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October Weekend of Wonder

Andre Rabe — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:32:51 +0000

For the adventurous, who are able to make spontaneous decisions at short notice: You are invited to join us on the 8th-10th of October for a ‘weekend-of-wonder’. Or a WOW weekend for short! The venue had a cancellation so we’ve been offered the facilities at an amazing price.

…that which was from the beginning … which we have heard … which we have seen … which we have gazed upon and our hands have handled … the Word of Life. 1John1
This word was never meant to remain abstract theory, but was destined to become tangible reality … what our hands have handled. This tangible experience begins with what we hear – hearing in such a way that it captures our attention, that it captivates our gaze. No other activity or discipline has a greater transformational effect on our lives than simply beholding Him as in a mirror, recognising Him as the revelation of our own identity.

This is an invitation to a weekend of doing just that: gazing into this mystery; appreciating who He is in us and who we are in Him. And all of this in the most stunning environment!
Have a look at: http://www.theoasts.co.uk/

All guests have access to the heated indoor swimming pool, sauna and tennis court.

When: 8-10 October 2010

Costs include all meals, two nights accommodation and a welcome pack:

Adult: £70

Child (12 – 18) yrs: £50

Child (4 –11) yrs: £30

Child (1 – 3) yrs: £7.50

Weekend Day Visitor: £20

Hope to see you all soon – Andre & Mary-Anne

Limited space available (30) so please make your booking ASAP.

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Could you please make a deposit of £30 per person (£10 per child) upon booking – you can use the paypal donation button to do that. (you are welcome to pay the full amount as well)

Weekend of Wonder

Andre Rabe — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:18:35 +0000

All guests have access to the heated indoor swimming pool, sauna and tennis court.

When: 2-4 April 2010

Costs include all meals, two nights accommodation and a welcome pack:

Adult: £70

Child (12 – 18) yrs: £50

Child (4 –11) yrs: £30

Child (1 – 3) yrs: £7.50

Weekend Day Visitor: £20

Hope to see you all soon - Andre & Mary-Anne

Limited space available (30) so please make your booking ASAP.

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Could you please make a deposit of £30 per person (£10 per child) upon booking – you can use the paypal donation button to do that. (you are welcome to pay the full amount as well)

Thoughts from the Weekend

Andre Rabe — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:13:33 +0000

Thank you all for making the weekend so significant. Discovering the wonders of Christ and the reflection of our own identity in Him is what our fellowship is all about. (Andre & Mary-Anne)

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Hi A & M and others,

It was such a lovely weekend with you all – I loved seeing old faces and meeting new – and such an encouraging time of just hanging out with the Truth, I came away feeling like this life is easy and light when you just look at things from God’s perspective.

Really enjoyed spending time just chatting around the fundamental things of Christ, who He is and who He says we are – Andre you were a real blessing sharing and reminding us of our position in the Word, before the foundations of time!! All the truths about His heart for us, particularly the one this morning about not trying to achieve his good favour by our behaviour but realising he is already impressed with us so we’re inspired to be impressive…! So many positive things came out of the weekend – thanks again for highlighting ‘all the good stuff’… we can never get enough of it.

Have a wonderful week everybody, enjoy the sunshine, hope to see some more of your faces again soon )

Abs

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Thank you all for a wonderful, wonderful weekend and all the hard work that you put in for everyone to enjoy such a truly blessed couple of days.

The weather was great, the teaching awesome, the companionship wonderful and (from William) the food was great!

God Bless and love from us all,

Elaine,Peter,Will and Kat

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Hi all!
Thank you for a lovely and amazing time of fellowship and teaching. I just love God’s people and being with them (you)!
I have been so blessed with the revelation that everyone is super-special and as valuable as Jesus Christ himself is to me because he or she is God’s child, born of God PLUS redeemed by His blood. Each person is worth loving and spending time with and praying for, so they can be reconciled to God through His kindness in us. (Even those I don’t feel deserve His outpouring of goodness and love because they choose not to believe, i.e Mr Dawkins.)
I have been loving my patients to bits today, prayed for an atheist journalist (Adam Rutherford- The Guardian) who is attending an alpha course (to prove his point that it is all nonsense) and I feel on top of the world. Greater is He that is in us than he that is in the world. Hallelujah!!!!

