IXth Hour

IXth Hour is a monthly event that attracts young people to come together and worship God in a safe environment.

Sunday 27th June at Newcastle City Hall

YFRIDAY’S LAST IXTH HOUR!!

7pm with special guest Mark Ritchie

Yes the time has finally come to see the parting of Yfriday and IXth Hour. We will be celebrating 16 amazing years of a wonderful partnership and looking forward to see what the future holds. Mark Ritchie and Yfriday are good old pals so who better to give them a pat on the back and send them lovingly from our IXth Hour arms?!

Mark is a passionate Scotsman who has travelled all over the world communicating about the cross. He mixes a unique blend of humour with the Gospel message. Mark's organisation, the 73rd Trust exists to engage the unchurched through relevant communication of the Gospel, to provide a resource to the church as it seeks to reach out and make a difference in this nation and to act as a support base for Mark, that will enable him to pioneer numerous and diverse channels of communicating the Gospel to today's generation. Mark is married to Tamzin and they have two children Jordan and Keziah and currently live in Nottingham.

As always Galactus Jack will also be joining us and drawing us into the evening. £5 on the door, doors open 6.30pm.

Although IXth Hour is aimed at young people aged between 13 and 20 please do invite others from your churches if you think they would be interested in hearing any of our speakers.

Future 2010 Dates -

26th September
Newcastle City Hall

31st October
Yfriday's LAST GIG EVER! (not IXth Hour)
Newcastle City Hall

28th November
Newcastle City Hall

Venue Information
Newcastle City Hall, Northumberland Street, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, NE1 8SF

Get Involved
We need enthusiastic people to volunteer for our IXth Hour team in all locations. If you are interested in getting involved or for any further information about IXth Hour email Sharon at or phone 0191 2580 600.

Past IXth Hours -

Sunday 16th May at Whitley Bay Playhouse with Mark Ritchie
IXth Hour started many moons ago in the seaside town of Whitley Bay and we had a great night revisiting our roots with Mark Ritchie and Yfriday. We were looking at what it is we feel we need rescuing from in our own lives and here are some of your responses –

• relationships
  
• addictions
  
• peer pressure
  
• bad home situations

Our panel tackled these hard, but very real, issues to and gave some guidance as to how to try and cope in such challenging situations. Then Mark, as ever, spoke passionately about how it is only God that can rescue us.

Don’t forget to pray for the Lionsraw gang who are all going out on 12th June to Durban, South Africa for two weeks during the World Cup. The team will operate in ‘The Valley of a Thousand Hills', the epicentre of the World's HIV / AIDS crisis. Alongside existing local charities the team will help in construction projects and soccer academies for deprived local children during the day. Each evening the squad will retire to our fanzone for the full world cup tour experience.

Sunday 28th March at Hexham Community Church 7pm with Cris Rogers
Cris is the Pastor at Soul Survivor, Harrow. Since he was 15 Cris has been involved in pioneering youth work, and has a particular passion for unpacking the Bible for young people. He is passionate for social action, serving the lost and meeting people where they are at. He has written a few books which he makes all Church members read to knock the sales up from 5-6 copies sold. Cris is married to Beki and has a little boy called Isaac and girl called Daisy and loves watching films and even has his own cinema in his loft.
We also had local talents The Steels and Galactus Jack.

Sunday 28th February at Newcastle City Hall with Gavin Calver
Gav is the National Director of Youth for Christ. YFC specialize in communicating and demonstrating the Christian faith to over 300,000 young people a month. A graduate of the London School of Theology, ordained Baptist evangelist, author and regular public speaker. He is married to Anne, and they have a daughter Amelie and live in Halesowen, West Midlands.

Gavin loves sport, curry and devotedly following AFC Wimbledon.
We also had local talents Yfriday and Galactus Jack.
Gavin shared with us his own personal story of how life is sometimes tough but that through those times we need to stick with our faith and remember that God IS good.

We asked “How do you worship God even when its tough?”, here are some of your answers -
“I worship through routine and I realise how much God loves me; he’s the only comfort I need.”
“I must my music on really loud and sing, scream and dance until I have no energy left. Only then is my head clear enough to worship God properly, laying everything down.”
“I bang up the Yfriday tuuuuuuunes!!”
“I watch the Lifehouse skit on YouTube.”
“I sit in the middle of my floor in the dark with a lit candle and pray to God in the silence.”
“I try to take my eyes off me and onto God. Also, when people are dying in Haiti and Chile my troubles suddenly don’t seem so bad.”

Sunday 31st January at Hope Church, Sunderland with Jamie Hill
Jamie is the youth officer for The Bible Society, he works to take the Bible off the shelf and put it into the hearts of those who love Jesus. In January we raised £138.45 for the relief work in Haiti, thank you to everyone who gave.
As it was our first IXth Hour of 2010 we asked you all for your New Year’s Resolutions, here are some of them -

• read Romans 12:17-21 more
• be more friendly
• be kind to my sister
• read the bible more
• not to lose God this year
• write another worship song
• be more supportive of people
• to be loyal to one person and show them how much I love then every day
• bring one friend to Christ to meet more new people