Sunday, June 5th at Derby Reach!

From Faith:

Okay everyone – for this Sunday we will meet at Derby Reach at 11:30. We’ll get there about 11’ish to reserve a couple of tables. Bring lawn chairs/blankets, eating utensils and a picnic lunch for your family. Also , if anyone has Bocchi or any other lawn games please bring those along. We’ll have lunch together and stay as long as everyone wants to. I would appreciate if you could let me know if you’re coming or not. Also if someone has a camp stove they want to bring and a big coffee pot let me know and I’ll bring the cream and sugar.

Hope ya’ll can come. It’s supposed to be a beautiful day. You can call me at 604-888-7808 for any other info or suggestions.

Springbrook Summer Schedule

Sorry about the delay for this post I am just trying to juggle the details.

Mark those calendars: we are planning to have the BBQ (shower...) for Eldon and Kim on Sunday, July 19! It will be completely un-shower like but a lot of fun sharing in how happy we are for the future Koops! And we love ANY excuse for a BBQ- this just happens to be a BBQ with purpose! Location to be announced.

This Sunday is hosted by Grant and Faith at Derby Reach starting at 11:30am!

I am missing a host for Aug 16. Let me know if you want to help.

July 5- Grant and Faith

July 19- BBQ get together/ Eldon and Kim's "shower" at the Harris' place starting at 4:30

Aug 2- Chris and Robyn

Aug 16- no one yet ?
Aug 30- Caves

For people that do host, you can set the plan (even if it's to meet at a certain park or whatever!). I will post your plan to the blog and you can send it to everyone using the email.

Please let me know if/ when you want to help and we'll try to get this thing rolling.

Happy Fathers Day Sunday!

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This Sunday, June 21 is our last Sunday of the 'year' indoors.
We're at Township Hall, this Sunday at 10am. After that- church without walls (and with BBQ's) for the summer.

I will try to put together a bit of a schedule, but watch this blog for summer details.

Summer dates are:
July 5
July 19
Aug 2
Aug 16
Aug 30

Mark your calendars as we want to spend some of the summer with the community we've come to love so much.

* Above photo is Grant wrapped up like a mummy, courtesy of Indie and Jordan. What can I say? Hang around Springbrook and we may bust out the mummy game for future events ;)

House Concert- June 5!

Rod and Kath are putting together a house concert at their place on Fri, June 5.

Come enjoy some good food (your own!) and great music with Chis Janzen and Jess Janz (before she goes away for the summer.) Chris has some new tunes and like fine wine, keeps get better and better!!! BBQ at 6.00, Music at 7.00 or so.

Bring whatever you want to BBQ and something to share and enjoy some great music. Cost is free, but offering will be taken to support these awesome talents.

If you're planning to come please give them a heads up at rodjanz@hotmail.com so they can plan for numbers. Hope you can come!

Springbrook Update

Hi Everyone-

I know we are meeting this week, but just wanted to update everyone on a few things.

1. This Friday is the day Andy and Helen's friends from YFC Rwanda will be here to do a bit of a presentation at Langley E Free Church (on 208th, by Newlands). They're going to talk about the school and the Elevation project, so it should be great. It starts at 7pm and I know they are really hopeful for a good turnout. Hope you can come!

2. We have decided to continue meeting as a church throughout the summer, every other week. However, after July 5 we won't be at Township Hall (until Sept). On Sunday I plan to have a sign up sheet and am going to ask Springbrookers to sign up to basically 'host' a week. So it can be a meal, hanging out, an activity, etc. It can be at your home, at the beach, at a park etc. Whatever! But you will organize it, tell people when and where and what to bring.That way Jordan and I still have the summer off of planning or organizing and we get to keep up our awesome Springbrook community. So take a look at your calendars and see where you could host.

3. Thanks to some of your who have already gotten back to me about if/how you're able to help out with the garage sale to support Langley YFC June 6. I plan to have ANOTHER sign up sheet on Sun for this so we can get our efforts organized.

