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ABN 31 680 463 468

Term 12017 Newsletter

There’s now only a few weeks to go until the AYF Dinner on Saturday 1st April and the night is already shaping up to be one of the biggest ever! The evening starts at 6 for 6:30pm and the theme is “Wise or Foolish” with inspiration from Ephesians 5:15 “Watch carefully then how you live, not as foolish persons but as wise.”

This year we are delighted to have the General Manager of Generate Ministries, Mr James Flavin, as our guest speaker. Generate supports school ministry in 400 Government schools across NSW. This is James’ first real ‘churchy’ job - his background is in Corporate Treasury & Superannuation. He is an advanced-level scuba diver, an adequate amateur historian and an atrocious golfer. His

detractors have called him “the most aggressive parachurch leader in NSW”, “NSW’s leading child evangelist” and “Barbra

Streisand”. (continued inside...)

To establish, maintain and grow Christian witness and education in Armidale’s State High Schools.

Armidale Youth Futures Inc

Dates for Your Diary• 1st April 2017 - Annual Fundraising Dinner. Come and enjoy great fellowship, fun games

and exciting auction while supporting AYF’s work. 6pm for 6:30 Armidale Ex-Services Club Tickets available online at www.ayf.org.au or at Koorong Bookshop (Cash Only)

• Can You Help? Share the Art Auction details with your friends... Visit www.ayf.org.au to spread the word and help your friends find a bargain!

Annual Fundraising Dinner & Art Auction

James has one wife, two children & one dog. All but the dog attend an Anglican church in the St. George district of Sydney. As an added bonus, James moonlights as a professional commedian and is bound to entertain as he shares this year’s main address (check him out at www.jamesflavincomedy.com).

With more paintings than ever before and with a range of prices and styles you’re sure to find something that catches your eye! You can preivew all of the art at www.ayf.org.au/artAnd now, with online bidding, everyone from Broome to Byron (and everywhere in-between and beyond!) can have the opportunity to purchase some beautiful Australian art at

incredible prices - all while supporting a very valuable cause.Guests and visitors can browse through all the art and view larger previews on screen. It’s also possible to purchase any item marked “For Sale” at anytime before the auction and you can place proxy-bids on any of the Auction items. These bids will be incorporated into the Live Auction during the Dinner on Saturday 1st April. If you know someone that may be interested in the art, please feel free to send them a link from the website www.ayf.org.au.

What Makes SRE Special?Special Religious Education equips students to make informed life choices. In Christian SRE students will see a Christian response to many of life’s big questions, such as; What will I do with my life? Where will I spend eternity? Who can I trust? How will I treat other people and the world I live in? Why isn’t the world perfect? As students explore the pages of the Bible they are able to see who God is and his lifesaving action for the world.

In Term 1 students in Years 7 and 8 are exploring how ‘the Bible is so much more than a book of morals, a history of an ancient people, or a collection of writings. The Bible is the epic love story of how God does not give up on a world that hates him. It is the story of God pursuing us, even though we are his enemies, and loving us so much that he gave his one and only Son to die in our place.’*

Armidale Youth Futures inc.

You can make a differenceRESPONSE FORM:

This ministry is funded entirely through gifts from the Armidale community.

Alternatively, visit www.ayf.org.au and click ‘Donate to AYF’ to make

your donation by credit card.

Completed forms should be mailed to:Armidale Youth Futures

P.O. Box 1711, Armidale NSW 2350

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All donations $2

and over are tax

deductible.

Thank you for investing in the lives of the young people of Armidale for the gospel.

ABN 31 680 463 468

Matt Mulready,Armidale and Duval High Schools SRE Teacher

A.Y.F. PO Box 1711 Armidale 2350 info@ayf.org.au www.ayf.org.auABN 31 680 463 468Armidale Youth Futures is a ministry of the Armidale Ministers’ Fellowship and is in partnership with Generate – strengthening ministries in NSW schools.

Please Pray...

• For the team of volunteers leading discussion groups at SRE seminars on Friday mornings; Robert Baker, Maria Craven, Josiah Elsley, Graham Knuckey, Kurt Langmead, Merrilyn Pearson

• For the bunch of Year 7 students attending ISCF

• For Amy Gow, maths teacher at Duval High School, who assists leading ISCF

• For families to make the most of the opportunity available in SRE

• For more students to meet together to read the Bible at Support Pod, the new senior ISCF group at Armidale High School

• For growing rapport with Year 7 students

To establish, maintain and grow Christian witness and education in Armidale’s State High Schools.

For students in Years 9 and 10, ‘as we explore the Bible, we not only need to discover where we are in the Bible story (biblical theology), we also need to discover the type of genre being used. This will help us interpret God’s word with clarity and understanding.’*

Matt Mulready

* Quotes taken from Think Faith Curriculum

Please Praise God...

AYF Management Committee Member Church ContactAndrew Coburn Armidale District Baptist 6772 1360

Robert Dewhurst Armidale District Baptist 6775 1727

Robert McClenaghan St Marks Anglican 6775 1631

Jason Riley St Peter’s Anglican 0409 396 713

Philip Ward Armidale City Church 6772 2087

David Wysel St Peter’s Anglican 0418 632 129

Julie Tadman Chapel St. Baptist 5713 0002