So this marks my first blog entry on our new website. Lemme first introduce myself. I’m Rachel and I serve in The Zone (Ooh, it’s so great that we have a collective name now!). Ok, more specifically, I lead the publications department in The Zone, and I just wanted to give my first shout out here on the blog.

First and foremost, can I just say that I think it’s fabulous that we are all in The Zone. It’s like, finally, we don’t have to awkwardly refer to ourselves as “the youth ministry made up of DARE, Arrow and GenRev”. Ok, kidding. It’s fabulous coz we’re officially one big youth family. And not just one big youth family, but one big youth family riding the waves of grace, favour, blessings and miracles in The Zone together. Awesome huh! I think I speak for most of us when I say that this sense of something really great happening was so tangible at the Play! concert. Gave me goosebumps…and I’m pretty sure it’s not coz I was feeling cold.

I could go on and on about this, but I shall leave that to someone else coz…what I really want to talk about is The Zone magazine. It’s about blessy time we had a really fab youth magazine of our own, no? Our team of writers, designers, photographers and stylists all really pulled together to make this happen. It was crazy…photoshoots in stuffy stairwells, late nights spent writing and designing, crazy deadlines, gallons of coffee and coke (not together of course), the spellchecks (Oh! The spellchecks!) and all. But really, it was all worth it. And on hindsight, it was actually kinda fun. So glad we did this…
 

Our very own 'The Zone' magazine!

But at the end of the day, what’s most important is what you guys think about it. Did you like it? Not like it (I promise I won’t hunt you down)? What did you like? What would you like to see in the future? Lemme know, lemme know. I’m all ears…

- Rachel

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