(22) Preparing of Tea Party

Time: 1h 30min
People in charge: ChiHsuan, Nathanael
Attendee : Rebecca, Dorothea, Daniela, Jonathan, Pei-Ying, Wei-Hsiang, Nathanael, Wei-Hsiang,
ChiHsuan, HsiaoGuan, Elisabeth, ManYi

First hmny practice led by ChiHsuan. We were able to learn soprano and base form the hymn "People need the LORD". ManYi played the piano for us. Due to the copy machine being defect we had to use the beamer. The disadvantage was, that some words were hard to read the advantage was, that the leader(ChiHsuan) got more attention and everyone looked up. Everyone behaved in a adequate way... so not too happy and loud nor to silent and passive.^^
Thanks to our two guests HsiaoGuan and ChiHsuan we could learn the song better.

After that Jonathan and Dorothea hold the speech.

Prayer.

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Fellowship this Sabbath (27.2)‏

On the coming Sabbath, we'll have fellowship. Our missions would be:

1. Practicing the hymns (People need the Lord, Geh unter der Gnade & His name is Jesus)

2. Finishing the sermon exercise

3. Prayer

Concerning that I have to conduct the regular BA meeting at the same time, I deliver the leading of hymn practice to Chi-Hsuan (and the pianist is Manyi ), and that of the sermon exercise to Nathanael. Please use your time very well to complete these missions. At the end of the fellowship, please take some time to pray for the evangelic tea party. May God work through us and unite us more and more.

Tea Party email Information

Hallelujah, dear youths in Christ,

This mail is from Heidelberg Youth Fellowship. We are very glad to invite you to join a meaningful attempt of preaching with us. As you might know, there will be a spring convocation in Heidelberg on 1-4 April; and before that, there will be a Holy-Work Training for the youths in Europe on 29 March-1 April. The purpose of the Holy-Work Training is to improve us the knowledge for evangelism. Therefore, with this purpose and our duty as Christians to spread the gospel, we Heidelberg Youth Fellowship is planning an Evangelic Tea Party, at 14:30-16:30 on Thursday, 1.4.

The plan is like this:

-Welcome & a little game

-Hymn sharing (His Name is Jesus & People Need the Lord)

-Hymn teaching (Viele kleine Leute)

-Sermon & feedback

-Hymn sharing (Geh unter der Gnade)

-Tea time

You are very very welcome to involved in this event if you are coming and willing to. There are several things needing your hands:

1. Guests bringing
It's understandable that for those who live far away, its very difficult to bring someone with you. But a try is still possible. Please consider to invite your friends to come.

2. Hymns practicing

We plan to present 2 English songs (His Name is Jesus & People Need the Lord) and 1 German song (Geh unter der Gnade) during the "Hymn sharing". The sheets will be sent by e-mail next week. Please learn the songs at first. We will also practice them together during 29-31 March.

OK, it seems a bit far away to accomplish the 2 things mentioned above, nevertheless one thing can be done immediately and constantly. That is to prepare ourselves for this event --
to prepare with the basic knowledge about our church, and with our unceasing prayer.

Thanks for your attention. Please pass this message to any church member who might be interested in it. May God help us and guide us in this matter so that we act according to his will and in harmony with one another.

Take care and God bless. Emmanuel,

In Christ,

Heidelberg Youth Fellowship

15.02.2010

Daniela´s künstlerische contribution^^ Thanks!



Tiana´s contribution:please check them they are helpful (Mail from 28.01.10)

Here are some websites with Ice Breaker activities, you can use them as a reference:

http://www.group-games.com/games-by-type (I thought the Shoe ID game was kind of funny and not too complicated, and won't take too long. I didn't read all of them tho)

http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson/lesson196.shtml (Stringing Conversation Together can be a good alternative to the Shoe ID game if you feel uncomfortable about the 'shoe' being involved. I didn't read all of them tho)

http://www.residentassistant.com/games/icebreakers.htm (There are some funny ones here. The Toilet Paper game may be amusing. This is similar to the M&M one if you don't want to waste toilet paper in the activity.

(21)Preparing of Tea Party

Time:
Attendee : Rebecca, Dorothea, Daniela, Jonathan, YiYun

Every group or person in charge of a area had to report about their proceedure and so far preperations.

Invitationcard
Daniela presented the invitation card.
We discussed about the background and the text on it.
Thanks to Danielas fotoshop experience she could realise our idears.

Speech

Daniela





and Maggie





did their speach which were recorded.

Food
nothing great to report.

Hymn
Longer discussion about the Hymn we are going to share.
It should be a Canon and so it was favoured most "Viele Kleine Leute"
"His name is Jesus"

Gerneral
Everyone agreed that we should look up the ice breaker links Tiana send to us.
We could use name tags so people can call each other by name.
We should prepare something for the people to take home with them. Maybe the calenders from US. So maybe Tiana can bring some along.