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Parachute 09 - final result

Gavin Gunston — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 12:01:40 +1200

Wow, what an awesome Parachute Festival that was eh! Casting Crowns and Cutless filled the main stage out and I've eaten enough donuts to last me a lifetime!

We have now done the final calculations for the donut machine fundraiser and we think we have raised around $4500 for the Vanuatu missions team and our local youth projects. For one weekend that is unbelievable! So a massive huge ups to you guys and girls that helped, you were awesome!

A special thanks to the boys that help do the big setup and Peter & Marina Young who gave extra help throughout the weekend!

Adventure camp photos now online

Gavin Gunston — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:14:40 +1200

Click on "Gallery" above to view the photos

Where is God if you don't come first? (an inspiring video from US Marathon Olympic Trialist)

Gavin Gunston — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:03:38 +1200

Hey guys. This got emailed to me a few weeks back and is actually a pretty challenging and inspiring story so though I'd share it with you. If you ever find anything that is inspiring or just plain hilarious forward me the link through "Dr Gav" and I'll get it up.

Thinking of getting baptised?

Gavin Gunston — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 11:51:55 +1200

As we've mentioned recently at The Reach, we're looking at having a special service for those youth that want to get baptised later this term but if that's too soon for you then we will make another opportunity for you.

It does sound like a number of you are currently thinking about baptism so no doubt there's heaps of questions and thoughts going through you're mind like, "why should I bother getting baptised?", "am I too young to get baptised now?" or "is it the right time for me?"

The best thing for you to do is to talk to your small group leader or any of the leaders you feel comfortable with. Some of the youth at The Reach have already been baptised (e.g. Jo and Donald Burnett got baptised last year) so you could talk to them too about their experience and why they did it.

If though you would rather just think through things first, I've put some of my thoughts in this article.

If you've got any other questions or want me to expand on something, just click on Dr Gav and you can ask it annonymously.

Click on "read the rest" to see my questions and answers. I will update the below as I receive more questions/thoughts.

Summer Camp 2006 - a summary

Robert Kern — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 14:38:00 +1200

Have you ever seen the wonderful sight of 2 litres of milk being power chucked from the stomach of Joe? Well that was some of the craziness and fun times at this years end of year youth camp at Highams beach, South Head. 30 or so dudes and lasses convoyed up after crashing BK and Maccas for the good stuff. Everyone got a few scares in the deer shed that night, especially Ruth. Whilst there were no injuries or bulls the game were exciting and team building.

Hunting Trip 2006

Robert Kern — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 14:35:23 +1200

On Friday the 18^th October, 14 of us boys from KBC, loaded up the hilux and a couple of other vehicles and headed down to the mighty Taranaki for the 2006 Wild goat hunt. We had a good team this year with ages ranging from 13-23 and everyone keen as to stretch there legs and chase some goats. The purpose of the trip is to get the boys out there roughing it for a weekend in Gods awesome creation, building relationships with each other and just letting boys be boys. No guns are taken on the trip, as there are a lot of people and its good just teaching the boy's about good old fashioned goat chasing.

Snow Trip 2006

Robert Kern — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 14:28:30 +1200

After a long but fun bus trip down, a group of about 40 of us finally arrived at Tarawera camp at 2am so quickly got settled in ready for an early start the next day.

Summer Camp 2006 photos

Gavin Gunston — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 16:19:28 +1200

The photos from Summer Camp 2006 are now online! Enjoy here!

VIDEO: First stage of 2006 NZ winch challenge

Robert Kern — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 14:39:11 +1200

Click through for a video of the first stage of the 2006 NZ 4WD Winch Challenge...

VIDEO: Snow Camp 2006

Robert Kern — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 09:23:44 +1200

Snow camp 2006 video is available here. Click through to view....

VIDEO: Summer Camp 2002

Robert Kern — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 09:34:57 +1200

This is the video we made of Sumer Camp 2002, Naki Challenge (whatever you want to call it!).

VIDEO: Summer Camp 2003

Robert Kern — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 09:16:33 +1200

This is the video we made of Sumer Camp 2003, Naki Challenge (whatever you want to call it!).

Easter camp poll results

Guest — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 10:48:36 +1200

Click through for the results of the poll from the old website...

e-camp 2006

Robert Kern — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 14:49:57 +1200

“This year was the first time that KBC had a group going to the E-Camp for Year 7 and 8. What an amazing weekend they all had. It was a privilege to see these children grow in the Lord over 3 days – raising their arms to the Lord during worship, listening avidly to the stories told by Stu Duval, meeting new friends and also having some serious fun. Next year we would like to see 40 children from this community go. One thing that really stood out to us at the camp was that many of the leaders were males and the children really responded to the male role models.”
Caroline and Libby

Easter Camp 2006

Guest — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 14:45:38 +1200

“Easter Camp as usual was so much fun. It’s my favorite time of year; time to reflect on Jesus dying on the cross for us, his resurrection, and the whole youth community. My favorite thing about Easter Camp for me had to be playing on mainstage, it was so much fun.”
Nathan Peters