X Factor Youth from Diamond Valley Baptist hard at work in their community.

It is time to start preparing for Urban Summer ’12, if you haven’t already! Urban Summer will run in 2012 from Monday 23rd to Friday 27th of January. The Friday is the day that we will be having a corporate gathering starting at 9am (going into the bush fire effected areas to help families continue to rebuild) and then running a night event in the evening at Diamond Valley Baptist Church.

Please note that Thursday the 26th is Australia Day. We traditionally use that day to have the parents of the young people come along.

For more details, contact Raff: P: (03) 9435-9377 M: 0438441944 E: raff@dvbc.net

Pay It Forward Summer Camp from xfactoryouth on Vimeo.

Hey All,

The Urban Summer team has sprung into action preparing for Urban Summer 2011.  Keep checking back here for more information.

In the meantime make sure you put January 24-29 in your diary.  It will be HUGE!!!

All the great Urban summer resources are still here on the site if you want to start getting stuck into organising your Urban Summer event.  There will be more resources going up throughout the year.

We had a limited number of t-shirts made up for the couple of churches who said they were keen. If you would like to order t-shirts for your church you can do so, however they won’t arrive until after Urban Summer.  They cost $12.50 each.

Simply contact me (Dan Harbottle 0418838189) to order.  (click image to enlarge)

I thought I had posted this…………but, I hadn’t, sorry.  Here tis.

Dan

participants reflection journal (word doc)

participants reflection journal (PDF Version)

Fonts used in this booklet - Batik Regular AND 3the_hard_way_rmx.  If you wish to use the word document and have it look like the PDF you will need to install the fonts first.

We encourage participants to draw lessons from their experiences of serving in the community, this is through action/reflection learning processes:

“Action/reflection is a common way of learning in much of human living. We learn from experience. Well, not exactly. We learn when we reflect on our experience and draw lessons from it – a process that may well need the empathetic support of someone we trust. This is what good supervision seeks to provide with the primary aim to support the person growing as a person in ministry. The emphasis then is on helping the person unpack their ministry experiences and work towards their learning goals/objectives. Effective supervision does not produce a clone of the Supervisor. ‘It enables the person to move towards that uniqueness under God which individual gifts and graces imply and make possible.’” [extract from SABU SFE General Handbook]

Such a process is facilitated through helping students and leaders reflect on their experiences by asking reflective questions such as:

• “what did you value about this time?”
• “what did you learn about yourself?”
• “what did you find great/hard?”
• “Where do you think Jesus might have wanted you to be?”
• “Where do you think God was present?”
• Where do you think you missed the mark?”

The Service Event leader, the Small Group leader and Youth leaders are important in this instigating this process. We would also ask leaders to facilitate this process amongst themselves in briefing and debriefing times.

The combined events for Urban Summer 2010 are:

Wednesday 20 Jan – Combined service event to Kinglake residents

Details: 9am start @ Diamond Valley Baptist till 5pm

Worship and teaching & 9:15 and depart for Kinglake 10:15.

Activities include: wire removal, relief centre work, general cleaning

Lunch provided

Celebration Service: 5pm Friday 22 Jan till 8:30 @ Diamond Valley Baptist

Testimonies, video, teaching, worship, and more

Tea provided

See you there.

Activity/Project Safety Analysis (Risk Assessment) and a HOW TO guide.

Filling out an ASA – considerations and directions

Urban Summer Risk Assessment

Here is a feedback form we would love you to use for your Urban Summer.  Once you have made a copy for yourself please post to Urban Summer Feedback C/- 2/28 John Street, Lilydale, VIC, 3140

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