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Could u pray for Rm1 Hollyfield

I would like to share the pray for "B" in Rm1. He want me to pray for his farther come back. I feel sad in the rm1 many kid who i know has got single parent. And in this week when it is Father's Day

I wish they find the God who still love and care us.

Tamara Lewis Hamilton

Are you an inspired, enthusiastic, proactive individual committed to
Gods call on your life to support young people aged 11-14 in the
borough of Kingston?

Well by volunteering some of your time and skills to Oxygen?s ID
project you will help to encourage & guide young people who have been identified by their school as being in need of extra support and care.

Your contribution could help guide young people on a journey of self discovery & development, through a variety of creative & exciting
methods which challenge the young people to grow and flourish in a safe supportive environment, building their self esteem and social skills along the way.

If you believe God has given you a heart for these young people &
would like more information contact Tamara Lewis-Hamilton at
tamara.lewis-hamilton@oxygen-online.org or call 020 8547 0566.

Oxygen 5 a side Football Tournament

You are invited to take part in the Oxygen 5 a side football tournament to helped raise money to support the work of Oxygen. Taking place on Saturday 18th July between 10.30am & 1pm at Goals in New Malden and coordinated by Baptists together in Surbiton, the tournament is a chance to have fun in the sun and raise some money to support Oxygen.

It costs £50 to enter and all teams must be registered in advance. To find out more, register a team or see how you can be involved contact 020 8547 0566 or email football@oxygen-online.org

Vacancy: St Pauls Kingston Hill for a Full-time children’s/family worker

Saint Paul’s Kingston Hill is an evangelical charismatic Anglican church with a membership of 300+ and a growing work with 100+ 0-11 year olds as well as a church aided school next door.

We already have a full-time paid youth worker but now wish to strengthen our staff team by appointing a full-time children’s/family worker with vision and experience to:
• build relationships with children and their families;
• promote and develop parenting courses inside and outside the church;
• co-ordinate an outreach programme for under-11s;
• take over the co-ordination and leadership of our children’s work from the existing volunteer leaders

Salary £25,000 p.a.

Interested in joining us - or just finding out more? Then contact Rev. Simon Coupland at Simon.Coupland@stpaulskingston.org.uk

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VACANCY: Going Deeper at St Johns Kingston Vale

St Johns the Baptist, Kingston Vale in partnership with Oxygen (Kingston YFC) are looking to appoint a Youth worker to take on the coordination and development of the church’s outreach and discipling youthwork.The appointed person will be given the challenge of building on the mission links already being established between local young people and the church. The aim will be to encourage those young people in the community who have started to make connections with the church to take these further and involve their friends.

This post is offered at 10 hours per week during term time and so would suit someone seeking flexible working conditions. Deadline for applications is the 10th July. Part of the role includes attendance and involvement at St John’s on at least two Sundays per month. For an information and application pack contact the Oxygen office on 020 8547 0566 or email info@oxygen-online.org

Please pray

• Thank God for the opportunity that this post represents in allowing more young people from outside the church to come to faith
• Pray for St Johns and the young people of Kingston Vale, that they would be connected in through this role
• Finally pray for the appointment, that the right person would be available to take this post on

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Ki Hyoung Kim: Prayer Request Update

I have another prayer request….yesterday ‘B’ who is in rm1 ask me to pray for his family about problems. I didn’t ask what it is. But his mother said he has got a lot of trouble with his siblings at home. She is worried about him learning many bad language and behaviour from his brother’s friends. She really wants to connect him to some good, positive young people.

Thank for all your prayer

John

Oxygen at Christ Church New Malden

The Oxygen team have been on a 28 church tour talking about the work in the Borough. You can hear the latest sermon, recorded at Christchurch New Malden by clicking the link below. We have also uploaded a couple of other sermons onto the Oxygen podcast - you can download that by clicking the link on the right.

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Man and Boy Away Day

Man and Boy is a day away for Dads and a Significant male in their lives. Involving team and couple challenges, it is a chance for Fathers, Stepfathers, Uncles and Men to get to know the young men in their lives.

The next Man and Boy day builds on the success of the first with the boys at Rm1 by involving parents and young people from Christ Church New Malden. Coordinated by Nathan Larkin it is an exciting development in the ongoing work. You can click the flyer for details on how to be involved.

In the meantime can you pray for:

• Those who are organising the day that they would be inspired and given wisdom in putting in plans for the day
• Pray especially for Nathan as he leads the project
• For the right blend of Rm1 & CCNM people to be involved.
• For good weather and conditions throughout the day

An Interview with Nathan Larkin

At the end of my GAP year with Oxygen last year I took up a place with Christ Church New Malden who were interested in the work I had been involved with and wanted me to help support the church engage with young peopel external to the church.

The fast turnover rate of GAP year workers can often create a sense of instability and lack of continuity for the young people and the projects involved. Due to this, I was tasked with building lasting and meaningful relationships with the young people, they needed the continuity of someone who could commit for a longer period of time.

Returning after the summer break I spent the next few months using the experience and insight I had gained from my initial contact with the local young people to design and shape the position I am currently occupying.

I am now working as an ‘external youth worker’ at Christ Church in New Malden where I have been tasked with taking relationships established with local non-Christian, non-churched young people further and deeper, giving them the chance to explore faith issues.

In this process I am working alongside the church leadership to develop a response that connects them to the other communities within the church but creates space for young people for whom the church is an alien environment to develop in their own faith and Christian lifestyle at their own pace.

Much of the first year has been spent establishing contact, developing some of the relationships I already had, and attempting to create a group identity and shared values among these young people where they have not existed or been experienced before. I hope to explore ways to connect the external work to the other groups in the church, finding ways in which new young Christians from outside the church can be connected to the other members of the church community and vice versa. I hope to be able to find a way of ‘doing’ church that is embracing and accepting of who these young people are, where they have come from and that is sensitive to the fact that many of them don’t understand what is being talked about, and have little experience of church behaviour and language.

We hope to be able to nurture a new group of young people who will reach back into the church, rather than the traditional model of establishing a youth group from within the church who are encouraged to reach out, and as part of this, to give them the support, encouragement and freedom to relate to God in new and exciting ways.

Ki Hyoung Kim

I want to tell you about some of boys who come to Rm1 at the Hollyfield school. I think they need our pray and attention. One of the kids has had to stop coming temporarily because he was naugthty, we are hoping he will return after half term. His name is ‘B’ and he has a difficult background. During rm1 he usually makes trouble with everyone but i am hoping that someone could take care of that boy and seperate him from his friends he might be able to grow, develop and change.

Recently a new boy has come to Rm1. I will call him ‘M’. His mother isn’t very well so he lives with another family on a local estate. When Anna, my wife and I helped post leaflets about Oxygen on that estate last week we met him with his friends and got shown around his house.

Having got to know him, seen how he lives I am concerned for’ M’, concerned how he spends his time and what is around for him. He seems to be struggling in life, please pray for him…

Also please pray, we are planning on taking some of the young people swimming next week, showing them what options are around for them in the local area. Pray for this to go well

Thanks, John