the gap between those mistakes, those shortcomings that I have and repenting, getting right before God. Closing the gap using the the the power of purification in my life. It actually gives me access to God in a whole new level. And I want to challenge you this morning as you’ve been reading the scriptures and we’re talking about, you know, I’ve been throwing out like things like personal integrity and social integrity, spirit, whatever that looks like for you today. Whatever you feel challenged by, I would love it if we could just close the gap maybe today from those things that we’ve maybe messed up, got drastically wrong, and just saying sorry to God, saying, “God, I hold my hands up. I need you. I need your grace. I need your mercy. I need your spirit today.” And um getting right right now is an opportunity to not just transform your day but to transform the day of the people around you because they will be impacted by it. Um you know as as as as children of God like as as leaders and as as people striving to to encourage the people around us, it’s really hard to play pretend. But when we get real, we get raw with with who we are and where we’re at with God, I do believe that there’s triumph and victory on the other side for you today. And so I’d love to pray for you. Um maybe even as I’ve been speaking about integrity, things have popped up into your head, um things that you want to get right, things you want to surrender and lay down. Um maybe it’s not even spiritual integrity because God sees our hearts. It’s kind of like humbling and terrifying all at the same time. But maybe you know in your own your own personal kind of like objectives that you’ve tried to hit your own your own personal integrity is maybe just something that you need to work on and think about your own principles the values that you’ve set in your life. Maybe um maybe it’s social integrity. You just want to you feel like you’ve lost trust of the people around you and you want to build that trust back up again. And I’m just maybe ask you encourage you to pray for favor. Pray that God would help you in the rooms that you walk into today, in the schools that you find yourself, in the workplace, in your family situations and circumstances. All of those areas and layers of integrity can make an impact. But we need God’s help with every single one of them. So, I’m going to pray as we’ve been reading the scriptures. I believe that there is power in prayer. And I just want to encourage you today to not um not feel like you’ve you’ve already lost before you’ve started, but there is opportunity for you today to make an impact. uh to be a gamecher in your world and uh and to carry integrity. Um to to carry power, you know, the power that Jesus talks about where he starts to command things to go, to heal the sick, to open blind eyes, uh to see this the those that are unable to walk again. He says, “Pick up your mat and walk.” Like I I I believe there was power and authority in his words, but I think it was built from a place of purity. and from integrity. Jesus never made a mistake and he prayed a lot. In fact, he would constantly the gospels, the eyewitnesses accounts constantly talk about Jesus like going to a secret place, quiet place. And I think there was integrity in that. Um I do believe that it was a witness to us that that prayer, this purification process that we’re speaking about and prayer, they kind of overlap. And the disciples, they talk about this in the gospels. They say like it’s so interesting the people that spent the closest proximity to Jesus. The one thing that they ask if it wasn’t for like oh can we preach like you? Can we can we stand in front of like the 5,000 like you did? Can we can we see the miracles? No, no, no, no, no. The things that his mates, his friends asked him, can we have? It was prayer. Please, can you teach us Lord Lord teach us to pray? We want that. And um and from that place of pray there was purity, there is power. And so I’ve spoken a lot of P’s today and so hopefully something has just challenged you and um encouraged you. I’m going to pray for us. God, I thank you so much that your grace is sufficient and we need you. We need your grace. We need we need your help today. We ask these things in Jesus name. Amen. Amen and amen. Wasn’t that a fantastic devotional? Go on, Jake. That was so good. Okay. So, next up, we would like to share with you some of our Youth for Christ resources. Um, so I’m going to go off and kick us off. We have our Good Do. Yes. Okay. Yeah. [Music] So, here we have our Good News Bible. I feel like I’m on Yeah. When you like a television show. Yeah. And next up, next item. Here we are. Um, so we have our Good News Bible. Um, it is a fantastic Bible. It is very creative. There’s lots of journaling. There’s lots of doodling that you can do with your young people. Um we also have there’s interactive elements. Um and there is um which I spoke about this earlier. Um there is a great bit at the back which is all about the big issues which I think is great for young people and to do this with your young people. So we have some of them which are school and exams which is current right now. A lot of exams right now. Absolutely. We’ve got sex and relationships. We’ve got mental health. We’ve got poverty. We’ve got making wise decisions. Uh we’ve got identity. We’ve got um living differently and standing out. We’ve got bullying. We’ve got comparison. We’ve got a lot of stuff in there. There is. So, this is really, really good. Um it’s a great Bible. It’s really creative. Um and so that’s a little bit on our Good News Bible. Hannah, what else have we got? There’s a couple of other things that I want to let you know about. Uh the first is uh this booklet called new to faith. Uh and this is uh designed for you to hand out to young people who maybe have made a first time decision and it’s to let them know it’s to it’s to celebrate firstly the decision that they have made and to let them know like this is the best decision you could make and also to just give them a bit of information and a bit of knowhow in kind of what do you do next? Always good to know that isn’t it? How do I pray? How what should I do? Should I get a Bible? Maybe that one. uh should I be reading my Bible? Like how should I get connected in with a youth group? All of that kind of stuff. And there’s a little bit of space as well for you to kind of um maybe mention your youth group set in and where to meet and all of that kind of stuff. Um so yeah, we would love to encourage you to uh you can purchase these. Believe they’re two pounds each. Um so you can purchase those uh on our site. So if you search youth of Christ shop, you’ll find that. And then the other one, have we played this yet in the broadcast? I don’t think we have, but there is a slot for where we’re going to do a live play of this. I’m pretty sure. So, this is a game called Yeti. Uh, and Yeti is because it means seven in USB is I believe I didn’t know that seven games in one. Uh, and it is a picture based card game. Uh, where there are seven different ways that you can play. So, in the box there are lots of picture cards as you can see here. And then there’s lots of uh also kind of like question and caption cards. um and an instruction booklet which lets you know of like what are all the different games that you can play within Yeti. And some of them are really lighthearted and fun and there’s a little key in the booklet that lets you know like on a on a rating like kind of how how does it rate in fun and spirituality? So like are you having a youth group where it’s a drop in group and you just need something quite light touch so you can adapt it. Yeah. So it’s adaptable and flexible. We find that as feedback from people actually that they’re like, “This is actually so flexible and usable in different environments.” So, we’d encourage you to check out Yeti as well. Uh maybe yeah, get one between you and maybe if you’re like a youth leader watching, you could get one between some of your youth leader friends and play it together and then see if you want to play with your young people as well. So, we would uh really highlight how important and good some of these resources are. So, that is Yeti. Awesome. We have got else uh coming up next which is that we are going to do some uh interactive prayer. So uh one of our members of staff at youth for Christ Beth uh she is a prayer coordinator prayer kind of lead uh and she is going to lead us through prayer. She is wonderful and believes in the power of prayer uh and she is going to lead us through uh some prayer that we can do together with using some props and some interactive elements as well. So where over to you Beth? Yes. Great. Lovely. Yeah. We’re going to pray. Um what’s really exciting about what’s happening in the in the nation at the minute is is there’s a real move of God happening. There’s a real increase in awareness that something significant is happening with with young people in particular. We’re seeing, you know, the Bible that um Hannah and Bella were just talking about the sales of that just been skyrocketing. It’s just amazing. And young people are turn up at churches. youth youth groups seem to be booming, you know, growing across the nation. Young even young people are turning up just completely out of the blue. It’s just amazing. In my own youth group, I’m noticing such a hunger for God amongst the Christian young people. Um, and we’re going to do some praying, but I want to encourage us first of a story um about prayer and how powerful it is. Uh, so there was a in my in my own church, there was a mom about a year and a half ago. She’s looking pretty down at church and so started to talk to her. Are you all right? She said, “Oh, it’s just one of her teenage daughters was just basically being a nightmare and and making life at home quite miserable um and and just being destructive really in in kind of every area of life.” Um and so I said to her, “Can we pray together? Let’s let’s pray. Let me pray for you.” So we sat and we prayed uh for her daughter. Prayed that her behavior would change. We prayed that she would start being interested in in faith. She wasn’t interested at all. Didn’t come to church. Um had no room for God. that she’d start coming to church. Literally within a couple of weeks, she started coming to church. It was amazing. Um and so she consistently and after a few weeks after that, she started coming to a youth house group that we run um and would turn up every week. Um and it was really encouraging. I know from that time having had a few conversations with her over that time that she had not she she believed in God. I could see that at this point, but she wasn’t ready to become a Christian. She did not want Jesus in her heart. Anyway, by God’s grace, uh, a number of months down the line, our our youth house group grow grew even bigger. We had young people becoming Christians, young people just getting hungry for God, and we had to split the whole thing in half to have two groups. And she at that point left um, and stopped coming. I was a bit discouraged, but um, I felt like every time I prayed for the young people, I felt like God would remind me, remember her, pray for her. So, I consistently prayed. Um, a number of months later, um, someone was asking me what’s a good youth Bible for, um, for young people, obviously you for Christ one. I did recommend that. Um, and I asked why there was there was a grandmother who wanted to buy some for her teenage uh, granddaughters and one of which was this girl. So, because she’d been asking for a Bible, which is amazing. Anyway, a few weeks ago, but probably about four weeks ago now, this girl turned up again at house group, which is amazing. And she just sat and she listened for a number of weeks. And then after at the end of one week, she said to me at the end, um, miss, I think that God is angry at me. And I was like, why do you think he’s angry at you? She said, because I do really bad things and I say really bad things. And I was like, look, he loves you and he just wants your heart. you can give him your heart and give him your life and you can do that like now if you want. I said, “Do you want to do that?” And she looked at me and she just did this really tiny little nod and just like and I inside I’m like, “Yes.” Outside I’m like, “That’s great. That’s great.” I said, “Should we do it now? I can help you. I can lead you in a prayer if you like.” She was like, “No, no, no, no.” I said, “Oh, okay.” She said, “Um, but next week.” And I was like, “You have to come back next week.” Anyway, you can imagine how it was all week. I was just praying, “Lord, bring her back.” Um, next week she came back. She made a beline for me. She said, “Miss that thing that we were supposed to do last week, we’re going to do it this week.” Yeah. And so, at the end of the session, I just led her in a prayer. I just had this overwhelming sense that God had been working on this girl for a long time, working on her heart, and this was the moment that she was meeting him. And it was just amazing. And it’s a testimony to prayer. And even in the last few weeks as she she’s kind of new as a Christian, she’s been changing. You can see the conviction of God in her heart. You can see she’s asking for prayer. She’s coming along to more Christian events. She’s excited about things. She’s asked to be baptized. So, she’s being baptized in June. Um it’s just so encouraging. But prayer is powerful and prayer for young people is powerful. And so, we need you to pray with us. um and not just pray with us, pray when you’re, you know, on your own. Pray for young people in this nation. I believe that this move that is happening is because people are praying. Um God responds to prayer. Uh when we echo his heart and we might think, well, how much can my prayers really achieve? You know what I mean? My little prayers really achieve with, you know, the multiple young people in this nation. But Jesus doesn’t teach us to think like that. He teaches us to think, you know, ask and you shall receive. All things are possible for those who believe. Faith as small as a mustard seed can move mountains. So, let’s believe. We’re not asking for anything that’s contrary to what God wants. We’re asking for young people to come into the kingdom. So, pray with me and believe. I’ve got some props. Um, you can pray with me if you want. You can sort of listen to what I’m saying and and sort of arm on men along or you can just ignore me completely and pray. Um, I’ll explain briefly what each of the props are as we go through. Um, great. So, we’ve got binoculars. Uh, this is to represent young people searching God out. So, I’m going to pray. Um, Father God, I just thank you so much for what you’re doing in the nation. Thank you that young people are becoming increasingly open to uh to you, to faith, to the Christian faith. Thank you, Lord, that so many young people have already come into the kingdom through this new wave. But we pray, Lord God, that there’d be more and more young people who uh who just start to think about you, who start to si seek you out, you start to look for things, maybe uh look for things online, look for go and ask Christian friends, what is this God thing? Start coming to churches. Lord, we pray for an increase in in in in the hunger of young people who don’t know you. And we pray um that many would be brought to salvation. We pray for that now, Lord Jesus. Thank you, Lord. Amen. Um next prop I’ve got is this guy. This is to represent young people need to grow and to be shown and encounter, you know, shown who Jesus is and encounter him. Um whether that’s church or spaces outside of church. And so we need we need spaces for them where they’re going to feel loved, seen, accepted. and shown the love of Jesus. So, let’s pray about that. Father God, we I just want to thank you for the church in this nation, for the vast array and and beauty of your bride in this nation. Thank you for all the people that you’ve saved and you call your own. Um but I thank you that you have in mind that the that you want the church to grow and you want the church to grow with young people. And so, Father, we pray that um that the church that is already established would become places where young people are so welcomed. They’re so welcome. They’re so loved. They’re so seen. And all of the mess of family life is just embraced in these places. God, I thank you for uh your people who go into spaces where young people are to spread your light and love. We we pray a blessing on them, Father. And we ask that you would raise up more and more people to do these things to to go and chase after the young people in this nation and declare your love and and make spaces invade their spaces with the love of Christ so that though their spaces become spaces where they encounter you. Thank you Jesus. Amen. The next one I’ve got here is fire. I did bring a candle on an actual flame, but I got told off. Well, I got told I can’t I can’t have a naked flame in here, which to be fair is sensible. So, I’ve got a flame. This represents um young people just being set on fire for Jesus. Um when I was kind of like thinking this through, I felt the Lord whisper to me, fire, but consistency with it. You know, Jesus says, you know, uh be on guard, keep keep your, you know, your lamps burning. um your your oil in your lamp, your wick trimmed, and your your your lamp’s burning. This is about a consistent flame. Um a consistent fire in the heart. So, I want us to pray for holy fire to grip young people’s hearts. Father, I just want to thank you for the fire that is already in so many young people’s hearts. Lord, I pray that you would help these young people that have you to uh to fan into flame uh the the the light that you’ve given them, the fire that you’ve given them, and to keep consistent. Lord, we pray for a fire for you, Jesus. Lord, we pray for a fire for um and a passion for reading the Bible and engaging with that and believing it and living it. Lord, we pray for a fire for sharing you, Jesus. We pray for a fire and a consistency in prayer. Father, we pray for a fire and a consistency for uh just the more of you, for miracles, for um the wonders of God. We pray for uh a fire that just burns, for holiness consistently, that they want to be holy before you. We want to walk holy before you, Jesus, and be like you in this world. Lord, we pray for young people um for that for a fire in their hearts for the church, to love the church even when it’s frustrating and difficult just to love your bride. Thank you, Jesus. We pray for a fire in their hearts for your plans and your plans alone. Thank you, Jesus. Now, lastly, what I’d love to do is just to give you a bit of space. What do you want to pray for young people? What is the Holy Spirit putting on your heart right now? I’m going to give you like 30 seconds or so just to pray. just to pray that um what what you feel the spirit is saying and then we’ll move God, we just thank you that you’re not done with young people and more young people are going to come into the kingdom. And we just agree with you, Jesus. We agree with you. We say, “Lord, increase the move that is happening across this nation and bring more people into the into salvation and the knowledge of the truth as they walk as disciples of you, Jesus.” Amen. Great. Just we’re going to just use the last few minutes to pray for Youth for Christ, the ministry of Youth for Christ. Again, we’re going to uh use some props. So, first of all, I mean, we really we really need your prayer. If you’d love to join us as a prayer partner, please check us out on the on the our website. you can uh you can join up as prayer partner on there. Um but the first thing I’ve got is keys. We need God’s divine favor to open up doors. So we’re going to pray about that. Father God, we just thank you for uh everything you’ve done through the ministry of you for Christ and all the years it’s existed. Lord, we we ask though, you know, we know that your heart desires increase, you know, kingdom increase. And Lord, we we we agree with you in that. And we just want more. We want more young people. We want you to open doors, Lord, um of opportunity, of relationship with churches, with people, um with with other ministries, especially with young people. Lord, would you just open doors of opportunity and divine favor for us with the keys that you have? Um thank you that you hold all the power and all the authority. Lord, give us more. We pray for your name’s sake. Amen. Next thing I’ve got is a walking stick. This is about support. Um people coming alongside us and supporting this ministry because we can’t actually do it unless we have people who come with us. Um so let’s pray. Lord, I just want to thank you for all of the people that support you for Christ. Over the years, you have brought people, multiple multiple people to come and give in time, in finance, in in energy, in volunteering, in all kinds in prayer, in all kinds of ways. And we thank you for them. Lord, we pray for more. We pray for more. We pray that people who support us and people who maybe consider supporting us will see that their support of this ministry has incredible impact. um and is is is highly valuable to you. So we just pray that you you bring people more people to come and support this ministry um and bless it in your name. Amen. Uh next we have got a plant this one. We want the ministry of you for Christ to be fruitful in every area. So let’s pray about that. Father, I just thank you so much for the legacy of you for Christ. You are the one consistent uh member that has been here the whole time and all the glory is yours and all the fruit is all down to you. Thank you, Jesus. But thank you that you um you desire this ministry to be fruitful and more fruitful and more fruitful. And so we ask Lord lead and guide us and help us to be incredibly fruitful for your kingdom. Help us to stay tuned to your heart. Help us to walk with you, listen to you, and help us to bear fruit that when we get to eternity, everyone who’s taken a taken, you know, sharing this, who’s played a part, whether that’s people praying at home or giving or whatever, will be able to uh feel the joy of your heart because we can see such an incredible legacy and fruit from the ministry of you for Christ. Thank you, Lord. Amen. And lastly, I just want to give us another 30 seconds just to pray. What’s on your heart for you for Christ? Um, what’s the Holy Spirit leading you to pray? If you could do that now, be great. God, you’re so good and we just love you and we bless you and we thank you that we can come to you with prayers. We can approach your throne with boldness and confidence. Thank you, Jesus, that you um do incredible things and we get to partake in it as sons and daughters and we just love you Lord. Amen. Thank you so much for joining us to pray. Please keep praying. Um honestly, they make such an incredible impact for this ministry. Are back in the cycling studio. Um and we are going to check in with some of our fantastic cyclists. Stacy, you’ve been here for quite a long time. We love that. How’s it going? How are you feeling? Yeah, it’s good. Still here. Uh, just finished stage managing. I put everyone’s beef stew on for this evening and now I’m trying to get in a few more miles before go on my breakfast. Do you know what? Stacy is fantastic. And honestly, she is so servantarted. She is one of the most servant hearted people that I know. And you’ve got your Red Bull there. So, that’s really, really good. You’ve got your energy. You’re keeping going. That’s what we like to see. Sam, how are you? How you feeling? I’m good. I’m good. I just keep thinking this is going to be my statement for the weekend. Go on. What’s your statement? Jesus carried a cross to Calvary. The least I can do is cycle 438 miles. Do you know what I mean? Oh, go on. That’s amazing. Yeah, that’s that’s the way you got to think of it. Okay. And um Sam, why should people give to You for Christ? Why should they give to our ministry and what we do? In a nutshell, um without partners like you guys, uh we wouldn’t be able to do the work that we do, which is bringing the good news of Jesus to young people. So, yeah, it’s really important. Yeah, it really is. Thank you so much. You guys are doing such a great job, um cycling, and please um please, please, please continue to give. Um every donation that you give is really helping um in the lives of young people. Um, you can donate uh via our website which is www.wyfc.co.uk slash That was quite fun. That was I liked that slash um forward slashdonate or you can call on 0121502962015029620 and we are going to go straight to a ad break. So enjoy. Do you volunteer or work with young people? Yes. Well, you aren’t going to want to miss what we want to tell you about. Starting at just £40 with our early bird tickets, we want to invite you to our weekend. We love youth workers. It’s a weekend event designed to inspire you, equip you, and refresh you. Taking place at Whitemore Lakes in Lichfield from the 5th to the 7th of September. There’ll be main gatherings with inspiring talks and worship, seminars to equip you and build up your knowhow, activities and times of retreat to unwind, a goodie bag on arrival, and evening to celebrate you and the amazing work that you do. This is just some of what is in store. Interested? Well, grab your early bird ticket now, and we can’t wait to see you. [Music] It’s like really awesome and it has like different illustrators. So then it’s like really like beautiful in a way. Everything was just amazing. They were really pretty and I’ve never seen pictures like them before. I think it was really nice to look at. I like the rainbow on the front cover. If I were to use it in my classroom, every RV lesson, I would get it out and look through a verse or a chapter. I just think it’s so much more interactive. So, as children like open the Bible, there’s so much more of it that catches our eye. I think in a media kind of infilled world where they just need to have that be captured and stuff. I think by having the visuals and things in it, it just makes it just so much more interactive for them, which I think is brilliant and means they’ll probably read the Bible more and interact a bit more, which will be brilliant. [Music] [Music] Yeah, I like the first picture and the Noah’s Ark one because that one just inspires me. I really like it because whenever we’re doing RI and there’s something that you’re stuck on, then you can just grab out your Bible and just read through the verse that you’re stuck on and find the answer to the question. I’ve had the other Bible and it this one is way better than the other one because it’s got questions and activities that you can do. probably how m how small it is, which makes it easy to carry around, but then it but then it can hold a lot of information inside it, which is which makes it really good. [Music] I think it makes really good sense. I think you’ve got there the chance that you give a child a book at the end of the school year, they take it away and it goes on a shelf and they they won’t be looking at it. um in school. We want to be able to use these uh these these books and and this resource in in a way of engaging with worship and the teaching of of reh. Yeah, I can’t see any reason why any headteer wouldn’t be uh be really grateful to receive a set of Bibles and this version in particular to use with their pupils. [Music] [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] As a church, we’ve planned this summer to use one of the Bible reading plans at the front as the basis for our summer series. [Music] Yeti is all about life, faith, and the occasional dog on a skateboard. Yeti covers a whole bunch of topics from dating and money to superheroes in church. Not only does it provide people with a good time, but also with a chance to connect with God a little deeper, no matter where someone is at with faith or whether they even believe in God at all. [Music] Hello everyone. Welcome back to the morning show. Good morning. We hope that we are with you as you are waking up as you are getting ready for the day. Rise and shine. We’ve been here since 5:30. Everything’s good. Everything is So, you may notice the wheel is back and we need to we need to round off our wheel time, I’m afraid. Oh gosh, this is terrible. In celebration. I don’t know about you, but my tummy has been doing some serious funny things. It’s been churning. There’s been Yeah, mine’s not been good. I’m sorry for everyone else in the studio. Honestly, it’s not good. Particularly with the beans. Yesterday, I did the cold beans and now the vinegar. So, my tummy is like some It’s an interesting combination. Still no breakfast. No, I have had I’ve had a few overnight oats. We’re going to do a bit of a breakfast themed slot in a little while. So maybe yeah, grab your breakfast in the next like half an hour and we’re going to do a little bit of a breakfasty kind of themed game just to We can do it together. Peak people’s interest for I’m just stalling to be honest. I know. We need to just keep talking so we don’t have to do this. Okay. I feel like we need to like we need to cheers it and shot it together. Okay, let’s go. Cheers. Oh, it was worse second time. Do you know what it is? It’s the shock of it. I feel like it’s really shocking. Like it just hits. It hits like just in a peculiar place. But it’s it shocks it shocks my insides. That’s what’s happening. I wonder I wonder if first time around. It just makes my eyes water. That’s I wonder if first time around I was still in a bit of a sleepy stuper. Yeah. So you were just like it just went this time it full and I think I’ I knocked it to the back of my throat first time. This time all up in the taste buds. Oh no. You That’s a big mistake. You’ve just got to go. Yeah. You can’t do that. See for me quick but the first time was worse. That cuz I feel like I’ve warmed up. I feel like I’ve warmed up to it a little bit. That’s what I feel like. Okay. Excellent. Right. We are uh going to spin the wheel. Spin the wheel. Spin the