Youth Leader's Conference
20 Feb, 2019,
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What better way for a group of Hungarian youth group leaders and volunteers to start January 2019 than together with 300 others from the UK at the Growing Young Disciples CONTEND conference?! Here’s a reflection from Áron Ablonczy, youth leader pastor of the Reformed church at Gazdagrét, Budapest:
“It was so good to hear zealous and warm preaching, where they put the God’s Word at the centre. It replenished me. It was motivating for me to see lots of ‘older’ speakers, it gave an example that youth work is not limited by stage of life. My personal ‘take-home point’ that I want to put into practice everywhere, is the advice of one speaker to Christians living amongst others who are not: “…BE NORMAL!”” (with the delightful welsh accent of Graham Daniels!)
Tuesday night Bible Workshops
8 Jan, 2019,
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Each week this term 8-10 teachers of the Bible have met to grapple with Paul’s words to the Philippians and plan a youth group session from the passage.Although the evening didn’t always finish with an outline of a youth group talk, spending time in what the passage must have meant to the first readers was beneficial to help understand the initial power of the message. This has been important to help get the application right for us today. Many in the group gave a ‘mock’ youth group session and received feedback on faithfulness to the text, clarity and relevance. It was helpful for all the group to start evaluating and really seeing what’s ‘not great’ and what is ‘really helpful’.
It’s been encouraging to see people understand Paul’s heart more, be able to explain why they got that from the passage and struggle together to work out how it transfers into our world together.
Ultimately, it’s been a joy to together have our eyes lifted to Christ, and see how His word can transform our attitudes and actions even today.
Next step: pulling the resources together to create one whole resource to help youth leaders across Hungary Teach Philippians to Youth Groups. Watch this space...
ACORNCAMPS BIG MEET: 6th - 14th July 2019, in Bonyhád Hungary
2 Oct, 2018,
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We’re delighted we’ve found a place for next summer’s joint ACORNCAMPS. 10 partner churches, 200+ young people, 50 leaders from UK & Hungary. A week full of inspirational, deep, applicable Bible teaching from John’s gospel; seminars, hot topics, training for youth leaders, sports, crafts and one great God to worship.
NTiOY - Read the New Testament in One Year!
2 Oct, 2018,
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Summer 2018 saw the completion of all the videos on YouTube. Teenagers - and anyone wanting some help reading their Bible - can now watch a short video online that helps them get into the heart of the chapter. That’s every chapter in all 27 books of the New Testament in the Bible!The prayer is that:
- this would give young people a starting point as they spend time with God and read His word;
- that they would grow in their love for Him as they discover Him in the New Testament (NT) pages;
- that youth groups would take this opportunity to read through the NT in a year together;
- that 25 more young people would join the programme.
Bible Workshop
2 Oct, 2018,
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September 2018 is the start up again of Tuesday night’s ‘Bible Workshop’. We study through books of the Bible aiming to understand the message to the original reader and then set that message into today’s context and apply it to ourselves.
- Preaching Practice every third week for members to lead a study or give a talk; afterwards they will receive positive, helpful comments which will sharpen and improve their ability to deliver a sermon or bible-study in a faithful, relevant and clear way.
- Creating Resources - producing a booklet at the end of the season to give to youth groups, including powerpoint slides and teaching videos, starting with Paul’s letter to the Philippians.
Youth Leader Training (Nov 2018)
2 Oct, 2018,
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We’ve decided to condense last years’ 3 Saturday training days into one long weekend. On 23-25 Nov ‘18 a group of around 25 will meet at the Szokolya Baptist church to look specifically at why the Bible is an important part of a youth group. There will be sessions on Bible-handling, using the Bible when teaching on topics and more.We pray it would be edifying for youth leaders attending, that they would sign up quickly, and for wisdom in planning and preparing the content.
ACORNCAMPS BIG MEET: 6th - 14th July 2019, in Bonyhád Hungary
2 Oct, 2018,
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Next summer we look forward to welcoming a team of around 30 from the UK to Hungary - could it be you? All the camps we run will combine into a one united summer week in the south of Hungary. It will be an amazing opportunity to:- Reach out to Hungarian teenagers with the gospel, and give believing teenagers a chance to meet with & be encouraged by other Christians from around the world
- Equip young leaders with their own stream of seminars and Bible study
- Support and spiritually feed overall youth leaders in their own stream of workshops within an understanding community of like-minded believers
Newsletter Autumn 2017
7 Jul, 2018,
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For ACORNCAMPS Autumn 2017 newsletter please click below.
Newsletter Spring 2017
7 Jul, 2018,
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For ACORNCAMPS Spring 2017 newsletter please click below.