Vietnamese Alliance Youth

VAY Parents Night – Friday May 18 2012

MSH — Tue, 08 May 2012 08:25:20 +0000

You have worked hard to give your children the best chance to enter a prestigious university, but do you know what await them the moment they step on campus? You children may be prepared academically, but how can you gift them with the spiritual maturity to make wise decisions once they’re on their own? Are there resources available that can help them have a smooth transition into college and continue to grow in their spiritual walk? Come to the VAY PARENTS NIGHT to find out answers to these questions.

WHAT IS IT? An evening to inform and equip parents of college-bound students.

WHO SHOULD COME? This event is sponsored by the Northern Cal Vietnamese Alliance Youth to serve all Vietnamese churches in the Bay Area. If you’re planning for your children to attend college after high school, you need to come!

SO THE EVENT IS FOR PARENTS. SHOULD THE STUDENTS COME TOO? Of course!

WHO WILL ANSWER MY QUESTIONS? Andrew Nguyen currently serves as a Campus Minister with InterVarsity at UC Davis. He is the first Vietnamese staff in this well known international ministry organization. Andrew grew up in the Vietnamese Alliance Church, understands the Vietnamese culture, very familiar with the college scenes and is committed to help the college students grow in their Christian leadership while attending a secular university. Andrew will bring some students with him to share some real college-life stories.

WHEN IS IT? Friday May 18, 2012, from 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm.

WHERE IS IT? At Grace Alliance Church, 555 Los Coches St., Milpitas, CA 95035.

HOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO ATTEND? It’s free!

ARE YOU SURE IT’S FREE? Yes I am.

SO WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO? Just come and learn

VAY Equipping Event October 8 2011

MSH — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 08:07:54 +0000

UPDATE: Thank you for the many enthusiastic responses. Also for pointing out some mission information:

Location: Grace Alliance Church, 555 Los Coches St., Milpitas, CA 95035

Time: See schedule below

8:00 AM Registration & Breakfast (meal provided)

9:00 AM Opening Session

9:45 AM Workshop Session 1

11:00 AM Workshop Session 2

12:00 PM LUNCH (meal provided)

1:30 PM Workshop Session 3

2:45 PM Closing session

3:00 PM Depart

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Are you feeling ill-equipped for the demanding ministry at your local youth group? Do you desire to restart your youth programs with fresh ideas? Or do you just want to rekindle the love that you once had for God?

The Vietnamese Alliance Youth is planning a special equipping event to meet your needs. We are inviting several seasoned pastors, teachers and leaders from Southern California who have developed many thriving ministries among the Vietnamese youth and children down there. They will come and provide several practical training workshops:

How to Pray without Falling Asleep
How to Study the Bible for All Its Worth
Leading a Bible Study
Preparing and Leading a Youth Meeting
Spicing Up your Meeting with Purposeful Community Games
Caring through Relationships
Learning to Serve
Preparing to Teach Children Sunday School
Teaching Strategies for Children’s Church

Come and learn with us. You will not regret it. There will be plenty of time for fellowship and networking. And yeah … the food will be pretty good too! Please CONTACT US to tell how many are coming from your church so we can prepare adequately. Thank you!

NO VACANCY!

MSH — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:07:01 +0000

Thank you young people and church leaders for your eager participation, the camp is now FULL. Please do not send in registration if you haven’t already done so. We cannot accept any registration postmarked after July 11. Thank you for understanding! For those who did make it, congratulations! Please begin to pray that you will encounter God in a special way at this camp. See you soon.

Summer Camp 2011

MSH — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 08:31:46 +0000

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IMPORTANT UPDATE (July 12 2011): The camp is now FULL. Please do not send in anymore registration. Thank you.

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We have a pretty fun year so far – a rally at Newark church in February, 30 Hours Famine at Grace Alliance and then another rally at Santa Clara church earlier this month. Coming up in August is an event everybody has been waiting for: our annual Youth Camp on August 12-14. The theme this year will be “Rhythms of Grace”. You will learn different ways to establish a rhythm so that the grace of God can continually flow into your life.