wheel. Spin the wheel. Spin the wheel. Okay. Do you want to have the honor this time? Great. Let’s do it. Let’s do it. Okay. I don’t know if I want to go up or down. Spin the wheel. Most of them are quite nice, so I feel like we’re going to be okay. I know. Yeah. There’s nothing here that I’m like, that’s terrible. Okay. We looked at each other like nothing terrible. Okay, great. It’s terrible. But we didn’t we didn’t want it. What are we going to do now? This would have been the worst one actually because we would have had to do a shot of lemon juice. That would have just been too much. I’d have just called someone who’s right there. Sandra. No, cuz then she could decide. She could be like, I’m not doing I’m not picking up. She’s looking at me like I want to pick up I’m wondering what I’m going to do to your hair. What do you think you’re going to do with mine? Have you got any ideas? You got a few minutes to decide. Um, thank you. We have some supplies. Do we have some? I think yes. Hair grips. There we go. Lovely stuff. This is quite fun. Whilst whilst I ponder what I’m going to do, in fact, shall I start doing your hair? Yeah. While you do the fun update. Yes, we’re going to go to a fund update. Drum roll, please. Hair bubbles. I’m in the way. I’m in the way. Hang on. I’m moving. I’m swapping. Okay. Drum roll, please. So, we have raised so far £5,742. Wow. E, that is so so good. Thank you so so much to everybody to everybody who has donated. I’m sorry if it’s a bit greasy underneath. No, no, I’m quite enjoying it actually. Um so thank you so so much. Um if you want to give um please continue to do so. Um you can give via our number on 0121502. Look at that. Oh, I quite like this. I like the curls how it’s flicking out at the end. 01215029620. Is this going to look nice on you? This is annoying. Oh, thanks Hannah. No, that’s not acceptable. We have all you can give on www.wyfc.co.uk/donate. That’s what you can do. Thank you, Hannah. Oh, okay. We’re going to go one low, one high. Yes, I feel like it’s necessary. And this one is going to also going to be a bun. Oh, no. This one’s No, this one’s going to be a pony. Okay. And this one’s going to be a bun. Okay. Let’s say I’m going to do yours now and then you can do mine during an ad break. Okay. That’s really really fun. Oh, there we go. Oh, this is fun. Okay. We’re making it work. And then I’m going to do a little plat here. Oh, you’re going to do I love I would love to be able to plat. I actually can’t plat. Can’t you? So, my wacky hairstyle is going to be uh Oh, I like that you’re going to do that. Platted. But we’ll see what may have a little think about what you could Yeah. No, I’m trying. I’m just trying to think what I can do. We’ll think of something creative. We’ll absolutely something. Um, let’s have a little think about what we’re going to have in the next like one and what we’d be happy about because I didn’t go through them which was remiss of me. So, I’m still looking forward to this one dress. Some fun fancy dress people. I would have quite like that one. Phone a friend. Obviously, the less spoken. Who would you call? Have you got someone who like I’m going to call them? Probably my What time is it now? Okay. Nearly 8:00. My mom maybe. Oh, your mom. That’s nice. or my husband. Okay. But he did drop me off at 5:00 this morning. Yeah. So, we might not appreciate that. He’s in bed. You might not appreciate it. He’s also a deep sleeper. Oh, yeah. He’s I think I’d be going I think I’d be going my mom. She said he’s been waking up early recently. Okay. That’s like a safe bet. Yeah. I think I’d go. Who would you Oh gosh, I don’t know. Definitely not my husband. No, he’s he did the same. He dropped me off this morning and I won’t see him probably till this afternoon sometime 3 p.m. maybe. Um, who would I pick? I wouldn’t pick my mom. She’s in Spain so she might not answer. Gosh, I don’t know. I wouldn’t answer at 5 to 8 if I was in Spain. I know. She’s on a sun lounger. I might pick maybe like my best mate then she might not. I don’t know. It’s a tricky one. And as the day goes on later, it’ll probably be easier whereas I was thinking that was going to come up in the middle of the night. It was on the middle of the night. No one’s answering. It was on the wheel in the middle of the night, but it didn’t come up. Although someone might think it’s an emergency and answer in the middle of the night, so it could be annoyed when they find out that it’s very much not. Yeah. Um, make the best paper airplane is what it says on the tin. Let me How is your paper airplane? I mean, I don’t I just like you just fold it in half, don’t you? You just kind of fold it in half. I think you would probably win. We’ll see. Shoes on hands. Yeah, basic. Fine. Can’t use your arms. That could be fun. It could also get warm in the cling film. Or you said we feel funny about being claustrophobic. Bit of a panic that isn’t it? That could be fun. I want this one as well. Wear a silly hat. I want to wear a silly hat for an hour. That’s fun. That is fun. We like a few hairstyles we’ve had. Wear a sleeping bag. It could get warm as the day goes on. I think that’s cozy. It’s quite nice that, isn’t it? I think I’d just lie on the floor and just host from there. Yeah, that would be nice. Someone I’ve got a little cushion in my uh Oh, yeah. You have. And a book. She’s already been reading. I have actually. We We had a little a little break and two minute break. She’s there reading her book. I’m very impressed. If you were here at the very very start, we went through our care packages and I am near the end of my book about Katherine of Aragan. And obviously I know how it end, but like I just I got to get through it. You know when you’re near the end of a book and Yeah. and you just want you know what it is? I love a book, but I don’t really finish them. I get excited about books. And so I have about seven that I’m reading and then I’m like, what are we going to have today? And I’ve never actually finished one. I just pick random ones and then read them for a bit. Space flag behavior. Is that what that’s called? I know. I really want to maybe I can make it as like my challenge. Finish a book. Finish a book. Like that. He starts a book and like oh there’s this one out there. There’s so many books out there then I get excited and then oh I don’t finish almost like there’s too much choice fatigue. Yeah. And that is that’s difficult. I sometimes wish there wasn’t as much choice because then I could just be like I’m reading this. Yeah. Till the end. So over the next uh little uh message uh from National, we’re going to hear some stories uh from them. And while we do that uh Bella is going to very kindly and lovingly do my hairstyle and then we’ll have a little look at it on the other side. So funny. what we’re going to do. Yeah. What? So, no plats clearly. No, not it’s not going to be a plat. It’s got to be something something similar. Let’s see. We’ll see what happens. You’ll see. You’ll see in a bit, won’t you? When we come back. So, let’s hear uh some messages and some stories from National. Hello, my name is Aaron Rigby and I’m the my life lead at You for Christ. I want to share with you why the My Life program is so vital and how it addresses the critical challenges facing young people in the UK today. The stats I’m about to share with you paint a sobering picture, but they also highlight why intervention is not just necessary, it’s urgent. Let’s start with school exclusions. In the 2023 academic year, 790,000 suspensions were issued in schools. A staggering 36% increase from the previous year. Even more concerning, 9,000 permanent exclusions were recorded, marking a 44% rise. These young people often face a bleak future. Did you know that 42% of prisoners in UK were permanently excluded from school. This connection between exclusion and the justice system is undeniable and underscores the need for early targeted intervention. Now let’s talk about youth offending. Over 32% of youth offenders aged 10 to 17 reaffend within 12 months with an average of four reoffenses per person. Violent offenses make up 26% of youth crimes which highlights the importance of addressing the root causes often related to a lack of guidance, support, and a positive role model. The mental health crisis among young people is another pressing issue. In 2024, over 20% of children aged 8 to 16 and over 23% of those aged 17 to 19 were identified as having a probable mental disorder. Poor mental health doesn’t just affect their well-being. It drives disengagement from education and employment and sadly increases the likelihood of offending. And finally, let’s look at youth unemployment. By late 2024, 851,000 young people aged between 16 and 24 were need basically not in education, employment or training. This highlights the urgent need for programs like my life that focuses on building probability skills and resilience. So what is my life? My life is a portfolio of seven courses designed to equip young people with the essential life skills and foster character development. It’s a resource created to support practitioners, teachers, chaplain, and mentors working with young people. Each course is carefully crafted to engage young people, particularly those at risk of offending or making unhealthy lifestyle choices. The courses focus on nurturing skills like resilience, empathy, integrity, and self-control, helping participants navigate the challenges of life with confidence and purpose. We know my life works because we see the transformation in the young people who engage with it. The program is practical, hands-on, and designed to meet young people where they are. It equips them with the tools they need to overcome barriers, build resilience, and create a brighter future. Let me share a story with you about a young person I’m currently working with. For the sake of confidentiality, I will call him James. So James is 16 years old and currently in alternative provision because he struggles to engage in mainstream school. As part of my role as a school life pastor, I have the privilege of working closely with him. James is in the care system and in just a few months he will be leaving his foster placement to move into supported accommodation. For a 16year-old this is a monumental transition. He will need to learn how to manage his budget, cook for himself, and take care of all his daily needs, all while navigating the emotional challenges of leaving his foster home. This is where my life has been an invaluable chore. Through the program, James has been developing practical skills like budgeting and cooking, but also building resilience and the confidence to face the challenges ahead. The sessions have given him not just the knowledge but also hope and a sense of direction. One of the most powerful moments was when James said to me, Aaron, I finally feel I can do this. That’s the impact that my life has. It equips young people with the tools they need to transition into adult life while also showing that they are valued and capable. To our supporters, I just want to say a heartfelt thank you. Your contributions make a real difference and we couldn’t do it without you. If you don’t already support Youth for Christ, I’d love to invite you to join us. Together, we can reach more young people, see more lives transformed, and create a bigger impact. Your gifts allow us to deliver life ch changing courses like my life. Equipping young people like James with the tools they need to thrive. By giving, you are not just helping a program. You are changing lives. Back. Hannah, how do you like your hair? I’m just looking at it on the screen. Honestly, I think I’ve done a really really good job. Actually, can you just move forward a little bit and give them a little little closeup? There she is. I think I did quite well with that. I Someone pointed out that it’s giving Cindy Lhoo. Oh yes, that is so very true. Google that. You now need to go. Okay, so this is mine. So this is mine. So I like that. So we’ve got a bun this side and then we’ve got what’s this? Uh, this is like just a little just various ponytails. Yeah, just a ponytail. We’ve got different ones. I think it’s quite cool. Different heights. Yes. Here we have it. Lovely. You look great. I I do too. I feel like we’re going to start a new style. Please comment which hairstyle you like best. We would love to know in the chat. Um, who do you think is rocking? Yeah, this needs to be like Yeah. Very thingy. Very like slightly face. I know. I wonder who I look like. Who’s this hairstyle like? I don’t know if anyone has ever had this hairstyle before, but I think you’re rocking it. I think you’re making it trend. Um, so we’re going to talk coffee for a bit. Yeah, it’s it’s coffee time. It’s 8:00. I think it’s you might be grabbing a coffee. We’ve grabbed ourselves a nice little morning coffee. Uh, maybe let us know how you take your coffee. Milking. Are you a coffee? I can’t. Do you know what? When I have coffee, I love it, but I get really shaky. So, I’m kind of quite excitable anyway. Got a lot. Got a lot. I know that a lot. Did you not? Um, so when I have a coffee, it is just like it’s it’s not it’s not fun. It’s not fun for me. It’s not fun for anybody else. So my husband is like, “Please don’t drink coffee.” And sometimes I have a little sip of his and he’s like, “Stop it. Stop it. I can’t. I can’t.” He gets quite panic. I say that a little bit about Laura as well who was our night shift. Yes. Uh she’s a bit like that as well. Yeah. So I’ve got I’m going to be a two coffee girly. I love coffee. I really like coffee. I already had a coffee at 4:30 this morning before I left my house. I just I can’t leave without it. Um I might have a little sip of that hot one as well. I’m also probably going to So this if you were around at the very start, which you were, uh we as hosts all brought in a care package, which is like things that were going to get us through the live stream. One of mine was an iced coffee for emergency purposes. It’s an emergency. Emergency emergency. Emergency activated. Do you know what I love though? My hot drink of choice. Um I love a matcha. You either I like matcha. Do you? You either love it or you hate it, I think. Um but that does have a lot of caffeine in it, but somehow it I’m I’m fine with it. It actually really helps me to focus. Oh, interesting. Yeah. So, actually, it’s kind of helps the right amount of caffeine. Yeah. I don’t know. It’s kind of like calming and it helps me to focus, which is really good for me because honestly focus isn’t my thing. Yeah. And do you have your matcha like sweetened at all or do you just go with it as it is? I can drink it as it is. I quite like it with a bit of honey in or like vanilla. But you can get all the different one. You get strawberry, you can get I got a banana one the other day like but actually I’m like do you know what? I just want to keep it as it is cuz I quite like the taste of it. Sometimes think it can overdo it a little bit. Do you know what I mean? Do you ever do it at home? Do you have the little Yeah. No, but I have got like I don’t have one but Yeah, I know. I need one. I use the little um the coffee milk frother. So, I’ll whack the powder in there and then froth that up. You’re supposed to like add a bit of water, aren’t you? And then like thingy it. I don’t know what the word for this is. People who drink matcha know what I’m doing right now. Yeah, they do. With the little with the little whisk. The whisk. The whisk. The matcha whisk. Yeah, it’s really good. And then you pour coffee on top of your milk. Matcha and coffee time with Hannahella. Oh dear. Excellent. Um, whilst you are perhaps grabbing your coffee and letting us know, we can see the coffee here as well. So, actually Michelle, she says I don’t like coffee or the smell. Smell of it. I love the smell. I like the smell. Those beans sometimes. I’m like, “Oh, it smells fantastic.” Oh, that’s my sister. Oh, hi. Never look better, Hannah. Thank you, Angel. I wasn’t calling her an angel. That’s actually her name. Is it? That’s fantastic name. Thank you for saying I’ve never looked better. Is she an angel? I’ll remain silent on that. Um awkward. No, she’s lovely. uh whilst you are maybe grabbing your coffee and interacting with the chat. And we’re really glad like some of you are joining us this morning. Some more people are are getting online, you are so so welcome. Yeah, engage with the chat. Come and chat to us. We’ll have a lovely time as we all I was going to ask going out of work for the morning as we all fumble through the morning and have a lovely time. Um whilst you are doing that, while you are maybe grabbing your coffee, uh you might have seen in the videos and the little ad breaks a few more of our resources. So, we mentioned a few earlier, a couple more Bibles that I want to let you know about, and they were in the uh videos as well, but just to show you up close and sorry, that was on my mic. Up close and personal. Uh, so this is the Rainbow Bible uh which is for children. Um, so this is the most recent, I think, one that we have uh produced. But there are also lots of different kind of interactions and little extra bits uh in the Bible just just to show you the inside a little bit. So, this one uh yeah, there’s loads of different ones. This says like Isaiah has chosen the Persian emperor Cyrus to help the people of Israel. And then it says look back at Ezra 1 1-4 to see what Cyrus did. So it’s just helping young people to know maybe how like bits different bits of the Bible connect up. And then this is even more exciting. And this is also going to be an arm workout to show it to people. Yeah, it is. Go on, work out in the morning. Why not? Family Bible. So this is not just any old Bible. It doesn’t open the normal way. Do I help you? Bam. Wow. Look at that. That’s good. It is written. Hopefully, we can Oh, it’s not It’s not f It’s a bit bright. It’s a bit bright, but it’s okay. Uh Oh, no. It’s on the wrong page. That’s not a normal page. Here we go. Bam. Bam. There we go. They can see that. They can see it better here, actually. Uh so, you can see it’s actually written this way. um which is designed to be kind of maybe opened up around a table um around maybe your family gathered around the Bible and you can then see it together. You can uh chat through bits of it together. The space down the side for you to make notes again the interactions as well again. So this is a section from one kings and it says can you imagine having as much gold as Solomon? Talk about what each of you would do if you suddenly came into some big money. Would you spend it or save it? And it’s all of that. It just spend it on a holiday. We both have a lovely holiday. We do. Yeah, quite possibly. Uh although saving is also good, kids. Um save. So there’s loads of different interactions and things that you can discuss as a family as well. So that is the family’s Bible. All of these things you can find on our shop and we just encourage you to just take a look, just see if there is anything that would maybe really help you, really benefit you. Um we one of the things that we love to do as youth for crisis is we love to resource um especially in my department so I’m part of the innovation department which creates some of these things. I I helped with both of these actually which is exciting. Not the youth one but I did help with both of these which is exciting. So good my name’s in there. Is it obviously the Bible is all about Jesus. Yeah. Uh it is pretty cool. But uh yes we we just love to resource you and resource families, young people, uh children. So, we just really encourage you to just check it out, see if anything uh can benefit you. Yeah. So, we are going to have a little replay of something that happened earlier, aren’t we? But it was something pretty exciting. One of the fundraisers that happened earlier. Yes, we have read. Yes, we are. Yes, we are. Yes, it’s that time. Need some caffeine. It’s that time. It is the relational fundraiser which is fantastic. So stay tuned and enjoy. Nick, hello. It’s so good to have you with us. Look at that. Load got loads of faces and emojis as well on the screen. I love that and you say, “Hey all team.” Nick, I’m going to hand over to you and you can take us from here. Brilliant. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Well, hi and welcome to the Youth for Christ United for Change Taskmaster. That is uh quite a bit of a mouthful, isn’t it? So uh my name is Nick. I am the taskmaster for tonight and uh I lead the relational team and we’ve got a selection of people from the relational team. Uh now so guys you want to unmute yourself but we’ve got Analisi, we’ve got Matthew who you heard me earlier on and we’ve got Katherine. Analisei, why did you go with the smileys? What’s with the Well, I’m very happy to be here and I’m so proud of the whole team and and just the chance that everyone can see what we do across the the UK. So I’m really happy I wanted to express it. A ray of sunshine. Brilliant. Brilliant. Um okay. So first of all, like we’re going to launch into the taskmaster in a minute, but you guys are all still like very much involved in the fundraiser at the moment. So what what are you all doing? Um Cath Katherine, what are you doing for the fundraiser at the moment? Um so well I’m involved with Taskmaster as we’re doing. I’m also on the phones as well tomorrow. So, if you phone up, you may get to speak to me and I’ll be delighted to take your call. And Katherine has an excellent phone voice as well. So, it’s a it’s always a delight to speak to her. Uh, Matthew, what are you what are you involved in? I am obviously here as well. Um, but I’m on the phones as well this afternoon and tomorrow afternoon. And then I’m replying to your Wii messages at the bottom of the chat in Twitch and on Facebook and on YouTube as well. So, if you see someone from you for Christ for a better time, that’s me sometimes. Oh, there you go. You see our relational team being relational with people. And Anisei, what what are you up to? Yes. So, I came from London to um the Midlands today because tomorrow I’m going to be helping with the family hour and also behind the scenes in this studio. So, I’m really excited. It’ll be a long shift tomorrow, but I’m really excited. It’s going to be a long shift for all of us, isn’t it? Yeah. Yeah. So, okay. Taskmaster, any fans of the show? Yeah. and Lisi. I watched it for the first time yesterday. First time. She’s doing her homework. Brilliant. This could be interest. It could be interesting. Okay. So, how are you how are you all feeling about because you don’t know what is coming. No, I’m very nervous. I don’t know. I’m nervous. I’m excited. Can’t wait to hear what we’re going to do. Nervous and excited. Okay. Well, that is that’s great. Well, we’re going to get started on a couple of activities to start in a minute, but I just want to get to know you a little bit better because you guys obviously all work for uh the relational team. So, I’d love to know for our audience like who you are, what what is it that you do? So, let let’s start with Katherine because Katherine, you’ve been around for quite a while, haven’t you? Working for Youth for Christ. How long have you been working? 21 years. 21 years. That is incredible. Wow. That’s amazing. what what do you do for the relational team? So, I’m the relational team administrator and I help support the work of the wider team. So, I support Nick in his role as the uh relational team lead and I support our team of regional pioneers as they serve our centers around the UK. So, we have uh different regional pioneers serving different areas. We’ve got lots of different area well centers in different areas of the UK. um and I just help um answer inquiries, deal with any calls that come into the office, answer our centers emails, that’s the sort of thing. And if you were to just try and explain to people like when you say the relational team, like what is it that our team actually does? So we are about building relationships. We are about building relationships with our local centers and creating relationships within community as well. So um we try and work with churches uh we work with schools um basically it’s about creating community and that’s what our centers are doing in their local regions. Yep. So lots of our workers are then supporting the local centers as well and being on hand for anything that they might need. Um and yeah lots and lots of outreach to to churches at the moment. Great. Katherine, what is the best thing about working for Youth for Christ? The people are the best thing about working for Christ. Definitely. And especially me, right? Is that what you’re gonna say? I mean, obviously reaching out to young people is the best thing about working Christ, but it’s the people who make Youth for Christ. And we very much are a movement as well. You know, we’re here in Britain, but we’re also in different countries around the world as well. So, we’re part of a much bigger family and serving young people. Brilliant. Amazing. Amazing. Uh, so good. Analisi. Um, hello. Tell tell us a bit about yourself. Who are you and what what’s your role with the team? My name is Anna Lissi. Um I live in London and I’ve been in you for Christ for a long long time but in British you for Christ national. I’ve been working since 2021 and my current role is uh London lead for urban. So what we do we actually support and empower churches to deliver youth work in communities that have loads of needs. Um, so it could be council states, it could be um it could be a school, it could be detached work in the streets and we’ve been doing that since January last year and it’s been great. And you I mean you are a bit of a superwoman really. You you do so much uh so quickly. I I think we we had a two or three year five year plan for what we were going to do in London and we said year one build some relationships. year two start the youth work and I think after six months you’d already gotten onto the youth work. You just already built loads of relationships had been kind of like engaging with loads of people. So you are like yeah incredible. What’s the best thing about working for Youth for Christ for you? Oh it is the hope that we give not just to the young people but to the local church to serve. you know, when you when you say, “Oh, you’ve done that in six months or whatever.” Um, actually, I think you for Christ see the opportunities that other people don’t see and when we say, “Come on, we can get along with you and we can do this and like it’s just a privilege to do it.” So basically sharing hope everywhere we are and even to local churches when they say we would love to do this and they think they can’t but then when we come along with them and we say we can do this and they know they can we empower them and things just happen because um the L the Lord Jesus loves someone that says yes to him and then he just blesses us. Amazing. That is a ve that is a very good answer. Thank you. Let me see. Um, amazing. Okay, let’s go on to uh Matthew. So, uh, Matthew, tell us a bit about yourself. Um, hi, Sure. Yeah, so I’m in Glasgow. I’m Matthew. Um, you heard a we bit about me before. I’m the Glasgow Urban Mission Pioneer persony thing up in up in sunny Glasgow up in Scotland. So, that’s a good bit of fun. I’m originally from Aberdine and I’ve been with Youth for Christ. Oh, this is my third year. This is year three, right? See, I haven’t do math in my head isn’t isn’t a strong point. I just sort of go, I’ll do it. Close enough. And and so what sort of what sort of projects do you do you get involved in? So I’ve I’m in I currently go into two schools. It will be three from next week. Uh I deliver reflection spaces. I work with young folk with additional support needs. And I just run simple lunchtime cafes as part of chapency teams. There’s a good number of young folk who come to them every week. some of the some of our lunchtime cast get up to about 60 young folk just coming in getting a free hot chocolate a chance to chat with some chaplain which is incredibly rare particularly up here I think sometimes and then I’m also partnering with a number of local churches but one specifically running a youth club on Saturday mornings with young folks who have either come to Scotland more recently or in like first or second generation Scottish folks who either their parents have come from overseas or abroad or their grandparents have and they’re sort of coming in and trying to find a church or they are they don’t know Jesus at all and their friends have broke from this church and we’ve been sharing a gospel with them for the last two years now it’s been amazing and and didn’t you wasn’t there something that happened fairly it was probably about s five six months ago now but didn’t you offer out an opportunity to some young people yes we did so we’ve offered out an opportunity for young people to come to know Jesus fairly regularly at this at this group. And after I’m going to go back to November 2023, I think it is. And that was the first time we did. And of the 15 young people that regularly come in, one put their hand up. And of those 15, I would say most don’t go to church or don’t know Jesus at all then. And then more recently, we did the same thing. And we’ve been handing out new to faith packs with them if they make a commitment. And 11 of the 15 on that day asked us for a new to faith pack. So, it’s 11 of them either taking their first steps in a walk with Jesus or are saying, “I’ve taken this first step and I want to know more.” Which is incredible. Really cool. Oh, amazing. Amazing. It just shows how important it is, isn’t it, to do youth work, not just, you know, the the quick ones, but to dig in and keep plugging away, build relationships over the long haul. So amazing. Our God is good. Okay. So, uh, Matthew, what is the best bit about working for Youth for Christ? I was I was going to make a joke and say, “Oh, Katherine said the people, but nothing to do with that.” And then Anaisi gave a brilliant answer and I was like, “Oh, no. I can’t go there.” But I think the best thing about working for You Christ. Honestly, for me, it’s been the opportunities I’ve had with young folk and the support and the team I’ve had around myself. I’ve grown loads. I’m what, 24, 25 this year. So, I’ve grown loads in the last three years. Really learned off folk as well. But also, I think that the best thing has been having those opportunities to to invite young people to know Jesus. They’re incredible moments, and I get to look around and say, “Actually, God’s used the local church in this more than he’s used me.” And that’s what I love to see as well. Wonderful. Great answer, Matthew. Well done. Well done. Okay. Right. We are going to get into some tasks. This one is You got a question already? I haven’t even started. I thought you would be wearing black and sitting on a throne thing as well. I’m a bit disappointed. This is my throne. I thought you gonna have an assistant. I was expecting a tiny little assistant beside you. The dog there. The dogs are in the background. Yeah. Yeah. They’ll yap at you when when you don’t get it. Okay. Come on, Nick. Tell us. Okay. Okay. We’re going to start off with some simple ones. We’re going to build it up. And there’s a big one right at the end. Okay. The first one is we’re going to do a little scavenger hunt. So, you got to run around wherever you are. You got to try and find what the next thing that I’m going to say is now this. So, are you ready? Yeah. Yeah. I’m not even at home, but yeah. I I know you’re not you’re not you’re not even in your Where are you, Anise, at the minute? I’m at my very good friend Judy Lloyd’s house. She’s having me for the weekend. So, you’re gonna have to go and raid Judy Lloyd’s drawers. Um, right. Okay. So, the first thing on my list is a necklace. A necklace. Go. Oh, there we go. No hope. I’ve got to go all the way. Well, there we are. I I love the fact though that that both of you went to go and then suddenly went, “Oh, wait a minute. I have got one around my neck.” There we are. That was an easy one just to get you warmed up. Okay. Um, the next one is an item of food. Go. An item of food. Let’s see who. Okay. Uh, so what is that? It’s actually a bunch of super easy pillows, but they dripped onto my laptop, so that’s concerning. Oh, yeah. Don’t let it drip. And have you also got an apple? Is this a This is a fruity. Oh, you’re all Oh, you’re very right. So, you’re all very healthy. This This is Hang on. Let me tell you what I would have gone for. This This is uh this is what’s going to get me through the night. So, you’re all really healthy. Well done. Apples and oranges. And I’m going for the uh the sweeties. Okay. Uh right. So, uh so far so good. So, Matthew was definitely the winner on that one. Yeah. Um although his his laptop may have taken some juicy damage over that. Okay. The next thing is um and it can’t be something you’ve already picked up. A round thing. A round thing. Does that count as round? That count as round. No, that’s not round. That’s oval. Oh. It’s a coaster. A coaster. Yeah, I did see it very briefly. sort of good enough that what the bottom of that is round Matthew but that I don’t know how you could what world is that tape measure sorry I’ve got another one okay okay um the the next one is um a cup with some water in it let’s see if Matthew He actually leaves his uh seat. Oh, have you got water in it as well? Okay. Okay, Katherine, you you’re going to need that water in a little while. So, uh you might want to do a little top up in a little while. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, I can see water in there. Oh gosh. Um poured it twice because I replaced it cuz it was a dirty mug, but oh well. Uh, Ana Lisi, have you have you found one? A proper cup as well. Oh, that’s a that’s a very dainty cup. Yes. Well done. Okay. Well, Katherine won that one because she was she had she was just there with it to Okay. Uh, I want to find a game. A game like a board game or any sort of game. Oh, game. Um, probably Jenga, isn’t it? Well, it’s Timber, the cheap version of Oh, it’s the it’s the Aldi knockoff. Right. So, we got got a game of Jenga. I don’t mind a a Jenga game. Um, I’ve got a giant Jenga, but most of them have fallen apart now. What does that say? Five Five Crowns. Five crowns. Oh, how do you how do you play that? Um, great question. You don’t know, do you? You’ve never played it. It’s a long explanation. It’s a family classic, Nick. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um, I bet. I bet. Okay. And Lis’s got lost in her house. So, um, she’s she’s so busy looking for a game, she’s decided to pull it out and have a game of it, uh, because she thought that was more, uh, entertaining than than this. Um, and Lisa, are you there? Have you got lost? You you can safely say you you’ve Oh, she’s back. Nearly in the loft. You went nearly in the loft to get scruples. Never heard of it. No, neither have I, actually. Any Anyone heard of scruples? If you’re in the chat, tell us what Scruples is about. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Um the next one is um some paper and a pen or a pencil. Got it. Excellent. Good. Good. Okay. My pen. Great. Good. Well, that was a dead heat. So, that’s fine because we’re going to do another little a different task now. All right. whereby I want you to get your paper ready. Okay. And I just want How good are you at drawing? Any budding artists here? Oh, and at least he’s confident. Yeah. Come on. Bring it. And bring it on. Matthew’s saying dreadful. Okay. I think that’s what it said. Still looking for a pen. Okay. Well, what I would like to do, I’m going to give you a time limit on this one. You have got two minutes for this. And I want you to do your best portrait of me. You have two minutes starting now. And we are off. Um, can you stop moving? Can I stop moving? No. I Because you’ve asked me that, I am more likely to want to move around to make this as difficult as possible. Um, which which is my best light? Is it Is it like this? I don’t know. Um, okay. Remember, I do these in our meetings. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I think Analise has got a good chance of getting this getting this good. We We’ll see. But are Katherine and Matt, are they the dark horses that may well come out with a Vang Go? Um, okay. While we’re doing that, I just want to say thank you everybody for tuning in and watching this. We are going to have a big task coming up soon which you might want to be involved in as well. And uh and I just want to say, you know, so many people have been involved in this fundraiser, putting it together, working really, really hard, making it all happen. Um it’s been incredible so far. Um but we there’s so many people involved from moderating, having phone calls, um uh going on the bikes. I’m going to be doing some gaming streams uh later as well. And so we’re just going all out. And so I just want to say please, please, please do sponsor us. Please do donate. I am passionate about uh young people and seeing young people engage with the gospel. I I personally wasn’t from a Christian background myself. Um but I became a Christian when I was 14 years old um because of Christian youth workers in my area. And that actually changed my whole family’s life because um my mom and my dad became Christians. Um one of my brothers became a Christian as well. Um and it was all because of uh Christian youth workers. So I really passionately believe that that that youth work makes a difference. So please do donate even if it’s a small amount. It all makes a difference. Okay. Uh we have got four seconds left. Three, two, one. Stop drawing. Stop drawing. There we go. Okay. Let us Right. Okay. Now we just just hold Oh, okay. You just I was going to say hold off and we we’ll we’ll see. Right. Yes. Uh, Katherine, let’s let’s have a little look at yours. Oh, yours is blurry. Oh, the background, but it’s amazing. There you go. It’s amazing. Oh, I can I can just about see that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I do look like I’m wearing a builder’s hat, but uh Yeah, but I can. Yes, I can. Okay. Very good. Very good. Nice. Nice. Uh Ana, come on then. Let’s wow us with your Look at that. Yeah. Uh let Oh, you’ve even got the Oh, you both had the Let’s Go light in the background. That’s very good. Yes. I like that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Good. Good. Matthew, I expect big things. And that is a big thing. Um I went for quantity over quality. Wow. Over half of you, Nick. I thought I had long flowing hair and chair. No, that’s my chair, isn’t it? I’ve just realized that. I’d like to point out the dog in the corner as well. His eye. Were you Is that a dog or a shark? Yeah. What is going on with my eyes? I mean, I might look like that at like 4 in the morning, but I think I’m doing okay at the moment. You didn’t specify a time. Okay. [Music] Um, I I think I will I’m going to announce I’m going to give I I I can’t even remember what we if I gave points for the last bit, but uh yeah, Analis, you can have 10 points. Katherine, I think yours was was was good as well. You can have 10 points. Matthew, that’s a that’s a pitiful, too. Um uh yeah. Okay, good. Okay. Right. Now then, how are we doing? Okay. Uh, I want you to if you might need you’re going to need your water in your cup now. Is it you might also you might also need something that you’re going to spit out into. Okay. Cuz what we’re going to do is we’re going to do a little task where we’re going to put some water in our mouth. We’re going to see who can hold out the longest with the water in their mouth without bursting out. Okay. Okay. So, do we understand the task? I’m going to going to put some water in your mouth. You’re going to hold it. Okay. Want to see some water in your mouth? And then um [Music] you don’t need to sing. Okay. We are we doing okay? At least looks like she’s about to burst out any moment. Uh Matthew is doing okay at the moment. Okay. Yeah, good. Have you got something that you might need to spit into if you’re okay? Okay. So, let me see. Right. Uh so, I’m going to tell you a few jokes here. I I don’t know if you’re any good with Have you just swallowed your water already? You swallowed the water already. Okay, let’s go again. Let’s go again. I I There was too much buildup with that. Okay. Right. My wife told me to take the spider out instead of killing him. Um, went out, had a few drinks. Nice guy. He’s a web designer. Oh, okay. Uh, I’m reading a book on anti-gravity. It’s impossible to put down. I only know 25 letters of the alphabet. I don’t know why. Did you hear about the guy who uh invented polos? He made a mint. I used to be addicted to the hokeyp pokei, but I turned myself around. I stayed up all night wondering where the sun went, and then it dawned on me. Uh, I used to be a baker, but I couldn’t make enough dough. I used to be a banker, but I lost interest. Matthew, have you just spit it out? I swallowed it. The hardest part was keeping it in. I’m not Okay. Okay. Okay. All right. Uh, well, I think I think Analise, despite the fact that she was literally about to burst out all over the place from the word go. I think she won that bit as well. Okay. All right. Lovely warm water. Okay. All right. Now, we’re gonna we’re actually going to get on to to the biggie. This is this is the actual challenge. Okay, these were these were just the warm-ups. All right, so in the next 24 hours, you have to create your very own veggie tail. Okay. Okay. So, I want you to film me a veggie tail. I I I don’t want it to be any longer than like three or three minutes long. Okay. So, it’s got to be fairly succinct. All right. You have until 5:00 p.m. tomorrow. We are back live here in the evening, but I just need to be able to queue up all of those videos. All right. So, you have until 5:00 PM to get those to me. Although, I know you’re all involved in loads of other things. So, you’re going to be trying to do this while juggling all sorts of other stuff. All right. So um so first of all, do you all know what a veggie tail is? Yeah. Quickly very quickly. Okay. Okay. Uh Matthew, do do you want to explain how would you explain what a veggie tail is? I grew up on veggie tails. Um veggie tails, it’s like there’s a talking tomato. I almost said tomato because it’s American. There’s a talking cucumber and they tell Bible stories and they have funny songs. Is that Is that fair? Is that good? Yeah, I guess so. I guess so. Yep. Yep. So, basically, um it was a a fun way for people to get across Bible stories. They were cartoons. Obviously, I don’t expect you to do a cartoon. Or maybe you will do. Who knows? Who knows? Um but yes, you need to film me something like that. Okay. So, uh, are there any questions on this? Okay. So, from scratch, we need to create a veggie tail. Do you want a story? Do you want one veggie tail or an episode? What What is it? Well, I I I I mean, I I could give you all of those details, but like you’ve got three minutes. So, what can you do in three minutes? The film will be three minutes, but we have all this time to prepare. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don’t I don’t want an epic 24-hour film. Thanks very much. Uh just three minutes. A three minute vegetale. Okay. Um so you got to try and film that. All right. Any other questions? Can I have help? Yes, you can have help. Okay. All right. What’s the prize? What’s the prize? My um enduring agilation and maybe a chocolate bar when I next see you. Okay. So, that is the challenge. Okay. Um yeah, you’ve got a while to have a think about that. Try and come up with some ideas. Um, but for viewers who are watching this, if you want to have a go at this as well, you absolutely can do. Um, so you could try and do this. Um, film your very own veggie tail 3 minutes long and then, um, basically there are two ways that you can get that to us. You can either upload it, so upload it to Instagram or YouTube and then tag us somehow or message me or you can email it directly to me. um my email address. We’ll pop this in the chat in a minute. nick.blanchyfc.co.uk. So you can email that to me or you can just upload it and tag Youth for Christ in it. We would love to see your entries for this. Um and whether or not you can beat these guys, can they uh win Taskmaster? Or actually, will I award the winner uh to one of our viewers? So uh you can get involved in this. Yeah, you’re you’re not just competing against yourselves, but everybody else who’s watching. I’m watching you at home. I think I’m supposed to be the scary one, Analisei. Okay. Uh, but you’re doing I was prepared for so many other things, but not Veggie Tales. It’s fine. What were you How confident are you feeling? I’ve only watched like once. My My kids didn’t like it much. Okay. But yeah, it’s fine. At least I’m not jumping and asking people to do crazy things. It’s fine. Yeah. Okay. Ma Matthew, what what how confident are you feeling? Veggie Tail still comes up on my Instagram reels. We’ve got We got a Veggie Tails fan. A big fan here. They tend to be mean, but they are still very funny. Excellent. Excellent. Katherine, how confident are you? Not confident at all. Not Not confident at all. Not really sure what I’m doing. Just Google it. Find out. I think your your understanding of vegetitals is probably uh better than your understanding of taskmaster. So, uh you should be okay. Great. Well, uh we are going to hand over now. We we’re going to be back tomorrow at 8:30 to see everybody’s uh results. See how these guys got on. Uh don’t forget you can take part as well in this. We are gonna go now into an advert. Um, right now. Thanks. Bye. Surprise. Not an advert. We are back. Uh, we look forward to seeing how the team got on with their little Veggie Tail creations. We will see what happens there. Um, but we are going to spend a few minutes now as we kind of queued up early. We were letting people know obviously people are getting their breakfast. They’re starting to think about what they’re going to eat for the day. They’re getting up. We are going to make a little creation with breakfast foods. This is our challenge. Sea has set us a little challenge. So, we have got about three or four minutes to basically make the coolest thing. We’ve got some cereals down here. We’ve got some bread, some jam, some cocktail sticks, primitive tools. I know. This is literally it. Um, and a spoon. What are you going to make, Hannah? I’m a big fan. Yes. Formula 1. Yes, you are. I’m going to attempt How many races have you been to? Two. Two. I’d like to go to more. I’m going to attempt with the word being attempt. Yeah. To make I’m excited to see this. What are you going to try? Um I don’t know. I’m just going to see what happen. Maybe just some type of like house and maybe a jam house. A jam. Jam house. Okay. Should we get going? Okay. Yes. Go. Go. Go. No. I want the bread. I want the bread. I want the bread. Okay. Great. So, I’m going to do this like on my face. Oh, no. These should I should have opened it. Oh, no. How do I stick this with here? Here’s here’s a nice AS jam as glue. Yeah, that’s what I was thinking. Yeah. Let’s crack this open. Jam jammy glue. Why can’t I get a we mix out? Oh, there you go. Oh gosh, I’m getting jam everywhere. It’s not gone well, people. The tools have failed me. I think I’m going to spread it. Do you know what? I should have thought about this before I did it. I’m just going for it. Okay, I’m with you. And the timer is starting. I’m going to give you two minutes from now. minutes. Two whole minutes. Hannah, what’s this car going to look like? This is an interesting jam. Oh, your hands are all I know. I’m going to have to wash me hands after that. Okay, so I’m going to do this as like as like my glue and then this is the base. If you are watching online right now, uh we’d love to know if you were doing this challenge right now with us here in the studio, what would you attempt to build? So, we’ve got breakfast bits, we’ve got cereals, we’ve got weer bits, we’ve got bread, we’ve got jam, we’ve got cocktail sticks. What would you choose to build? We want to know. So, let us know. Second. Okay. You say cocktail sticks. I say wheel axle axles. Oh, this isn’t going well. You’re nearly close to a minute, so you’re already nearly halfway through. Very dear me. Um, this I’m intrigued. Okay, how long have we got? Sorry. Uh, I was counting up, not down. Just over one minute left. You know what? This is trickier than it looks. Just over one minute left. Okay, everything’s fine. No one panic. Just over a minute left. No one. How do I How do I make it? This is meant to be standing up. Like these are the walls. So, how do This is its door. No one panic. How do I stand it up? No panic. Well, that’s for you to decide. I know, but look, I’m rather than my house is full of Okay, you got 40 seconds left. 40 seconds and I am going to judge out of 10 and give a clear winner. Uh I would like a little bit of a breakdown as well of um what’s going on here. Oh no, this is terrible. Let’s have a let’s have a look. This is going to be interesting. Oh yeah, maybe I’ll just do it. Okay, 20 seconds left. 20 seconds left. And here we go. We’re into the final 10. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Stop what you are doing. I’m not going to lie. Pensacity for messiness. This is what I’ve learned so far. I’m not going to lie. I like your creativity, but creativity also means more than I thought I would be. To be honest, Hannah, that’s pretty good. Belly yesterday got last night got beans on the floor. We’ve now got rice krispies. Okay, let me let me um you’ve got to be gentle. I’m going to be gentle. Um taking this to the camera so that one can see. But can you turn it around so you can see the door? Poor construction. The door has fallen down. This is the door. Can you please turn that round? You turn it around. Go have Okay, so this Okay, here’s what we got going on quickly. Really quickly. We’ve got Yeah. a little house. We’ve got some nice little rice krispies as like the pebbles as you go in. These are the um these are the Yeah, it’s a cottage cottage in the countryside. There’s lots of lovely things there. Okay, that can go back. And here we have Hannah’s. What we got going on? So this is this is the front. This is the rear wing. These are obviously tires and it’s red because it’s a Ferrari to be honest. And Ferrari is your favorite. They are now. They have Lewis Hamilton. Yes, it was Mercedes. Yeah. Am I right? I like McLaren as well. McLaren. That’s who I’m thinking of. I knew there was one with an M that you like. I like anywhere Lewis Hamilton is. Okay. Ferrari is. It’s red cuz of the Ferrari. Guys, I am going to give you scores out of 10. Uh, we’ll start with yours, Bella. Bella, the the the fact that you’re still putting yours together is slightly concerning. Um, I know you have a door. I’m going to pull the door off because you see, but look at that. The door is hanging on by a thread. Okay. And uh Okay. But for me, what are these? Cuz you’ve not told me. Well, to be honest, I just This was going to go on the roof. So, this was going to be like the cottage thatch roof. Okay. out of 10. Out of 10, I’m going to give you a solid. This isn’t solid. I’m going to give you a solid 4.7 out of 10. That means it’s just below average because average is fine. Yeah, to be honest, no one wants to be below average. Hannah, I am going to give your Ferrari average purely because of the wheels itself. No, that was actually pretty good. Are you ready for this? Go on. I’m not only just going to give you a score. I’m going to lay down the gauntlet. Okay. The score is a 9.2 out of 10. What? That’s so hard. And the reason why I’m doing that, I’m laying down a gauntlet. Any other host that is watching this right now and any other host that’s going to be participating throughout the next 12 hours or so, we’re going to come back to this and if you can beat this, 9.2 out of 10. I don’t think you can. I’m I don’t think it’s going to be possible. I don’t think you can. Well done. You are the winner of today. To be honest though, that is pretty good. I like what you did with the wheels. I like the jam, the red. I actually do think that’s pretty good. I do. So, we are going to go into a little ad break rate and then we’re going to come back for more spin the wheel fun. We can um finally get rid of these interesting hairstyles. So, maybe more volume. Maybe during the spin the wheel, we will unwrap and see what it’s done to our curls. I’m quite excited. We’ll see what it’s done. I’m going to go wash my hands. Anyone who knows me knows I hate having sticky jam hands. Oh yeah, that’s not nice. So, I’m going to go wash my hands. Enjoy this ad break. Bye. It catches my eye because um has like all of these wonderful colors on it. [Music] They were really pretty and I’ve never seen pictures like them before. Like I couldn’t imagine it being a Bible. It looks way better. The waves are just bigger and it looks like it’s an action shot. It just looks like it’s actually happening. I like how it’s displayed and easy to read and how it has loads of chapters and verses. The rainbow is kind of just there and you’re like, I want to read this. When they’re in key stage two, when they’re getting to year three and they can then use those Bibles every time they have collective worship, if they do that in their schools or RE lessons, I think it makes really good sense. I think you’ve got their the chance that you give a child a book at the end of the school year, they take it away and it goes on a shelf and they they won’t be looking at it. Um, in school, we want to be able to use these uh these these books and and this resource in a way of engaging with worship and the teaching of of RE. So, we have already decided as a school that from when we’re doing like our RE lessons and collective worship from next year, so from September, um that we will start using those [Music] [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] [Music] How can we make a Bible that works for everybody? That’s the big question. How can we make something that is quite inaccessible accessible for a whole family to do together? We really want to gather your thoughts. Everything that you say is going to have impact. Lots of pictures bright by front cover um with uh when reading it. It’s not like a tricky font to read. If you’ve got like every one or two pages something you can do, you’ll think, “Oh, I can’t wait to get to the next page.” Having loads of like family comments and pictures and like that it would be something that everybody could enjoy. [Music] It’s just good for the time we spend to be something we can all take something away from. Um the verse in our head or something that we’re going to do that [Music] day. There’s space on it, inside it, on the back of it, on the front of it to write down things, to draw things, to make notes, to engage in the Bible together, and have a space that would be uniquely yours. [Music] An opportunity for the parents to engage with their young person in the Bible is just a whole new thing and a something that’s actually really exciting. There’s a real lack of things for families to do together. There’s the children’s and there’s the youth and there’s the adults. But a family a Bible is a great idea. This resource is going to be really helpful to explore the biblical stories and how they impact the way we live out our lives today. It is a Bible that invites the whole family to participate. It’s a Bible that stays open in the middle of your living room or your bedroom and it invites the whole family not just to read scripture but to actively engage in it no matter where you are in your faith. [Music] [Music] Hello everybody. Welcome back. You will see spin that the wheel is back. Wheel. It’s always here. And yeah, let’s do it again. Um, so firstly, should we take our hair out? Let’s see what Let’s have excited for the volume. I feel like it might Yeah, it might give me some volume actually. Yeah, a bit of oomph. Let’s see. Let’s see what it’s see what it’s going to do. How would you um rate your hair creation? Were you Were you pleased? I was quite pleased with it. Yeah. Look at you. I was pleased with it. I liked it. I thought it was different. The thing do I have a new career calling as a hair? I do. I liked the uniqueness of it. That’s what I think. I think like nobody’s had a hair do like that before. Like I haven’t seen it. Oh, okay. I feel like it’s giving me a bit of volume. Maybe. Oh, doesn’t that feel nice? Doesn’t that feel nice though when your hair’s like Oh, it’s back. It’s back in town. Have I got volume? Let’s see. Yeah, we’ve both got lots of volume, which is quite nice, isn’t it? Okay. Yeah, we’ll go with that. We’ll go with that. Okay. Still all right, though. Still looking all right. Okay. So, what kind of things have we got on the wheel? Really want the fancy dress. I think that would be good. Really want to wear a silly hat. I think that would be nice, too. Don’t want Can’t use your arms. I actually want my arms and I like them. In the next section, one of us has got to go down the stairs. That no arms could be interesting. And one of us has got to do a call with a center. Oh, yeah. They might be like, “What is going on? What’s happening?” So, that could be fun. Uh, this could be fun. The best paper airplanes. don’t want to do this because I I actually don’t think I can drink anything else acidic. I know without But we’ll call your mom. Your mom. She’s proud of you. She wrote on the live stream she’s proud of me. Never been prouder creation. There might have been other moments in my life where she’s been more proud. This is her proudest. Yeah. Whereas Le could be nice. Yeah. Coy hands in custard. I was just speaking about I know that sticky jam hands. To be honest though, at least custard isn’t sticky. I quite like sticky. Do you know what though? I like textures. Neurodyiverse over here. Give me a texture. Like textures. I like it. I like You don’t like that? No. No. It depends. I don’t like the beach. I don’t like sand. Oh, okay. I think it depends on the texture. So, some stuff I could be like, “Wow.” But then other stuff I could be like, “No.” Like there’s there’s the extreme of it. Like picture the scene. You’ve put sun cream on. Yeah. You’re a bit wet from like ocean spray and sand starts sticking to you. How do you feel? Oh no. I don’t No, I don’t. Probably not the sand. This is my nightmare. Is it? I feel not good. Okay. Right. That’s That’s a no. No. Yeah. Wear a silly hat. Can’t use your arms. Shoes and hands. Right. Shall we spin the wheel? Spin the wheel. Spin the wheel. Spin the wheel. Gosh, my arms look really long. Oh. Oh. Oh, no. Okay. Oh, what we getting? What we getting? Where a silly hat? Yes. I’d like There’s lots of like things. So, firstly, funky hairstyle. Now, a silly hat, which I think Oh, yes. We can get them in straight away. So, here’s our choices. Oh, what are you going to go for? Uh, we’ve got like peaky blinders style, ladybird hat. I don’t know if pirate hat or a What are you going to pick? Oh, there’s quite a summer hat, too. I don’t know. There’s too much choice. Maybe I would go like this hat. I’m going this. Maybe maybe I’ll swap out for pirate hat. Oh, it’s kind for when we do the call. Should we just wear different hats? I actually quite like Yeah, we can just do more than one. We can rotate it. How about cowboy? How about cowboy pirate? What’s this mushroom? Okay. Um, cowboy pirate is now going to announce what our total is. So, drum roll please. We have now raised your kind donations. That sounds good. 6,352, which is amazing. Thank you so much for your continued giving. Please continue to give uh through the link. So, you can call us on 01215029620 or you can visit our website. So, yfc.co.uk slash slashdonate. So, we would love for you to carry on uh doing that. Carry on giving, please. Uh we have uh done silly things to our hair. We’re now wearing silly hats. That one really suits you, by the way. Thanks. No, you do. You look great. Yeah, it is a look. I’m like, wow, she looks fantastic. Thank you. Keep the compliments coming. I know. Keep going. Love it. How are you feeling? Let’s do a little check in. How are you feeling? Tiredness. Do you know what? I’m actually all right. I thought I’d feel more tired cuz I had like maybe an hour and a half. You were on till midnight and then back here at 5:30 in the morning. Yeah. And then there was a bumblebee in my room which I was telling you about. So then that did keep me away a little bit but he’s I don’t actually think he’s died. It’s quite sad actually. I was going to say Oh, you’ve got a ladybird hat on. Yeah. So yeah. So about an hour and a half. So but I’m actually okay. How are you doing? How you feeling? What’s your energy feeling like? I think I’m feeling slightly better than I thought I would. I can feel a potential dip coming, but we’ve just got to we just got to keep moving. Power through. Just got to keep moving. Keep encouraging us in the chat. Like, yeah, we need it. Mom, please keep telling me I’m doing a great job. I know. I want my mom to tell me that she’s in Spain. I know she’s in Spain, so she won’t. And please continue to give. It means so so much to me and the work that we do with young people. 