D-Weekend South
20/05/10 11:20
We're just days away from the next D-Weekend, which is very exciting! If you're coming, we can't wait to see you there!
If you've not booked on yet, we're afraid booking is closed- sorry! Hope to see you next time!
If you've not booked on yet, we're afraid booking is closed- sorry! Hope to see you next time!
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Summer D-Weekends: Booking Open!
12/03/10 16:47
Just a little note to let you all know that booking is now open for our summer D-Weekends. That's May in the South and June in the North. If you're in Years 7-9 and interested in your faith, fun and friends, we'd love to see you there, as we always have a great time and love meeting old and new friends!
RED Weekend and Comments
02/03/10 10:52
Savio House, Here We Come!
11/02/10 10:45
Another year gone by...
10/08/09 11:04
Yes, another year really has gone by, and we've just had the Festival Sanctus to prove it. It was a brilliant year, with some amazing missions, fun D-Weekends, an awesome RED Weekend and good old Festival Sanctus all playing a part in our- and hopefully your- fun! But this time of year also means saying goodbye to those people who have worked with Sion Youth Ministry and been such important parts of our work and life as a community.
And so, we need to say goodbye to some amazing people, without whom our lives this year wouldn't have been quite so fun!
So a huge good bye and thank you to:
Nick Miller, Araba Adjaye, Emiliy McGranaghan, Pavla Petraskova, Clare Walsh, and - one of our longest serving team members, having worked for Sion Youth Ministry for 7 years - Gemma Wildsmith.
And so, we need to say goodbye to some amazing people, without whom our lives this year wouldn't have been quite so fun!
So a huge good bye and thank you to:
Nick Miller, Araba Adjaye, Emiliy McGranaghan, Pavla Petraskova, Clare Walsh, and - one of our longest serving team members, having worked for Sion Youth Ministry for 7 years - Gemma Wildsmith.
Snow and Ketchup at D-Weekend North...
04/02/09 16:14
That time of year had once again come when we found ourselves piling into the van on a chilly winter's morning to begin the long journey north to the wonders of Savio House for D-Weekend North. A whole year since we were last there, and clearly they'd missed us so much that we arrived to find the Barn newly decorated!!
Well, for a number of reasons our numbers were few, but that didn't stop the fun at D-Weekend! With the theme of "Where is your God?", we looked at where we find God in our lives and how we share his love with others. The obligatory and infamous Savio Surprise and trek up to White Nancy (where we were greeted by the first of many snow flakes) were much enjoyed by all, and we can't wait to be back together in the summer for more fun and laughter. So if you're a northern bod in school years 7-9, why not join us for the next one? You can get more information and even book online already!
Well, for a number of reasons our numbers were few, but that didn't stop the fun at D-Weekend! With the theme of "Where is your God?", we looked at where we find God in our lives and how we share his love with others. The obligatory and infamous Savio Surprise and trek up to White Nancy (where we were greeted by the first of many snow flakes) were much enjoyed by all, and we can't wait to be back together in the summer for more fun and laughter. So if you're a northern bod in school years 7-9, why not join us for the next one? You can get more information and even book online already!
Clare P
Celebrate Bristol
03/11/08 11:11
Well, we've just had a GREAT weekend down in Bristol working alongside Sion Community's Primary Team running the Primary School Streams at Celebrate Bristol... The Son Beams and Sparklers were amazing fun to be with, and we all enjoyed the action songs, crafts, prayer and our Night of Light Party... and celebrating Greg's birthday on Saturday!
The weekend was brilliant, and we're all excited about Celebrate Ilfracombe next Easter, where we'll be working with Cross Purposes stream again... see you there? (if you're in Year 7-8, that is!)
The weekend was brilliant, and we're all excited about Celebrate Ilfracombe next Easter, where we'll be working with Cross Purposes stream again... see you there? (if you're in Year 7-8, that is!)
Summer Camp Booking Forms...
27/04/07 21:07
For those of you who've been looking (and those of you who haven't, but are now!) the booking forms for Summer Camp 2007 are now available to download! Click here to get it!
Happy Easter from Celebrate!
08/04/07 17:35
Celebrate, here we come!
28/03/07 16:34
It's all go here as we get ready for our annual visit to the Celebrate Conference. Members of Sion Community's Youth Ministry will be involved in Joel's Bar (Rachel, Matt and Neil), Cross Purposes (Sarah, Gemma, Carol, Clare, Amy, and Kate) and leading workshops (David). We'll all getting excited and putting together the last bits and pieces for our respective streams. So, if you're coming to Celebrate and working with us, we're looking forward to seeing you there! Those of you who won't be there, we wish a very joyful and holy Easter!
Stop The Traffik
25/03/07 11:12
Today, we celebrate 200 years since the abolition of slavery. Despite this, slavery still exists in many forms today. The Stop the Traffik campaign focuses on human trafficking, and is using this year to campaign for the end to all forms of slavery. There are events going on all over the country, and it's a great way to get involved and help to promote the dignity of the human person that we all have through being children of God.
Click the logo to check out the website.
Click the logo to check out the website.
Virtual Vigil 2...
14/02/07 10:04
So Virtual Vigil 2 came and went, and we all had a great time, and are eagerly looking for where we can fit VV3 into our diaries! If you haven't been part of either of the VV events, here's some information about what went on... and if you were part of one or both of ther Virtual Vigils, we'd love to hear you feedback so we can makes things even better next time... so let us know- what did you love and what was not so good?
