April note; Young Adult Worship

A worship planning team has been meeting at
Mark and Megan for the last months

we come from different denomination

between Arthur and Listowel

It's exciting, we are praying for guidance and planning  to

organize worship meetings specifically for young adults.

in the Drayton area

Our hope is to get started this summer with

"band practice"

and officially start in October

If God has given you a gift in the following areas:

prayer / hospitality / media and tech / promo /

design and communication

ask the LORD if you should be involved
if so, contact Mark Kabbes

On April 15 we went to Church in the Box at Redeemer
on a "study tour"
CITB Redeemer

Audio Bible without wi-fi

In this Bible App you can download Chapters

 for Audio when there is no wi-fi

March 2012 Audio Bible

Hi All
It's March and the weather is so nice.
I actually went to the beach on Saturday. It was 27C in Holland Michigan (visiting our daughter Olga)
Hopefully you have time to enjoy the sunshine.

This is the time of Lent. A time to take inventory and clean out what you don't need anymore. some give up something for the time of Lent. Just to make sure you don't give up coffee, this is the time Tim Hortens has "roll up the rim to win".

It is also a time to prepare for Easter and maybe reading the gospels again.

This month I bought an iphone and it's fun exploring what it all does.
The first app. loaded was the bible and it has been used a lot. Click on the sound button and it reads to you. It's a good start of the day and I recommend it highly. I used the audio bible before on our desktop computer, just love the mobility of the phone.

There is still time to register for the RVL conference: http://www.draytonreformed.org/
That would also be good preparation for Easter.

February note; Pancakes & RVL

On Tuesday you are all invited for the pancake supper
In youthgroup you likely helped to bake and serve them.

That also means that it won't be long until Easter.
This year we have a conference with Ray Vanderlaan (RVL) on March 30,31 & April 1
the poster (designed by Angie Poot) is attached to this message
RVL's subject will be "Up to Jerusalem, Jesus' last week"
RVL is a highschool teacher and uses many, many pictures because the bible is full of pictures.
ask a Westerner God is.... and they will say "Almighty" Creator" "omnipotent "
an Eastener wil say: "God is a Shepherd" "God is living water" God is a Rock"

By the way RVL might start with asking to finish the sentence "GOD is....."
pleas don't spoil it and listen to hear what everyone says.

The special student rate is $30 (before March 1), there is also a "family rate" $125.
If you sign up as a family your parents will likely pay.

We hope you will try to come. People are coming from Alberta, Ohio and New York
 but the team worked so hard to get him to Drayton for you.
We hope to see you.

January Note; young Fossils

This miner's hat is rock hard. It was found in a mine in Tasmania where it had been covered with water for more than 50 years.

Over that time the chemicals in the water precipitated within the open structure of the felt material of the soft hat, thus turning the soft hat into stone by a process called calcification, which means that solid calcium carbonate has impregnated the original felt material of the hat.

The hat is now on display in a mining museum on Tasmania's west coast.

This quick-forming 'stone' hat adds weight to the claims that creation scientists are correct when they say that thousands or millions of years are not needed to form rocks and fossilize animals and plants.

See a picture of fossilised barbed fence wire:

http://creation.com/fascinating-fossil-fence-wire

What if evolution is not true?

There are 2 choices, either everything was created out of nothing or nothing created everything.

5% of scientists confess they left out evidence because it conflicted with earlier studies

15% of scientists confess they left out evidence because of a conflict with the company that paid for the research.

December Note; Merry Christmas

Having trouble keeping up? December is a busy time.

Exams, Christmas shopping and hopefully some good food.

This time I'm sending you some advent bulletins.

Do you remember making them yourselves?

When I was teaching Grade 6 Sunday school I was a mean teacher

"My" kids were only allowed to draw pictures from what really was in the bible.

That meant no donkey,or innkeeper, or stable, or Christmas tree

the only animals were sheep and the baby could be drawn in a manger.

One boy wanted to draw an angel and we looked in the bible for a description.

His angel with 6 wings kind of looked like a butterfly.

This Christmas read the Christmas Story again with "adult" eyes

and wonder about what happened 2000 years ago

You can Find it in the beginning of the gospels of Matthew & Luke

Merry Christmas,

November Note; Passionate Faith

A common question that is asked when we see someone who is passionate about their faith is, ”How do I get that same fire in my soul? How are they able to have such passion and such fervour for the things of God?” Most of us struggle to maintain our passion and to discipline ourselves in our Christian walk. We want to know how to get that fire and to keep that fire burning inside us for the long haul.

The answer is always in the Text (  “Is not my word like fire, declares the Lord and like a hammer that breaks rocks to pieces.” — Jeremiah 23:29 ). The fire is in the book! As we study and wrestle with the words in the book and commit them to memory, we begin to develop that fire in our chest. There is no substitute for the hard work it takes to become a disciple that has passion for the Text. The fire is there in the Book; it has always been there. As you seriously read the Text, you begin to develop the hunger that eventually becomes a consuming fire.

There is no shortcut to developing the fire. You can’t go to a weekend seminar and learn the three steps to obtaining it. The disciple has to do the hard work of taking the Word in and then walking it out and being obedient to it. It will be the hardest thing you have ever done, but think of the reward!

I just want to challenge you to start reading a “chapter a day” Start in Matthew and read all 4 gospels in a row, read Proverbs or Psalms, or read the whole book like the guys in this fun video did: Bible in a minute:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar_k8JjVWQA