Chris on March 4th, 2010

September 3rd – 6th sees the 11th annual Church of Scotland National Youth Assembly. For more details check out the cosyblog. This will be the first Youth assembly since 2000 that I am not in the age bracket for (the years before 2000, I was too young and the assemblies were every three years). I [...]

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Chris on February 23rd, 2010

So, if you’re my friend on facebook or follow me on twitter you may have noticed my excitement on Friday. The reason for this is that I have been chosen to represent the Church of Scotland at a SACYN (South Asia Christian Youth Network) conference in Nepal. The conference is called “Cross the Bridge” [...]

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Chris on January 28th, 2010

This weekend I’m heading to Pitlochry to be a participate in a Church of Scotland initiative that looks to help young adults connect with the Church and most importantly, with God.
This initiative has been on the go for a couple of years now, we had a weekend away in Alnwick in 2007 and various day [...]

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Chris Hoskins on September 5th, 2009

NYA has been pretty awesome so far.
It’s slightly bizarre thatm after being hosted by the Apex hotel in Dundee for 6 years, we’re in a sprawling University campus in Stirling. Usually everyone would be on top of one another, everything would happen within 2 minutes walk of each other. Instead, there is a good 10 [...]

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Chris Hoskins on September 4th, 2009

Today is the day!
The Church of Scotland National Youth Assembly starts today! As I’ve previously blogged, this is an awesome event! Close to 300 young Christians from around Scotland will be gathering in Stirling as of this afternoon to spend a weekend together exploring what it means to be Christian in Scotland in the 21st [...]

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Chris Hoskins on September 2nd, 2009

This weekend, the Church of Scotland holds its National Youth Assembly (NYA), held this year at Stirling University.
NYA has been an important part of my life since I first went in 2000. It was at NYA2000 that I gave my life to Christ and embarked on the incredible journey I’ve been on for the last [...]

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Chris Hoskins on August 24th, 2009

So, in less than 2 weeks the annual Church of Scotland National Youth assembly will be starting. To enable those outwith the assembly to still be somewhat connected to the assembly, we are utilising twitter and blogging. For those of you who use twitter, you can follow the youth assembly in 2 ways: you can [...]

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Chris Hoskins on July 2nd, 2009

Having missed Canada day yesterday (but thanks to my dodgy computer calendar only realizing that after making ‘Happy Canada Day’ my facebook status I thought this would be a good time to write a post I’ve been meaning to write for ages!.
Those of you who know me, know that I have something of a love [...]

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Chris Hoskins on June 11th, 2009

It’s been quite a while since my last 365 project update, I’m not left with as much of a huge task as I might have been as I’ve managed to miss quite a few days……oh well, onwards and upwards!!

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Chris Hoskins on June 2nd, 2009

As well as my blog post describing stuff that went on at GA, I thought it’d be good to put some pictures up to.

This is from Fridays morning worship, the mod being served communion

Over the course of the week, a ‘wedgie war’ broke out among some of the guys(I know its juvenile, but we were [...]

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