ever wondered what cliff college does at christmas?

Thanks to Steve Wilde (see picture) for telling us what the cliff college community has been upto as it prepares for christmas.

Steve says...
"This year has been a very full programme
On Friday 9th December we took part in ‘Follow the Donkey’ a village live nativity with the Parish Church, Curbar Wesleyan Reform and Calver, Bakewell Methodist. Starting outside Calver Post Office and ending on ‘Stocking’ Farm it was brilliant with 140 people taking part one of our MA students Sunday Plinney and his wife Sarah played the part of Mary and Joseph with 10 day old Timothy as Jesus. Evangelist Sue Peat shared the message and we even had three ‘Punk Rock’ Angels who sang the Robbie Williams song ‘Angels’
On Monday 12th December we had the College Concert in the Chatsworth room which was hilarious Martyn the principal played his guitar and sang as did tutors Pete Philips and David Firth.
Tuesday 13th December saw the delicious Christmas Dinner with guest speaker Rev Ernie Grimshaw former Cliff student and Royal Navy Chaplain who came to Cliff in the late 1970’s unable to read and write he said ‘I owe everything to Cliff’if Wednesday was the years college Carol Service in the Cliff Hall it involved the whole community. Tutor Stephen Skuce shared a wonderful message and the college choir sang two items.
On Christmas day the College Chapel plays host to local churches who will all come to share ‘All Age’ Christmas Worship this service will involve a 4 foot cloth frog called ‘Clarence’ who will be a policeman ….the mind boggles"

Happy Christmas!

hunt for the best cracker jokes!

now then, it is that wonderful time of year when we get all excited about what might be contained in our christmas crackers. who cares about the hat or the plastic presents that get thrown in the bin, the thing we care about is the jokes! The jokes that are so bad that they hurt, the same jokes that appear year after year, the jokes that just aren't funny but without them our christmas would not be complete!

below are some jokes that have been found in crackers already, as you can see they are so unfunny that they are painful! Here goes:

Q: why don't ducks tell jokes when they're flying?
A: because they would quack up!

Q: How do you make gold soup?
A: put nine carrots in it!

Q: where do fish get their petrol?
A: shell!

Q: why was Cinderella no good at football?
A: because her coach was a pumpkin!

Q: why don't robots have brothers?
A: because they all have trans-sisters!

So there you go folks, lets hope that your cracker jjokes are as good as them. if you come across any better ones (or worse) then post them so we can all share them.

teamwest!

Well, they did it! Mr&Mrs West, or 'Teamwest' as they have named themselves! It was a fab wedding with lots of laughs, love and even a few tears. Here are a few photos, I'm sure Gem & Westy will have a few more to post after they get back off honeymoon.

changing tracks

seeing as some of you like the jcb song and some of you don't, we want to know what you love listening to.

if you ever listen to jo whiley on radio one you will have heard 'changing tracks'. this is when the listeners tell their favourite tracks and the reasons why they love them so much. sometimes it is simply because it makes them feel great, other times it is because it reminds them of happy memories, some tracks are picked because they helped the listener through a really tough point in their life.

if you asked me, my changing track would be 'one and only' by the drum & bass guru called ltj bukem. i remember hearing this for the first time round my mates house and it seemed to sum up the way i felt about God. i then got my own copy of it and kept playing it and playing it in my room at college. it also became the first drum & bass tune i used in a worship service. i love this song so much, it makes me smile and lifts my spirits every time i hear it.

so what are your changing tracks? let us know, what they are, why they are so important, and how they make you feel. i bet that you can't beat my bukem tune though!

can't wait to hear your tune selections!

matt

more festival fotos!

a big thank-you to amy for sending us some great pictures of last year's festival. loving the ducks and sheep!

jcb song

go buy this song! go buy this song! (oh, it's out on 12th dec- so go pre-order this song! go pre-order this song!)

this is the best song i've heard for ages. if you're on broadband go and watch the video here. it's so great! what do you think? come on, if we all buy it it might be number 1 for chrimbo!

love yaz
x

ps. sorry for using the youthblog to shamelessly advertise music i like!
pps. maybe there's some deep spiritual connection and God is speaking to us through it...
ppps. or maybe not.

wedding!

pray for gem&chris on 9th december @2pm

cos we will be getting married!