Happy New Year!
04/01/07 14:17
 | We hope you all had a great time on New Years Eve. Here at Sion we had our annual Big Oasis at our HQ in Brentwood. Somewhere between 70 and 100 people joined us for the evening. We prayed, we praised, we celebrated Mass and we partyed into the early morning! In fact, as midnight struck, we were offering our prayers for the New Year to God. So, it's now 2007, and we're getting ready for another Community Gathering, where we all get together to have some training and prayer in preparation for the term ahead of us! |
Virtual Vigil 2!
10/12/06 11:53
Keep your eyes open!!!
16/11/06 12:07
Christmas is here!!! OK, OK so that's not true, is not even Advent yet! But some of the team wish it was Christmas already.
Imagine Christmas day was changed to...TOMORROW!!!! Would you be ready? We definitely wouldn't! So maybe a little prep time is good, it could even be great fun!
This year we want to celebrate Advent better than ever...so, watch this space!
PS: check out the updated version of the D-Weekend North Flyer with the right date on!!!
Imagine Christmas day was changed to...TOMORROW!!!! Would you be ready? We definitely wouldn't! So maybe a little prep time is good, it could even be great fun!
This year we want to celebrate Advent better than ever...so, watch this space!
PS: check out the updated version of the D-Weekend North Flyer with the right date on!!!
Summer Camp 2006
05/08/06 19:39
Well, our last post as a Cross Purposes team 05/06...(whimper) but the hilarity will continue muchly next year!
Summer camp was amazing, many people saying the best ever! Hope those of you who went really got a lot out of it, we certainly did. We'd love all the summer campers to join the forum! Come on and join in the fun! And remember that even after the camp buzz has ended God is still there with you! It would be great to hear about how you guys are after camp, things that you've been up to, how you're finding prayer etc...
We have put up what pictures we have. We would love you to add to them but only send us pictures with people over 18 - sorry. Check out our gallery here.
So a farewell from many of the team this year, thank you for being so amazing, keep spreading the word about how great God is, and keep journeying with Him - it's well worth it!!
God Bless! xxx
PS. Catch you on the Forum
Summer camp was amazing, many people saying the best ever! Hope those of you who went really got a lot out of it, we certainly did. We'd love all the summer campers to join the forum! Come on and join in the fun! And remember that even after the camp buzz has ended God is still there with you! It would be great to hear about how you guys are after camp, things that you've been up to, how you're finding prayer etc...
We have put up what pictures we have. We would love you to add to them but only send us pictures with people over 18 - sorry. Check out our gallery here.
So a farewell from many of the team this year, thank you for being so amazing, keep spreading the word about how great God is, and keep journeying with Him - it's well worth it!!
God Bless! xxx
PS. Catch you on the Forum
Summer Camp 2005 Slideshow
17/07/06 17:18
As Summer Camp gets ever closer we thought we'd whet your appetite for fun with a little slideshow of last years fun. Beware! Some of the pictures aren't of people at their best.
See photo's here.
See photo's here.
New Prayer Reflection
12/07/06 21:59
Summer Camp
12/07/06 21:55
Summer Camp is nearly upon us. Don't fear though you still have time to get your forms in, but only just. Click Here for a form. Make sure you send it in ASAP because it makes it very difficult for us if you send them in late. We aren't setting a deadline at this point but we may do so get the form off quickly and you have the best chance of getting in.
That said we look forward to seeing you for another completely amazing SUMMER CAMP.
Summer Camp 2006 here we come.
BRING IT ON
That said we look forward to seeing you for another completely amazing SUMMER CAMP.
Summer Camp 2006 here we come.
BRING IT ON
D-Weekends - We have come to worship Him!
17/02/06 20:51
This was the theme of the D-Weekend we had in October in the south and the one we've just got back from in the North. They were the biggest D-Weekends ever! We had an absolutely fantastic weekend with loads of young people from all over the north of England - Bradford, Sheffield, Doncaster, Manchester and of course the Wirral were all well represented.
As you may have seen from the forum - there was a bit of a prank war - involving lots of water, hiding people's belongings and a huge pillow fight! We also had some great prayer times and looked at what it meant to join together as community to worship God and how our whole lives should be lived as worship to God - praying at the bus stop, offering to do the washing up or simply smiling at someone!
There was also plenty of Nutball (James and Dom couldn't come up with a better game after all!), long walks in the beautiful countryside and gorgeous food from our wonderful cook Cath. I don't know about you but I am sooooooooo looking forward to the next one!
For more info on the next D-Weekends - check out our events page where you can download flyers for the ones happening in June.
As you may have seen from the forum - there was a bit of a prank war - involving lots of water, hiding people's belongings and a huge pillow fight! We also had some great prayer times and looked at what it meant to join together as community to worship God and how our whole lives should be lived as worship to God - praying at the bus stop, offering to do the washing up or simply smiling at someone!
There was also plenty of Nutball (James and Dom couldn't come up with a better game after all!), long walks in the beautiful countryside and gorgeous food from our wonderful cook Cath. I don't know about you but I am sooooooooo looking forward to the next one!
For more info on the next D-Weekends - check out our events page where you can download flyers for the ones happening in June.