Tag: RICE

Avid followers of this blog would know that I like RICE. I’m really excited how God is at work through this movement. This Saturday there’s some more RICE action up for grabs… and it’s not too late to get tickets for RICE REGENERATE PRAISE. Featuring Deb Fung and Trevor Hodge – it pomises to be the goods! Details below.

The 2009 Regenerate PRAISE Night, ‘Surrender’ hopes to encourage this vision of renewal through the gathering of like-minded believers to engage in a deeper praise and worship of our awesome Father.  Consisting of congregational singing, musical items, testimonies, bible readings and more, our prayer is that God would use this night to transform lives through a reinvigorated desire and affection for Him.

Date: Saturday May 16th 2009
Time: 7pm – 9:30pm
Place: North Shore Christian Centre, 175 Lower Gibbs Street, Chatswood, NSW
Entry via Chatswood Business Park (Off Smith Street)  

Tonight was the RICE Vision Night. Gold! The aim of RICE is to “convict, mobilise, equip, train and revitalise the next generation to serve Jesus.” It was exciting to hear the work that God has been doing through the RICE movement over the past 7 years.

Two new arms were launched: Surge (on about helping people to discover their gifts and desires to serve Jesus) and Phase 4 (Raising up leaders and the planting of churches). We spent lots of time thanking God for the work he has been doing and praying that God would continue to work as Jesus is proclaimed.

Below is my ongoing twitter commentary (in reverse chronological order):

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We went to Rice Regenerate last night with 500 other 20-somethings. It’s the next phase of the Rice Movement growing out of the large Rice youth rallies. “RICERegenerate is a movement aimed to see a generation of lay leaders in our churches revived, renewed, and re-ignited in their passion to serve our great God and Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ.”

Mike Raiter spoke on the Parable of the Ten Minas (Luke 19:11-27). He smashed it! He spoke with great passion + soul-searching conviction from the Bible. I was challenged to be greedy to use my gifts to produce fruit for the Kingdom of God; not for the praise of men, but for the praise of God. An illustration on Adoniram Judson encouraged me to taste and see that the Lord is good even in the hard times.

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We had a killer time last night at RICE Rally 2008! The music was great. We played the largest ever game of King Caractacus. Sam Mak and Steve Chong did a great job MCing. Mark Driscoll preached a cracker sermon on Jesus’ death and resurrection. 500+ teenagers claimed to put their trust in Jesus!! Check out our view of the 4000 teenagers gathered at The Sydney Entertainment Centre.

RICE is an incredible event and movement that has grown exponentially since its inception in 2002. One of the keys to the growth has been the involvement of so many leaders at the grass roots level. Praise God for the way he continues to work through this movement.