30 helps a young person in crisis to reach reach receive essential mentoring and support. £50 provides resources to a youth leader that can help them with schools and community. £65 could support churches with uh resources to guide and provide for churches and youth ministry outreach in their local area. So, we would just love you to give however much you can, but those are just some examples of kind of what your money can go towards. So, we would just love for you to give and just continue to keep supporting us through watching as well and sharing it with people. We know the numbers are ticking up a bit now, more than they were in the night. So, the night shift was was tough going, but we’d love for you to share it with people around you as well. Absolutely. And keep commenting in the chat as well. Keep us updated with what you are doing. Keep us company. We want to hear from you. Um, next up, we have a ad break. So, enjoy and we will see you very soon. My name is Chris and I’m the youth lead here at Hope Church Houndso and I’m here at our good sheeperd location where we’ve been working with young people who live on the nearby Meadows estate since 2019. Across the six years that we’ve been serving these young people, we’ve been able to get to know so many young people and journey with them across the whole of the secondary school years. But recently we’ve we’ve begin to see these young people move into adulthood. So that’s a challenge that we’ve been facing over the last few months. Um and towards the back end of 2024, I met Anelisei who works for Youth for Christ and she began to share about her role for Youth of Christ and her mission towards launching more youthwork on estates in this area of London. And so we’ve started a new after school club for year five upwards and we’ve been able to partner with the local primary school which is Beaver’s School. We were faithfully going in there week after week sharing about the club. And since we’ve started, we’ve seen almost 20 young people from the school in year five and six come directly from the school to our after school club. And this has been made possible by Youth for Christ and the amazing work that they’ve been doing in this area of London. Hi, my name is Lana and I do a number of things here at the youth church. Usually help with arts and crafts and things. I enjoy it because I end up meeting lots of new people and I enjoy I enjoy meeting new people and uh I feel like it’s a real nice community here and everyone feels included. Hello, I’m Anna Lacy and I’m urban lead for Youth of Christ in London and I’m very happy to be talking about the Meadows Youth Club today. Um you have met Chris before um and he was talking how the youth work came about when we met each other and at the Meadows youth club every Monday we provide a safe space for young people to come and we we use one of our programs that is called heat and eat. So we often cook with young people, teach them how to cook and we eat with them. Whilst we eating we have discussions about all sorts of things. So we we get to listen to them their hearts, their problems and we also pray together. So it’s been amazing to be doing this in in the medals um for now I think six months and we we do believe that this ministry will grow and it we couldn’t have done it without you. So we want to say a big thank you to all of you that support British you for Christ and we are very very happy to see that the the seeds you have planted throughout your donations with your donations are bringing young people faith uh food joy and a safe space to be here in HLO. Hi my name is Sapphire. I come to the Middle Youth Camp because it’s really it’s so much fun. Um, we also like we like in the garden we get to play like football or like we get to like because it’s a big garden, we get to like do cartwheels and do stuff that we like. And there’s a big um tennis table tennis table and um when we come in there’s like cookies and like there’s cake on like the table like um like with like a snack for when we come in and um and it’s so much fun. Hi, my name is Amber and I come to the Meadows Youth Club every Monday. I come here because I enjoy playing football and table tennis and I love like um making all the foods and playing all the board games. It’s really fun cuz you get to like do arts and crafts and play all these fun games and we even made like this club sign with all our hand prints on it. Hello, my name is David and I always like to come to this youth club is because when we get to make our own food, we always have these discussions about like the world like and about um God and Jesus. And also we also talk about social media and yeah, stuff like that. I’m Aldridge and every single Monday we at 3 to 5 5:30 we come here at Hope. I like coming here because we have different sess sessions and we play different games and we say thanks to God and say grace for food and have a nice time here. Play different games uh play also football, play tennis, everything and give big hugs to everyone here. Hi, my name is Rachel. Hi, my name is Angel and these are the reasons why we like Meadows Youth Club. We like Meadows Youth Club because every time we come in, there’s arts and crafts on the table and there’s a big tennis table and we get to play on it every week. I love Meadows Youth Club because we get to make our own food and we get to go outside and play football and we get to play games and it’s really fun. I’d like to say thank you to all the people who donate for us to have all these amazing equipment. Bye. Thank you for giving money to Youth for Christ. So, hello and welcome back. I’m still rocking this mushroom hat as you can see. Um, we are gonna go down to Hannah in the studio and she is gonna speak to some of the people who are cycling on the bikes. So, let’s go to Hannah. Hello. So, I thought I’ll just get on the bike myself. Um, so if I sound breathy during this, that is why. Um, but I thought let’s host from the bike. Let’s see. Let’s have a nice time. Um, I said howdy to everyone when I got down here because uh I am now cowboy hammer. Um, so Beth, how are you getting on? And you’ve like had some feedback, some messages from people as well, haven’t you? Yeah. So, I’ve been sat on this bike. I’ve been on for nearly an hour now. Wow. Feeling it. Um, yes. And I thought I’ll just send some last minute messages out to some people I know. So, I’ll put it on a on a kind of Christian group that I I’m part of. And this guy’s just said, “Oh, I’ve just donated. I actually got saved at a youth of Christ Singapore camp in 1989. So, how good is that? Praise God. That’s the same ministry in Singapore. So, uh hallelujah. That’s great. God is at work. And this guy’s um currently he’s he’s got a really sick teenage daughter as well who we’ve all been praying for. And uh God’s going to do a miracle there. But hallelujah. There you go. That’s awesome. So, how are you? So, you said you’ve been on here for nearly an hour. How are you feeling? How are the legs doing? Feel a little bit shaky. I might need some chocolate in a minute. I’m reeling from Easter. I’ve got the sort of chocolate shakes, but I’m all right. Yes. I’ve told my supporters, my sponsors, I’m going to do 50 miles. Okay. Come rain or shine. I’ve not done that many. I think I’m on at about 12. Not even 12, actually. I’m going to do it though. Yes. Please sponsor us. Please, a breathy please. Um, but yeah, we are so so grateful for everything that you have uh donated so far. Oh, I’ve just done like eventually like 1.2K. Um, but anyway, we’re having a nice time. We’re going to get to Disney. We’re not actually there in Disney, which is sad, but we are going to get there. And we are so grateful for everything that you have given so far. Reminder, if you want to give over the phone, 0121502-9620 or you can go to yfc.co.uk/donate. I’m going to let Paul get back on the bike and we’re going to watch a little video now from Cambridge youth for Christ and then we’re going to be chatting to them afterwards. So, let’s go over to them. Right. At Cambridge and District Youth for Christ, we want to offer every young person in Cambridge and the surrounding areas a pathway to fullness of life in Jesus. We know that there is a crisis in young people’s mental health and wellbeing. Every week we meet young people who are lonely, who are anxious, overwhelmed, or simply searching for something more. Our openhouse project aims to create safe spaces for young people, promoting positive well-being, building healthy relationships, and sharing the love of Jesus. Our mentoring program currently runs in two secondary schools. Staff from Youth for Christ alongside volunteers from local churches spend time getting to know young people, listening to their struggles, and helping them to make positive life choices. I remember when we started the program, young people were still recovering from the pandemic. There was a girl that came to one of our early sessions and she wouldn’t take off her face mask and she’d barely make eye contact with anyone. Fast forward to today and she’s completely changed. Uh she’s so confident in her school and she’s the life and soul of any room she finds herself in. On a Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, we open up number 40 to a drop in after school. Young people can come along, hang out with their friends or meet new ones. Got card games, Nintendo Switch, there’s table football, coloring, and we always have free toast and squash. There was a young girl who came along one week when it was fairly quiet. And then a week or so later, she came back again and it was a lot busier and there were other people from her school here, so she went to leave. But we were able to chat to her and get her to stay and play a card game with some people that she hadn’t met before. but she enjoyed herself and has come back many times since. We have also been running well-being workshops uh that help young people in growing in their self-confidence, building community and learning new life skills. Some of our young people have really enjoyed the but better bakery this term. It’s a baking workshop where we take iconic snacks and we say, “Can we make these at home but better?” Our boys have really enjoyed coming along doing some baking. At first there was hesitation from them like baking wasn’t really for them is what they said but they’ve been coming along and they’ve really grown in confidence not only in their relationships with one another but also in their baking ability. It’s been great to see them thrive. So Cambridge You for Christ. Hello. Big hello to you guys. Hey guys. Howdy. Howdy. Howdy partner. If you don’t know what’s going on, it is uh something from our spin the wheel section. So, this this hour is silly hat hour. Absolutely. It looks fantastic. I know. Which hat’s your favorite? Oh, I quite like the mushroom. I’m going to be honest. The mushroom is the mushroom is really good. And this is Ellie’s mushroom hat. It is a child’s hat. You are rocking it. Well, hey to Cambridge. Hey to Cambridge. Hello. Hello. Um, so we are going to get to the fundraiser in just a little bit, but first off, tell us a little bit about who you are, who are you, what do you do? We would love to hear that. Yeah, fab. Thank you. So, we are Cambridge District Youth for Christ. My name is Mark. I’m the director of ministry here. This is Lauren. She is one of our catalyst youth workers. Um, and alongside uh the kind of national vision of being all about seeing young people’s lives changed by Jesus, we in Cambridge are seeking to offer every young person in Cambridge and the whole surrounding areas um pathways to fullness of life in Jesus. So really um what we’re seeking to do is is help young people and think about young people that maybe have no connection to church. How can we meet their practical needs, build relationship, have an impact in their life, but then also journey with them so that there is a pathway for them to come to know Jesus themselves and be in a local discipling community. So on the video that you’ve just seen, there’s some of the way that we do that in our local um center here and in our central space. But alongside that, uh we work in everything we do is partnership with local churches. Um and so our catalyst project helps to employ people in local churches and through local churches um to do some of that youth work on the ground of which Lauren is one of them who works in St. N which claimed as part of our patch. So do you want to tell us a bit about the work in St. N? Yes. So in St. Niet we one with an amazing bunch of volunteers that have come on board to do various projects that also aim to give pathways to young people to have fullness of life in Jesus. So the ways in which we do that in Sydney is through schools work. So we go in do mentoring. So we come alongside young people that just need that someone who’s not a parent, not a teacher, but someone that they can share what’s going on in their life. Maybe set some targets and goals, things that might be like barriers to their learning or we can help coach them and bring them along. And then also we then as well as that we’ll do workshops in schools and lunch like um lunch clubs things like that. Uh and then after school we do youth cafes which are really really uh up to 60 young people at one of our youth cafes which is bursting at the seams. loads of volunteers are really getting on board to come alongside young people, really support them uh and give them opportunities to ask the big questions of life. Why am I here? Is God real? And it’s an amazing opportunity to just yeah feed them seeds of truth into them uh that just help them learn about God. Some of the stuff that we do. Amazing. And what would you say is your favorite thing about your ministry? Maybe I’d love to hear from both of you like Yeah. What gets you out of bed in the morning? What is it? This is apart from coffee or a mantra. What is it? What’s your favorite thing? What is it? Do you want to go first or should I go? I’ve got an idea. Go for it. Okay. Right. So for me, um the biggest kind of amazing thing for me is that we’re coming alongside some really broken young people in St. N. So their families are very fragmented. Uh we’ve got many young people we’re working with that have actually lost a parent. So we’ve got uh we’re aware of 20 that we’re connected with that have lost parent or a sibling. So they’re facing real deep bereavement and we’re just being able to be there and support them and and love them. Uh and uh yeah, we’re just a safe space to be able to yeah connect with them uh when things life feels overwhelming and too much. Wow. And I think for me it’s hearing the um stories of change whether big or small. So we recently had an email from one of the schools that we work in and we have a mentoring program in that school and we launched there just before Christmas and uh the key teacher contact there emailed us just saying how grateful they and the whole school were for the work that we’ve been doing and one particular lad who we have um been working with during that time and saying how much his teachers and others in school had noticed the difference in him in his engagement in classes but also his ability to manage his own anger and his own behavior. behavior um and being able to kind of know when he needs a timeout and being able to take that. So those kind of you know coping strategies that are enabling him to engage to the stuff that we see like we we run an annual residential called Fort Rocky um where in February we saw four young people give their lives to Jesus for the first time. Amazing the things that get me out of bed. That is excellent. That is so so so good. Thank you so much for sharing your heart. Yeah. Always something to celebrate. Young people come and say Jesus that’s what we’re all about isn’t it? So that is yeah amazing. Absolutely. Um so we are going to watch a little video uh from a young person uh that you guys uh maybe engage with. So we would love to see that video now and then we’ll come back to you and hear a bit more about the fundraiser about what you guys are up to. So let’s take a look at that video now. Yeah. Um would you mind telling us some of the challenges that you faced growing up? Um I’ve like struggled with like family relationships with my dad and stuff. That’s just been really hard. Anxiety, I think. Where have you felt anxious the most? At school? Yeah. Out in public. What were your concepts about God or faith? I knew, but I didn’t pray anything. I just knew. Were you already Christians, do you think? Okay. So, tell me about that then. Uh, I was at New and then I started like Jake, oh you fleer started praying for me and then I started crying and then yeah in a good way. Yeah. He didn’t have really bad breath. Um I remember that moment very well. What about you Alice? Um I started coming you and then I met you and you started talking to me about it. Yeah. Do you remember when you became a Christian? No. I think it was after I was one time. Yeah, I think so. And has life changed much since becoming a Christian? And in what way? I feel like things have just got better and like I know that there’s someone out there that like I can speak to or pray to whenever like I feel like I have no one. But you Yeah. Things have got a lot calmer like I know. Yeah. I just feel a lot more like calmed down I did before. Okay. And tell me about when you um were walking to school with someone. Do you remember the time? Yeah. Um I had a friend and he said he knew he knew about God and then we started praying for him and then he became Christian. Cool. That’s so cool. And um it’s been and it’s cool also that you both your sister and your brother have started coming to church and became Christians too. You got any hopes and dreams for your family? I just like hope that my little brother doesn’t like struggle with the same things that I have. I hope that he can like talk to me about it and he should know that. Yeah, you’re both amazing and we’re really proud of you. Great. Welcome back. You guys still with us? We are. Yes. Amazing. Uh it’s always so great, isn’t it, to hear like actual stories from young people of like how things have impacted their lives. That is always amazing. Um I love that Bellis has changed her hand. Yes. No context. She’s just changed it. She’s rolling with it. Maybe she’ll change it again in the hour. I’ll probably I might become pirate Hannah soon. There is a pirate hat. Um, so we would love to chat to you guys and spend a bit of time talking about your fundraiser. Um, so you guys are doing something as part of uh our fundraiser. Now you guys are doing your own fundraiser. Let us know what you are doing first and foremost. I was purposely not saying it so that you can do the big reveal. Well done. We are doing something that we like to call the Cambridge Inequality Triathlon. Um Cambridge is statistically the most unequal city in terms of the divide between rich and poor in the whole of the UK. Um so we are today we’re going to do a seven and a half mile walk um followed by a three mile punt. Um I saw some of the live stream in the other night where I saw Laura trying to explain to John what punting is what punting is. Explain to gondola in Venice. It’s like a boat that you stand on and you’ve got a big pole. You push the pole on the bottom of the rivered to like move you along. Hi. Technical. And then we’re jumping. It’s M. We’ll see how wet we get. We might end up in the river. It might become a swim after all. Who know? Like I think like £10 for every time you guys fall in. Great. That’s me personally from Okay. people donating. I’m taking more money. How deep is the river though? Is this health and safety? Head first into the river. Deeper than us. It’s deeper than us. But at the end of that, we’re jumping on bikes and we’re doing a 10 mile cycle as well. Yes. I don’t particularly want to do that bit where Yeah. No, that doesn’t sound fun. Yeah, I know. When people do triathlons, they like they just No, the swim’s last, isn’t it? Is the swim l? I don’t know. But there’s definitely some point where they’re like in their swimming costume on the bike. Oh, no. That is just crazy. That is hardcore though. You guys are hardcore. I really hope it goes well. So, when you when you doing this? So, later on today. Well, so um most of our team have already set off about 15 minutes ago. So Lauren and I are going to try and we’re actually going to end up running because we need to catch up with them. So they off the first part of the walk. Um I think we’re checking back in with you guys at about 4:00ish today when we will hopefully having done it and being in one piece still. Yes. Excellent. Lauren has to buy a bike for today. That’s how that’s how committed Lauren is. I am at doing this. So glad I’m up for it. And our center director is terrified of water and has bought a life jacket. So, you know, it’s going to be an interesting day. It’s a proper challenge. Definitely, it is a proper challenge and that is amazing. So, with the the money that you guys raise, what is that kind of going to go towards? Are there some things that you have in mind? What does that money kind of enable you guys to to do? Yeah. Well, we we would love to expand the work that we’re doing here. We have this um vision within our openhouse ministry of what does it look like to have um hubs where kind of every part of this well-being pathway we’ve been talking about mentoring of schools, dropins, workshops, faith exploration, disciplehip stuff can happen in geographical locations around the city with churches partnering together. Um so basically we we would love to expand that work to be able to invest more into working alongside partnering with churches to set up mentoring programs, dropin spaces, faith exploration in different parts of the city. Amazing. It’s all about partnership. It’s all about getting together with people and just, you know, doing the work together, which is amazing. We are Yeah. just in awe of the work that all our centers do like across uh the nation as well and how much on the ground hands-on work that they do. Um, anything final you guys want to say to us or the people watching and how can people give as well? Oh, uh, well, basically we’re making this a real challenge. So good to like really encourage us, support us to keep going would be absolutely really really helpful for us. So the more money we see coming in, the more we’ll be like, “Yes, we can do this. We can do this.” Obviously, we’re going to do it regardless. Um, but yes. Yeah. And you can find ways to donate. You can go on to our website, cambridge yc.uk. Um, and there’s a donate button in the top right hand corner. Um, and just say to you guys as well, like I mean I I saw both, well, in fact, I’ve been awake a lot of the night because I’ve had really bad toothaches. So, I saw you guys start your shift at 6:00 a.m. this morning. Um, so you guys are doing a great job. Thank you so much. Happier than you than you, you know, now now you look more awake and more caffeinated. So, well, the hat is the hats, isn’t it? I’m feeling ready for another cup. I know. Maybe another cup of tea. We’ll see. We hope that your tooth fake gets better as well. That’s not fun. And details are on the screen as well of how people uh can donate to the work that you guys are doing. So, that’s on the screen as well for people. Thank you guys so so much. I think we will let you guys go. We will say goodbye. Get running quick. Yeah, get running. You got to catch up. Off you go. Goodbye. See you there. See you. Have fun. Yes, we don’t want them in the river. Um, so we are going to move on to a fun little section now which requires audience participation. We love that. A little bit of competition in the morning. I think this is Yeah, we like a bit of competition. Maybe it’ll wake me up again a bit again like engaged. So, has anyone comment along in the chat as well? Has anyone ever watched I think it kind of kickstarted over lockdown. People started doing these marble run videos, right? So, basically what is going to happen and what would happen then is uh some marbles would appear on the screen and you would decide in your head or even write down maybe which marble you think is going to win. So, they all start at the same time and it’s a race and they are gonna marble race. Yeah, marble racing. So, we are going to let you know what the colors of the marbles are and I think we’re gonna we’re gonna do like four rounds. So, you can write down if you want to keep yourself accountable which marble you think is going to win or you can think it in your head if you’re an honest person, an honest vote. Maybe I suggest writing it down. Yeah, write it down. And then you can comment in the chat at the end of the four how many you got right. Or you can comment along with it like got that one right. You got that one right? Let us know. My marble came second. Mine came third. Came last. And we’ll we’ll probably guess one as well. Yeah, I think we should do it. Absolutely. Should we let people know the colors? Yes, we should. So, we have got a green marble. A green. We’ve got a green. My favorite color. Is it? Oh, why? Why green? Have you got it? Like more of like a foresty green. Forest green. One of my walls in my living room is painted that color. I love green. The fire the fireplace chimney grass is green. That’s really really good. We love that. So, we’ve got green, we’ve got pink, we have got white, we have got red, we have got blue, and we have got yellow. But this yellow is like kind of a bit see-through with with a with a stripes on it. Stripey yellow see-through one. I would I would personally pick that one. So, I’m going to go again with the colors. So, we have got green, we have got pink, we have got white, we have got red, we have got blue, and we have got the stripey yellow. What are you going to choose? Um, stripy yellow. I love yellow. I’m going to go red. My football team’s Liverpool. They recently won the league. We’ve got to go red. It’s just got to happen. Okay. Can we roll our first video? Let’s see what happens. Yeah. Wow. I should have gone with my favorite color. You should have. That was pretty intense. That was I didn’t know how it was going to go. Way more intense. I was like, what’s going to happen? Um, so green one. So if you said green, you can have three points. Three points. That’s what general. If you said stripey yellow, stripy yellow, you can have two points. Yeah. If you said red, red, you can have one point. Uh I actually haven’t seen the videos. I haven’t we haven’t seen them. Um so, uh the youth for Christ moderator who’s downstairs as well, Leslie, I think is if you can pop all the colors in the chat just to remind people or if they hop in partway, we will remind people again before the second one. So, let us know if you got any of those right. So it was green for three points, white stripey, yellow for two points, and red got one point. Okay, so the colors for our second one, green, pink, white, red, blue, stripey, yellow, green, pink, white, red, blue, strawby yellow. We can make it into a song. Green, red, blue, strawby yellow. Green, pink, white, red, blue, strawby, yellow. Green, white, red, red, blue, strawberry, yellow, green, pink, white, red, blue, strawberry, yellow. I know you I know you did this. I still can’t remember any of them, but that’s okay. Wasn’t that good? Um, so what are you going to choose this round? Um, I feel like should I pick something different? Although I do love a yellow. Um, I I would go pink. I’m going to go pink. I was going to go pink. Okay, I’m just going to go double I’m going to go red again. Are you? I’m going red again. Double down on it. Okay, let’s roll our second video, please. Let’s go. Okay. Rolling So that is we only had four finishes. I know that is devastating. If you chose green or what was it? White. I know. You chose green or white. Finished. It’s bad news. That’s not good. I knew that I should have struck with the yellow. Stripy yellow was first. Do you remember what was stripey yellow was first? Then red. Was it blue and then red? Yeah. If you chose white stripey yellow, strawberry yellow, thumbs up for you. Yellow, three points. If you chose blue, two, this is going well. If you chose blue, two points. Blue. If you chose red, one point. So, I’m on two points so far. How many are you on? How many am I on? Pink, which didn’t get any points that time. No, but I had yellow the time before, which got two. Okay, so we’re we’re tied. We’re halfway through and we are tied. So intense. Okay. To a reminder of the colors, let’s do it in a song. Green, pink, white, red, blue, yellow. Green, pink, white, red, blue, yellow. Green, pink, white, red, blue, straw, yellow. Pick your marble. Now, reminder, you can pick a different one every race. But once you’ve picked one, that is your marble for the race. You can’t change your mind. Everything is like this now. It’s all turning into a song. It’s turning into a song. What are you going to pick? I’m gonna