Here are some facts you need to know:

WHAT: V.A.Y. Summer Camp 2011 (this year we’re joining with the Rock group again – yeah!)
WHO: young people from 13 to 22 years old
WHEN: from 4pm Friday August 12 to 2pm Sunday August 14
WHERE: MayMac Conference Center
HOW MUCH: $150 postmarked by July 11, $180 afterward.

The registration deadline is July 25, but we will likely run out of space before then so register early if you would like a spot. First come first serve. We did have to turn away some people last year!

To register download this VAY Youth Camp 2011 Brochure. Please send in registration together with your church group. Each church must send at least 1 adult leader for every 7 youth. Have the leader contact us for more information.

Here are some pics from last year camp just to wet your appetite

HINT: Click on the slideshow to go to a new screen (PicasaWeb), then click on “Full Screen” (upper-left)

First 2011 V.A.Y. Rally – Feb 11 @ Newark Church!

MSH — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 08:37:32 +0000

Here’s a message from Pastor Raymond inviting us to his church for our first Rally in 2011

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Hello V.A.Y. Friends,

It is time for us to Party again; hang out have fun, first time in 2011 as a group. Bring a friend.

When: Friday February 11th, 2011

Time: 7:00 PM (Be on Time)

Location: Newark Church: 38325 Cedar Blvd, Newark, CA 94560.

Dinner: will be provided.

Overview for the night;

Games 7:00
Worship 7: 20
Short Message 7:40
Hang out and Eat. 8:00

Hope can see you all there.

Raymond

RALLY – No Place Like Home!

MSH — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 07:33:46 +0000

You are in for a treat! VAY is planning an exciting rally on Friday Nov 12. For speaker, we are fortunate to have Thomas Stebbins, a pastor loved and respected by the young and old in the Vietnamese church community. He will entertain you with his wit and inspire you with the Word of God. Of course we will all the usual fun stuff at a rally too – fun games, awesome worship, fantastic food, and plenty of time to hang out with friends.

It will be a full house so come early. And bring a lot of friends from school. This is a night they need to come!

Friday November 12, 2010 from 7 to 10 pm.

at Grace Alliance Church, 555 Los Coches Street, Milpitas, CA 95035

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2010 Camp Pictures

MSH — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:05:15 +0000

If you missed camp, I won’t even attempt to tell you the marvelous things God has done. Let’s just say this following prayer by the group “Dumbledore’s Army” was answered: “That all campers share a super awesome friendly amazing meaningful Godly memorable glorious fabulous fluffy fashionable fun time.”

Yep. God answered that prayer. And much much more. Spirit filled. Sins forgiven. Bondage broken. Lives recommitted. Souls liberated. Relationships built. Purpose renewed. God is raising up a new generation of leaders, disciples. learners. For His Kingdom.

It was not an accident that God had us sing this lyric again and again at camp:

… I see a generation
Rising up to take their place
With selfless faith
With selfless faith

I see a near revival
Stirring as we pray and seek
We’re on our knees
We’re on our knees …

Heal my heart and make it clean
Open up my eyes to the things unseen
Show me how to love like you have loved me

Break my heart from what breaks yours
Everything I am for your kingdoms cause
As I go from nothing to eternity …

Here are some pictures to help stir up memory of what God has done. I’m sure more pictures are coming in. Keep checking back, and feel free to leave comments:

HINT: Click on the slideshow to go to a new screen (PicasaWeb), then click on “Full Screen” (upper-left) to enjoy the pictures in higher res.

Camp Is Full!

MSH — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 06:00:10 +0000

Thanks to your enthusiastic responses, we have more than filled up the camp since last week. Thank God the conference center still had one cabin for us to overflow into. But at this time registration is absolutely closed. PLEASE DO NOT SEND IN ANY MORE REGISTRATION. We do not have any more room! Thank you for understanding. Keep checking back here for future opportunities of fun youth ministry events.

