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Red Letter Christian

 

heard shane claiborne speak twice today at the global outreach conference for our church.

i’m still processing everything that he said and what god said through him to me. my wife and i have started to dialogue about what it is that we hear god saying to us. this is not an over-night fix or decision that radically changes everything in our lives, but it is a process. from what i’m hearing from god and talking with my wife about right now, i’m nervous.

it’s a re:birthing. there will be pain, stretching, discomfort, urges, cravings, desires, hopes, emotions, newness, never normal, new normal, etc…

modern day slavery

Saturday, April 19th 11:00 - 3:00pm

The Power of Choice day will be a dynamic and interactive experience elaborating on our “Justice and Mercy” theme for this conference. Walk with a Latin American farmer as he struggles through the loss of his crop and witness the impact this has on the choices he has for his family’s health, education, safety, and future. Stand in the shoes of a Christian being persecuted for his faith as he struggles with choices about bringing his family to safety.

Become Part of the Solution!

self harmer

ht to asbo jesus

slavery/abolitionist

27,000,000 slaves in the world today. how do you tolerate that injustice?

Movie Night - Amazing Grace

Time: 7:00pm
Location: Main Auditorium of The Peoples Church
Cost: FREE

An epic movie about William Wilberforce and his heroic efforts to abolish the slave trade in the British Empire. You won’t want to miss this!

Popcorn will be served!!!

Justice & Mercy

 

Sunday, April 13th

This was a great kick-off to our Global Outreach Conference.

Phone call to one of our missionaries in Poland who is just recently on the ground and what they are experiencing and what they are being challenged by God as they start out. 0.2% of Poland is Christian (that’s less than Saudi Arabia.)

Krystall this award-winning group have a story that will leave you speechless and in awe of God’s mercy and grace.

George Snyman from Hands at Work, South Africa gave an amazing message based around story.

  • 6000 children are orphaned each day.
  • 180,000 children bury their parents each month.

the only way that you will experience true happiness will be when you learn to serve others. our love relationship with God is based on righteousness, the way we love others is based on justice.

i was challenged by God today. i was challenged in my relationship that i have with my neighbours. also in the injustice issues that are in my own community and country. if i want to become passionate about helping solve injustice issues around the world but do not care about my own community, do i have any right to care for other injustices around the world?

ultimately, if i love God (through a righteous relationship), i am then required to love others (seeking to right any injustices that may exist).

am i doing all i can? i struggle with two paths of thinking each day in my life.

  1. selfishness
  2. selflessness

hiv/aids: 2008 theme

8:00am: students started fasting today (they break fast @ 2pm saturday)

92: students involved

20: volunteers

15: student leaders

$4281.00 raised.

that will feed 143 families for one month or

one family for the next 11.9 years.

30 Hour Famine

today we have over 100 kids doing the 30 hour famine to raise money for special projects that world vision is focusing on. i will give a full update on this event as it unfolds or as my mind allows me to focus. as a youth ministry we are kicking off our church wide global outreach conference from April 11-26, for the next three weekends.

our three keynote speakers are:

the next two weeks are going to be really intense but well worth the effort of having the whole church come together as one body around our theme verse of micah 6:8

i actually had to come back into the room when i heard this. i was amazed!

Kingdom People 1.0

Moving the Scale

There is a tension between two sides of the lives of students when it comes to justice, mercy and reconciliation. That tension is in their ability to care about others and their ability to care about themselves can be pictured in a set of scales that wavers between selfishness and selflessness.

Selfishness

Selflessness

Think about SELF

Think about OTHERS

Service equals EVENTS

Justice equals LIFESTYLE

Tony Campolo says:

It’s ultimately the Holy Spirit who moves the scales for kids. Yet the Holy Spirit often works in and through (and though we hate to admit it, sometimes despite) us as kingdom people. When we as youth workers NOW try to create an environment in which the Holy Spirit is more able to move students from doing kingdom things to being kingdom people, we tend to resort to a few typical strategies.

What would your typical strategies be at this point?

a man who has been my mentor for many years said this about teenagers, “if they are hanging around friends who are doing it, they are doing it as well.”

if slavery happened then, does that mean it is still happening today?

this movie will be showing at peoples on friday, april 18th.

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