pick this time. I’m gonna go green. I’m gonna go my favorite color. Green. Green. Green. Green. Green. Green. Green. Green. Green. What are you going to choose? Um maybe I’ll do I mean, is it bad to go stripey yellow again? Just cuz I feel like I’ve got a slight obsession with stripey yellow. Let’s do it. You do. Stripy yellow. Stripy yellow. So, make sure you choose which one you are going to have. The colors are all in the chat. Make sure you’re keeping track of how many points you’ve got as well. Me and B have got two each. Let’s choose your marble now. Roll video. Now rolling. Shriber yellow made it. Yes. Hallelujah. So you’ll have seen me and Bella went a and then she saw that Shriber Yellow was there. Yeah. Did you see the other two? Oh no. Because I was so excited about the yellow. Nothing else. I know it was white and pink, but I don’t know what order they were in. Oh gosh. Wait, it was just Oh, it was just on the screen there. Can someone tell us in the chat? If someone in the chat, please please tell us what was second. We got so enthralled with it that we didn’t stripy yellow just took over. Okay, so if you said stripey yellow, you get three points. That’s you. I’m winning. If I had to guess, I’d say it was white next. Pink up there. I feel like pink might have been Yeah, pink. White and pink were second and third. What order were they? Okay, drum roll please. We don’t know. We’re going to find out though. Um, uh, hang on. Go back about 10 seconds. About 10 seconds. Yellow one. Hang on. I’m scrolling back. Yes. Hang on. Photo finish. I was wrong. Pink then white. Okay. Okay. So, if you said white, stripe a yellow, you get three points. If you said pink, you get two points. Two points, white, one point. So, I got no points there. Did you? Yes. You got three points. I struggle yellow. I need to win this to even get a tie. I know. Okay. So, just to remind you, the colors are green, pink, white, red, blue, stripe, yellow, green, pink, white, red, blue, stripe, yellow, green, pink, white, red, blue, stripe, yellow, green, pink, white, red, blue, stripey yellow. I’m sorry everyone. Things have happened in this hour. Um, okay. Please pick from green, pink, white, red, blue, stripey yellow. Yeah. Uh, this is going to be our final one. So, final opportunity. I’m really enjoying this. I don’t want to finish. We can’t go for the same one as each other. I know. I’m like, do I just Do you walk in there with white stripey yellow? I know. It’s not going to win again. You can’t equal chances every time. I know. But the straw yellow is just the I’m going back to my roots. I’m going back to red. Maybe I’ll do pink. I tend to go between the two. Okay. Please make your choice now. Now. Let’s roll the last video. Let’s go now. Rolling. That was a good one. I can’t believe in what I just saw. What a what is that legal? I know. I don’t even know. We don’t know. That is fantastic. The way it just shot out there, I was thinking I had no chance. All of a sudden, a bam straight in there. Do you know what? You’ve got a calling as a marble race commentator. This is going to be You’re excellent. This is the most bam. It just flew down. But it just it just it just dive into the lead. It just took me by surprise. I didn’t know that it was going to happen. Oh my goodness. What a photo finish, everyone. You never know what’s going to happen in a marble race. We’ve learned that today. this morning together as a community. I’ve won. This is the only thing that I’ve won because right to reveal the results. Pink won with three points. Then it was white yellow. Then it was green. So green gets one point. I should have stopped my guns and gone. You really should. I think then then I got five. I got like eight points. Did you get the winner again? Yeah. Pink. Yeah, pink. Oh my word. I got I got eight points. So I really who? Oh yeah. Can you everyone comment in the chat how many you got as well please? We want to know who was the winner who was watching along online who is victorious. I think it’s me. There’s no prize but there is pride. We will give you a clap now. But if we find out in the chat who it is, we will we will name you. We will give you a round of applause after the next section. Um so please let us know what your score was. We would love to hear from you. What a wild ride. What a fun time. People are loving it. What a fun time. I had I actually had What a fun time. I never knew a marble race could be so fun. I know. It was awesome. Honestly, it was fantastic. Uh so, we are going to head into a little video now. Uh and after that, we’re going to we’re going to clap the winner of Marble Race. But we are going to hear a little replay from uh FaZe Trust who’ve been doing a fundraiser as well. They have been doing 25 hours of crazy golf. So, we’re going to have a little look at how they got on. It’s going to be incredible. The other one’s over there if you want it. Of course. [Music] We are tired. We’re still going if you can get No, I don’t have to look to Okay. It was like Who put that there? Who put that? Not me. I noticed that a couple of hours ago. What did you get for three How on earth is that there? You don’t got a whole new one yet. I feel like the cones move more. So, it’s hard easy. It’s easy for it to go out. I wonder why the cones move more. We could probably reset it to be fair. What are you doing, man? Just put it. I don’t think he was on 10 there. You’ve really given up for this, haven’t you? Oh no, he’s having a shocker. [Music] This is my special. That didn’t work. You’re an absolute marrier. Oh, I’m not filming this. They going to do all this. They do. They want 10 minutes. 10 minutes. 10 minutes or what? You got loads. You want me to do it proper? You want me to start again? She’s sick. What? They want it volume as well. I think so. You might want to turn the volume off this. We’re just slighting j for having a shocker. 10 minutes. 10 minutes. They specifically asked for Wow. Jonathan. Definitely can’t use this. Yeah, this is terrible. Let’s go back to the No, no. Just start from there. It doesn’t matter where you start. It’s 5 minutes in. We’ll just cut it from there. It takes about 10 minutes to do the Go. Hey guys, it’s us again. We’re very tired now. We’re running low on energy, but we’re still going. I think we are 10 and a half hours in. J’s halfway through one of his rounds, so I’m going to let you watch him do a bit of golf now. So, enjoy. No pressure, Jel. This seems to be the best. Fresh as a daisy. Fresh. Oh gosh. Watch your master at work. Always. Of course. That was actually so close. going in. Do you want me to just stop the video? J, come on. You got this. [Laughter] Just breathe. Should I just pause it? Come on. Pause it for what? No, it’s got to be real. This is reality. Don’t say anything. [Music] Big man. Big thing. Big man. [Applause] It’s okay. [Music] You can see I’m a professional. This will be all in one as well. Promise you fans. All in one. All in one. Are we classing it? It’s on the green. It is on the green. We’ll give it. Yeah, we’ll give it. Yeah, we’ll give it. Yeah. That’s an interesting way to go. Do you always go through the middle? I think is the hardest. Use hole in the or could you get this in three? Yeah, I could, but not there. Hauling one coming up ladies and g [Laughter] take two. Take two. Yeah. [Music] Holy one come out ladies and goly one ladies and g [Laughter] absolutely terrible [Music] hands in the air just don’t Yeah, I think I’m going to go this way. Oh. Oh. Oh, he got stuck. Oh. Okay. If this guy tail gets [Music] not reverse. Oh, set this up. All right, just sorry. Where is it? The legs. Do the legs. Hope it’s not touching. Hold up, buddy. On the 18. there. You got this. Come on. Where’s the course? He’s in bed. [Laughter] What’s going on there? Get that in now. [Music] Yeah. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Youth for Christ and the Bible Society working together uh in partnership to I guess reimagine what it might look like to have a Bible for young people that’s u really easy to use but equally really easy for unchurched young people to pick up um really encourages young people to share faith with their friends as uh and it be a Bible that they feel isn’t intimidating or outdated, but something that is easy for them to navigate and that they want to engage with and pick up as well. As a Christian, I believe that it’s actually not only important to read the Bible, but to be able to share it. What we talked about a lot is like making it more engaging. So, bits where you can write notes and questions about the passage you read. We’re thinking of adding more color and having a chapter page with like a summary of the book and we’re adding maybe some drawings and some other bits and bobs. It’s been a really enjoyable process to work on a Bible that’s so creative. I think that lots of young people um don’t pick up a Bible because they think it’s boring. Um, I’ve seen my role as graphic designer really to to bring this book to life, to make it as interactive and as accessible as possible for young people. We’ve had loads of great creative ideas floating around and so it’s been um a real challenge, but also lots of fun to bring all those ideas together and come up with this end product that we think will um really reach young people. So far, talked very generally about what they think of the Bible and their habits. But now we’re kind of going through the actual content of the Bible itself, seeing bits they do like, bits they don’t like, and show us, I guess, what they find helpful and what will help them engage more. We’ve asked the young people to be here because of who they are. So our hope is that the more honest they are, the more helpful we can be to helping them engage with the Bible in a new way. It’s so important to ask young people what is helpful to them. Um, they have their own ideas, thoughts, opinions, and they’ve actually already come up with some really interesting ideas. So yeah, it’s great. I am just so excited about You for Christ involvement in the Good News Bible Project because the Bible changes lives, doesn’t it? It’s God’s message to young people. And so many young people today are biblically illiterate and we’ve just got to change that narrative. We need young people to be engaged with scripture in a way that just brings life to them and that they get it and they want to immerse themselves in it. We had a young girl on our Gapia project who actually didn’t even know who Moses was. We got to change that because this is God’s word and God’s word changes lives and we need to get his word out to as many young people as possible. And that’s why I’m excited that we’re involved in this. Do you volunteer or work with young people? Yes. Well, you aren’t going to want to miss what we want to tell you about. Starting at just £40 with our early bird tickets, we want to invite you to our weekend we love youth workers. It’s a weekend event designed to inspire you, equip you, and refresh you. Taking place at Whitemore Lakes in Lichfield from the 5th to the 7th of September. There’ll be main gatherings with inspiring talks and worship, seminars to equip you and build up your knowhow, activities and times of retreat to unwind, a goodie bag on arrival, and an evening to celebrate you and the amazing work that you do. This is just some of what is in store. Interested? Well, grab your early bird ticket now and we can’t wait to see you. As a church, we’ve planned this summer to use one of the Bible reading plans at the front as the basis for our summer series. [Music] Hello. Hello. Welcome back. Welcome back. So Hannah, how you holding up? How you feeling? I’m okay. Yeah. All right. Bright eyes. I’m ready, I think, for second breakfast. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I’m ready for a bit more food. But we want to give people a quick uh fund update. So there’s no uh there’s no spin the wheel this hour. Shock horror, but we are still going to give you a quick fund update. So let’s let them know. We are. Okay. So drum roll, please. We are on £7,057. Wow. Thank you so so so much to everyone who has donated uh to You for Christ. We really appreciate everything that you have done. Um for those who want to donate, just to let you know that you can you can call our number on 01215029620 or you can give at www.wyfc.co.uk/donate. I like doing that. I know it feels quite just uh Yeah. And the guys uh doing Dudley to Disney are still pedling away. I think we got a little a little shot of them going for it. Yes, they are doing amazingly. There’s two of them. Oh, Michelle’s just got off. It’s all right. I’m sure she’s been doing loads. I’m sure she’s been she’s yawning. Okay, she’s yawning because she’s tired. She has been cycling away. She has been going for it. And that is why she’s yawning. That is raw footage. That’s what it’s like. We like the rawness. That is real life people. Real life. People are tired. Excellent. Um so what we are going to run into next is uh last night if you were watching you will have seen that we recorded a youth updates podcast. So uh myself and Beth who uh also works at Youth for Christ uh we record a monthly podcast called Youth Updates which is all it explains it in the podcast but it’s all about the baseline is helping people keep people in the know when it comes to youth culture. Uh and we uh have never done this before but we did a video we did a live youth update last night. It was about 11 p.m. till half 11. Um, and we are going to replay that for you now because it’s it was really fun to do and we think it’ll be nice for you guys to see it again. So, let’s roll youth updates. Hello and welcome to a very special youth updates podcast. And it is special because normally when we do a podcast, well, we are doing it in the Youth for Christ head office. But right now, we are 7 hours in. It is 11:00 p.m. into a 30hour live stream fundraiser. So, we’ve got two batches of people who are going to be tuning in. First off, we’ve got some people who are watching us as we are recording this. Yes. And then for others of you, you’re listening to this in our future and you’re listening to us on the podcast route on Apple Music or Spotify. Uh so, we are delighted. Podcast time travel. Podcast time travel. Oh, I like that. Um and so, yeah. So you guys are with us for a very very special episode. H but before we go any further, in case you don’t know us, you don’t know our faces or our voices, we’re just going to introduce ourselves. Yeah, me first. Great. So my name is Hannah. So the Brummy voice that you can hear, that’s what I quite often say. Uh so I work uh for Youth for Christ as Beth does as well in the innovation department. Uh get to do a lot of writing. I get to uh create Rock Solid as a resource. Get to do loads of different bits. But that’s just a little bit about me. Yeah. And my name is Bethan. As Hannah said, we both work for Youth for Christ. We’re in the same team. Uh I am not from the Midlands originally, which you might sense. Uh but she’s slightly northern twinge to my voice, but she’d like people very much to know that she is not from and the place has just completely gone out my head. What’s the big town nearby where you from? Newcastle. She normally like people to know you are not from Newcastle. It’s somewhere different. Well, yeah. I mean, to be fair, I’m a bit of a mut cuz I grew up in York. I’m born in Yorkshire, moved to somewhere south of the Tine, then lived north of the Tine, but I would definitely pitch myself as northern. So that’s that’s, you know, safely where I’m into. I’m a Midlands girl. Midlands gal through and through. But yeah, we’re also aware that there may be people who are listening to us for the first time or watching and not knowing that this is a thing. So what is Youth Updates? Why do we do this thing with these microphones in our faces? Yeah. And we’ve been doing it for a few years now each month, which we absolutely love. So, we uh release a podcast episode uh once a month and youth updates is all about keeping people in the know when it comes to youth culture. So, just helping people uh to know maybe what is going on. Uh we love to chat about different topics uh and just to kind of connect with people and maybe let people know who might not know a lot. Maybe uh you’re a parent or a youth worker or maybe not at all and you just don’t really know what’s going on with your You just have a heart for young people. Yeah. It’s for people with a varied uh mix of knowledge as well and we don’t pretend to be experts but we uh just try and have a chat and have a nice time uh each month. We do have a nice time. I like to think we have a nice time and sometimes we bring people on as well. We have some guests. It’s not just our voices as well. We keep watching listening because there may be some guests at the end. Uh but we uh usually cover three different topics and then we do what we say what we say is our world famous word of the month. World famous. So we do that near the end. This podcast episode is going to be structured a little bit differently. We’re going to do two topics uh and then a little bit of an extended word of the month. So, if that has piqu your interest and I hope it has along with us. Uh but yeah, before we jump into our main uh sort of discussions, our main podcast, we did say that we are 7 hours into a 30hour live stream fundraiser. Now, we’re not just doing this because we all fancy being sleepd deprived for a little bit. Uh but we are raising funds for Youth for Christ so that we can help equip churches and youth workers to do youth work so we can see young people’s lives transformed by Jesus. So if you are watching right now or if you are listening to this right now in the future from when we are recording this then you can donate by heading to yfc.co.uk/donate and you can give there as well towards the cause and be part of the bigger picture. Excellent. So should we jump into it? Let’s go for it. Great. So, our first topic is a pop culture topic. Uh, and I’ve been doing a little bit of research, Beth, around Minecraft. Now, now that sounds like something that needs a lot of research. Yeah. Have you ever played it? I have. I have lightly dabbled is what I would call it. Um, but the reason why we are talking about this now because this game has been out for a very long time. It’s actually released in Do you want to guess the year? Two 2011. Bang on. You know your video game release dates. Uh so the game was Yeah. So the game was actually released in 2011. Um which means that probably a lot of teens, young adults, people our age kind of grew up with it as well. Um however, a new movie has been released. So called a Minecraft movie. Uh and that is what has been released. But if you don’t know what this is at all, I’ll explain a little bit of what Minecraft the game is first. So Minecraft is a sandbox-based game. Um, and it’s people explore a 3D world. And what that means is the emphasis is more on kind of like free play, roaming around, building things. It’s quite creative, isn’t it? Exploring rather than kind of like set missions or a story line kind of things. Yeah, it’s not levels. I prefer a story based game, but this is what it is. Obviously, lots of people love it because uh it has somewhere around kind of 300 million game sales. It’s uh the bestselling video game of all time to be fair. That doesn’t surprise me. I think because it’s such a it’s such a catch all thing, isn’t it? It’s like lots of people can, you know, cuz it doesn’t have the levels aspect to it. It’s almost like you can’t fail. It’s just something that you can enjoy. Um so it’s aged pretty well over the years and kind of has a large like community of people who just love to play it. You can also play in like large groups of of people as well which I think really helps. Going to say you know what stands out you know how you say like it’s aged really well and I think you know we just said oh it was launched in 2011 but when I think my godson was born a couple of years after that yet it’s his like number one game. Yeah. His like number one game. And he was born after it was even released. So in terms of his lifespan it’s older. It’s, you know, it’s been around longer than he’s been alive, but it is the main game that he is all about. Yeah. It just seems to be a bit of a kind of equalizer, like people can play it regardless of ability or age or anything like that really. Um, but as we said, now in 2025, why are we talking about this again? Because there is a new movie out. Because you love it. Because I love it. Uh, called a Minecraft movie and it is the highest grossing film of 2025 so far. That’s pretty solid. Yeah. So, the movie has been doing well as well as the game. Um, it has made5.7 million pounds across the UK and Ireland. So, the movie kind of sees like four kind of misfits who are pulled through a mysterious portal into the overworld, which is the place where players begin in Minecraft the game, if that makes sense. And I think the key thing about this and how it links to kind of youth culture, um, obviously gaming is very much ingrained in youth culture, but this movie has then brought young people to the cinema where it might be a place where, you know, a lot of young people maybe don’t go. They watch a lot of streaming services online instead, which don’t we all really? I probably go to the cinema less than I used to, but actually it’s brought a lot of young people back along to the cinema and they are watching this movie together. Um there’s been a few kind of little controversial bits about it. You might have you might have seen some newspaper articles and you guys on social media as well like and you guys as listeners and viewers might have uh picked up on this as well but a little bit of negative attention because of uh maybe some of the behavior happening in the cinema as people are watching it. Chicken jockey. Yes. Very. Would you like to do you know what the chicken jockey? Yeah. Go on. You do it. You do Well, so I think with the film like there so the basically on social media and with the game there’s been a whole bunch of memes to do with Minecraft and one of the popular ones has been to do with chicken jockey which basically in the film there’s a baby zombie who sits on top of a chicken and they say chicken jockey and then it’s become like this like cue especially in America seems where a lot of the clips coming from for people to kind of go crazy. It’s kind of like a celebration of like oh my gosh there’s memes in the film and people have been like throwing popcorn everywhere. I mean, one video even had a guy who actually brought a live chicken into the cinema to just reveal it at the right moment for the chicken jockey. I saw that. Um, so yes, there’s been a few, but there’s also like um Lava Chicken as well. That’s been like a a moment in the film as well. And he sings a song about Lava Chicken and like everyone’s been like, “Oh my gosh.” Like because it’s one of the memes that they’ve associated with the game. So yeah. And it’s cuz it’s a it’s because it’s a rare thing that happens in the game as well. There’s like a few things that have to be fulfilled in order for like chicken jockey to like It’s quite a rare thing. So then when they mention it in the movie, it’s like a big a big kind of thing that’s happening. Um but yeah, so obviously that has brought young people uh along to the cinema that’s been expanding into other areas of culture as well, which often happens with these kind of big movie releases. They don’t just do that, they’ll release toys and games and all of this kind of stuff. So one of the things we’ve seen is McDonald’s. Yes, the McDonald’s. What they’ve done recently is not just it’s not just gone into the happy meal sector. They’ve also done an adult Minecraft meal. Yes, I’ve seen those. So like I guess you could think about that as like for teenagers as well. And you get the toy too. Yeah. Like adults and teenagers still want a McDonald’s, but you want nine nuggets, not four. Yeah, absolutely. That’s the whole vibe of it. Uh so yeah, so it’s expanding into that area as well. And just you’ll see I think with these kind of things when there are big film releases or things like this where they’re quite popular across you know you would think it’s a bit of a niche area but it still seems to have just really resonated with that area of people. So it’s kind of gone across culture as well and it’s in meals and and there’s little games and all of that kind of stuff really. So so yeah keep your eye out. Maybe you want to go and see it in the cinema now maybe you don’t. But it’s just something to chat about with young people as well. Do you know what I think is interesting about all of this as well is as I said came out in 2011. So some of the people who were like teenagers or young people when it first came out and like some of the first adopters of this are now no longer teenagers because it’s 14 years on. So someone who was 14 when it came out is now 28. But what is you but what is interesting about this as well is often what you see in youth culture is a pattern of uh when adults get a hold of something that young people have really enjoyed young people ditch it but we don’t seem to have seen that with this because there are a lot of adults who are streamers in Minecraft and other things but teenagers are still using it and so are kids as well so you see like Minecraft Lego and so it feels like it’s become this like thing that spans generations as well as being something that young people invested into and they don’t seem to have dropped it just because people in their 20ies are playing it. Yeah. So that’s really interesting. I see what you mean. Yeah. Absolutely. So yeah, that’s our first topic that we’re going to look at. Do you want to intro our next topic? Yes, I will. So uh this is to do with faith and spirituality. So this is less pop culture based uh less to do with McDonald’s. Um but there’s been some rumblings of news recently uh which has been making its way out there that this generation of young people so Gen Zed and then also Gen Alpha under them h are more open to faith, open to spirituality, open to Christianity. Um so in our youth groups now we’ve kind of got a split. We’ve got some Gen Alphas and some Gen Zed. We’re kind of in that transitioning period between the two. Um but there are sort of you know word is getting out there. It’s like this generation they’re more open open to things. Uh, but rather than just that being a vague statement, I thought it’d be good for us to kind of put some meat on the bones. Let’s look at some different stats and kind of what we’ve seen as well um from our experience in this kind of area. Um, so I have got my notes in front of me because it’s 11 p.m. and I can’t remember all the figures, but um, but some of this stuff is really really interesting. So um in January there was a survey of 10,000 people which was conducted by one poll and they found that Gen Zed are half as likely to be atheists as their parents or grandparents and revealed that just 13% of under 25s identified as atheists. Interesting. Um so it’s interesting that sort of they’re less likely than other people in their family above them to to be atheists which is interesting. Um and interesting when we think of other reports that sort of talk about inherited faith and other things. which I think is really interesting. Um, and also it wasn’t that long ago that uh my dad for like forwarded me a newspaper article from the times. He actually then sent it to me in the post because those are the times my dad’s living in. It was very sweet and he sent to me I think because there was a picture of a Bible that Youth for Christ had worked on in the article and but basically this article and it was in the Times so this isn’t a Christian media outlet this is mainstream media um was reporting that Bible sales had increased by 87% between 2019 and 2024. um which if a main news outlet is picking up on that that is significant and I think the interesting thing there is the increase is pre the the thing we like not to talk about the pandemic and post as well. Um and we’ll notice that some of these stats are kind of pre and post really. Um so for example as well um church attendance has been said to have risen by 50% over the last six years. um which for many kind of goes against that commonly held thing that there the church is in decline but that doesn’t seem to be what we are seeing um and the Bible society um did some research and sort of conducted by yuggov so the government sort of part of research um called quiet revival and in it they surveyed 13,000 um people and found that over 2 million more people are now going to church than in 2018. So again, we’ve got that pre2020 and post, but 2 million more people. Um, and whereas once upon a time, particularly the 18 to 34s, obviously just higher than teenagers, but it gives us an idea of where things are going. So 18 to 34s was very much the considered like the missing generation in church kind of. It was like the dead zone. It was and I remember as a teenager hearing people say like, oh, like we need more young adults in the church. Like there’s a gap. Um, and that doesn’t seem to be so much the case cuz they’ve said that 33% of all churchgoers now are between 18 and 34. So one in three are in what was once considered this missing gap in church. But I think the impact there for youth ministry is whereas once maybe there weren’t um spaces and places for young people to step into once they aged out of youth ministry. I think that now there is more of that example there is what that would lead to say. Um but also going back to figures pre um 2020 in 2018 4% of 18 to 24 year olds were churchgoers monthly but now it’s 16% that’s quadrupled so essentially what we are seeing is that there is this increase in people wanting Bibles in people going to church um and this is really encouraging and I think for years there was very much this oh my goodness church attendance is going down in general across the country um And you know, this is just my personal opinion, but I do wonder whether perhaps what we’ve seen is more