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The Encourager Magazine No. 164, August 2019 THE Issue. 164 | August 2019 ENCOURAGER The magazine of Elevate Christian Disability Trust Karen Menzies and Blair White moving down the “Prayer Tunnel” for their turn to be prayed for at the Dunedin CFFD prayer walk CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP Proverbs 17:22 FOR DISABLED A cheerful heart is good medicine. limit or prevent me from enjoying the best life I can. This verse instilled in me a “can do” attitude. For one thing, because I believe that Jesus will give me the strength to do the things He has in store for me. For another, I interpreted the verse as a command to live extraordinarily and to strive for the best. As I got older and I read the Bible more, the motivation to live life to the fullest that John 10:10 triggered in me did not diminish. However, my understanding of the verse and the passage developed. I studied and understood what Jesus was talking about in this passage more. Firstly, I read the whole verse and paid attention to How the the first bit of verse 10. The thief, the enemy, the evil one wants to “steal, kill and destroy” me? Well, humanity and all creation, but this is my reflection “Can Do” attitude q piece, so yeah, I’m one of his targets. Steal my possessions and resources through his agents. My joy, lively spirit and allegiance to Christ he continually tries was instilled in me to kill. Ultimately, he longs for my soul to be captured and destroyed. Manuele brings a reflection on John 10:10 I read further up the page and discovered that verse “The thief comes only to steal and 10 is part of Jesus’ explanation for His illustration kill and destroy. I came that they may in verses 1 to 5. Jesus repeated the phrases “I am have life and have it abundantly.” the gate” and “I am the good shepherd” in His - John 10:10 explanation. It’s about Him! It’s about Jesus! I tried to calm my excitement about my light bulb Manuele Teofilo has been involved in many moment, and tried to articulate what I had realised. National Camps and was a volunteer at the Centre Even writing this excites me like that moment. The last year. He has cerebral palsy, is in an electric only way I can live a great life and live eternally is if wheelchair, and has joined us in the National I trust in Him and rely on Him. He wants the best for Support Office as Social Media Coordinator me, and frankly, my idea of the best life is probably through the Mainstream Placement Program. As not the best. So, not only must I rely on the strength well, he will support the ministry groups. Manuele of Jesus, I must also follow His guidance to stroll in the was recently awarded the Chairperson Award at greatness God has set out for me! the Young Writers Conference in Melbourne. It is a continuous decision I must make. Either, to look at what the thief is doing all around me to bring me efore I was a teenager I started saying that John down, or to keep choosing to trust Jesus who came so Bchapter 10, verse 10 was my favourite Bible verse. we “may have life and have it abundantly”! It still is today. The words “live life to the fullest” or Therefore, I believe that I can make the most of life no “abundantly” gripped my attention as a child. I read matter what the circumstances I find myself in. Driving that as I got to give things a go, do exciting things around in a wheelchair doesn’t allow me to access and not live an ordinary “disabled” life. some places. Having a speech impediment frustrates My twelvish mind saw this verse as an inspiration to me when I can’t talk to someone because they don’t push through barriers. Thankfully, I never said that I understand me. However, I can choose to not let my could do anything at all. That would be foolish. Yet, troubles bog me down, but to let go and allow Jesus it’s always been a motivation to not let my disability to bring the best out of every situation. 2 A cheerful heart is good medicine. Proverbs 17:22 Theme & Verse / Romans 12:11-12 “Never let the fire in your heart go out. Keep it alive. Serve the Lord. When you hope, be joyful. When you suffer, be patient. When you pray, be faithful.” Keep the fire in your heart stirred up! Stimulate it, provoke it. It’s time to stoke the fire again not only in our own hearts but in others. Join us in praying that people’s hearts will be ignited this year at camp. Let’s be a spark to others! National Camp Speaker / We are delighted to have Pastor Suz Holmes from Manukau City Baptist joining us this year as our camp speaker. As well as being a pastor, a mother of four daughters, and a widow, Suz has authored a book, and launched the Brave Love women's movement in NZ. In her book 'Missing You: Finding Hope in Hardship', she tells of the challenging ten years after her husband was diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor. Suz looks her God full in the face, and with rare honesty demands answers. Her passions in life include encouraging people to spend time with God every day, and helping people discover their potential in God. Registration Saturday Night Costumes Sponsorship is now OPEN This year our Saturday evening will Would you consider sponsoring be Let your Light Shine! Use your someone to come to camp? There Register online or contact your imagination and get creative, we are many who need assistance to local branch. Please register early to love seeing all the costumes people make it. The cost, particularly for ensure you don’t miss out. come up with. people needing to bring their own Fees Volunteers caregiver, is significant. Adult $210 We rely on volunteer helpers like Enquiries & Further Details you to make this camp happen! Our 11-14 Year Olds $130 09 636 4763 biggest need is for volunteers to PO Box 13-322, 5-10 Year Olds $90 ‘buddy’ a camper for the weekend, Onehunga, Auckland 1643 supporting them to be at camp. 0-4 year Olds Free [email protected] There are also other volunteer www.elevatecdt.org.nz roles we need filled. If you haven’t been before, National Camp is a life-changing experience for both campers and volunteers. We would love you to join us! 3 Anyone can find the dirt in someone.Proverbs 11:7 Be the one to find the gold. Basement people work with negative comments like, “I told you you’d never amount to anything”, or “You are so stupid I can’t believe it!” or ‘’How can anyone be such a dill-brain as that?” You know that sort thing. They drop subtle hints about our inferior qualities, or they build themselves up at our expense. They thoroughly damage our personalities. Sometimes, their damaging words have such power we never rise again to discover who we really are, or what we can become with God’s divine enabling. Who are these ‘Basement people’? They may be anyone. People of influence or power are well placed to wound. A parent, a school teacher or an employer who verbally abuses you or cheapens BALCONY you, pushes your head under the surface by what they say – or fail to say – may all be inflictors of damage. PEOPLE You remember drowning in their criticism. I have a very vivid example of this in my personal PART ONE experience: a particular school teacher whom I’ll never Some years ago Margie Willers wrote a couple of forget. The incident was many years ago now. I was articles on this topic, and has received such a huge twelve years of age. feedback from so many that she felt called to spend A hush fell on the noisy classroom as Mr Grafetti a lot of time upgrading what she had previously looked up from his desk. Something was about to written, happen, and my classmates instinctively knew it. The She writes: I was watching a FOCUS ON THE FAMILY babble of voices died as they waited in anticipation. video featuring the well-known Christian psychologist Grafetti raised his eyebrows, his bushy red moustache Dr James Dobson. He was addressing the need for twitched as an unpleasant smiled curled his lips. the Church to listen to its people. He stated this Leaning his face slightly forward, he peered over his listening had to be done so expertly that in essence it horn-rimmed glasses and bellowed, ‘’Rubbish! Just unwrapped another child of God to discover their true like yourself -garbage that nobody knows what to do identity and their natural God-given vocation. with.” I’d never heard anything like it. I sat rivetted, soaking Graffeti had been recording results of a class test. up the words as if they were water on a hard, dried My papers, never tidy in their presentation because sponge. For me, this was a new concept. It was of my physical co-ordination difficulties, had been something different. When he talked about the mistakenly thrown into the rubbish bin, and a concept of our conscious and unconscious mind, I was, classmate had scuttled over to retrieve them for me so as the teenagers say, blown away. that my marks could also be recorded.
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