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
Great Big Tea Party - an Open Doors Event
Inviting your neighbours round for a pot of tea must be one of the easiest ways of reaching out and getting active! This June you can do this for a great cause as Open Doors invites people throuhout Britian to open their kitchens, gardens or halls for a tea party in support of persecuted Christians in Iran at some time between Friday 4th and Sunday 6th June. They have prepared a pack to get you motivated, which includes invites and a quiz, and will be delighted for any support, large or small gathering.
www.opendoorsuk.org/teaparty
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Easter Blessings
As followers of Christ, Easter morning signifies the promise of new life, hope, forgiveness, mercy and grace. But we also remember the Garden of Gethsemane and picture the scene in our own minds, the coldness of the air, the loneliness and fear Christ experienced as He fell to the ground crying out to His Father. “My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death,” Going a little farther, He prayed that if possible the hour might pass from Him, “Abba, Father,” He said “everything is possible for you. Take this cup from me. Yet, not what I will, but what you will.” Mark 14:34-36.
Easter Window Biscuits
How about baking some delicious Easter treats that look fantastic! Let us know how you get on...
Ingredients:-
100g Butter, softened
150g Caster Sugar
1 Egg, beaten
1 tsp Ground Mixed Spice
200g Plain Flour
½ tsp Baking Powder
½ bag Clear Fruit Sweets, broken
1 tub Sprinkles, to decorate
1 pack Writing Icing, to decorate
Instructions
1. Beat the butter and sugar together. Add the egg a little at a time, mixing well.
2. Sift together the mixed spice, flour and baking powder, then add to the mixture, stirring until it forms a soft dough.
'History Maker' gets to No4 in charts!
Thank you to those of you who read about the Easter Sunday campaign and downloaded 'History Maker'. The Easter campaign was a great success and the Delirious song acheived the fourth highest spot in the download charts. The song was played four times on prime-time Radio One and lots of media interest and interviews took place. Thousands of pounds were raised for Compassion art. Martin Smith, the lead singer of 'Delirious' issued the following statement -
Celebrating Easter
Easter is coming and its time for more celebrations! My drive to bring celebrations into our home means Easter is going to be as big and important as Christmas! I know for many of my Christian friends Easter, like Christmas, has become too commercialised and secularised, consequently they don’t have the decorations and extravagance that now marks these events. I personally have decided to embrace this time as my family’s Christian festival!
Twilight
If you have teenage daughter or friends who have been obsessed with the Twilight series, you may find this reflection helpful. It can also be found on my blog at http://wp.me/sOEoK-twilight
Twilight tells the story of clumsy, awkward 17 year old, Bella, who falls passionately in love with a gorgeous young man, Edward, who just happens to be a vampire. It is a hugely successful series of novels and film, with millions of fans, grossing millions of dollars.
Andrew Palau announces 10 day Mission
International evangelist Andrew Palau will start a 10 day mission in southern England on 16th April. Andrew is passionate about the life changing power of Jesus Christ. Although he grew up in a Christian home, Andrew came to faith, following a life of alcohol and drug abuse, and committed his life to Jesus Christ after 27 years of living apart from Him.
Battle of wills!
Yesterday was battle of the wills with 4 year old! It started with him crying as we left school because he wanted to go to the ice-cream van! Why does the ice-cream van sit outside the school gates everyday?? I have a ‘once a week’ rule so the boys can go after school one day a week! I even bring my own 5p supermarket ones from home in a cool box!! Anyway tears and tantrums calmed and we went on the park, then he melted down when I said it was time to go! Just as we got to the bottom of the drive 4 year old refused to walk any further, “carry me” was his demand.
Life as a Christian Mum!
God has recently taken me on a journey which began with a desire to see my two boys (aged 6 and 4) grow up to have a positive experience of God and a personal faith in Him. This was borne out of one overriding concern of mine....my boys don’t like church! We have visited a number of churches over the years and this dislike of church is most certainly not confined to any particular ‘type’ of church.
