40 - Sunday, December 16, 1930 - North Shore News

SPIRITUALLY SPEAKING
Local Christians to meet for Celebration

THE CHRISTIAN message is about to be taken off the
shelf, dusted off and presented anew to residents of the

North Shore.

From a huge youth event on
Sunday, Jan. 13 te small in-home
meetings, to a final gathering in
the Centenniai Theatre on Sun-
day, Jan. 20, several Christian
churches of different denomina-
tions are embarking on what's be-
ing billed as A Celebration of
Hope.

It’s the inspiration of a group
of about 15 Christian pastors who
have met weekly for six years to
pray for the North Shore. Cele-
bration is the second phase of the
well-attended Growthquake, a
series of seminars on mobilizing
Christians for action that took
place in October.

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Key speaker at the Celebration
will be Michael Green of UBC's
Regent College. Green has written
about, taught and practised
evangelism both in his native
England and around the world.

He and approximately 50 of his
Regent College students will at-
tend Celebration events, sharing
themselves with groups of people
gathered in private homes or in
churches to renew their faith,

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Green hopes that the events will
attract believers and skeptics alike.

He believes, he says, in the use
of reason in religion and having
total respect for each person’s
personality and individual beliefs.

Green and his students never
charge for their work, which,
Green says, ‘*is very necessary in
these days when there’s so much
dodgy stuff done in the name of
Christianity."’

There was once a time when
“dodgy stuff"? was more than just
a phrase to Green. As a teenager,
Green says, ‘‘E was into mild ar-
son. 1 was a pretty good little
crook.”’

But he began to attend youth

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meetings where participants ‘‘were
talking about Jesus as if he was a
friend of theirs."

After a year of skepticism, it
suddenly occurred to him that
“Jesus personally took the flak
for my sins. It brought tears to
my hard-boiled eyes.”

Later, after achieving a first-
class degree in history and philos-
ophy at Oxford, Green began
pondering his career choice and
“increasingly the horrible convic-
tion came that I should be or-
dained."’

After attending Cambridge for
a second degree, Green embarked
upon an energetic career within
the church that saw him become a

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revolutionary principal at the
London College of Divinity,
shocking the old guard by throw-
ing open the college doors to
women, non-Britons and laypeo-
ple and instituting a less-hierar-
chical power structure.

Before moving to Canada in
1987, he was rector at St. Aldate’s
Oxford, a church whose Sunday
attendance grew to 1,600 under
his enthusiastic ministry.

Tonight, the Celebration of
Hope team is hosting An Evening
of Worship and Intercession for
the North Shore at Lynn Valley
Full Gospel Church at 8 p.m,

The prayer meeting is open to
all, and organized by Cedarview
Chapel pastor Peter Biggs. The
church is located at Lynn Valley
Road and 29th Street.

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Celebration, call 985-7132.

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