Kindle 2013

Kindle 2013
November 15-17
Great Wood Camp

The theme for Kindle 2013 was an equation: Death=Life?

Or in other words in order for there to be life for the Christian - there needs to be a death. A death of self. A death of who our gods are and replacing them with the God of life. Sounds heavy? Well with our speaker, Andy De Feu, he unpacked this theme into four sessions across the weekend. We covered the death of Adam and Eve as they replaced God with the god of wanting to do what they wanted to do. We then moved onto the ultimate death - that an eternal God dies: Jesus at the cross. We then looked at dying to ourselves and that somehow God can now live in us and bring us back to the right relationship that was always intended.

In addition to this there were two small group discussion sessions where the young people could decide on subjects such as: Why we need the Bible - What is God's purpose for you - Why does a good God allow suffering - and Anger Management!

Couple this with Kindle being held in the amazing Quantocks Hills at Great Wood Camp. Add a plentiful supply of food, fresh air and time to consider the vastness of God. Plus just over 40 people from three Battalions. I think I would struggle to find a better way to spend a weekend!

Richard Barker

Your invitation to Kindle

Kindle 2013
November 15th -17th 2013

Would you rather take it easy? Or do you love a challenge in life? Would you like to be the same as everyone else or do you like to stand out from the crowd? Do you want to go with the flow or rebel against the culture of low expectations?

Have a think about that…

They say it is difficult to be a Christian today especially if you are young. I think people have probably always said that. It’s never been easy to be a Christian. Our culture says one thing – but Jesus is calling us to something else.

What is that something else? And is it difficult?

What we want to do at Kindle is to let you know about what Jesus is saying. You don’t have to be a Christian to come. Everyone is welcome. But if you want to hear what Jesus is saying – we want to try our best to communicate this to you.

The other thing is that when people say that it “must be difficult being a Christian when you are young” – sounds a bit patronising to me and an excuse to fail. What we want to do is tell you what it’s about and have a place at Kindle where we can encourage each other and then go back where we live - and rebel against low expectations.

Jesus talks about Christians being salt to the world. Salt in those days had two key properties. The first was that it was put onto meat to stop it going off. It was therefore a preservative. Jesus wants Christians to be a preservative in society – to stop society “going off”. The other thing salt did was that in those days there were no flushing loos. Instead when you did your business you would then get a scoop of salt and cover what you did with the salt! This stopped infection spreading. In the same way, Jesus wants Christians to stop society getting worse by being a Christian in the world and standing for what is right – in other words rebelling against low expectations.

You up for that? A bit of a challenge? I am and so are a load of leaders – but could do with a few others to join us. So if you want to know more – give me a call on 01202 775499 or email me on rwbarker@aol.com.

Love to see you at Kindle.

Richard Barker - 2nd Bournemouth

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