Jesus is… therefore…

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Sometimes a Redefine night just works.

This week was one of those nights. We had new young people joining us, some familiar faces returning, and a full team of volunteers. It was absolutely brilliant.

We’re continuing our journey through Revelation, and this week we got properly stuck into Revelation 1 and the extraordinary picture it gives us of the Jesus that John saw.

Rather than simply asking “What does this tell us about Jesus?”, we pushed it one step further: Jesus is… therefore…

For example…

If Jesus is powerful, therefore I can bring my prayers to him.

If Jesus is loving, therefore I know that he loves me.

If Jesus speaks the word of God, therefore I can trust what God has said.

If Jesus has conquered death, therefore I don’t need to be afraid.

It led to some great conversations as we tried to move Revelation from being something strange and mysterious on a page to something that actually matters to the way we live. Who Jesus is changes how we understand ourselves, our lives, our fears and our future.

Before we dug into Revealrtion we also had an enormous eight-player Mario Kart session, some increasingly questionable attempts to balance cups and plates, another dip into our Question Box, and plenty of soup and toast to keep everyone going.

And something else exciting is beginning to take shape is that we’re starting to put together a youth worship band. We’re still right at the beginning, but we’re really looking forward to seeing where it goes.

New faces. Old faces. A full team. Games, food, questions, laughter, Scripture and some genuinely deep conversations about Jesus.

A pretty exceptional Redefine night.

Wanted: Cake Bakers!

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Do you bake a decent cake? Would you like that cake to help support local young people? We may have just the job for you.

Twice a month, Reverb Café opens its doors at the Garage, providing a friendly, affordable community café in the heart of Llandudno. It’s run by a wonderful team of volunteers, with young people helping to serve.

Importantly, it involves a lot of cake… and we have a cake emergency!

One of our amazing regular bakers has sadly had to step down, which means we’re looking for a new baker — or a small team of bakers — to join the Reverb cake rota.

The current rota involves providing three cakes roughly once a month. That could be one person making all three, two people splitting them, or even three people each making a cake. We’re very happy for people to team up.

And no, you don’t need to be Bake Off standard.

You can choose what you make. Sponges go down well. Anything involving chocolate tends to disappear suspiciously quickly. Variety is always welcome. The chief qualification is simply being willing to bake something tasty and send it in the direction of hungry café customers.

Reverb Café actually provides around a third of the funds that support the work of Llandudno Youth for Christ. So every Victoria sponge, chocolate cake, or lemon drizzle sold is doing a little bit more than accompanying a cup of tea. It’s helping us continue our work with young people across Llandudno.

Our most immediate need is for cakes on 24 October and 28 November, although we can shuffle the rota around depending on people’s availability.

We’re convinced there must be a few undiscovered bakers hiding in churches around Llandudno. So, if that might be you, or you know someone whose cakes deserve a wider audience, we’d love to hear from you.

Contact our Treasurer and Reverb Café organiser, Chris Condrup, at treasurerllyfc@gmail.com.

Bake cake. Feed people. Support youth work!

There are worse ways to spend an afternoon.

Redefine is Back!

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Redefine is back for a new term, and we couldn’t have asked for a better first night.

We had a brilliant group of young people at The Garage, including some new faces joining us for the first time. There were games, food, time just hanging out together, and a really good Bible study with Q&A afterwards.

In other words, a pretty typical Redefine night!

So, what is Redefine?

Redefine is our regular group for secondary school and college-age young people who want to explore the Christian faith more deeply.

It creates space for young people who are interested in Christianity to go further, whether they would confidently call themselves Christians, are still figuring that out, or simply have lots of questions. This means opening the Bible together, talking honestly about what it says, asking difficult questions, and working out what following Jesus might actually look like in everyday life.

And we really do mean asking questionsQ

Young people don’t need to arrive knowing the answers. They don’t need to know their way around a Bible, understand lots of Christian language, or pretend to believe something they don’t. Questions, doubts and disagreements are all welcome. Redefine is a safe place to explore those things together.

More than a Bible study

Surounding our time exploring the Bible, we eat together, play ridiculous games, chat and catch up and over time build a community.

Our aim isn’t simply to give young people more information about Christianity. We want to help them develop a faith they have thought about for themselves: giving them the tools to read the Bible well, wrestle with difficult questions, and explore what it means to know and follow Jesus as individuals and a group.

This term, we’re doing that through the book of Revelation. Dragons, beasts, angels, thrones, mysterious numbers, and the end of the world might not sound like the obvious place to start! But Revelation gives us a fantastic opportunity to learn how the Bible works, how to make sense of difficult passages, and how the whole biblical story fits together.

If our first night back is anything to go by, it should be a great term.

You can find all the Redefine info here.

Could you join the team?

As Redefine continues to grow, we’d really love to add another volunteer to the team. We’re looking for someone who cares about young people, is comfortable sharing and exploring Christian faith with them, and is happy to get stuck into the whole evening; whether that means chatting over food, joining in with games, helping with discussions or simply being another trusted adult in the room. If that sounds like something you might enjoy, we’d love to hear from you. Get in touch by emailing us at llandudnoyfc@gmail.com

New faces are always welcome.