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Life Has a Purpose

Geoff — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 05:46:02 +0000

Young people, like everyone, are searching for purpose and meaning.
During high school if I had a dollar for every time an adult asked me what my plan was for the future, I‘d have enough money to live off and not pursue a career. Well not really, but the point is, I was asked that a lot!

As a youth pastor, I find myself becoming another one of those adults that ask this question. There‘s nothing wrong with asking but I want to be someone who can also offer some answers.Young people at the Anchor are searching for meaning, they are hungry for purpose and there are many offers and opportunities coming their way. None can come close to a relationship with Jesus and following the Bible. This is the only place to find true meaning and purpose in life.

At Extreme this term we are doing a series called Life Has a Purpose, focusing on five things:

Connect - Understnding that we as humans have a basic need to connect with others on a deper level

Reach - helping students understand that we are created in God’s image and we have the opportunity to share God’s love with the world.

Grow - the truth that we were created to know God and grow spiritually by spending more time with Him

Serve - the truth that God’s unique design provides us with the privilege to serve others

Honour - the truth that God rested on the seventh day to show us the importance of taking time to stop the busyness and focus on what’s important.

We are going to have some great nights getting stuck into God‘s word and discovering the treasure that lies within.

Youth on a mission – Vanuatu!

Geoff — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 18:55:44 +0000

This was created when our team was in Vanuatu in April – enjoy, be inspired, talk to YWAM about getting a team together to go, learn, see God in action and maybe be a blessing to someone…

Check out www.missionadventures.co.nz and join the action..

Two years and counting!

admin — Sat, 08 May 2010 03:26:10 +0000

Dave Bosma travelled with the team to Vanuatu and here is what he had to say….

This is just the start of something much bigger

admin — Thu, 06 May 2010 09:24:15 +0000

The Coolest pics

admin — Thu, 06 May 2010 08:39:34 +0000

Check out the pics on the Facebook link on the left sidebar…very cool

Welkam to Eratap

Some Vanuatu pics!

admin — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 06:54:50 +0000

Here is a selection of pics from the Team that is just back from Vanuatu

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And we’re back.

jordanL — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 08:36:24 +0000

Hello Everyone,

We have touched down in a very cold Wellington. The team is happy and healthy, but I think ready for bed. We will no doubt have lots to share with you all about our experience over the next few weeks. Thank you for all your support in making this possible for the 14 of us to go.

God bless,
Brad

Painting The Roses Red (DAY 11)

jordanL — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 09:04:31 +0000

Hey hey hey Laur and Jess here!

Hope You havn fun in the cold weather down in good old NZ, today i have to say would of been one of the HOTEST days we have had yet.

Today we painted the water tank! yay fun stuff, it was very hot work but it was so much fun, we all got covered in paint … shows we were working really hard:)It was awesome to see the whole team working together so well. It was my job (Laura) to design one wall and the side i got was the main one! i got help from others and we had great fun doing that in the end we did a flower type thing and it was back, purple and white ! it looks mint, im sure you will see some cool picz when we get back! after we had almost finished we got called to a lovely lunch, we didnt know that we were going to be getting presents/gifts from them which was so nice of them, again we will show you when we get back just how amazinthey look. we gave them 2 really big bags full of diffrent things including clothes and some balls! kai kai was really good!

(Jess)

Then we Relaxed under a tree for aout ten minutes, before we started the final touches on the tank paint. Erica was really good at painting!! we then wrote a bible verse in bislamic on the tank and took heaps of photos with all the kids and Sam and Emilie, and Wade, Erica and Dave. it was really sad having to leave Laura cried which made me cry a bit too. when we drove down the road from Eratap, the kids thew leaves into our truck and we threw lollies back. It was really scary because some lollies landed in front of the truck and a kid named Jeremy ran out in front of it. he was ok though . when we got back toEfalfal, most of us swam or walked along the beach. Our dinner was COLD !!! it was great… Anyway, overall today was really fun and really exciting but sad too. and now we are sitting on Johns bed.

later fellas

Jess and Laura.

Josh here :) day 11!!!!

jordanL — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 10:30:17 +0000

Hey guy’s josh here with whats the low down on. . . heres the full blog cause the internet stuffed up . . . . Hey guy’s josh here with whats the low down on the day. First off well we all got up, someone made a bad mistake by giving Jordan a air horn and he has told us he will go into each room and let that thing off, Any way i went to blacks sands for a second time and this was also the last day that people got to go so it was quite touching to see all the kids for the last time a few got a bit sad with this thought. At the end of black sands the whole team had prepaird a bag of goodies for the schools which brad handed over at the end, they were so grateful of what they had just got given. When we had retured to the village we had lunch then straight back into building the roof for the tank . We also had sports day today we had a range of sports like soccer, (football, john would go nuts if you said soccer so put that in there just in case ) Tug-Of-War, this one where you had a cup and a bucket of water two teams and had to fill up the other bucket across the field (any name for it???). after the sports day it was back to building and the after school program don’t know what happened in the after school program since i was working with jordan ruth polly and laura painting the base coat for the tank, we also had a little paint down of the people that we’re by the tank so Jordan, Antony, Ruth and i think polly and I we’re painted. After the day had finished we got back into the truck and everyday the kids would run down the hill gather leaves and flowers AND WATER NOW!!! (after we did it to them) and then throw it at us when driving down the hill we would get soaked from there water then covered in the leaves. When we had retured to our place of rest Jordan, Alex, Faye and myself went for a nice wash down in the sea followed by a dive then got back into shore had tea and chilled out for the rest of the night

So thats me say HI TO MUM AND DAD FOR ME XXX

PEACE YO!!!!!!!!!!

Day whatever day we are up to. Vanuatu

jordanL — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:38:16 +0000

Hello.

Antony’s account

Today I went to Eratap village and started to help with the building. Me and Faye helped Sam (the builder) to put up the guttering on the church so that water can flow into the water tank. Meanwhile everyone else sat there in the shade organising things. (Totally unfair if you ask me). A little bit after that wade (YWA dude) got me, jordan and meg to go with him to pray for a woman. So we went up to this house lead by my home dog karlo (a ni-van I have befriended). He asked the people at the house if we could come in and then left. Then a young ish woman (probably in her late teens) came and welcomed us in to her home. We sat down on these mat things. and then I saw this elderly woman make her way the mats from outside. She was quite large and very frail. Her husband then explained that she had had a stroke. We lay hands on her and prayed for a good ten min. It was really sweet. Had to have be my God moment for the day. Then we painted one of the walls. Thats all we really did so yeah we should finish the tank by tomorrow possibly.

Antony