a decline of um sort of cultural Christianity where it feels like a cultural obligation that you go to church because just that’s what people in your village or town do. But what we are seeing is that actually the people are actively choosing to go because they genuinely want to find out more rather than it’s just the thing that you do if that makes sense. So I wonder if that’s also where we’ve we’ve seen a little bit of a tradeoff. Yeah. Yeah. Um but yeah, I don’t know if you’ve got any thoughts about that before I kind of just Yeah, just when kind of you near the start and talking about the less people kind of identifying as as atheists. I think you we’re seeing more people step out of of that area and more into maybe like the the gray area, the the like I’m I’m thinking about things and I’m and I’m open like so I think that just speaks to us as as Christians of just the importance of just making sure that we are like talking about it about God and our faith and not being like an embarrassing thing like yeah I’m a Christian and like and I think also just trying to teach that and impart that to our young people as well cuz they can amazing evangelists and tell their friends as well because I, you know, from our experience cuz we do a lot of hands-on youth work, we often find that we can talk to young people about our faith and about Jesus, but the most powerful thing is when young people talk to young people and when they talk to each other. Um, so I think it’s interesting in all this to just really encourage our young people that now is a time to go for it, to be a bit more bold, to talk to people, to Yeah. be open about your faith and it will still be hard. It will absolutely still be hard and there will still be some people who are just completely not interested. Um but yeah, just that I guess try and build an excitement in them for this time. And I think you’ve segueed nicely into kind of where I wanted to land some thoughts as well in that um so myself and yourself, we were both at um an event called Spring Harvest recently where we sort of um were in a venue full of 540 odd sort of 11 to 16 year olds. Um and I think what I noticed there was and many of these guys had been to church, they were churched. Um but essentially what we saw from night one is that they were in they were sort of up for worship. They were up for the talks. They were sort of all in. And sometimes in youth ministry you feel like you have to really work to get people on side. And it didn’t feel so much like that. There was less disengagement that we noticed this year. But also something I noticed is that when we did prayer um ministry in times where we’d pray for young people, there were so many times when young people came up to me and their requests were things like can we pray for my dad together? He’s not a Christian or can we pray for when I go home that I have confidence to share my faith or it was there were quite a lot of outwardlooking sort of evangelistic requests basically in a heart for the young people to share their faith. And so I think we’re not just seeing openness of people who don’t have faith to find out more about faith, but also more of an openness to share. And I think the encouraging thing here is that we did some research as Youth for Christ called Z2 of Spirituality um a couple of years ago or so. And one of the things we found there was that if a young person tells their friend about their faith, about Jesus, about God, that there’s nearly a 50/50 chance of that influencing their friend’s thoughts about God. So it’s actually really encouraging. But I think with all of this, I think probably what is the challenge to churches and to youth workers is if young people and young adults are more open to faith and young people are wanting to tell their friends about faith, are churches ready to accommodate those who are going to want to come in the doors. Yeah. And how ready are they for that? And how like are they prepared? And for young people, I think it’s a challenge. And for young people who may have never set foot in church, may not know anything, may not know the Bible stories that you think young people grow up with, may not know the way that a youth service normally runs, and that at this point you stand up in worship, and at this point you sit there quietly for a talk, like, yeah, definitely being open to young people coming through your doors who are just completely unchurched and not from that world at all. And I think especially as you said people who aren’t from that world at all because you know I just read out a stat that people they’re less likely to be atheists than their parents and their grandparents. So therefore that assumes their parents and grandparents are more likely to be atheists. So therefore they’re not at home having biblical knowledge. So I think definitely so it’s very interesting one to watch the space and I guess uh if you are in a church if you are a youth worker I guess the challenge is are you would you be ready if next week you had five people come through the doors wanting to know more about faith. Yeah. Would you be ready for it? Yeah. Uh so I’ve been glancing around the space for our next section uh because I think we uh need a couple of guests and maybe one of them isn’t in the room at the moment. Um, so I will just kind of preempt that uh so we can uh spend a bit of time explaining what the next section is uh to give him time to get up here. Uh but we uh normally at this point in our podcast uh finish off our podcast with our world famous word of the month. It is world famous. We have called it world famous but I stand firmly on that assertion. There is nothing that compares. Yeah, that’s probably true. Um, so what we often do, uh, in this section is, uh, me and Beth will like sing a little jingle, uh, and then we’ll describe maybe a word, uh, that is to do with youth culture, and we’ll just kind of give you a bit of a bit of an insight into what that word means. Um, so we’re going to get a couple of guests in. So, if we could grab Laura and Sean, and I will shimmy over a little bit. Yeah. For those of you who are just listening, can’t see anything. We’re just getting down on the sofa with a microphone and it is uh it’s up close and personal, but that’s okay. I’ve got my own sofa and then the three of you are all squished together. I can slay out. Yeah, you can have a lovely time. Um, so what we are going to do, and I need to scroll so that these guys can’t see my screen. Um, but we are going to say uh a few different words that have maybe uh been in the youth culture area uh over the last couple years. So they a lot of words that we have used on our podcast uh in the past in the word of the month. Um I might remember some. Yeah. So some uh may not be used by young people now but kind of have been over the last couple years. Um, and we would like for you to shout out your own name followed straight away by the explanate definition our definition understanding of it. We could could we could be really wrong. Yeah, you totally could. We could, but as in this is but this but this is a competition. So, whoever says their name first and then straight away says the correct one. I feel like my knowledge isn’t equal to my desire to win. I just thought as well, is it worth you sharing your names to people and your voices? Oh, yeah. Just in case that would be good. I got carried away. See you if they’re listening. Yeah. Could you guys kind of got too excited? Yeah, I got really excited about the competition. I do love a competition. So, my name is Laura. I’m joking. I’m joking. My name is Siobhan. Am I Am I telling people about who I am or anything or I just say my name? Yeah. Tell us something fun about yourself. Um, we’re I’m doing a 30-hour live stream with you wonderful people right now. And you love coloring. I love And you love standing on one leg. You always eat fajitas on Thursdays. I know what I’m going to do. Do you fajita Thursdays? You I do and football on a Thursday. Even last night. I I did. I’m not joking. No, I football. I didn’t know. You didn’t tell about the fajitas. Yeah, fajita Thursday. Let me down. Football Thursday. I knew about only thing both of these things take place. Football Thursdays. That’s it. So that’s that’s me. Sean, not Sean. Yeah. Yeah. Not Sean. Who are you? Uh, my name is not Sean. My name is Laura and I really like trees and the tutors. I’m really exciting to spend time with and being outside. Laura’s hobbies are every young person’s dream. Yeah, I’m really Sometimes she crochets. Uh, I’m very poor. I I haven’t got enough complete finisher in me to actually finish a project is the problem. Uh, I like running. I really like shopping. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Probably a bit too much. You’re a good shopper. There’s some facts about me. Oh, that was lovely. Excellent. So, a recap. Yeah. So, a recap of the game. I’m going to say uh a word from youth culture and you then have to shout your own name followed by the definition. So, whoever says their name first then gets to have a go at the definition. But if you like pause, then the other person can jump in. Does that make sense? So, like you can’t go Laura and then have 5 seconds of thinking time. Looking ahead at what you’ve written. Yeah. I’m not going to look at your screen. I promise I’m going to cheat. I’m not I’m not into cheating. How many do you think will know or I will know specifically? Um, at least at least half. Okay. At least a couple. Three, I think. Three out of pardon. What? Three. I think she’ll know three. I think she’ll know three. Um, okay. Are we ready? No. No. No. No. We’ve got a jingle to sing. Jingle. We are not ready. I am all over. That’s why I was trying to gesture to you. I was going, do we need the jingle? The part of world famous word of the month is that we sing the word of the month jingle. The word of the month jingle has no rules. It has no structure. It’s it’s excellent. I love rules and structure. I actually do. Um, so we just sing the words. Word of the month. And we just see what comes out of our mouth. Just the once. Yeah. Just You can do it more than once. You can do whatever you want creatively. You can wrap it. You can I’m quite tired, so this could be fun. You can do it oporatic style. We’ve had wraps before. Yeah. We’ve had it to the theme of Star Wars before. Jingle bells. We did jingle bells. Yes, we did for a Christmas. Not just in the middle of summer. Are you going to count us in hand? Okay. Ready? Three, two, one. It’s the word of the month. Word of the month. Until you came in at the end, Sean, I was about to go, it’s Sean solo time. Because you didn’t join. I literally was thinking the same thing. I was like, Sean is glancing in the distance, regretting his life choices. He was probably doing that, too. Okay, Laura, you need to think about your competitive spirits in this moment. I know you can do this. Laura, you can do this. I can do this. You can do this. Hard things. Do you want to give us our first one, Beth? Yeah, I will. The first word is riz. Sean, it’s when you like to ri. It’s like when you like speak to people put the word in the definition. Speak to people in a uh a way. Oh. Oh, I’m not sure we’re giving that. Laura, do you have a better explanation? Is it like a negative way? No. Opposite of that. I thought it was the opposite. Maybe it is. I don’t know. Wow. Neither of you got point. Neither of you got a point. When you thought I knew. Yes. Oh, I’m in a lot of trouble. This is going to go so well. The problem is why I can’t think quick enough to say my name. I’m really tired. What is the definition, Beth? So, it’s short for like It comes from charisma is where it comes from originally. That’s where it comes from. Um, but it means sort of confidence and the ability to sort of attract people and have a bit of charm and a bit of swagger. So, for example, someone who, you know, might attract a lot of the ladies, for example, someone might go the ladies. The ladies, they might go, “They got a lot of RZ.” You might be like, “Harry Star’s got a lot of riz.” Yeah. Yeah, he does, doesn’t he? He probably has ri too much, I think. Maybe. Well, we got off to a weak start. Should we continue? Number two. I don’t think it’s going to get penny either. Number two. And you can say, so there’s the word and then there’s kind of the opposite of the word. So, I’m going to say one and then the other. And you can say either. Okay. I’m just going to say it. Cap slashno cap. Um Sean. Yeah. Uh cap means that you’re lying. Um no cap means that straight up like it’s it’s it’s 100% true. Truth. Correct. Ding ding ding. That was in my brain somewhere. It didn’t come out the mouth though. Yeah. Your face Your face didn’t convey that either. I was buffering. Do you know what I call that? Yeah. Your captain. No, I barely knew it was in there. I didn’t know. No, it was. I just I couldn’t. It’s okay. You’ve got a chance to redeem yourself with the next one. Okay. The next one. I’d be really surprised if neither of you get this. Okay. Okay. Ick. Laura. Oh, me. I enjoyed that short said your name to give you a point. Laura like when they give you the ick like you’re like e like that. Give us some words. Can you like give us an example? Okay. So like Okay. What gives me the ick? I actually hate it. I hate this word. Like if I’m with someone and they are chewing with their mouth open gives me the ick. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. If someone’s obsessed eating fajitas every single Thursday. I’m playing football. pick. Yeah, we’ll give you that. Like a feeling of dis like something that sort of makes you feel like gross. A feeling of disgust. You go on a date with someone and they have cheese socks on and it gives you the ick. You laugh. One of my friends didn’t go on a second date with someone cuz they wore cheese socks and it gave her the in like cheese on them or as in like socks made of cheese. No, like socks cheeseburger cheese molded around their feet. No, they were just such pictures of cheese on which I thought was a really normal thing. I think I would like rate someone higher if me. I think Oh, you’ve got sock choices. You’ve got a sock personality. I sock. I don’t think sock. I don’t think though all the time though that its are like sensical. I think a lot of the time they’re just really random things like, “Oh, that guy has got a ginger cat and it gave me the I feel like it just it’s weird things a lot of the time.” Absolutely. Okay. Are we ready? The next couple are um Oh, dear. more Gen Alpha. And can I just say, Laura, I’ve heard your child say both of the next two. Oh, interesting. I don’t know what they mean. Number four. Are we ready? Yes. Yeah. Sigma. I have no idea. I don’t know. He says it. He says it at things and I nod and then I continue making sandwiches. Neither of you? No. Sigma. It’s from the It’s from a DJ in it. It’s from It’s from um the people on the It’s some from some influenc. It’s from a people doing a thing on a show and it’s funny. That’s also not specific. No, I know cuz I don’t know what it means, but I know what it comes from. The line of Lanking Simba is different. Simba. Sigma. Okay. So, Sigma is it kind of means like success, someone successful, something good, a person who’s a bit of an alpha. My I don’t think you say someone is a he just says it things. Well, this is the thing. It can also be a bit of a filler word. So, if someone says what the sigma, it basically means like what the heck. I think he just shouts it way. It can have multiple I’ve never heard. It can it can get used in Yeah. a multitudinous depending on context. Wow. Multitude. Okay. The next one, perhaps one of my favorites. Skibbidity/kidity toilet. I hate it when he does that. It’s so annoying. He just walks around. He does. He does. What does it mean? Skippy toilet. I don’t. It’s from the people again on the program and they do a thing that he finds funny and he watched it on his iPad and then he says it but he says it when he’s put his shoes on. So I I don’t have contact shoes. No, but he’s successful. He’s done something well. You can’t put shoes when you’re like he just does it whenever random like random coming out just like a like a like a like a tick or like a like Are we giving it that? Um kind of half a point. Half point half a point. basically that there is a vi like a viral video and it’s a head coming out of a toilet and it’s called the Skibbidity toilet. If you go to Smith’s Toy Story store, weirdly they have collectible Skibbidity toilets, but basically it is a bit of a nonsense word and so it’s a filler word and so people will just he or they might be like you’re so skib totally depend on the context. Or be like, oh skipy pizza when there’s pizza on the table. It’s quite it’s just a filler word. I’m noticing with Gen Alpha words that they just can have completely different meanings depending on context, tone of voice. Yeah. Okay, last one. Are we ready? What’s the point situation? We’re on uh one and a half floor or one to Sean. I’m beating you. No, I think I’m on three. No, absolutely not. You did give me one though, so that’s Okay, we’re ready. Number six, coded. Oh my god. Is it like you’ve wor like you’ve worked something out? That’s coding. This was another one I thought you would get. Oh, no. I don’t know it. I’m guessing. No. Um I have no idea. And I feel like a failure right now, guys. Okay. I’m nearly So, would you would you not know if someone was like, “That’s so Sean coded.” No. Say it again. So, I’m like, it’s like about them. Like, it’s their thing. Like, it’s made for them. I’m guessing. I’m just guessing. You can see how that you see how I got there. It’s It’s where it like shares characteristics of the thing you’re describing. Like like your code that makes up. Oh, that’s got similar coding. It’s also kind of very like if someone does something that’s like a bit nostalgic or like ‘ 90ses, you’d be like that’s so 90s coded. Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah. What are we saying? I think that’s another half point for Oh, do I get two? I think overall Laura has nudged in there. I think Laura did. It’s not my fault you didn’t guess. Can I just say just to point out she didn’t say her name before it. I did. I said a thing and then I remembered I hadn’t said my name. So I said my name. Laura you not order in the court. I’m also going to call this based off that earlier today I found out that in Sha’s mind hey he the chicken from Moana and chicken runs are interchangeable which is a crime. So no we’re just giving it to Laura because Laura is victorious. Have we got another one or not? No it judges decision is final and uh we are going to start wrapping up our We are indeed. So, thank you for joining us. Whether it has been during our fundraiser or whether it has been listening to us, h if you would like to continue sort of being a part of the youth updates podcast, then you can find us under British YFC on Apple Music or on Spotify. But also, if you prefer to read rather than listen, then you can read the blog version of our um podcasts on yc.co.uk/ youth updates. But as we have said a couple of times, we are in the middle. We’re not in the middle even not even in the middle. seven hours a third of the way in yet of a 30hour live stream fundraiser. And this is all to get some money to be able just to see young people’s lives changed by Jesus. So do head to yc.co.uk/donate if you would like to give some money if you’re listening to this in sort of you know middle of May. It’s not too late. Please still go there and donate. But thank you for joining us and we look forward to having you with us next time. Bye. Awesome. So, we are going to have Hello and my story has many villains. Shut up, man. Whatever. You make me sick. Nah, man. You’re twisting my words. What? What did you say? Don’t even go there. I can’t even deal with you right now. Can you believe what they did? No. No. No. No. No. This is not happening today. This pain you’ve caused me gets replayed again and again till it fers into a cancerous wound. And when this pain is too much to bear, I continue to feed this infinite loop of bitterness. Yeah, my story has many villains. But what if there’s more to the story? Consider this. What if amongst all these villains I was missing a key component, a key player, me? What if my story was part of a bigger story? A story of hurt people hurting people. Each framing experiences around themselves and pointing fingers to the key perpetrators. Now, I’m by no means devaluing the experiences of others. And in no way am I given license to abuse and hurt. But I’m just saying that there’s another lens to consider viewing this thing through. If everyone else is the villain but you, then for another, you’re the villain in their view. Spoiler alert, we are all the villains looking out for number one at costs paid by those around us. Whether intentional or unintentional, our actions have impact. And even with the best of intentions, we can’t ignore the fact that we are imperfect and flawed. And it’s from these vessels that our actions pour. There’s only one true hero in this story. And guess how we overcame? By dying for us, the villains. What a plot twist. God offered us his forgiveness. When we broke all his commandments, kicked him out, and decided to live life on our own terms. We were spiraling downwards to destruction, but he reached in and pulled us out. When you realize how much you’ve been forgiven and what you’ve been given, it’s a divine paradigm shift that repositions you to operate from a different framework when you’ve been hurt. And while you still may feel the pain and find it hard to forget, the one who understands they’ve been forgiven much forgives much and writes off others debts. [Music] Hello. Welcome back to us live. And we should be joined by Andrew. Andrew, can you hear us? There he is. Andrew. Yes. Yes, I can. Here we are. So, this is great news. This is awesome. This is Bonnie Dundy and we’ve got our flag there and everything. It looks beautiful. It looks so nice. The sun is out, which doesn’t always happen in Scotland. So, you know, cuz you know, you know, very, very fair. Lovely. Uh, so welcome to uh the live stream, Andrew. So, could you uh let us know a little bit? You are from uh Dundee for Christ as we mentioned. Could you let us know a little bit about who you are? What is some of the work that Dundee’s for Christ do? just give us a little intro and snapshot into what you guys do. Yeah. So, we’re just a a small center. I work part-time for the Youth of Christ. Uh but we want to work strategically with particularly with youth workers uh and young leaders. Uh so, we have a course that we do with young leaders. We also gather together with youth workers. Um and then we run uh youthwide uh catalyst events for the area. So, that just gives you a bit of flavor. And then we also run a youth well-being cafe in the local shopping center. So there’s just some of the things. Uh and we’re hoping to run a hub for youth ministry training in the future. So uh we’ve got plans uh that we want to do uh going forward. That sounds amazing. And I guess maybe some of the the funds that you guys raise through the fundraiser can help towards that mission that you guys have as well for that hub and all that. Absolutely. Good stuff. Very good. So tell us a little bit as well. What do you love about uh your ministry? What do you What’s your passion about what you do? What do you What kind of gets We said this early, didn’t we? What kind of gets you up out of bed in the morning? Yeah, tell us a little bit about that. Yeah, absolutely. Well, I mean, seeing young people coming alive in Christ, that’s the that’s the thing that gets me out of bed in the morning. Uh seeing them find their purpose, see seeing them finding the light that’s possible in Christ, that’s what really excites me. Uh but I suppose as as as a man who’s getting on a bit, I also want to see see others raised up that have got a passion for youth and youth ministry. So, I really want to impart to others what I’ve learned, what I’ve experienced, what I’ve received, uh so that others get that. So, yeah, that that’s really my heart. Um, and I just love to see that. I love to love to be involved at the starting point where young people know nothing about Jesus, but also at the point where they’re where they’re thinking about uh being leaders and influencing others. So, yeah. And I really just want to make it make a difference really as much as we can. And Dundee, although this is a beautiful uh city, it’s got a beautiful uh vista we’ve got today. That’s why we chose this spot. It it’s got huge needs. Dundee uh young people desperately need to know about Jesus. And uh so there’s lots to do. Amazing. And it’s all about empowering the next generation, isn’t it? Um, we are uh going to watch a video about Dundy Youth for Christ and about some of the work that you guys do. So, let it let’s see that video now. Hi, I’m Andrew Bennett, center director for Dundy Youth for Christ. We seek to be as strategic as we were only a small center by working with youth workers across the area and working alongside them and supporting them. So we have uh youth workers gatherings. Uh we also work uh with young leaders who are in their last three years of school and we run a course for that. Uh we also run training events and uh catalyst events which are opportunities of youth uh from all across the area to gather together. Uh it gives them an opportunity to learn, to worship together, uh to explore together and to connect together and to be encouraged. We also run a youth well-being cafe in our local uh shopping center which gives an opportunity for young people to just drop in, be listened to, and be able to talk about anything they want to. So that gives you a bit of a flavor of what we’re up to. And some of our leaders are just going to say a bit more of what it means to them to be uh working for Dundy Youth for Christ. Uh I volunteer for Youth for Christ um because uh as Christians we’re told to go out and make disciples of all nations. And for me I know how important youth ministry has been in my life. And so if there’s any way that I can share u my faith and help bring disciples to Christ then I will go for it. And uh what do you enjoy doing uh as as being part of Uh I enjoy like all the different activities, the wide range of things that we’ve done. Uh the kay was a particular favorite. Um and I just love working with such a a great team. Um because we all feel like family and it’s really good fun. And why should we support uh Dund Youth Christ? We should support D youth for Christ because uh this this is a lovely uh city but it it’s lacking Christ and that’s what we need to bring and so if we can encourage the youth um to embolden them in their faith so that they can share with their friends and their family then that’s what we should be doing. So I volunteer for Dundy Youth for Christ as I feel called to serve uh and share the good news of God with the young people in Dundy and Youth for Christ gives me a wonderful opportunity to do that and what do you enjoy about doing that? Um, so I enjoy watching young people uh delve deeper in their relationship with God. And um it’s also amazing when you get to see them give their life to God. So today we’re doing a Haggis hike challenge which is the opportunity to do a 4K, 8K or 12.5K walk, cycle or run uh and raise sponsorship. If you were able to support us that would be amazing so that we can extend our work here in Dundee. Thank you. Amazing. So so good to hear. So Andrew, can you just quickly tell us um what you are doing for your fundraiser? Yeah. So uh today we’re going to walk it’s down 4K or 8K or 12.5K down the front here in Dundee. It’s beautiful weather. The sun is shining. I’ve got a nice group of folks here. Uh and uh they’re gonna they’re gonna going to walk these guys all around here. A there they all are. So good. Hey. And uh and yeah, and then the other thing is they’re going to get a very special haggus. We’ve got some hagguses here. Here we go. Let’s see a haggus. See a hagus. Let’s see the haggles. Oh yeah. See these are hagguses. And uh we got a few of them. Uh and people will be getting them uh for completing the award. And the great thing is we’ve raised over a,000 pounds so far. Everything will be doubled actually for us. So, uh, which is amazing. So, yeah. Amazing. So, so good. Okay. So, next up we have a video of a young person from Dundee for Christ. So, take a look at this and enjoy. I think what YFC has helped me most in with my space is like hearing like all these different talks because we get different people to come and speak to us every time and they always have really great messages like I remember the last YFC that I was at was about how we are like a chosen people um like in two Peter and it was really impactful for me. I also really get a lot out of the time of worship which um I think we all really enjoy. And what have you learned in uh through different events you’ve been along to? Um I think I’ve learned like the most about like the character of God and from like the different talks like we get like different stuff like taken away from it. Um yeah like the last one I was at was about like how we are like a chosen people and I think that that’s like such an important message. I would say the Youth for Christ has helped me um grow in my faith by giving me opportunities to explore the Bible um and also discover parts about me um throughout the sessions that we’ve explored and it’s also provided questions for me to go home and then think about during Bible studies that I do before I go to sleep or in the morning um that have definitely helped me grow in my faith. Youth Christ has given me a place to talk to other young Christians and learn what it means to be a young Christian and I’m currently leadership academy course and I’m learning about what it means to be a young leader and how to help younger and people going through the faith youth Christ really does help really connect with one another and we can talk about our faith our testimonies how we came