Crusader Event!

Tomorrow the leaders of Crusaders are meeting to discuss a couple of things. Firstly to sort out if we are going to follow the national organisation and change our name from "Crusaders" to "Urban Saints". This is obviously quite an important decision to make and it would be brill if you praying types could pray for us.

Our main reason for meeting is to plan for an outreach event in the new year. Over the past years our numbers have fallen to around 4 or 5 older secondary kids each week. This is due to mostly a lack of leaders and therefore a lack of resource. This makes planning an exciting program harder and last year meant that we often had to cancel an evening. With this lack of consistency a lot more of the younger people have stopped coming. Also advertising to younger, primary, kids has been rather non-existent again because of a lack of people.


The idea is to (on a Saturday afternoon) have inflatables and sumo suits etc. in the church hall where we meet. We also want games and other interesting things going on and hope to have lots of 8-12 year old's having fun and getting them interested in coming along on Monday nights. Then on the regular Mondays have a fast moving, engaging program and an atmosphere which they feel comfortable in.


There are a number of problems though:

• We will need to publicise the event well

Sadly in the past the primary schools have been very resistant to us coming in and talking probably because Pollockshields has large majority of Muslim and Seekers in the area which are resistant to Christianity.

• More support and leaders

The local Churches seem to have little or no youngsters in and there seems little ambition from the churches to improve the situation, they all seem doom and gloom about it! Also one of our female leaders has left. So now the group is run by my dad (John), Louise (19), Craig (19 & non-christian) and myself (18). While of course younger leaders is great, there is much responsibility still placed on John, also Louise (being the only female) needs to turn up every week so that girls can come.

• What to do with the existing older primary Kids

We have a small number of older kids whom probably don't want to join in with the younger guys.

These things seem to be limiting us and when planning for the afternoon and the program for the new year there seem so many problems, difficulties and at times it seems impossible. There there is no point moaning though because I completely trust that God has a plan! The victory IS the Lords and he WILL prevail. So could you pray that when we, the leaders, meet tomorrow that we would open ourselves to Gods wonders and not limit him because then we will see miracles.

As I said, we will need one off volunteers for the "Event" but we desperately need more leaders for us to see the group grow again; especially females. Crusaders is a non-denominational Christian youth group for 8-16 year olds. We run on a Moday night from 7-8:30pm at Pollockshields Church and run a games based program. The aim is to teach young people about God in an engaging way! If your interested in being a volunteer then please email me and I'll get back to you!! I have no doubt God WILL provide the children and the volunteers for he is God. He WILL make all these things possible.