Summer Camp 2010

MSH — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 10:24:46 +0000

Once again The ROCK! and V.A.Y. are joining together to worship God in the beautiful mountain of Santa Cruz. Many of you know about this already and have made plan to attend. This blog gives you more detail and shows you how to sign up.

When is it?

From 4 pm on Friday Aug 13 to 2 pm on Sunday Aug 15.

Where is it?

At Camp MayMac, the same beautiful conference center that we went to last year.

Whom is it for?

Middle School, High School and College students. (this year we open up a small group for college students because there were some interest last year)

Who is our speaker?

Bobby Lee, Lead Pastor at the Convergence Church in Oakland and also co-founder of the Dignitas Project, a non-profit organization that seeks to empower people in the poorest parts of the world. Bobby is a compassionate and gifted speaker. He will bring blessings to many of us with his challenging messages.

How much does it cost?

Facility cost has increased this year but we keep the registration fee the same at $150 per person, provided that you send in your registration by July 23. There will be a late fee of $30 if your registration is post marked after July 23.

How do I sign up?

If you are from The ROCK, follow the instruction in THIS LINK. Contact Helicon or Betsy for more information.

If you are from Trinity or one of the Vietnamese churches, just download THIS FORM and send it in with the deposit. We request that each church sends in all registrations together and please just pay the full amount if you can. If you cannot attend for any reason we will refund the money, minus the deposit amount. It helps make our lives much easier. Thank you.

A note about available space and deadline:

We only have space for 75 campers. We anticipate a full turn-out this year so send in your registration quickly to reserve your space. Remember we had to shut down registration last year when our capacity was hit.

Also, you must register by July 23, or you will be charged a late fee of $30. No exception! Our volunteer staff are super busy with other responsibilities too, and late registrations just make our jobs much more difficult. Thank you for understanding!

Recruiting Leaders:

We strongly encourage that each church sends at least 1 leader for every 6 campers. Our mission is to develop youth leaders for the local churches, and so a part of our camp purpose is to network youth leaders and empower them to serve. Talk to your pastor, encourage your youth group leaders to come, or sign up as a leader at camp if you qualify. There is a mandatory training session for all staff and leaders on July 17 (Saturday night) that you must attend. There is also a registration discount if you serve as a leader at camp. The detail will be announced later, but for the time being just keep that date open (July 17) if you are considering being a leader at this camp.

How do I get more information if I have questions?

Just leave a comment to this blog, or contact Betsy and Helicon (the ROCK), or pastor Andrew (SF church), or Josh Du (Trinity), or Daniel Diep or pastor Hung. You know how to reach us!

CAN’T WAIT TO SEE YOU ALL AT CAMP!

VAY Special Youth Rally – JUNE 2010

MSH — Fri, 28 May 2010 23:08:37 +0000

Here’s the official Rally Announcement that Ngoc wrote up for us …

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Monday…Tuesday…Wednesday…Thursday…Friday… It’s another Friday night coming, and do you plan to do anything or go anywhere different? Well, we do!

There’s gonna be something different. Gonna be a big gathering of youth people from local churches. Gonna have songs and performances from CENT club members. Gonna provide a friendly environment to make new friends. Gonna serve you snacks and drinks prepared by our very dedicated friends.

And we’re gonna introduce you a Celebrity that has fan clubs all over the world. If you have yet to know, it’s time to figure out!!!

Where: 555 Los Coches St., Milpitas, CA 95035
When: Friday, June 4, 2010 at 7:00PM. PLEASE COME ON TIME!
What: Ice Breakers, Worship, Mime Skits, Dances, Videos, Snacks, Friends
Why: Why Not?
How much? FREE, of course!

I barely keep myself from counting down to this free and exciting event. Hope to see you guys there! Lots of love!

Ngoc

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