Defined Youth Church is the youth ministry of St Thomas Crookes, Sheffield.
We want to be a community that is defined by friendship, defined by God and defined by action.
Hello everyone, hope you had a great Christmas. Just wanted to let you know that Defined will be launching a new website early this year complete with blog page you can contribute to. Very excited. However, I need some photos to go online. So if you have any excellent photographs of anything Defined related, please get them to Dan Harris pronto - THANK YOU!!
Hello everyone - Christmas is well and truly on the way. Here are the details for the Christmas meal.
Excited!
Hi everyone, if you intend to come down to the Children's Hospital on Thursday (4pm) and sing for Children in Need, here are all the details and the lyrics to all the songs you need:
Hope you'll all be singing your hearts out in preparation!
God Bless!
If you don't know what the Love Sheffield mince pie giveaway is, we basically hit the streets of Sheffield armed with pies and give them out for free (no throwing allowed unfortunately). All in the name of God's great love for everyone.
Nick Haigh has got his mitts on 8000 mince pies for us to give away, thats approximately 2.5 million calories! Big challenge this time!
THE PLAN
03 DEC - Defined will be giving out pies in the Broomhill area led by Peter M, Bliss W, Brogan H and Rachel H. Please join their teams. Meet in the St Thomas Crookes worship area at 10am (finish at 12pm).
10 DEC - Unprecedented giveaway involving several churches working together in the City Centre. Be a part of this groundbreaking mission! Meet outside St Thomas Crookes at 9.30am and we'll head down into town together (home for 12.30pm).
See the video below:
Love Sheffield at Christmas from St Thomas Crookes on Vimeo.
Brilliant.
So Glory Revolution is on December 2nd, all the details are below. Dan Harris and Lucy Smith have tickets which are only £2 in advance - bargain! All mates are welcome - there will be some great artists and a decent message. Make sure you grab some tickets on Friday!
We will be hitting the O2 Academy instead of normal Defined. If you want to head down with us we'll meet at church for 6.15pm and head down from there. That is a plan.
Join us as we gather on the yard for the November tradition here at Defined, the annual Fireworks Party!
Here are the details:
Friday 4th November, 7:30 pm on the yard, £3 entry (includes tasty hot soup!)
We we would love see you and your mates there, it's going to be amazing!!!
We live in a world where everything is about 'me'. 'What's on my mind?' is a question we're asked every minute of the day, thanks to the wonders of Facebook. How can I be successful in life? Am I going to do well in school? Do my friends actually like me? Am I significant?
These aren't bad questions to ask, but when our lives are dominated with thinking about ourselves, we can forget that we're made for something bigger.
Look at Jesus- you might have heard (or even read) the story of when he washed his friends' feet. You can read it in the Bible, in the book of John chapter 13. It was a grimy, rank job that people wouldn't usually choose to do, in fact, traditionally a servant would have done it in the time that Jesus was around.
So why did he do it? He didn't do this because his mates' feet stank (although they probably did), but because he was teaching them something about the nature of God. God - servant. God - getting his hands dirty. God - knowing our needs and meeting them with love and kindness. And that is the heart of the matter- we believe in a God who so loved us that he chose to serve us, love us, even die for us, so we might freely live.
And how do we live free? As people who serve others and love others, not out of guilt or debt but because that's the best way to be! When we focus too intensely on ourselves we become consumed with it, and we miss the bigger picture.
This autumn we're going to do two different activities to practice living free.
For the 11-14s in Defined, we're going to be doing Slum Survivor on Oct 22nd-23rd- building a place to live for a weekend out of cardboard and wood, and raising money for people who spend their whole lives in these conditions across the world. You might have heard of it before (we've done it over the last 2 years) and it would be great if you could get involved! More details coming up soon- in the meantime check out the Slum Survivor website for an overview...
The second thing we're doing is a brand new venture, called Plug In, for 14+ at Defined. Here, we're teaming up with Eden in Fir Vale to get stuck into their community outreach work round there. We're going to hit the streets doing loads of challenging, practical things over in Fir Valeon Oct 22nd. Sign up to the Facebook page for more info, and we'll be handing out flyers over the next few weeks.
Well- look no further! This Saturday we're taking part in Love Sheffield, a St Toms initiative where we do giveaways, litterpicks and and other amazing things to bless the people of this fine city.
On Sat 17th Sept we'll be joining the rest of the church family in welcoming the freshers of Sheffield Uni and Sheffield Hallam with giveaways and litterpicks across the city!
You can get involved really easily by meeting at St Toms at 2pm on Saturday, where we'll get put in teams and go out together.
If you want to be involved in leading a team in the future, let us know and we'll sort this out!
1) school begins again
2) DEFINED BEGINS AGAIN!
(Can you tell which one we're more excited about..?)
Yes, the Defined Youth Church class of 2011-12 begins tonight for all those who are y.10 or upwards. From 7-9pm in the church hall, we'll be playing some games, catching up with stories from the summer, and giving our awesome new leader, Mr Dan Harris, a bit of a grilling!
If you're y.7-9, you lucky lucky people, there are going to be some amazing fortnightly activities like bowling, ice skating and cinema trips, all kicking off at the start of October. More details to follow- keep checking facebook or get in touch with Dan via the church office, on 0114 267 1090.
Feel free to invite your friends, and get in touch with us if you have any questions or concerns.
We are really looking forward to hanging out with you all and spending time getting to know God and each other better this year!
