Captain my captain!
Posted by COGS YOUTH | View Comments | Monday, May 23, 2011at 2:29 PM | Labels: Pauros, Youth camp 2006
Tonight, while I was reading through an old notebook of mine, underneath old hangman games, scribbles and messages to whoever was sitting next to me in church all those Sunday evenings, was notes from COGS Youth Camp 2006. This was our first youth camp of our own that we had done for many a year and this was also the first year that Paul Edy had been leading us on his own. What I found was remarkable about the notes from that camp was the incredible depth of what was taught that weekend.
Paul "Friday night sess" Edy kicked off the weekend with a preach expounding why and how we worship. What took me by surprise was that Paul took the Saturday evening as well. What would Richard say about that these days!? But that evening our chief preached up a storm on Exodus 33 and experiencing God's goodness and glory.
It's so exciting to me to think that 5 years on COGS youth has had an incredible culture and revelation of both worship and God's goodness. We have had extraordinary times of God's presence being made manifest in our midst together on Friday nights, camps as well as privately in our bedrooms and homes. This is testiment mainly to the fact that we have a man called Paul Edy who has resolutely preached truth relentlessly into the very fibre of who we are as a people and that he has never backed off from what he believes is our full inheritance!
Thank you Paul, for your faithfulness to the word of God, to his presence and to us, your merry band of girls and guys who would follow you anywhere as we know that your compass as a leader is directly pointing to the presence of God.
You are a hero. Lieutenant. Chief. And a dad to many!
And soon to be a Dad in the natural...
And just as you made all those grade sevens years ago salute the matrics, we salute you tonight!
The many faces of Jono Rich!
Posted by COGS YOUTH | View Comments | Tuesday, May 3, 2011at 3:42 PM | Labels: Jono Rich
It's Jono Rich week here at COGS Youth as we seek to honour the man behind the bass...the man behind the keys...the man behind the all-boys cell...the man behind the fliers...the man behind the red-hair. He has so many skills (you should check out his bow-hunting skills!) and just about as many secret admirers to match, so over the next little while we hope to expose you, the avid Jono Rich fan to as much down-low low-down as you can handle. He's not a myth...he's a real life legend. Here's Jonathan Kyle Rich, by the numbers:
22 years= his age
17 years=how long he's been at COGS Youth (he moved down from Howick after being on Eldership there with Peet...or that might have been another Jon Rich?)
5= number of successful bands he's been involved in...Joyful Noise(2006), Northwood School Musical (2005-2006 he got colours for drama for it!), Dani Nieuwoudt Band (2008-2009), Da uth Band (feat.Dan Bailey), Coals of Juniper (2009-present)...keep an eye out on his newest musical experiment, Bangs of Gallet!
0=the number of boys in his cell that have girl-friends
100s=the number of girls he's given bat too
2=the number of degrees he's studying at the same time
1000000= the amount of times I've laughed when anyone says his Mom's name fast (give it a try..."Suerich")
He's an absolute hero that goes by many names...J dawg, jondizzle, J funk... but to his sister he will always just be known as "johnny".
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