It's Monday afternoon and I'm sitting at home reflecting on what a fantastic, full and fruitful weekend we have just had. Friday night was Southside Youth, with PowerUp (Grade 5 -7), Ignition (Grade 8 - 12) and Accelerate (Young Adults 18+). As a church we have witnessed God in so many areas already this year, however, this weekend would definitely have to be a highlight!
Let me tell you a little about it....
Our PowerUp age group, led by Mike Maires and his team, continues to grow as they minister to our older aged primary students. On Friday I had the privilege of preaching at PowerUp on the topic 'Living for a Cause'. Our regular Friday Program includes; interactive games, multimedia, Praise & Worship, preaching and connect (small) groups. Mikey is a natural communicator and is also brilliant with primary school students, he is also a Chaplain at two local state schools and is highly involved in our kids ministry.
Chris Mackay, one of our key youth leaders, preached powerfully at Ignition on winning your friends for Christ. It's so exciting to see our younger preachers develop into confident and anointed men and women, who can really connect young people with the message of Jesus. The ministry time would definitely be a highlight with the great majority of our young people coming forward after the message to pray for friends who need Jesus. 4 young people also made commitments for Christ!
Accelerate kicked off for Term 2 with a video presentation put together by Bec Franze and the video team about the state of young people in our city. I preached a message on 'God's Mission is people'. We launched our program for the next 3 months, where we will be focusing on creating events that cater for un-churched young adults. I'm really excited about this! We have such a great young adults ministry, made up for many significant young adults who really are passionate about Jesus and others! We also had 1 young man make a commitment to follow Jesus!
Saturday morning at Southside was Colourfest with over 100 women attending our very own 'Colour' conference, DVD's of the main sessions from Colour Conference (Sydney) are presented on the big screen, along with Praise & Worship and powerful ministry time, this makes for a life changing day in the lives of many of our women. Emily also sang a duet with Kristy Robinson, which was apparently amazing (of course)!
On Saturday night about 30 of our youth team put together an event for the young people in the greater Logan area, near Mt Tambourine, in conjunction with Logan Village Community Church. The event was held at the Logan Village Lions Hall and was hugely successful with over 70 people attending, and 14 decisions for Christ! Our team presented music items, multimedia, Praise & Worship and some very crazy (yet effective) games. It was fantastic to see so many young people respond to the altar call! I am convinced we have the best youth team on the planet, and I love watching great teams in action!
Sunday was also just as exceptional with Ps Sacha Pace's message in our 9am service on ‘Shoes’. She preached from the passage in Ephesians 6 which talks about the armour of God. Her message involved trying on several types of footwear and she then related footwear to how we live our life from day to day and encouraged our church to not head into life inadequately prepared! It was creative and powerful!
Sacha also shared a funny yet slightly disturbing story about when she was a child she would sneak out of her bed at night and steal dog chocolates from the laundry – to eat them! I can relate somewhat as my sister, Katie, was once caught eating cat biscuits. Why? I guess we’ll never know!
And finally we conclude with Sunday night church! Sunday night was such an electric atmosphere, we really do have a great church and awesome people! I preached my fourth message for the weekend on ‘God uses willing people’, God is so good to us and I had the privilege of leading 5 people to Christ!
Overall, an amazing, jam-packed, God inspiring weekend!
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