Get ready for a life changing experience!

For the first session of Foundations for Living during Ladies Morning Break on Tuesday, Susan Driedger gave an excellent talk about our role as Christians. 

After thanking everyone who faithfully carried on teaching the Foundations for Living course during her two year absence, Susan moved on to talk about book one in the series.

“Everyone should take book one,” she said. “You will find things that will change you and you will become a disciple maker. You’ll see that you’ll stretch and grow through the series.”

 Indeed, book one has been a life changing experience for almost everyone who has studied it.

 One reason for the spiritual success of those taking book one is due to the strong foundation of Christianity that they are building within.

 Together we read Matthew 7: 24 – 27 (HIV):

 Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.

 Susan brought the point home with two tin cans. One can was empty and with one hand she crushed the can with very little effort.

 The other can was full; it was fortified from within, making it impossible for her to crush it, no matter how hard she tried.

 “We’re building a solid foundation and a spiritual house together,” she said of the Foundations for Living course.

 Not only will we be gaining knowledge through the scriptures that will fortify us from within, but we will also be learning how to share and disciple others during the Foundations for Living course.

 Jesus told us to go and make disciples, which is something we often forget. Too often we get distracted by filling up ourselves, instead of helping others in their Christian journey.

 Susan illustrated this point by talking about an apple tree.

 “An apple tree doesn’t grow apples only for itself to eat, but rather for others,” she said.

 We aren’t here to be filled to overeat, but to share. What an exciting reminder of our purpose as Christians!

If you haven’t had a chance to check out Foundations for Living, don’t miss out on this life changing opportunity! Click here for the various days and times the course is offered.

It’s Here!

Have you ever wondered what your purpose is in life? Perhaps you regularly question the meaning of life. If this sounds familiar, then Foundations for Living is the course you’ve been looking for.

 Get ready to lead the life God has planned for you; a life full of meaning and purpose that fills you with excitement!

Details

Ladies Class:
Tuesdays at 9 a.m. starting September 15, 2009 (in room LL2 at Peace Portal Alliance Church)

Co-ed Class:
Wednesdays at 7 p.m. starting September 16, 2009 (in the Fireside Room at Peace Portal Alliance Church)
Sundays at 10:20 a.m. starting September 20, 2009 (in the Fireside Room at Peace Portal Alliance Church)

To Register:
Please call the church office, 604-531-4733 or Clarence and Muriel Hinchliff at 604-533-8420.

  If you’re ready to take your Christian walk to the next level, be sure to sign up for Foundations for Living.

Carolyn Amadatsu – Meet your Leaders

Sharing the love of Jesus
By Jamie Leggatt
Reprinted with permission from LINK

Carolyn Amadatsu

Have you ever wondered what your special purpose in life is? Have you ever asked Jesus why He put you on this earth? For many the question of life’s meaning and purpose is commonplace and not easily answered.

Carolyn Amadatsu, who helps lead the discipleship course Foundations for Living on Tuesday morning, has struggled with this difficult question herself. Fortunately, she is one of the lucky ones that has learned the answer.

At 29 years old, Carolyn accepted the Lord into her heart and was filled with an intense passion for God.

“I was so excited and thankful for what Christ had done for me that I wanted to tell everyone I met,” she said. “It didn’t take me long to realize something was wrong. Not many people reacted the same way I did. In fact, I turned a lot of them off by my eager persuasiveness.”

Fortunately, this eagerness led her in the right direction. While taking Foundations for Living, she learned that God did want to use her to win others to Him, just not in her own strength.

“It would only be as I surrendered myself to Christ and relied on the Holy Spirit’s power that it might happen,” she explained. “The Holy Spirit would give me the courage, boldness, confidence, ability and insight I needed to be His witness.”

Not only did Carolyn learn that the Lord was eager to use her, she learned that it was her purpose in life to share His word with others.

“I learned that Christ would use any willing, empty vessel – that he sets up the appointments as we go about our ordinary everyday life,” she said. “My job is just to love the people that he puts in my path and wait on Him.”

Carolyn is passionate about this important calling. She always carries a little witnessing booklet called “Steps to peace with God” in her purse and is ready to share when God creates the opportunity.

“I’ve put together my own testimony and I always seek to identify with that person with whom I am sharing,” she added.

To Carolyn, sharing the gospel is like the story in 2 Kings, chapter 7.

 “We are all simply like the two starving lepers who had found bread,” she said. “We want to tell other beggars where they too can find bread.”

 “We have the privilege and responsibility to share how we found New Life. It is known as witnessing.”