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The year is gallivanting and galloping on at a rapid pace. We would love to meet you, however, You are probably wondering what we are all about here at One Life!!! Well, we are a bunch of young people who hang out on Sunday mornings for an hour or so. The hour is packed with socializing, worship, teaching and of course food. So, come join us, we would love to get to know you... Oh did we mention that we also meet on Fridays for more fun!!!

Report back on CAMP!!

Winter Camp 2009 - Fast Forward - by bev

This fantastic camp started off with a whole bunch of fun ice-breakers, where we started our journey in making friends with some of the nicest people I've ever met.  Everyone was placed in Rap Groups which met everyday to do devotions. We did devotions on The Holy Spirit, Peace, Patience, Kindness and Faithfulness. In these we looked at various Bible Verses and discussed them. The leaders spoke to us on Hope, Love, Joy and Goodness. At certain times in the day, we had worship which was awesome! These sessions were very energetic, and we could feel The Holy Spirit among us. After lunch everyday, we had activities. On the one day we did an activity called "Photo Hunt", in which we had to take photos of the different topics on the page we were given. On Friday, we went to a Pre-school and half of us cleared the site of any harmful items. We picked up loads of glass and metal things. We also pulled out some weeds. The other half of us, played with the children there. This was such an amazing camp, and I don't think anyone wanted to leave. I had such an awesome time and I made so many new friends, and I think everyone felt the same. I would give anything to go again.

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From Senzo's Desk  

There are three areas I would like to focus on which I believe the Spirit does and we need to tap into.  He gives life, He transforms and He empowers.

He gives life

We first come across the Spirit right in the beginning as He hovers over the formless earth enveloped in darkness and lifelessness.  If we then fast forward a few thousand years or maybe few million, depending on your take of the creation story, we find that one member of the Trinity, is dead.  The Son is dead.  He is in a dark and lifeless tomb much like our beloved earth in Genesis 1.  He is resurrected from the dead by the Spirit.  The good news is that we too are given new life by the Holy Spirit.

And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you. Rom 8:11

In Christ, through the power of the Holy Spirit, you and I have new life.  We are re-connected to God.  In short, sin separated us from God and the moment we accepted Christ in our lives, the Spirit is alive in us and we are alive because of Him.

He transforms

It is widely believed that Paul (then Saul) witnessed the stoning of Stephen.  He was on a rampage to kill as many Christians as He possibly could.  Then he encounters Jesus and He is totally transformed.  He ends up writing almost half the New Testament.  Acts 9

John Newton was a slave trader and he too was totally transformed by encountering Jesus and the power of the Spirit working in him.  So much so that he would sit down and ink the ageless words of the hymn Amazing Grace.

He empowers

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.  Acts 1:8

When we come across Peter, He is clearly a down and out fisherman who can't catch fish.  Fast forward 3 - 4 years on, he is preaching and 3 000 people are converted.  Even later on, he and John walk down the street where the sick and lame are healed by their shadows alone.  What happened?  Did his shadow one day wake up and say, ‘Well good morning John's shadow, what shall we do today?.... hmm let me see..... ah ha, let's go heal a few lame and sickly people.'  No, In Acts 2 we read how they waited and obeyed Jesus, then filled with the Holy Spirit they go out in empowered.  It was only when they allowed the Spirit to work through them that they started to do miracles left right and centre.

So what? 

Well, you might be reading this and thinking exactly that; maybe even thinking that yes it did happen but it will never happen to you.  When I look in the mirror I see evidence that these three things are true.  I have new life and I see evidence of it in the life I live.  I am by no means the holiest, no ways, I'm far from it but I do have an ever increasing desire to live life in the Spirit and that I promise you is not me nor my circumstances driving it but it is the Holy Spirit alive in me.  I look back and I see the transformation that has and continues to take place in my life, from the way I think to the things I do, the things I don't do and even to what I say and don't say.  The doors that I have seen open in my life just show me, not only how much God loves me but the power He has.  The way God has used something as simple as an sms that I just decide to send and then months and even years later I found out it had a huge impact in someone else's life, is a reminder that it is not I but the power of the Holy Spirit at work.

Again I want to emphasize that I am no holy guy, just a dude trying to live right with God and trying to stay connected to Him.  I think though, there are a few things one must do continuously:

• Repent and get right with Jesus. John 21:15 - 25 is a great example of how Christ does restore us even when we have broken His Heart.
• Pray and wait. Prayer is our connecting line with God. I'm not talking about a one way prayer list but prayer where you spend time with God conversing, listening and creating space for Him to be God and to Father you. That is why waiting and patience are important because there are days when it feels like He is on vacation but I encourage you to pray without ceasing, He is most definitely not on holiday.
• Seek the Blesser always and not the blessings. Matt 5:16 implores us to do everything for the glory of God. In the next Chapter, Jesus continues to hammer the point home that we must seek first His Kingdom. Seeking God, I think is about pursuing Him in all we do. Simply seeking to make Him smile.

May we be a generation that lives for the glory of God, that His Name might be known and praised in all the earth.  May we be a Spirit led people who bring Him fame now and always.

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