Ashby Youth for Christ

Ashby Youth for Christ 2009-10 Mark - Denise - Abi - Susy - Vernon

Denise (Top)
- Director

Full Name: Denise Anne Owen
Age: It’s not polite to ask after a certain age!
Place of Birth: Chester
Where do you call home: Ashby

Favourite colour: Green
Favourite food: Custard
Favourite pastime: My Garden
Favourite film: A Wonderful Life
Favourite type of music/artist: Currently Jason Mraz

Do you collect anything: Dust!
Last book you read: Incendiary by Chris Cleave
Random fact about you: Am a passionate F1 racing fan

Best quote you know: “Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate, but that we are powerful beyond measure” Marianne Williamson
Favourite Bible verse:

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;

your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.

Psalm 139:13-16

Susy (Top)
- Centre Manager

Full Name: Susy Elizabeth Insley
Age: Over 40 so therefore exempt from being exact!
Place of Birth: Derby
Where do you call home: Where my family are.

Favourite colour: Green
Favourite food: Liquorice, liquorice and liquorice
Favourite film: Master and Commander, Battle of Britain and To Kill a Mocking Bird
Favourite type of music/artist: I like pretty much anything
Favourite pastime: Reading, baking cakes and walking

Do you collect anything: Facts about things that interest me
Last book you read: North & South by Elizabeth Gaskell
Random fact about you: I am always cold

Best quote you know: ‘There is nothing more powerful than a life well spent’
Favourite Bible verse:

For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.
You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.

Jeremiah 29: 11-13

Vernon (Top)
- Youth Worker

Full Name: Vernon Ashley Bayliss
Age: This changes! When i wrote this I’m 36
Place of Birth: Leicester
Where do you call home: The City of God

Favourite colour: Raw pistachio
Favourite food: Home grown
Favourite film: Cling film
Favourite type of music/artist: Live music / The Hamsters
Favourite pastime: Quarter past

Do you collect anything: Money
Last book you read: Bioenergetics, Alexander Lowen
Random fact about you: My wrist diameter is less than my inside leg measurement (left leg).
Best quote you know: £4800 including VAT and labour
Favourite Bible verse:

I will give them an undivided heart and put a new spirit in them; I will remove from them their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh.

Ezekiel 11: 19

Abi (Top)
- Volunteer Youth Worker

Full Name: Abigail McLaughlan
Age: 24
Place of Birth: Inverness
Where do you call home: At the moment Ashby

Favourite colour: Brown
Favourite food: Macaroni cheese
Favourite film: Pirates of the Caribbean 1, 2 & 3
Favourite type of music/artist: Don’t have a favourite, I like different types of music
Favourite pastime: Camping with family

Do you collect anything: No
Last book you read: SexGod by Rob Bell
Random fact about you: I started school in Wales & used to be fluent in Welsh

Best quote you know: "I know you know, but knowing and doing are 2 different things" by my mum
Favourite Bible verse:

Guide me in your truth and teach me,

for you are God my Savior,
and my hope is in you all day long.

Remember, O LORD, your great mercy and love,

for they are from of old.

Psalm 25: 5-6

Mark (Top)
- Volunteer Youth Worker

Full Name: Mark Watson
Age: 19
Place of Birth: Farnborough, Kent
Where do you call home: Wherever my biological or adopted family are.

Favourite colour: Red and Black
Favourite food: Roast dinners
Favourite film: Anchorman, Pirates of the Caribbean and Hook
Favourite type of music/artist: At the moment I’m loving ‘Leeland’ and ‘Biffy Clyro’ but I will listen to anything
Favourite pastime: Eating, sleeping, watching ‘One Tree Hill’ and playing/listening to music

Do you collect anything: No
Last book you read: Dreaming with God by Bill Johnson
Random fact about you: One of my great grandparents opened the first button factory in England (apparently).

Best quote you know:

"I love lamp"
"I’ve just had an apostrophe"
"Guard the boat, mind the tide... don't touch my dirt"

Favourite Bible verse:

"Let Justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream,"

Amos 5:24