Women Actively Sharing God's Love
Welcome to the Activate-Your-Life website. We take a unique approach by encouraging all christian women to be active, knowing that you can be effective just by being yourself.
With 4 decades of experience behind us and an exciting future ahead, we'd like to invite you to join our community of 'girls getting out there' sharing God's love in natural, meaningful ways.
Our aim is to offer stimulating articles, fun ideas and challenging topics for discussion. We need you to join in and help us by posting articles, joining in forum discussions, or simply telling others about useful resources you've discovered. So read on, log on, donate, or sign up for our training day and weekend away. We look forward to welcoming you...
Fiona Castle - President | Mandy Catto - Director | Sarah McKerney - Director
Better Together - Activate Training Days
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Book Now for our London Day.
We are excited to announce an up-coming training day.We have a great line up of speakers and seminars, including Fiona Castle, Sarah McKerney and Jan Harney.
Join us in in London on March 10th at the Oasis centre.
Invite an Activate Your Life Speaker
Activate Your Life is run by keen volunteers. We are headed up by our wonderful president Fiona Castle,who is helped along by two directors Mandy Catto and Sarah McKerney. Then the creative thinking is aided by a 'Dream Team' of talented women who meet six times a year in London to thrash out website and weekend away details, discuss, network and endeavour to 'think outside the box'.The team consists of Sheila Bridge, Jan Harney, Alison Tinsley, and Julie Wilkins. Some of the team are willing to come and speak at events around the country.
Location
Upgrade your evangelism!! The airplane concert.
At our training day in March Fiona Castle will be leading a seminar on 'Upgrading your evangelism' including her story of God using her to reach out during a recent trans-Atlantic journey.
“For those who need to forget the God they do not believe in and meet the God who believes in them.”
We prayed this awesome prayer at a service I was at recently. The service was rather more formal than I’m used to or even prefer. In fact the prayer happened at a time when if thoughts were made public you’d have seen “What am I doing here?!” scrolling across my forehead! It’s a good job God can handle my cynicism because just at a moment like that, out jumped this amazing sentence. I love it because it encapsulates my passion for sharing the good news of Jesus and banishing the misconceptions that so easily abound about Him. And I love it because it’s so affirming.
It's too cold to go out.... so don't.... play Badminton !
Family Badminton Event
Idea - We were surprised at this event as to just how many parents and children enjoyed badminton. We hired four courts at our local sports center and a coach to teach the children, as well as a separate room for creative crafts. We then split all the children into two groups, with the first playing badminton and receiving some coaching tips, while the other group made sports crafts, did activity sheets and enjoyed a drink and a snack.
Play Barn... A great January event...
Idea - There are few families who don’t enjoy a good couple of hours at a creative play barn. We’ve found it to be one of the easiest events to invite families to. The children themselves not only have great fun, but you also get a good deal of time and opportunity to speak with parents while they are doing it.
In addition to asking families, we also encourage a good deal of Christians to come along, even those without families, to chat with the parents and encourage a real sense of welcome.
The return to religion
Yesterday a Telegraph journalist printed a very interesting article on the resurgence of the church in Britain during the last five years. Bucking the downward trend of the last fifty years, many Christian denominations have noted an increase in regular attenders. Is this a response to the financial worries and insecurities of the recession? Or maybe the churches have been getting it right in welcoming those who are spiritually searching?
Happy New Year 2012
How do you feel as you face a new year? Is it a time of optimism and hope for you? Or are there anxious times ahead? For those of us in the Activate team we are looking forward to 2012. We would love to have full, lively events and be busy speaking and supporting training and outreach events throughout the year. But, these plans are in the hands of God and we wait to seek His will. It is a historic Olympic year for our country and with the riots and economic climate behind us, we hope and pray for better days ahead.
'We are a Christian country and we shouldn't be afraid to say so'.
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A media debate was launched this week when the Prime Minister, David Cameron, gave a speech that talked specifically of the value of the Bible, the Christian foundation of Britian and the important role of the Church of England. He was valuing, in particular, the King James Bible and the speech was given in honour of the 400th anniversary of the breakthough translation. The speech was the headline story on the BBc for a few hours and provoked a positive response from other religious leaders, Christian and Muslim as well as a predictable negative response from Richard Dawkins.
Beatbox nativity
If you are looking for a fun, different version of the nativity story to play at an outreach or youth event then this is the one! A Devon vicar who used to be a professional beatboxer has produced a Youtube version of the Christmas story. He is very serious looking but the whole story is told with great rhythm and clever lyrics.
Enjoy!
