News & Events
ALMANCIL * LUZ * ST. LUKE'S * TAVIRA
Alpha Course each week commencing 24th January at Luz
Senior Chaplain's message:
"Some people don't like Alpha. They say it is: too simple, too evangelical, too contrived, too something or other! Whatever the objection might be, perhaps they are correct. Perhaps.
All I know is that I have participated in a great many Alpha course, and in lots of other courses as well, and I have yet to experience any other forum which welcomes "outsiders" in, and allows "insiders" to refresh their knowledge and faith. There is something about the course, and about the format, which is inherently inviting and we need to ensure that our church reflects that. We really do.
So we are going to hold another course in Luz, beginning in January (the course runs for ten weeks), and it is my hope that we will be able to use it as a way of building up the community that we have here in Luz and extending that community outwards to people who like who we are, and wonder what we are and would like to know rather more.
Alpha is a brilliant way of sharing that with them".
Youth Challenge 2012 - Mission Impossible (...maybe...)
Your Mission - should you choose to accept it....
As a team (two groups together make one team)
Youth Club is good. Really good - We do good fun things. Lots.
o Regular Friday nights. Treasure hunts; Meals together; Campouts; Famines; Presents for the orphans; Food for the hungry.
But there must be more we can do - Like what??
Your choice of Mission:
- Come up with a Goal; A Quest; A Challenge for us as a Youth club to do and to achieve, over the next six months, i.e. until June, when School finishes.
- It might be here, in Praia da Luz - helping the elderly on a regular basis with their needs.
- It might be in Lagos - sorting clothes at the charity shop once per month.
- It might be in Lisbon - doing an event for needy children.
- It might be in the UK - working with another Christian Youth on a project we can share in.
- It might be in Malawi in Southern Africa - on a mission trip to grow in our understanding of how far too many other people only just survive
The rules for the Challenge:
- Must involve all members of the Youth club.
- Must be something we can talk about and look at each week - every Friday night
- Must be something to help others- somehow- and not ourselves.
- Must have an element of risk to it..God took a risk with Jesus and he wants us to take a risk too. A leap of faith, you might say.
The door is open. Step through, brainstorm, and come up with a plan and why we should do it.Then, come and sell your team plan to the rest of us and we, as a whole Youth Club, will vote on the one we want to have as our Challenge for 2012.
Thurday 23rd February
Quiz Night and 2 Course Meal at O Gusto Restaurant, Montinhos Da Luz - 7.00 p.m. For details click here.
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