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I’m not sure if anyone reads this, but this is just a reminder about our Jr. High Camp next week.  If you haven’t signed up and are still interested, it is NOT too late.  Please pick up a camp package at Oshawa Community Church on the ‘Welcome Centre’ desk.  Then contact Corinne Buntsma as soon as possible to let her know you are coming. 

This year’s camp is going to be one to remember.  God is going to move in us.  Please don’t miss out. 

See you at the beach.

remedy Admin.

Just wanted to let you know that these times taking care of the blog have been great. Sorry I didn’t have time to update it very often but I hope you guys enjoyed my posts. From now on someone else will be taking over the job and I’m sure you’ll enjoy it. Look forward for some fresh news, updates and post coming up. See you guys later!

Thiago Oliveira

Registration fee – Hotel – Transportation and Gas – Food and snacks

We are pressed for time, the deadline for early bird is April 9, this is the price we are basing our cost on. I’m asking that all permission forms and money be returned by Sunday April 4. Pemission forms and money can be returned mid-week to Maxine or on Friday April 2 or Sunday April 4 to myself or Linda. Please make cheques payable to OCC. I hope everyone will come, we had a great time last year!If any parent/guardian are interested in coming, please let me know. We do have some volunteers lined up for driving and room leaders. Pending the turn out of registrants we may need more. I’ll keep you posted.
I am sending the registration forms home this Friday, and there will be inserts in the bulletin this Sunday.

Thank you,
Corinne

“PUT TO DEATH, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. BECAUSE OF THESE, THE WRATH OF THE LORD ID COMING. You USED TO walk in these ways, in the life you ONCE LIVED. But now you must RID YOURSELVES of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips.”

James 1:22-25

“Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it—he will be blessed in what he does.”

Thanks to my fellow Intern Vicky we have some picture from our dance at OCC’s last Talent Show. I hope you enjoy.

have a good week! See you soon!

Thiago Oliveira

So, this last Friday we had a lot of fun together and we learned some new things about God. Would you like to know what we learned? Here it is:

Have you ever asked yourself the question “Why am I here?” “Why did God create us?”

Well, there are four basic areas of God’s plan for us:

1: RELATIONSHIP (John 14:23): We were created to have a deep relationship with God. Why?

God wanted to have a family, with children capable or choosing whether to love him or not. That’s why God gave us free will, and that’s what make love so exciting. When you’re loved, you know that the person that loves you has chosen to do so. It wouldn’t be fun to be loved by someone that acts more like a robot… programmed to love you no matter what…

2: CHARACTER (Genesis 1:27): God created us to become like Him.

What is character? Well, it’s nothing more than who you are on the inside. Your values and moral attributes… Who you really are when nobody is looking. God created us to have a character like His own. So, do you want to know how God’s character looks like? Take a look at Galatians 5:22,23 “…love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control…” That’s how we should be. That’s the fruit of the Spirit. By the way… we’ll talk more about the fruit of the Spirit in the coming weeks so… stay tuned! NEXT!

3: FUNCTION: God created us with a job to do here on Earth.

Have you ever imagined how boring it would be if we had only been created for the sake of existing? We have one mission here that was delayed due to our sin in the Eden: Genesis 1:26,28 “Let them have dominion. …subdue it: and have dominion”

As our father, God wanted us to share in his “family business” which is to have dominion over His creation.

4: REPRODUCTION: Yeah, I know what you’re thinking… What do you mean with reproduction???

Well… Genesis 1:28 says:

God gave them his blessing and said:

Have a lot of children! Fill the earth with people and bring it under your control. Rule over the fish in the ocean, the birds in the sky, and every animal on the earth.

As our father he wanted to share with us two wonderful experiences: 1. Being a parent and 2. Generating life. Isn’t that cool? He shared with us the power to create life. We are directly involved in that process.

However there is another aspect of reproduction: Spiritual reproduction. “OK Thiago… what in the world are you talking about?” Simple, we are assigned to bring people to God, giving them a new life, increasing the number of God’s people. Pretty neat, eh?!

Well guys, that’s it for this week. See you again soon. Leave your comments and questions below. Have a wonderful week! Peace!

Thiago Oliveira

Thiago Oliveira

However, I do have a few pictures from our last event. So without further ado…

It was a lot of fun as you can see. Well, I hope you like it! See you next time.

Thiago Oliveira