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Acorn Community Church & YFC North East are looking to employ a youth worker to fulfil
the following combined role:

* To develop the existing youth work programme for 11-18’s at Acorn Community Church
* To be proactive in the provision of YFC’s Rock Solid, RS2 and Mettle programmes to churches in the region

JOB DESCRIPTION AND PERSON SPECIFICATION:

Job Title:       Youth Worker

Location:       YFC Offices, North Shields and Acorn Community Church, Whitley Bay

Hours:            Full time shared post between YFC North East & Acorn Community Church

Start Date:     1st April 2009

Pay Scale:    £16,500 - £19,000 depending on experience of which 25% will be self funded through personal support.

JOB SUMMARY:

Main Duties Church Resource Department YFC North East

• To be proactive in the provision of the Rock Solid, RS2 and Mettle programmes
• To follow through churches registering for Rock Solid, RS2 and Mettle in terms of training and support
• To create and implement relevant inter church events for 11 – 14’s

Main Duties Youth Worker Acorn Community Church (ACC)

• To develop and oversee the growing youth work programme (for 11’s–18’s) at AcornCC
• To build teams of leaders to serve within the various youth initiatives
• To develop a relevant worship expression for young people within Whitley Bay

Applications & Interviews

The closing date for applications is January 7th 2009
Those who are selected for interview will be invited to Whitley Bay for the weekend of January 17th & 18th, with the interviews themselves being on Monday January 19th. This will give applicants the opportunity to meet some of Acorn’s young people and to experience the church on Sunday morning. On Sunday evening there’ll be the chance to go to IXth Hour to see one of YFC North East’s regular inter church events at the Newcastle City Hall – the speaker that night is Mark Richie with worship led by yfriday.

For and application form or any further information please contact Alison Edwards at Alison@yfcnortheast.org.uk or on 07703 797077

Alpha

We’ll be starting a brand new Alpha Course on Sunday February 1st.
For more information contact Julia: 07984 549000

Proud of Ken’s award

The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) honoured Acorn's worship director Ken Riley at its London awards ceremony last month. The award is for Everlasting God being one of the top 20 most performed songs across all genres in the USA. This is the first Christian song to have received this award, and it's incredible that it shares the honours with songs by U2, Paul McCartney, Rolling Stones, Dido etc. It was great that God was glorified in a place usually reserved for the praises of men. Here is the ASCAP press release. (Photo by Sylvan Mason)

• October 15, 2008 - Publishing | Global
  By Andre Paine, London
  
  The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) honored U.K. artists including Dido, Kate Nash and pop-rock band The Kooks at its London awards ceremony.
  
  The ASCAP Awards, held at the Grosvenor House Hotel tonight (Oct. 15), recognized the most performed works in 2007 by writer and publisher members of U.K. collecting society PRS, who are licensed by ASCAP for the U.S.
  
  Hosted by ASCAP senior VP, International Roger Greenaway and VP, membership Sean Devine, the ceremony also included a performance by husband and wife songwriting/production team and recording artists Ashford and Simpson.
  
  Dido, who releases her new album "Safe Trip Home" (Sony BMG) on Nov. 17, was named songwriter of the year. She also won ASCAP awards in recognition of the number of U.S. public performances last year of "Thank You" and "White Flag" (Warner/Chappell Music U.K.).
  
  The song of the year honor went to John Beck and Steve Chrisanthou for EMI recording
  artist Corinne Bailey Rae's "Put Your Records On" (published by Good Groove Songs Ltd).
  
  Kate Nash won the ASCAP Vanguard Award for her debut album, "Made of Bricks" (Geffen).
  Nash is signed to Universal Music Publishing
  
  The Kooks was honored with the ASCAP College Award for their debut album, "Inside In/Inside Out"
  (Astralwerks). The band is signed to Sony/ATV Music Publishing U.K.
  
  "We're very pleased to celebrate the achievements of the writer and publisher members of the
  PRS whose music is represented by ASCAP in the United States," said Roger Greenaway in a
  statement. "I'm especially pleased to pay tribute to Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson. Their
  songs have truly stood the test of time."
  
  Guy Moot, managing director at EMI Music Publishing U.K., was named publisher of the year.
  Honorees in the film and TV theme categories included Cathy Dennis, Julian Gingell and
  Barry Stone for "American Idol."
  
  Annie Lennox collected her eighth ASCAP Award for the Eurythmics song "Sweet Dreams
  (Are Made Of This)," co-written with Dave Stewart and represented by Universal Music Publishing.
  Songwriter Ken Riley's "Everlasting God" (Thankyou Music Ltd) was the first Christian
  music song to be recognized at the ceremony.
  
  There were also ASCAP Awards for songs written by AC/DC's Brian Johnson ("Back In Black",
  "You Shook Me All Night Long"), New Order ("Blue Monday"), Paul McCartney ("Come Together",
  "Hello Goodbye"), Yusuf Islam ("First Cut Is The Deepest"), U2 ("I Still Haven't Found What I'm
  Looking For"), Paolo Nutini ("New Shoes"), Def Leppard ("Pour Some Sugar On Me") and Keith
  Richards and Mick Jagger ("Start Me Up").

Additional Carol Services (December 21st)

Due to the popularity of our annual carol service we'll now be holding two on Sunday December 21st.
Carol services are great occasions for setting aside time amidst the craziness of Christmas to reflect on
what Christmas can really mean for us.

The first one will be at 4p.m. and be very much geared towards all ages. including lots of your favourite carols (by candlelight) and various children’s items. The second one will be at 6.30p.m. This one will be a little bit more traditional; again with lots of carols and a relevant Christmas message.

After each of the carol services you are invited to stay behind for mince/fruit pies and drinks.