to know Christ and it really makes me feel like I belong like a family and it’s just really use youthful for growing People Amazing. It was always so good to hear stories from young people themselves. Um, Andrew, we still have you with us. You are sideways currently. Um, do you want to do a little a little rotate situation? That’s better. That’s better. That’ll do. That is great. Um, so, uh, appearing on the screen now is going to be ways that people can give to Dundy Youth for Christ and the work that you guys do and your haggis walk run and all of that good stuff. So you said you’ve already raised over £1,000 already. Yeah, we’ve raised over a,000 pounds. Uh so um and we get that doubled uh kind gift of match funding. So yeah. Oh, that’s incredible. And it will go towards all of that work that you mentioned near the start of our time together as well. Absolutely. Thank you so so much for joining us. Best of luck with all of your fundraising efforts. We hope that goes so so well. Uh we are going to watch a little video now, a little advert break from our sponsors. So let’s take a look at that. Do you volunteer or work with young people? Yes. Well, you aren’t going to want to miss what we want to tell you about. Starting at just £40 with our early bird tickets, we want to invite you to our weekend. We love youth workers. It’s a weekend event designed to inspire you, equip you, and refresh you. taking place at Whitemore Lakes in Lichfield from the 5th to the 7th of September. There’ll be main gatherings with inspiring talks and worship, seminars to equip you and build up your knowhow, activities and times of retreat to unwind, a goodie bag on arrival, and an evening to celebrate you and the amazing work that you do. This is just some of what is in store. Interested? Well, grab your early bird ticket now, and we can’t wait to see you. [Music] It’s like really awesome and it has like different illustrators. So then it’s like really like beautiful in a way. Everything was just amazing. They were really pretty and I’ve never seen pictures like them before. I think it was really nice to look at. I like the rainbow on the front [Music] cover. If I were to use it in my classroom, every RV lesson, I would get it out and look through a verse or a chapter. I just think it’s so much more interactive. So, as children like open the Bible, there’s so much more of it that catches our eye. I think in a media kind of infilled world where they just need to have that be captured and stuff. I think by having the visuals and things in it, it just makes it just so much more interactive for them, which I think is brilliant and means they’ll probably read the Bible more and interact a bit more, which will be brilliant. Yeah, I like the first picture and the Noah’s Arc one because that one just inspires me. I really like it because whenever we’re doing AR and there’s something that you’re stuck on, then you can just grab out your Bible and just read through the verse that you’re stuck on and find the answer to the question. I’ve had the other Bible and it this one is way better than the other one because it’s got questions and activities that you can do. Probably how small it is, which makes it easy to carry around, but then it but then it can hold a lot of information inside it, which is which makes it really good. I think it makes really good sense. I think you’ve got their the chance that you give a child a book at the end of the school year, they take it away and it goes on a shelf and they they won’t be looking at it. Um, in school, we want to be able to use these uh these these books and and this resource in a way of engaging with worship and the teaching of of reh. Yeah, I can’t see any reason why any headteer wouldn’t be uh be really grateful to receive a set of Bibles and this version in particular to use with their pupils. [Applause] [Music] [Music] Hey, hey, hey. As a church, we’ve planned this summer to use one of the Bible reading plans at the front as the basis for our summer series. [Music] Yeti is all about life, faith, and the occasional dog on a skateboard. Yeti covers a whole bunch of topics from dating and money to superheroes in church. Not only does it provide people with a good time, but with a chance to connect with God a little deeper. No matter where someone is at with faith or whether they even believe in God at all. [Music] Hello. Welcome back once again. The wheel has joined us. I missed I missed it last hour. I know. Did you miss it? I know I did. It’s kind of that old friend, haven’t you? Take it with us every friend who won’t leave. But you you have a lovehate relationship. Yeah, that is true. So, to run you through some of the things that are on the wheel currently, we have got phone a friend. If they don’t answer, take a shot of lemon juice. Really don’t want to do that. Make the best paper airplane. Feel like we could do that. Shoes on hands. That could be an interesting hour. I know. I feel like my feet are starting to get a little bit little bit sweaty though when you got the sweaty feet. That’s Yeah, that’s not what you want. Uh, can’t use your arms wrapped in cling film. We have spoken that we would not like that. Spin around. Spin around on chair. I thought that could be that one. That’s been So, we’ve got stalls. This is my impression of stalls. Stools. Stools and uh spinny spinny spin spin spin spin. And you just And then you throw up on set. Spin. Yeah. And then we throw up. Lovely. Put your hands in custard. A that one’s actually I’m up for that. I quite like it. The sensoriness of it. Thing is I can’t take off my rings. Yeah. So custody rings. That doesn’t sound fun. Wear a sleeping bag. That’d be quite nice. I know. I’m up for a We’re getting towards the end of our hosting stint. There’s going to be some others taking over at midday. Yes, that would be quite nice. I know. I know. It’d be nice to wind down a little bit. Dress the other host in fancy dress. We’ve had quite a lot of dressing and styling things, so maybe something different. So maybe something different might be nice. Okay. Do you want to do the honors? Because I think I did it last time. So remember people, we have to chant spin the wheel. And then do it. Three, two, one. Spin the wheel. Let’s do it. I don’t know if I want to go like a big one or a little one. Which one? Okay. Don’t overthink it. Don’t overthink it, Bel. Okay. Let’s have a look. What we got? What have we got? What’s it going to be? What’s it going to be? Oh, it’s looking bad for hands and custard. It is hands and I think that is hands and custard. I’m up for it. Get me get me in that custard. Okay. To be honest, it’s only it’s only your hands. It’s not like it’s your face. That’s what I’m thinking. No, I’m not going to need the table back. Oh dear. No, it’s not for the whole hour. It is just for a short amount of time. Um, so we will uh get that sorted. And while the uh while the guys get that sorted for us, uh we are gonna let you guys know of a fund update and where we are at with that. Um yes. So uh where are we at with our fundraising? We have raised $7,77. Wow. Come on. That is amazing. Oh yeah, baby. Which is amazing. That is so so good. It’s ticking up. It’s ticking uh along. We would love for you to continue to give. Yeah. Uh you can call 0121502-9620 to chat to someone about how you can do that process or you can visit www.wyfc.co.uk/donate. And I think a lot of the staff as well have been sharing stuff on their social media pages about how you can uh connect and how you can uh give uh to our fundraiser as well. So we really love to encourage you to do that. So let’s have Oh no. Okay. Okay. So, we just we’ve just been informed we still have five minutes. So, do we just literally just put our hands in to be honest. Do you know what is not nice with when you’ve got when you’ve got what’s on them? Yeah. I’ve got some strawberries. Yeah. So, I went strawberries and custard. Yeah. So, I went for strawberries and cream. So, when cream remember that cream. So, every time I’m like when I go and get an Aston, I’m like, “Oh, what do I want?” And I get in there and I’m like, “I fancied something fun this time.” You know You should go next time. Strawberries and cream. I’m not actually sure if it goes, but I kind of liked them. So, we’ve got the strawberry there. Then we’ve got the cream. Strawberries and cream nails. That’s what I’m going for. When they’re asking you what color you want. Yeah. I think next time you say custard. Custard. This would be a fun nail color to be honest. Actually, I would like that. I’m delaying. I feel like we have had some not good ones on our stint. It’s not open. Okay. We ready? I’m up for this one. It’s cold. How much are you? Okay. You’ve still got your ring on, Brave. I know. You going to take it off? Do you think I should? Yes. Three. Oh, hang on. Do I take my wedding ring off? I can’t I can’t take mine off, so it’s going to get custody. Yeah, we go. Three, two, one, go. See, that is I really like that. That feels just fantastic. It’s like such a nice texture. Like it’s like it’s No, I honestly really like it. Like it’s just it’s We are having really different experiences right now. I know. I’m having a minor breakdown. I just think it feels so nice. It’s like kind of like like it’s therapeutic. That’s I think it’s just kind I think I need therapy after this. Really? That’s where I’m at. Um yeah. Uh please please give um I have now put my fingers into a bowl of cold custard. I’ve had jam hands. We did weird hairstyles. We’ve done We’ve done a lot of stuff. We drank vinegar. We put on we put hats on. That was my mushroom. I was about to refer to my head then and was like, “Don’t do that. Um, I really hate textures on my hands. Um, if anyone knows me, they know this is true. Um, but please give not because of this as well and all the silly things we’ve done, but because of what it does and the young people that it can reach. We would love uh to reach the young people of our nation. So, yeah, how can they do that? Yes, if you want to give, you can call our number which is on 01215029620 and you can also um go on our website which is www.wyfc.co.ukdonate. [Music] This floor is looking worse for wear. I can’t help but sometimes speak with my hands. So then that’s hard because I just forgot. Well, I was just like, please. Um Oops. Oh, I’m so sorry. Um we uh just to remind you as well are also cycling from Dudley to Disney. I think we can go and have a little look at Yes. They are working hard. Yes. Amazing guys. They’re working hard. We’ve got our hands in some custard. Things are Yeah. Thank you. I think no things are happening. Um it’s on the elbow. It’s rapidly descending into chaos. Uh but we would just love for you to give uh to not for the silliness but because of the work um that your money can do which is amazing. Um so we are just going to head across now to hear some stories from our national team and about what this is all about. Hello, my name is Matthew and I’m the urban mission pioneer here in Glasgow. Today I want to share with you a story of one of the partnership projects I’ve been working on for the last couple of years now. In the spring of 2023, we were approached by a church called Emanuel Christian Ministries. They’re a Tamil speaking church in the center of Glasgow and they’d been teaching English and maths to young folk who had just come across to Scotland and they wanted our help. They wanted to share the gospel with these young people but they didn’t know how. They didn’t know where to start. They weren’t sure what to do. We sat down with them and we started dreaming. We started planning together and we came up with this idea to just start running a youth club on Saturday mornings. We’d start by approaching topics like bullying and um mental health and anxiety and slowly over time using the Youth for Christ rocksolid resource we’d introduce them to who Jesus is, what he’s done for them, and that he loves them. The Illuminate Youth Club launched in the August of 2023. And by that November, we had 15 young people regularly attending experiencing the love of Jesus for the first time. Some of these young folk were going to the church, but the majority had either been going through that English and math tutoring or were friends of the young people in the church. It was amazing from the get-go. In November, we gave them an opportunity to meet Jesus for the first time. One young person responded to that and said yes to Jesus, which was amazing. Over the last two years, we’ve seen three more young folk raise their hands in opportunities like that. And we’ve handed out 11 of the Youth for Christ new to faith packs to these young people. And Illumina has now taken them on a disciplehip journey going through what it looks like to have faith in school, the role of our faith in things like anxiety and mental health and worry. I want to share with you a story of one of these young folk. We’ll call her Sarah. In one of our sessions, we asked her the question of what gives us value? Are we valued? Do we matter? And do we feel like we matter? Her response was was this is she said that she doesn’t matter yet. She’s not old enough. It’s only when we’re an adult do we have value that what we say matter. We were able to share with her that day that God loves her for who she is now and today. That who she is today matters. That she has incredible value to God. And that Jesus loves her so much that he would die for her. and rise again. Illuminate isn’t just led by myself or the youth for Christ team here in Scotland. We are doing this in partnership with the church. There’s a team of volunteers and their fantastic leader Mary who have been growing this whole time and are now in a place where they can take on and deliver this project by themselves long term. This has been the plan from the get-go so we can build up the team there and release this local church into youth ministry for the long term. The support you gives us allows us to do things like that. It allows us to use the resource at this club. It allows us to bring games and creative activities so the young people can express themselves. It allows us to deliver team days and training days for the volunteer team. and it allows us to build up this this church long term and their leaders and it allows us to create the new to faith packs we even handed out to those 11 young people. I want to take this opportunity to say thank you first of all. Thank you for all you’ve given. Thank you for all you’ve been praying and as you’ve heard it clearly makes a massive difference to the young people and to the project we’re doing and to these this the leadership of this church as we’ve supported them. But if you don’t already give, I want to take this opportunity to ask you to prayerfully consider if that’s something you would do so that we can see more projects like this across Glasgow and across the United Kingdom and so we can see more young people’s lives transformed by Jesus. Thank you. Great stuff. Um, great stuff. How are you? How are you guys? Feeling great. Do you know what? I’m feeling very smelly. I’ve even got smell good. I’ve even got a bit on my elbow. And we’re in our final hour of posting. Final hour. Wow. That is just There are many more hours of the live stream. It is not your final hour, but it is ours. It is ours. In front of camera anyway. Until the very last hour when we all come together. Yes. Uh we are going to hear from another center now. Uh so we should have Tasha from New Market. Are you there Tasha? And can you hear us? She’s hopefully with us. She’s muted. Tasha, could you unmute yourself if you can hear us? That would be amazing. Awesome. Hi, Tasha. So, while we finish uh kind of getting you ready to talk to us, we are going to watch a little video just about New Market and some of the work that you guys do. So, let’s check that out together. We are New Market and District Youth for Christ. This is our team. We’re about seeing young people’s lives changed by Jesus and we strive for that by taking the good news relevantly to every young person in New Market and District. We work in schools delivering lunch clubs, lessons and assemblies. New Market Academy, Elely College, Sen Village College, Fister Academy, Littleport, Milen Hall College Academy. We deliver youth work, youth events, rock solid clubs, summer festivals, and youth leaders gathering. [Music] A small contribution every month goes a long way and makes a huge difference to our small charity and the work that we do. For the price of a Starbucks coffee or tea for two at a garden center, once a month we could fund a YFC staff member to lead one lunch club. Donate today. [Music] So good. That was such a good video. Yeah, we were loving the music. The video was so energetic. It was like It was great that we were like dancing along to it. That’s why we’re a bit out of breath. Yeah, we’re out of breath already. Um, so Tasha, hello Tasha. Hello. Can you hear? Oh, yes. So good. So good to see you. Um we would love to hear a little bit about you uh to hear about New Market. Um so can you tell us uh what what is it that you do? Uh introduce yourself. Uh so my name is Tasha and I am the center director at New Market Youth for Christ. I’m actually joined our team of walkers has just shrunk to four from eight we had. Uh we’ve walked from Milden Hall, which you won’t know where that is, to Eel. Um and I’m actually joined by the ex center director, Jerry. Hi. Who’s walking with us today and then our team, this is James. Hey, James. And Hannah. Hey, Hannah. Hey. That’s a good name, Hannah. Um so our team um we work in quite a patch in uh Cambridge here and Suffukk and we we do a lot of schools work and we work with young people in churches and Yeah. Yeah. Lots of lots of different things that you do there. Yeah, we do. We do. So good. Amazing. I think we need to ask our classic question, don’t we? Yes, we do. We’ve been asking all the centers. It’s quite good, isn’t it? Yeah. What do you love about uh your ministry and the work that you get to do? And what gets you out of bed in the morning. Um I am going to let uh my teammate answer this question. Here we go. Hello. Fantastic. Yes. Um yeah, so I absolutely love the school’s work we do. Um I love the opportunity of uh going in uh we share part of our lives. Um share bits and bobs about us and obviously we share our faith um with class rooms full of young people. Um it gives us a great opportunity for the young people to get to know us, get to know our faces. Um and then they see us around in the community. Um I’ve got a split roll with a local church as well. Um so it really benefits me there as well. What gets me up in the morning? Um apparently walking. Um that gets me up in the morning today. What time What time did you guys start today? What time do we start? So, we set off at 9. Okay. Um but uh yeah, no, I was still I was getting up and going at like 8:00 this morning to get there. Um because someone someone hadn’t planned the uh picking up some lunch this morning. So, uh um I had to do that before before setting up. It really is. What are you guys going to be lunching? Yeah. What are your top lunches? Um so, um what is my lunch? My lunch is a chicken and bacon meal deal sandwich. Oh, that’s actually quite strong. It It’s It’s the best meal deal in my opinion. Um Yeah. No, I’m holding to that opinion. Yeah, they might. We’ll see. The techies apparently the techies on our live stream agree with you. Yeah. So, there you go. Good. Because I’m right. Anyway, um um what else have I got? Oh, I bought some Coke Pops as well, so we’re winning on that. Bit of cereal for lunch. Oh yeah, Cola pops. Love that. Oh, I heard cocoa pops. Oh, Cola pops. That sounds good. Cola pops. More understandable. That makes more sense. That’s so good. And what is the work that you do in schools? So when you go into schools, what is it that you you do there? Uh so our school’s work is split into uh three parts. Uh we go in and we teach RE lessons. Uh we’ve partnered with um local RE heads uh which invite us in to give a Christian perspective on uh parts of their RE syllabus. Um so we deliver RE lessons um uh quite often. Uh we deliver assemblies um and we also uh do lunchtime clubs every week um which is a space for uh young people uh to come and connect with us. Um so yeah um I had a really good um opportunity in a lesson the other day. A young person um said to me that um they’d love to come along to church. Uh they don’t currently come along to church. They’d really love to and they’d really love to explore more about what Christianity is. Wow. And they asked me um how can I do that? Um which was a really brilliant um opportunity um to talk to him about um having a Bible. and he said he didn’t have one at home. Um but I showed him that he could download an app. Um he had the opportunity to do that. So um yeah, that’s just one of the multiple stories I have about um schools work and classrooms of young people. We’re just um excited to learn more. Yeah. And I think picking up on that, that’s that’s what a lot of other people are experiencing as well across this nation. We spoke about it in the youth updates podcast as well about how there is an openness to faith and spirituality from young people at the moment. I want to know which is really exciting and I think us as you know youth workers and people who work with young people sometimes it can feel like it’s quite bleak and maybe things are difficult but it’s really nice to have this thing that’s exciting that young people are asking like to ask that question is is amazing from a young person which is really really great and exciting. So hopefully you guys share our excitement for that as well. I’m sure you do. Absolutely. Uh so we uh want to watch another little video and then we’re going to come back to you guys and hear about more about your fundraiser. Uh but we’re going to watch a little video now from a young person who’s connected to New Market Youth for Christ. So let’s take a little look. Hello. Um please start by introducing us with your name. Hello, I’m Robin. I’m 14 years old and I go to New Market Community Church. Where do you see us in your life? I go to one called Rockolid and also one called Youth Church. Rock Solid is weekly and we just get together and talk and stuff, have snacks. It’s great fun. And youth church is once a month and again we just get together, play games, meet new people, worship together, stuff like that. Fantastic. What keeps you coming back to our clubs? What means you keep returning to us? I really enjoy learning more and being able to learn more with people my age. I also love kind of answering questions and getting to know other people and God’s word a lot more. So, we have questions about the Bible and just about general kind of life and stuff which is really interesting to explore. Um, so, uh, lots of the work we do, Robin, uh, we love to go into schools and teach, uh, lessons and assemblies. Um, and I believe we go into your school. Um, what’s it like when we come in? Yeah, it’s really great. Um, it’s really nice being able to hear about your own lives and being able to kind of use that as a comparison to our own and also to be able to learn with people from my class and also people around the school as well. Yeah. And it’s also really great being able to see the impact of the lessons on other people around me and to explore my own faith as well within the lessons. So, what has changed in your life or what have you noticed has happened since coming to our YFC clubs? I think that um possibly for me, I’ve become more confident because before I was really nervous when meeting new people and now it’s become a lot easier to be able to get to know people. Also, I’ve been able to meet with new people my age because at our church, it’s lovely, but I’m one of the only people my age. And it’s really nice to be able to have the It’s really nice to be able to have the combination of both. Being able to experience church with preachers and people talking about what they’ve learned, but also be able to kind of explore it with a group of people and answer questions and talk to each other and kind of make decisions and stuff based on what we’ve read. Thank you. So, I guess the last question is there’s people out there that are desperate to pray for you. Um, what specifically can they pray for you for? For me, I think it would be great for people to be able to pray for me about um I’ve got my GCSEs coming up. I’m in year nine and I’m just going into year 10 and we’re going to start that and it would be great if people could just give support. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They’d love to. Thanks. Well, thank you Robin. It’s been really great to have you. Thank you for having me. Amazing. We are back with you guys. Uh we’d love to hear, wouldn’t we, Bella? And the viewers, I’m sure we’d love to hear what is your fundraiser, what are you guys up to? Clearly, you are out and about walking, but let us know a little bit more of the details. So, for our fundraising, we a 15m walk. I think you guys are out a little bit. I heard a 15 mile walk and hear us. Uh so we didn’t walk between two of our local towns. A 15 mile walk between two of the local towns from Milen Hall to Ele. Where are you now? How far through? Where are we? Uh we’re probably almost about halfway through. Oh, well done. Amazing. You guys have been doing great then. So, a 15 mile walk between two uh towns, cities in your area. Yeah. So, we we’re quite fortunate to be around we’ve got lots of little villages and towns around us. Um we go into five of those schools. So, we’ve got Hall, Elely, New Market, Littleport. So, um um and yeah, I think so. Um, and we’re going to be walking around those two Ele, which is on the other end. So, good. And what will the money that you raise be used for? Let us know. Oh, my voice went then. Let us know a little bit about uh maybe some of the things that you would like to do with any money that you raise from the fundraiser. um to help more of you reach more young people. Well, you hear us reach more young people. You’re in and out a little bit because you’re on the move which is amazing. You are mid action live action. It’s what? It’s real. It’s real. We love it. Um so we heard a little bit of broadstrokes about what you possibly use the money for. Uh, I think we are, but we’re hearing you with a little bit of a delay. So, if you can hear us, let us know a little bit about maybe what some of the money would raise would be used for. Awesome. So, the money that we raise will help us reach more young people. Um, amazing. I think we will carry on from there. We have heard that it is definitely going to be used to reach more young people, which is amazing. We’d love to encourage you to uh to give. Uh you can see uh the way that you can do that should be uh coming up on the screen. Uh and you can do that online as well. We’d really love uh to encourage you. The money is going to be obviously going towards young people going towards their work on the ground with young people. They mentioned that they go into schools and do three different things. I think they said in schools a lot in schools. It will help enable them to do that kind of work because charities and charitable organizations really rely on funding from other and donations from other people to support us to prayerfully get alongside us and also to give financially as well. That is a part of it. Um so we’re going to hear from them again later as well. So I’m sure we will hear a bit more about how their walk has been getting on later. Absolutely. In the meantime uh here on our live stream we are going to watch a few stories from National and then After that, we’re going to hear a little bit more from uh the guys who are cycling, who are doing Dudley to Disney. They are We’re gonna Maybe we need to Maybe we need to calculate how close to Disney they are. We’ll we’ll figure it out. I’ve brought like a Disney t-shirt to wear later. So, I need to I need to get on the bike later on as well where we may have. We’ve definitely thought about how we’re going to celebrate when we get there as well. But yes, so let’s take a little look at some stories from National. Hi, my name is Anna Lissi and I just had a conversation with Tony Joyce. He’s a trustee for Tambridge Wales Youth for Christ and he wants to share a little bit of what he does in the center and how one idea became a life transforming things for young people in that town. Hello, I’m Tony Joyce. I’m chair of the trustees at Tumbidge Wales Youth for Christ and we’ve been going well we’ve been chartered for over 15 years. Um but the reason we really wanted to set up Tumbridge Wells Youth for Christ was um we’ve been supporting Youth for Christ, my wife and I, Polly, for over 35 years. That’s on a national basis. And about 18 or 19 years ago, we thought, well, here we are. We’re supporting National Youth of Christ, but what are we doing locally? I mean, we were involved in our local church a little bit, but we weren’t doing anything locally. And so we prayed about it and um got some churches together, spoke to various different people, friends who became trustees. A lot of our close friends became our first trustees. We have seven at the moment. So we thought, well, what can we do? How can we make a difference? And how can we make a difference and show the passion of Jesus at the same time? And so we started working first of all outreach working on the streets. Then we started um going into the schools. We were given a youth center in a fantastic place in Tumbridge, Wales on the hill where five secondary schools, the kids walk by there every day on their way home from school and we have probably 25 30 children who young people who come in every day. We couldn’t really get more than that and it has made a real impact because we do quite a lot of other stuff in in the town. We do acts of worship and um uh in the schools we do assemblies. We do Christian unions. that kind of thing. Um but we also have a thing um called uh Unite. So once a month we have this amazing event where 60 odd children come along where