At church on Sunday they gave an almighty plug for Life to the Full through an interview with Alex and Johann.  One of the things Alex mentioned was that she was nervous on the first night of Life to the Full.  Questions run around your head like:

What will my friends think? Will they think I’m a looney tune for believing this? Is this going to be any good? Will Sam totally mess up further opportunities to share the gospel by being a complete git?  What will I say?  Will I know what to say about Jesus? How will I argue for God and at the same time hear their concerns and respect their opinions?

These are all great questions.  Some of the variables are completely out of your control but you can prepare yourself for Life to the Full and I think one of the best books I have read to that end is Naked God: The truth about God exposed by Martin Ayers.

Martin’s book is good one to read for 3 reasons.

1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. It is very accessible.  Lots of apologetic style books are very complicated, long winded and difficult to get your head around. Martin is comprehensive, clear and concise.  A rare find.  As John Dickson says:  ”I was amazed, actually, how such a short book could feel so comprehensive.”
               2. It is comprehensive.  Martin covers a lot of material.  Whilst more reading could be done on all of the sections he writes about on the book in the Naked God we find a concise and clear distillation of many of those ideas.
               3. In his book he covers much of the same material that we look at in Life to the Full.

This is the third post in a series of posts helping us to know and understand what WAVE Summer Festival is all about.  The previous two post can be found here and here…

Why do we do it?

As a church we believe that Jesus is the most important person in the universe. It follows then that sharing Jesus with our local community through spoken words and practical works is the most important thing we can do with our time, energy, money and resources. WAVE Summer Festival is all about seeing Jesus transform the city of Newcastle.

Who do we need?

Ideas people: We need dreamers and schemers who can make things happen. We want to encourage you to work out how your particular passions, gifts, hobbies, interests etc. could be used to serve our community and/or provide an opportunity for us to speak about Jesus. But ideas without actions are just ideas.

Do-ers: Perhaps you are like me and you have never had an original thought for your entire existence on this planet. If that is the case then you may be the do-er we are looking for. The ideas people are going to struggle to make things happen and they need you to help them make someone else’s project under the umbrella of WAVE Summer Festival a roaring success.

WAVE Kids Club Team Leaders: WAVE Kids Club is one of the many events that will be put on by Hunter Bible Church over the Summer period. During the week of WAVE Kids Club we boldy preach Jesus to over 150 kids and more than 60 adults each day. But to make this happen we need team leaders who are godly and care about the Jesus being preached well to people of all ages. These are the areas where Team Leaders are needed…

• Sprinkles (6 months to 1 year old)
• Tic Tacs (2-3 years old)
• Skittles (4yrs to Kinder)
• M&M’s (years 1-2)
• Khaos (years 3-5)
• Rock (years 6-8)
• Solid (years 9-12+)
• Equipment Team (includes co-ordinating a Pack-up and Set up Team)
• Cooking
• Sideline Cafe
• Registration
• Kids Concert Time

WAVE Kids Club Team Partners: WAVE kids club also requires a multitude of helpers who make up the teams. Again, these people need to be godly and care enourmously about Jesus being preached without putting up unecessary barriers to people hearing the gospel.

What else do we need?

Prayer

Money

Equipment that you are willing to loan to us