September 2011

The sun shone as we opened the doors of the Oasis centre and women began to arrive from all over the country. The Dream team women were still sorting out the little salt and pepper shakers when the first guest arrived from a two hour train journey- someone who had read about us on the internet and arrived by herself to meet others and be inspired! The worship team arrived and were drafted in to blow up the purple balloons. Soon the centre was thronging as our capacity numbers overflowed. We were ready for —

BETTER TOGETHER
Living Life With Impact

10.00 Welcome and Worship with Sue Viner, Allie Pavis, Joy Kemp and the Maidstone worship group, a large team from the Maidstobe area led us in some worship with a mixture of contemporary, traditional and gospel songs.
10.30 Fiona Castle, opened by encouraging us to -Upgrade Our Evangelism
Her stories of being used to spread the love of Jesus whilst travelling, and building friendships when moving house were inspiring and set the tone high for the day.
11.30 Coffee, tea, cookies and the chocolate fountain was served in different areas so that we could network with others from our own geographical area.
11.45 Seminars-
A-Introducing Activate Your Life/ Reaching Your Community
Sarah McKerney/Rhiannon Goulding
B-Building Friendships
Caroline East
12.45 Lunch, open sandwiches, salad and deli bar from the Hub cafe. Jewellry workshop and stall available
2.00 Seminars
A-Will the Real Me Stand Up?

Mandy Catto/Julie Wilkins
B-
Sheila Bridge
3.00 Worship and talk –
A Word in Season
Jan Harney
4.00 Finish
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We hope you discovered that with God and each other, we are Better Together.We’d love to hear your comments and thoughts. Leave any below or post them on our Facebook group. If you have photos that you are happy for us to use perhaps you could attach them to an email on our contact form.

We are holding a one day conference on Sat 17th September,
10-4 at St Mary’s Church, Thame.

Its £10 a ticket which includes refreshments and lunch

We have 2 Speakers, Seminars, Worship, Craft and Quiet reflection area.

We are very excited to have Michelle Tepper and Sarah McKerney coming to speak. Sarah as you know is one of the Directors of Activate and we have Michelle who is a passionate and gifted evangelist who recently joined Ravi Zacharias International
Ministries. She has a passion for evangelism, building community and seeing lives transformed by the love of Christ.

If you live near by and interested in coming please contact:
Sarah Hyde · Barley Hill Church · Tel: 218235 · E-mail: hyde55@tiscali.co.uk