we have a speaker, we have worship, but we also have fun and games. We give them pizza and it is very very popular. The most important thing of course is the message. But there’s one particular boy I’ll tell you about. He’s great lad. Um no father figure at home, mother and sister. um English is not his first language but he started coming um just to the youth center initially then he started coming to unite and very recently he gave his life to the Lord and was baptized so it’s absolutely amazing we’re we’re over the moon perhaps in one year we have contact with a unique individuals I should think about 1 1500 a year so that’s direct contact with with individual kids and we have the opportunity in the youth center to tell them about Jesus, which we do. We’re just um unfolding them in love and showing them that there are people out there who care for them and and then we tell them about the good news. That’s amazing. Tony, can you also tell us a little bit more of what is it being a trustee? So, what do you think the right skills are to be a trustee and support the work of youth for Christ? Well, first of all, they must have passion for young people, you know, changing, taking the good news. A trustee must be a Christian and it must be a Christian who really cares about young people in the town. There is responsibility as a trustee. If you commit to it, then you must, if you like, attend, meet with the other trustees and and then we plan together how to um take the good news forward through our program. Time is probably the biggest thing for a trustee. It’s useful to have a skill. So, for example, accountancy skills are useful or secretarial skills are useful or um counseling skills, something like that. So, if there’s something you’re good at, um that helps and it’s good to have a mix of different skills in your trustee group. But to be a trustee, the most important thing is you need to love Jesus, you need to care about young people, and you need to have a passion to really help. That’s amazing. What would you say to people watching us today? What would they do to start something in their cities, in their towns? Well, I think I think first of all, you need support of other people. So, you need to get together a group of people who all have share the same passion. If you can get churches involved, fantastic. We’re a resource to the churches and we get involved in all different churches through the town. It’s good to have um someone in each church who is effectively going to be a champion for what you’re doing. It’s someone who has a passion for youth. If you can get them involved and get a group together, you discuss it and then you get a framework together. Would you be able to say one or two highlights of your uh experience as a trustee? Um I I think what what I’ve discovered is there are seasons. So once you start doing something as trustee, don’t think it’s just going to change. There are seasons. The youth workers change, your premises change, your supporters change, your vision changes, you know, as you develop and you grow up um as a center, things change. You’ve got to be prepared to put things down. Let’s just reappraise. Let’s have another look and take things forward. But there are seasons um as a trustee. I think the biggest one for me was being given this youth center because our work changed totally. Thank you very much for sharing with us Johnny and I hope many people watching us today will be excited and fired up to be trustees for our local centers as well and maybe we’ll have new centers. Thank you very much. It’s a great blessing to be a trustee. I will say that it’s a blessing. Amen. Okay, great to hear. Bye bye. I hope you enjoyed this interview and the experiences Tony has shared and I just want to reiterate the importance of this fundraiser. We wouldn’t be able to run our clubs to have our centers and the support we give to our centers without donations. So if you haven’t donated yet, please do so. We really need your support and we know that we can grow and we can bless even more young people in this nation. Hello. Hello. We are back in the cycling studio. Um, and so we are going to ask Sam, how are you doing? I feel like you’ve been on this bike for a really long time. How How are you doing? I’m good. I’ve only just hopped back on to be fair. I’ll be I’ll be brutally honest. Yeah. Yeah. It’s going well. Just getting on for the videos. I know. Okay. I would love to know when you get to Disney, what snack are you gonna have? Because I feel like you I know you’re going to need one. What you What you thinking? What’s your go to? It’s got to be in this heat as well. A Mickey ice cream sandwich. You know the ones, not the bars with a stick. The one that’s like a Oreo cookie sandwich. Oh, that’s a strong strong choice. Thanks, Sam. Okay. And just to let everyone know, so far we have done 321.3 miles. So, we’re kind of pretty much almost there really. I I know. Um, so I’m coming to you, sir. Hello. Hello. I haven’t met you yet. So, would you like to tell us your name and your connection to Youth for Christ? My name is Johnny and my wife works for Youth for Christ, so she asked me if I’d come along to help. Amazing. So, good. Are you having a good time? Are you enjoying it? I’m not sure enjoying the right word, but it is. It’s good. Yeah. Yeah. It’s good exercise. Yeah. Good. That’s it. And have you done much bike riding in the past or you this your first time? No. I have ridden bikes when I was younger, but not for a long time. Oh, there you go. No, I think I think probably last time I ride a boat a bike was testing our daughter’s bikes when we first built them. Oh, there you go. And that’s a few years ago. That was a few years ago. Okay, great. That’s amazing. And so, have you been to Disney before? Yes, we’ve been twice. Twice. And we’re going again in a few weeks time. Amazing. Um, it’s the Star Wars Hyperspace ride. Oh, I haven’t been on that. Is that good? used it used to be Big Thunder Mountain. I think it was called a space mountain and they’ve changed it to Star Wars Hyperspace now. Well, they had the last time we were there. So, so, so good. So good. And why is it why do you think um like people raising money for young people, people raising money for you for Christ, like why is it like you should do this? Because I think it’s important to introduce younger people to Jesus. So good. Yeah. As simple as that. Whatever whatever resources this gives you, it’s got to be good. Got to be good. Thank you so much. What a great great answer. That is so so good. How about you Sam? What are what is people money doing? Why is this so important to you for Christ? Um I can’t remember what I’ve already said to be honest. I can’t repeat the same things. Um, it’s just really important that I think the good thing about Youth for Christ is we’re not just it’s not a transactional thing. We’re not just asking for money. We really want to be partners. Uh, we want to build that relationship um with our donors uh so that we can yeah reach as many young people as possible with the the life transforming uh news of Jesus. Amazing. Thank you so much. That is so true and your money really really helps. So please keep on giving. Um we are going to go back to Hannah in the studio right now. Hello, welcome back. So we are going to hear from Dorset Youth for Christ in just a few seconds, but first let’s check out a video about some of the work that they do as a center. Dorset Youth for Christ. We’re rooted right in the heart of Dorset and we bring hope and connection to young people in rural villages, vibrant towns, and stunning coastlines. Wherever they are, we’re here to make a difference. Our dedicated team works tirelessly to engage with young people wherever they are. Whether that’s in rural youth centers, urban schools, or coastal communities. From delivering inspiring assemblies to running creative workshop, we’re here to support and empower young people every step of the way. At Dorset Youth Christ, we believe that every young person deserves to feel valued and supported. We’re about creating a safe space that every young person can hit their full potential. Our initiative like the mission week in February, our resound events, mentoring and school life pastors provide opportunities for young people to connect, learn, and grow. We’re working with schools and churches across Dorset to share the good news relevantly to as many young people as we can. Hi. So, I’m Ivonne and I volunteer with Dorset Youth for Christ here in Sherbornne and I love to see the difference that Youth for Christ has made with some of our young people and it’s just great to be part of this mission field. We’re not just about events. We’re about building relationships through our prayer emails, creation of the youth group database, and the church partnership network. We’re connecting young people to churches to get the support they need by creating a network of hope or cross story. Together we can make a difference. Join us in standing up for the next generation and taking the good news relevantly to every young person in Dorit. Amazing. That video was great at letting us know some of the work that Dorset Youth Christ do. So, we are joined by Harry. Harry, can you hear us? Give us a wave and Yeah, I can hear you guys. Yes, Harry. I always celebrate when they can just hear us straight away. And it’s there’s no delay in that. Yeah, pretty much no delay, which is really great. So, Harry, could you let us know a little bit more about maybe some of the details of the work that Dorset Youth for Christ do? What do you do? What’s your role there? Let us know a little bit more about you. Yeah, absolutely. So I’m Harry from Dorset Youth for Christ and here I am in Sunny Dorset as well. How incredible is that? Um so some of the work that we do down in Dorset is so varied and a lot of what I do is um chapency in senior schools across the county. Um but I take on a really different kind of form of chapency where the majority of my work is done outside. um it’s through sort of outdoor education but where we can still do that you know be at the heart of chapency getting amongst young people and teachers and their families and to be able to just bring the good news of Jesus. Um so yeah incredible stuff. That’s great. Really great to hear about some of the work that you do. Me and Bella need to ask you the question that we have been asking every center which is what is it that you love about what you do and what gets you out of bed in the morning? It’s starting to become a bit of a catchphrase. What gets you out of bed in the morning? What makes you tick? What do you love seeing as a youth worker amongst the young people that you work with? I guess one of the things that I really love about work that I do is is just seeing young people just become leaders. I love that. And you know, we have so many stories. You know, even a couple of weeks ago, just before Easter, there was a young person had been in my in my office and they had just written something on the board, a little bit of scripture, and another teacher came in and saw it and was like, “Do you know what? I want to use that for an assembly. And then he kind of printed these bit these bits of scripture out, but exact copy from the board and handed it out. And then before you knew it, got everybody that’s like 1500 of these little passages of scriptures handed out. Um, and then she went and spoke about it in a in a church. And then, you know, I went to a church and spoke about it and then more people wanted these copies of these things, you know, and so they’re just passionately leading leading the way just through even the smallest things. I just love that. Yeah. Isn’t it so amazing when you know we empower the next gener so important for the next generation to know that there is no age limit there is no point where you’re too young to make a difference like in fact actually young people sometimes have much more of a reach with their peers with the people who are around them it’s amaz like our role as youth leaders yes is to connect directly with young people but it’s to empower them isn’t it to reach the people around them as well and and to take steps forward in their faith as well definitely so Such amazing stuff. Um, we’re going to hear a little bit about your fundraiser shortly, but firstly, speaking of young people and hearing from them, uh, we want to hear a little story uh, from a young person who is linked to Dorset Youth for Christ. So, let’s take a little look at that interview video with a young person. Hi, I’m Emily and I volunteer for Dorset Youth for Christ. daughter youth for Christ has helped me helped in supporting me personally by giving me opportunities to meet other young people who believe and don’t believe in God being involved in Dorsity Christ has helped me to grow in faith and share my testimony with others also show me I am worthy Okay. Being with doors at Youth for Christ has helped me learn that I am part of a much bigger family in love. I can share as a young person I went to Dorset at Youth for Christ events. When I turned 19, I felt lost due to having nowhere to go. Dorset Youth for Christ had included me then made me feel supported, wanted and included when they asked me to be part of their team. Your cities for Christ has encouraged and supported me in my journey by inviting inspirational lesbian speakers to events they have held. Also hearing about what they have they do in school and and youth clubs is also helping me in my journey. My favorite thing about helping volunteer is seeing all the young people and how they like smile, making friends and join all the events, seeing how they can like get involved with it all. It has changed my Christ has helped me change my faith due to help me find other people I can speak to about it all. So good. That was great to hear um from that young person there. Fantastic. Um so we would love to hear um what are you doing uh for your fundraiser? Can you give us Yeah. what what’s happening? What’s going on? Give us all the info. Yeah, definitely. So, we’re we’re doing two consecutive things at the same time. We are running and hosting a live radio show for the entire thing, but we’re also at the same time. I’m in I’m in the here now. We have got football that’s been going on since yesterday. So, it’s just going and going. We’ve got football, we got radio, just all the fun stuff. Everyone’s sweaty and napping. Amazing. And can you give us a highlight for each highlight? Yeah. Highlight for football is um Aaron, you are looking warm from highlight for the football is actually scoring a goal. I don’t play much football myself. So, it’s just been great to be part of the team, get to know some of the guys and meet some other people from different churches if we didn’t know as well. Um, and and a part of the radio that’s been really great is being able to connect with other people and be able to share message of Jesus out live. I love that. So good. Going back to your goal, how did you celebrate after your goal? Um, celebration of choice. I don’t know. I don’t know. I think I was just froze probably on the spot of a shot. What just happened? What would you do? Oh, I’d do I don’t know. I’d maybe do a D. I’ll do my march. I think I do a dance. I’d do my march. Apparently Bella did a very iconic march yesterday. Um, who is the best player in the footy team? Who’s like I mean Aaron’s clearly giving it top effort. Oh, that’s a trick. But who who’s the best that he’s now? I think it’s it’s got to be Sam. He’s definitely the best. I mean, he was just he was just keeping it under under wraps, but he he got he got in last night and he he was he was kicking the ball and yeah, he’s definitely just got the skills, I think. Okay. Amazing. Who’s the who’s the most tired or the most unfit? Who? He’s really struggling. Let’s serious. We want to know their name and we’re going to shame them. Well, I got to be Jake. Got to be Jake. Let’s just name and shame him because he, you know, he came in to the radio and he was like, “Oh, I’m in these. I think I might have to have a bit of a break.” Excuses, excuses, excuses. Right. That’s it. So boring. Thinking about the money that you guys are raising through these amazing uh fundraising efforts, what would you want to do with the money? How would that help you guys in your mission? What are some key things that this would really help you with? Yeah. Yeah. So, what what we’re hoping is that from the money that we raise that it’ll be able to go towards our resound events that we hold. Um, so we’re hoping that we can raise the full amount that that this Resound event where we kind of gather young people from across the county and slightly over the border as well to kind of get young people together um in the name of Jesus. That’s what we want. That’s our hope um and that’s what we’re aspiring to do. And we’re particularly trying to do this because this is the going to be the biggest one we’ve done yet. Amazing. How many how many young people do you want to get at Resound? What is your like aim? Like we want to reach this many young people or or this is how we know it’s the biggest one yet? Yeah. Well, I think it’s for the for us it’s like maybe the duration of the time that we’re going to be going. Normally, it’s like an evening one, but we’re hoping that it’s going to be a little bit longer. It’s still a little bit under wraps um about what we’re going to be doing, so it’s going to be quite cool. But yeah, I guess really our heart is just as many young people as possible. So if we can get, you know, 500, that would probably just cap over the top of of one of our other events. That would be great. Yeah. Incredible. So the ways that people uh can give to Dorsy Youth of Christ is going to be appearing on the screen now. And we’d love to encourage people to do that, to give to the work these guys are doing. Um it’s been great to see you guys. You’ve been playing for all for ages and doing your radio show for a while. Um, but we would like to say goodbye to Harry who is in sunny Dorset. So, bye Harry. Bye, Harry. See you later, guys. Thank you so much. See you. And best of luck with everything that you are doing. Great. I think we’re back to We’re in like our last 20 minutes. Not long now, Hannah. How many? 21 minutes. Wow. That’s just flown by. But that has gone Wow. Hasn’t that gone? We’ve been here since 6 a.m. We we left early. I’m doing. How are you doing? I know. I’m actually surprisingly like full of life. I’d say I’m I’m medium medium of life. I think I’ll probably just want a nap this afternoon. Yeah. Before we get back tonight. So, so I’m I’m here doing a bit of stuff behind the scenes on set until 6:00 p.m. So, no nap time for me yet, but later. We’ll see. Uh and then we are also, just so you know, going to have all of our hosts together for the final hour. So that’s that’s when we’ll see that’s when you’ll see our faces again in the final hour from 9 to 10 and we’d love to encourage you to join us for that because that’s going to be full of uh yeah it’s just going to be a culmination of the highlights what’s been your favorite be wrapping it all up nicely. Um so we are going to do our our final spin the wheel very shortly but firstly yeah should we come back on it but firstly let’s check out this ad break. It catches my eye because um added like all of these wonderful colors on it. [Music] They were really pretty and I’ve never seen pictures like them before. Like I couldn’t imagine it being a Bible. It looks way better. The waves are just bigger and it looks like it’s an action shot. It just looks like it’s actually happening. I like how it’s displayed and easy to read and how it has loads of chapters and verses. The rainbow is kind of just there and you’re like, I want to read this when they’re in key stage two when they’re getting to year three and they can then use those Bibles. So every time they have collective worship if they do that in their schools or RE lessons, I think it makes really good sense. I think you’ve got their the chance that you give a child a book at the end of the school year, they take it away and it goes on a shelf and they they won’t be looking at it. Um, in school, we want to be able to use these uh these these books and and this resource in a way of engaging with worship in the teaching of of RE. So, we have already decided as a school that from when we’re doing like our RE lessons and collective worship from next year, so from September, um that we will start using those [Music] [Music] Hey. Hey. N. [Music] [Music] [Music] How can we make a Bible that works for everybody? That’s the big question. How can we make something that is quite inaccessible accessible for a whole family to do together? We really want to gather your thoughts. Everything that you say is going to have impact. Lots of pictures, bright front cover um with uh when reading it, it’s not like a tricky font to read. If you’ve got like every one or two pages something you can do, you’ll think, “Oh, I can’t wait to get to the next page.” Having loads of like family comments and pictures and like that it would be something that everybody could [Music] enjoy. It’s just good for the time we spend to be something we can all take something away from. um the verse in our head or something that we’re gonna do that [Music] day. There’s space on it, inside it, on the back of it, on the front of it to write down things, to draw things, to make notes, to engage in the Bible together, and have a space that would be uniquely yours. [Music] An opportunity for parents to engage with their young person in the Bible is just a whole new thing and something that’s actually really exciting. There’s a real lack of things for families to do together. There’s the children’s and there’s the youth and there’s the adults. But a family a Bible is a great idea. This resource is going to be really helpful to explore the biblical stories and how they impact the way we live out our lives today. It is a Bible that invites the whole family to participate. It’s a Bible that stays open in the middle of your living room or your bedroom and it invites the whole family not just to read scripture but to actively engage in it no matter where you are in your faith. [Music] [Music] Bella, guess what? Guess what happened? Our last 10 minutes as host until the last hour. Yes, that has gone so pathetic. So quick. We have had such a good time. We have we’ve had an amazing time uh with you guys and we hope that you have too. Yeah. So, when we transition over as hosts, another thing is going to happen. Yes. The live stream is going to be so sad. So sad that we are both leaving that it is going to cut off. It’s like the slash thing. Um, so when uh when we uh hit 12 o’clock and me and Bella switch over to new hosts, uh the live stream is going to switch over to a brand new link. Uh so the way that you need to sort that out is at 12 once it goes off. If you are watching from our website, you just need to refresh the page. Uh if it doesn’t come back straight away, it’s just because we’re setting up the new one, but by 5 12 it should be there. So refresh the page if you’re on our website. If you’re watching uh on YouTube, then you can uh go on to our channel and the new one will appear. It will be used for Christ fundraiser part three. Uh so it will appear uh for you to watch and it will come up with a little red circle saying that we are live. Uh so that is how you can carry on watching with us at 12 because we are going to disappear then. But we’ll be back celebration. Well, we won’t be. Yeah. Youth for Christ shall be back and we will be we’ll be back for the last hour which is Yeah, we will. We cannot wait for Uh, so having a little look around at the wheel. Dress your host in fancy dress. I still want this. No, that one is a really good one. I think that’s a fun one. Phone a friend. I still don’t want this. Uh, make the best paper airplane. Fine. Feel neutral about that. Shoes on hands. Fine. Can’t use your arms. Well, that would be the next host, wouldn’t it? So, we would we would bring on the next host by wrapping them up in cling film, which sounds fun. Uh, spin around on chairs. That would be the next host in the next jog on the spot. That would be a lovely way for Beth to start her next stint. Uh, wear a sleeping bag. That would actually be a nice way start. And then yeah, obviously dressing the other host in fancy dress. Yes. But first, but first we have a fun update. Woohoo. Can we have a drum roll, please? Or like a dance? What could be the like the Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it’s getting silly in the last It’s getting silly. So, fund update. So far, we have raised it’s on screen 8,00047. Thank you so so much uh for all that you have given so far. We really really appreciate everything that you have given so far. So, thank you, thank you, thank you. Um you can continue to donate. Um, you can do that by our number which is 01215029620 or you can go to our website which is www.wyfc.co.uk/doname and every pound goes towards young people and goes towards the work that we do uh with them. So, for the final time, spin the wheel. Should we spin the wheel? Uh, and we will see what it lands on and that will help determine and then maybe we’ll do like little highlights of of our time hosting together. Okay. So, before though, we need to do spin the wheel. Spin. Oh, no. I thought you were going to go straight into it. I’ve got panic. Don’t worry. Don’t worry. Okay. Spin the wheel. Spin the wheel. Spin the wheel. Spin the wheel. Spin the wheel. Spin the wheel. I like you got low for that. What’s it going to be for our new host? What they gonna get? Oh, that’s make the best paper airplane. That’s quite annoying. We can do that, I think. Yeah. Yeah, we’ll do that. We’ll do that. Yeah, let’s do it. Okay. Yes. Here we go. Here is our paper airplanes. How How are your paper airplanes? I actually to be honest, I feel like this is making me feel like I don’t have a lot of skills. be on the SP. What was the one thing you did really well? Sorry, that was What was the one thing? You were sick at the Mar. I’m going to bring our table back in for us. Here we go. Oh, let’s have a little Let’s unplug that. There we go. Lovely. Okay. Okay. Okay. What is I think Do you just Are you Well, let’s see what happens. Let’s go. Okay. Let’s do it. So, I think I would do this. Yeah. I’ve now forgotten how to make a paper. I know because I haven’t done one in a while. Oh, mine’s very lopsided. Um, okay. To give you an update what we’re doing, we are folding. We are intensely folding. We’re trying our best. So, yeah. So, we’re going to do this. Um, I think I mean it’s been a while, but I’m pretty sure you like you fold the two and then you kind of and then do I do this? Please let me know in the chat. Please let me know. Remind us how to make this. Um, I think I resemble I think it goes up a little bit here, then up that side. Does it go Oh, what happens at What happens at the end? Well, let’s find out. I’m going to just make my own. Yeah, I think I think you just do. You do you. Okay, this I think could work. And then maybe I’ll give it No. Okay. Okay. Something’s happening. And then I think we need to give them a little test across the room. Yeah. See how far they get. See who’s is going further. Yeah. I’m gonna fold it there. Uh, what you gonna do for that bottom bit? Do you do something at the back? Yeah, something at the back to make it like something at the back. Maybe I’m going to put that up a little bit. What What is at the back of an airplane? Like um the the tail. Yeah, I feel like it’s called something else. The the fin. The tail fin. Yeah, the fin. Why not? Apparently Bella’s is looking like a boat. I don’t think mine is looking like a boat. That’s so rude. I think that kind of looks Yours is upside down. Is it? No, it’s not. Is it not? You’re going wings at the bottom. I’ve done it my own way. All right. She’s going wings at the bottom. Okay. We’re going to If Sandra could take one step to the left. Nearly fell over. We’re going to We’re going for their door. Okay. Great. Okay. Great. Ready? Okay. Three. Put in the chat who you think is going to go further. I think it depends how far you throw it as well. I’m going to try and give it a real good throw. I’m I’m giving it a two out of 10 chance that they’re going further than that. I I’m thinking it’s mine’s going to reach the dog. Okay. Three, two, one. I think they I think mine actually went further. I think they actually Mine went negative. Mine ended up back. Mine did a nice little nice little spin. It was actually quite gracious the way it did that just curved. We need to try this again. Hang on. Let’s Let’s do a quick refold. A quick panic refold. And then after this uh we are going to go to a short kind of five minute holding slide which lets you guys know that we will be uh back live in 5 minutes on the new link. So that is what is going to happen next. I’m just folding frantically by this point. This feels a bit more mean. This feels it’s more pointy. We’re going for more angle. Okay. Mine goes up at the back but I think it travels quite I love that you’ve got wings at the bottom. Okay. Three, two, one, go. Mine did Mine actually did did win. The exact same thing happened to mine, Bella. I think it did go a little bit further against all odds. I know. I think I You’re better at paper airplanes. Well, thank you. That actually that means that means a lot. It’s good that I’m good at something. So, we are ending uh our time together as hosts. We have loved so much being with you. We’ve had a great time. Just as one final time, please uh please give please continue to do that uh online and uh via the phone as well. 0121502962 and www.wyfc.co.uk donate. So we uh will see you again in 5 minutes uh for and brand new live stream. So make sure you refresh the page uh at 12 to get that brand new live stream. There’ll be new hosts. It’s going to be full of life. It’s going to be great. Uh we will we’ll be back later. We will be back. They won’t miss us too much. 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