Michelle

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It gives me great joy to read and reply to you and proclaim it out loud the experience we had with all of you.To know more of Christ and who we are in Him and His image in us and we furthering His mission was an eye opener.It was a very fulfilling experience and we long to fellowship with all those who were there during the meeting at YWAM center.It was like sitting at Jesus feet learning of the kingdom and knowing our identity.The most wonderful thing was a change that took place in me leading me to read his word and pray more.Surely His word has power to change lives and transform.We continue to pray for you and lets be in touch.We are waiting eagerly to see you after your Holidays. Halleluiah!

Leni and Sheeba.

Celebration

Andre Rabe — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:46:07 +0000

Celebrating Christ – who He is and what He achieved. Face to face with Him we discover ourselves!

We are planning a weekend of celebration from the 7 – 9 August, at the Holmsted grounds. You can view the site here:
http://www.holmsted.org.uk/
We have about 20 spaces left at the facility, consisting of 10 rooms with two beds and an on-suit each. Costs are £50 per person, including food and accommodation. An early indication of your intent to come would be helpful.

For insight into the motivation behind the weekend see:

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In His grip

Andre & Mary-Anne Rabe

Words of life & letters that kill

Andre Rabe — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:04:54 +0000

This morning after getting ready for work, I walked into the lounge, picked up a bible that was lying on a coffee table and started reading somewhere in the Psalms. At some point I became aware that I was no longer simply reading; I was no longer a casual observer, but somehow I entered into a conversation. It was no longer me taking time to read the bible, but ‘someone else’ taking time to speak to me! It became personal. Far from simply reading some historic document in which I could observe the wisdom of people who lived thousands of years ago, I realised that the One who originally inspired these stories still speaks and He had something to say to me!
The words I read were no longer static containers of intellectual information, but they became a clear and distinct voice – a voice that resonated within my spirit. These words confirmed what I sensed the Lord had been saying to me for a while; they gave explicit direction and inspired me to take specific action.
“Andre, breakfast is ready” called Mary-Anne. 20 minutes later I was in the car on my way to work. Gratitude filled me as I thought about the many times in which the Lord spoke to us so clearly through the Scriptures. The content of what the Lord spoke to me is not relevant for anyone else, but the process and experience of hearing Him, is. The Scriptures have been a constant and reliable source of direction and inspiration for so many years. What is it about this relationship with the Word that makes it so … so alive? Memories about my earliest experiences with this living word came back. I also remembered a time when the Bible was simply a religious book to me – of no real interest or value. There are so many teachings and attitudes toward the scriptures that rob people of this most beautiful encounter. So in this place of being overwhelmed with gratitude and simultaneously disgusted at how wrong attitudes have given the scriptures such a bad image for many, I knew I had to write about discovering His living voice within these writings.

“He has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit produces life.” 2Cor 3:6

The word ‘spirit’ can be used in many contexts. One can speak about the spirit of a person, or the spirit of a meeting. Spirit refers to the essence; the core. For instance, a major sporting event will have a spirit of anticipation in the crowd. In this case spirit refers to the one essential quality that defines the event. In the Hebrew and Greek languages the same word is used for ‘wind’ and ‘spirit’. Wind is an unseen influence – we can see the effect of it, but not the wind itself. In the French language ‘spirit’ also means ‘concept’ or ‘mind’. Can you see from these descriptions how ‘spirit’ refers to the unseen essence, motivation, concept and influence.

Paul speaks about two types of messages and ways of ministering or imparting a message. Both these messages can be based on the same Scriptures, but one produces death while the other produces life. A key difference between these messages is that one is focused on the ‘letter’ while the other is focused on the ‘spirit’ or as we saw, the essence. One of the trademarks of dead religion is nitpicking the details; obsessed with the details of the Law. Jesus once said to the religious leaders: “There is far more at stake here than religion. If you had any idea what this Scripture meant—’I prefer a flexible heart to an inflexible ritual’—you wouldn’t be nitpicking like this.”

Let me illustrate this further: Imagine a person who has never seen a sparrow before, but would love to learn as much as possible about the bird. What would be the most effective way for us to help this person learn about sparrows. One way would be to supply him with a specimen and the necessary equipment to dissect the bird. One can gain a lot of information about a sparrow by dissecting it. All manner of interesting facts can be gained by this method, such as the size of its heart, the location of its stomach, the weight of its lungs. Unfortunately one kills the bird in this process.
Alternatively, we could teach this person about sparrows by taking a live one and setting it free. Observing this sparrow flying and being what its designed to be would impart much more accurate knowledge about it.

