Notes taken from the leaflets received at the meeting.

“Friday 19th July 3pm

Walk from Old PAK N SAVE car park to Jaycee Park”

WALK ON COMMERCE STREET

WALK ON COMMERCE STREET

“Walk with Pride

Reclaim our Town”

WALK ON COMMERCE STREET

“Solution based Meeting

To discuss safety in town

To address alcohol and minors

Lighting in the park and streets”

SPEECHES – JAYCEE PARK

THE LISTENERS

“Wanted outcome:

All kids and whanau to be able to walk safely in  Kaitaia by:

Wero (challenge) those who are providing alcohol to kids

Stop the violent bahaviour continuing

Lobby Council to be vigilant on liquor outlets and lighting in unlit areas

Get positive outcomes for disengaged youth in our community

Pay coaches for after school programmes”

THE BARBECUE

BARBECUE

C. T. STUDD

C.T. STUDD, FOUNDER OF WEC INTERNATIONAL (1860 – 1931)

“Only one life, ’twill soon be past;

Only what’s done for Christ will last.” –

C.T.Studd

“If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for him.” – C.T. Studd

“Some want to live within the sound of church and chapel bell, I’d rather run a rescue shop within a yard of hell.” – C.T. Studd

CAPE REINGA

“A holy life will produce the deepest impression. Lighthouses blow no horns; they only shine.” – D. L. Moody

“See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands.” – Isaiah 49:16

And this is what C.H. Spurgeon says about this verse:

“I have engraved your person, your image, your situation, your circumstances, your sins, your temptations, your weaknesses, your wants, your works.”

Hands

HARAKEKE – FLAX

“I don’t know what your destiny will be , but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.” – Albert Schweitzer

“The greatness of a man’s power is the measure of his surrender,” it says on the front page of a church newsletter, I have with me. The above is a quote by William Booth, the founder of the Salvation Army.

The word surrender means to give up control of …. according to the Collins English Dictionary. Here we are talking about to give up control of our lives. I don’t need to tell you that the words yield and submit also mean surrender.

The following four verses from the Bible are teaching about surrender. Please notice the words yield and submit.

“Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” – James 4:7 (NIV)

“Moreover, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we yielded [to them] and respected [them for training us]. Shall we not much more cheerfully submit to the Father of spirits and so [truly] live?” – Hebrews 12:9 (The Amplified Bible)

“… Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, …” – Ephesians 5:23,24 (NIV)

“Do not continue offering or yielding your bodily  members [and faculties] to sin as instruments (tools) of wickedness.

But offer and yield yourselves to God as though you have been raised from the dead to [perpetual] life, and your bodily members [and faculties] to God, presenting them as implements of righteousness.” – Romans 6:13 (The Amplified Bible)

Alexander MacLaren says this about self-sacrifice:

“All along the Christian course, there must be set up altars to God on which you sacrifice yourself, or you will never advance a step.”

Have you ever sung the hymn I SURRENDER ALL by Judson W. Van De Venter? The hymn has three verses and the chorus goes like this:

“I surrender all, I surrender all, All to You, my blessed Saviour, I surrender all.”

It is easy to sing, but do we really mean it, when we sing it?

POWER