4. I need to collect money this Sunday for Altar Boyz. Ticktets are $30 for 30 and under, $40 for 31+. This includes all taxes, service charge etc. This is the last week when I can add or delete tickets without penalty, so if you need to change your yes/no let me know. If you're not sure if you're on the list, just email me!

5. This Sunday we'll have Chris Janzen back to lead worship and Andy is speaking again, so it'll be another great week. Look forward to seeng you then!

YFC Garage Sale

Hi Springbrookers-

Danny and April are having a garage sale to support the work YFC is doing in Langley.

They're doing it at Langley Meadows school on Sat, June 6 from 9am-3pm. I have offered our help so I am hoping people can let me know if and how you would be able to pitch in!

Take a look and please get back to me.

What I need are:

-People to look through stuff at home and bring their contributions for the sale at 7:45am

-People with trucks or vans to help pick up bigger items the morning of the sale (like at 7:30/8am) and bring them to the school for the sale.

-People to help transport items from Ferguson's house to the school (7am)

-People to help set up at the school (7:30am)

-Tents that I can borrow in case it rains. Tables to use for putting items on.

-If people want to help during the sale roaming and talking with people and so forth, that's great.

-People to help with clean up at 3:00pm (this would also probably include people running some stuff to thrift store or dump afterwards)

Langley Meadows school is where we did the BBQ with YFC, it's just off 66th and 200th street.

Please let me know if you can help!!!

Jenn

Langley YFC Jazz & Java Fundraiser

We were lucky last week to have Danny Ferguson from Langley YFC with us.

We are really looking forward to some opportunities in the future to partner with all of the great work that they're doing in the community.

They are having a special eve coming up as fundraiser and a chance to hear about what they're doing. From Danny:

And our Jazz and Java Fundraiser:

Friday May 8^th from 7:00-8:30. Free live jazz and stories from what God is doing in the midst of Langley Youth For Christ / Youth Unlimited. Port Kells Church 88^th and 192nd. We are looking to finalize the numbers on this by this Friday May 1^st. Let me know who would like to come.

If you're able to come, just give Danny a heads up at: danny@youthunlimited.com.

More details on other ways to help coming up next week!!

Elevation Project Presentation

From Andy:

We are really looking forward to having Brad, Kiki and Oliviana Burnfield here from May 19th - 23rd. Brad and Kiki are workers with Rwanda YFC, Brad being the Principle of the school we work with in Kigali and Kiki coordinating the child sponsorship program. They are also hugely lovely people!

On Friday May 22nd at 7pm at Langley E Free church, Brad and Kiki will be doing a presentation about the school and the work there and we’ll be sharing more about our future plans for the Elevation Project. We’d love to see you there. It’s an open invitation to everyone so please can you can pass it on and invite friends? There is no charge but there will be snacks and an offering for the project as well as a chance to become child sponsors. No pressure though :)

This Sunday includes AGM!!

Just a reminder that this Sunday will be regular service followed by our quick AGM. Members, please plan to be there! Anyone else is welcome to attend. It's great for us to have everyone in on the happenings. And it's pretty quick and easy. We will done all by 11:30.

Also really looking forward to having YFC's Danny Ferguson coming to speak. He and his wife April have an amazing ministry to students here in Langley and he's going to share a bit of it with us.

See you then!

Springbrook Ladies Prayer Night and Get Together

From Faith:

Hi there,

As announced on Sunday we are having a get-together for the Springbrook gals on Friday, April 24 at 7:00. It will be a night of hanging out together with dessert, getting to know each other better and ending the evening with a time of prayer. Trudy and I will provide dessert. If you would like to bring a finger food or something savoury feel free but there is no pressure.

My address is #6 – 9208 208 Street. The name of the complex is Churchill Park. Pull up to the big white gates and call me from your cell phone – 604-888-7808. If you don’t have a cell with you then go to the gate phone and dial 221. After the gate opens you can drive in and park in the parking area on your right (across from our unit) or go around the corner to your left where there are more parking slots.

It would be great if I could know how many are coming but if you forget to RSVP, come anyways.

Looking forward to chatting with you and getting to know you better.

Faith