Studying the Bible can so easily become a type of dissection that kills the very message within it. If one loses sight of the essence; the spirit of the Word, and carve up the message into categories, analysing each word and letter, then the end result is lots of information … without much life. Doctrine that is based on these dead letters does not have the life to inspire action, rather it needs to be enforced through rituals to have any influence. The fact that the scriptures were divided into chapters and versus promotes such a segmented approach to reading the scriptures. Such an approach is very common partly because of religious pressure to ‘read your Bible often!’ The result is that people dutifully performs this chore … but the chore is much lighter if one can chop it up into little parts like chapters and versus.

Much of the rhythm … or spirit of the writing is lost through such an approach. I have found it to be of tremendous benefit to take a book like ‘John’ and read it in one go. (It’s actually not that long). One can sense the movement, the soaring, the unseen wind of the Spirit in a way which is not visible when dissecting the scriptures. This approach is as different as observing a bird in flight as apposed to studying a feather. It is good to keep in mind that most of the scriptures were not written by academics, but by ordinary people that encountered the extraordinary God. The essence of what they had to say is remarkably accessible! But even more importantly: the One who originally inspired these writings is still active and ready to reveal Himself. This should give you more than enough confidence to read and understand.

The Challenge.
I can continue writing about this, but I want you to experience for yourself what I, rather clumsily tried to express. So here is the challenge: Read Matthew, Mark, Luke, John and Acts in a week; no academic study of single words or sentences, rather allowing the rhythm and spirit of this message to transport you into this wonderful world of God’s story. For this type of reading I suggest the ‘Message’ translation. Let me know who is up for it – leave a comment or send an email. Shall we make this a collective experience – starting on this Saturday, 4th October.

Truth Preserved; Truth Revealed

The Scriptures in Perspective

August 2006 Weekend Function

Andre Rabe — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 13:57:00 +0000

Only a month to go!
I’m sure we all share the same experience that Paul spoke about in Rom 1:11 “The longer this waiting goes on, the deeper the ache. I so want to be there to deliver God’s gift in person and watch you grow stronger right before my eyes! Rom 1:12 But don’t think I’m not expecting to get something out of this, too! You have as much to give me as I do to you.”
I was so stirred, the past week, to make the most of the friendships God has entrusted us with. “So, friends, we can now–without hesitation–walk right up to God, into “the Holy Place.” Jesus has cleared the way by the blood of his sacrifice, acting as our priest before God. The “curtain” into God’s presence is his body. So let’s do it–full of belief, confident that we’re presentable inside and out. Let’s keep a firm grip on the promises that keep us going. He always keeps his word. Let’s see how inventive we can be in encouraging love and helping out, not avoiding worshiping together as some do but spurring each other on, especially as we see the big Day approaching. (Heb 10:19-25 MSG)
The first part speaks directly about making the most of our frienship with God. We have an awesome, always-available, opportunty to fellowship with Him – LET’S USE IT! In the same breath, he speaks about our frienship with fellow believers. There are aspects of God that we can only encounter in one-another! That’s how He chose to reveal Himself – through people … and to neglect fellowship with one-another is to neglect fellowship with Him. Now some might have allowed ‘guilt’ into their hearts and to them this will sound like condemnation, however, I prefer to use the same words as scripture and call it: “spurring each other on” Come on, we have so much to give and to receive from each other and from our Father, let’s make the most of every opportunity.
For those who have not confirmed for the weekend funtion, please do so soon.
Details:When: Friday 4th to Sunday the 6th of August. You can arrive from 11H00 on Friday. We’ll finish on Sunday at 11H00.
Where: Holmsted Manor, Staplefield Road, Cuckfield, West Sussex, RH17 5JF
Accommodation: 13 Rooms with own facilities, 9 with 2 single beds and 4 with double beds. All bedding included.
Food: Will be supplied. – you are welcome to bring your own snacks.
Cost: Â£40 includes accommodation and food.
We are only able to book the whole facility for the whole weekend, so no discount applies if you only stay for one night. Please don’t allow finances to stop you coming. Just let us know, we’ll make arrangements.
Day-visitors are welcome â€“ a donation of Â£10/day will cover food & drinks.
What next? BOOK. Please forward your names and whether you want a single bed or double bed room.
Andre & Mary-Anne