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I find it so easy to think that my friends don’t want anything to do with Jesus – and the statistics seem to back that up.

In the last 20 years churches in the UK have seen a 90% free-fall drop in attendance of under twenties. This has left 59% of churches with no attendees aged 15-19 at all. I don’t need to ask them what they think about God, Jesus and church – they’ve voted with their feet.
 
One of these friends of mine, Phil – more suited to getting into fights on Saturday night than church on Sunday morning – in the middle of watching a typically depressing England game, began to tell the room how he wished his life was different. “I wish that I’d never slept with anyone else so I could say to my girlfriend that she was the only one I had been with. I wish that I had a better relationship with my dad. I wish that I hadn’t done the things I’ve done so God would accept me.”
 
Friends like Phil are desperate to be rescued, the problem is that they simply wouldn’t recognise the rescue boat when it arrived. Having not grown up in church or in a religious society, they have no initial frame of reference for the gospel. This is the heart of Mobilise 2012 – The Rescue: that we would refocus our gaze onto Jesus, for only he can rescue us; and that our worship of him would launch a thousand rescue missions into our nation.
 
The Speakers
 
PJ Smyth, Tom Shaw, Andrew Wilson, Joel Virgo, Mike Betts, Adrian Holloway and Stef Liston.
 
The Venue
 
Pontins Holiday Camp, Prestatyn. We’re excited to be all on one site for our main celebrations, seminars and accommodation! There’s lots of extra activities on site including a swimming pool, football and tennis courts, high ropes and a fabulous beach just over the road.
 
Accommodation
 
We’ve made getting accommodation really easy for you this year as we’re all on one site! You can choose from 4 or 6 person self-catering chalets in Popular or Classic style.
 
All-in-one price from just £110
 
We’ve scoured the country to find the best venue and accommodation all at an amazing price. Popular chalets will cost students just £110 for your ticket and chalet from Tuesday to Friday. For regular delegates it will cost just £125.

It’s easy to book, just click here

I find it so easy to think that my friends don’t want anything to do with Jesus – and the statistics seem to back that up.

In the last 20 years churches in the UK have seen a 90% free-fall drop in attendance of under twenties. This has left 59% of churches with no attendees aged 15-19 at all. I don’t need to ask them what they think about God, Jesus and church – they’ve voted with their feet.
 
One of these friends of mine, Phil – more suited to getting into fights on Saturday night than church on Sunday morning – in the middle of watching a typically depressing England game, began to tell the room how he wished his life was different. “I wish that I’d never slept with anyone else so I could say to my girlfriend that she was the only one I had been with. I wish that I had a better relationship with my dad. I wish that I hadn’t done the things I’ve done so God would accept me.”
 
Friends like Phil are desperate to be rescued, the problem is that they simply wouldn’t recognise the rescue boat when it arrived. Having not grown up in church or in a religious society, they have no initial frame of reference for the gospel. This is the heart of Mobilise 2012 – The Rescue: that we would refocus our gaze onto Jesus, for only he can rescue us; and that our worship of him would launch a thousand rescue missions into our nation.
 
The Speakers
 
PJ Smyth, Tom Shaw, Andrew Wilson, Joel Virgo, Mike Betts, Adrian Holloway and Stef Liston.
 
The Venue
 
Pontins Holiday Camp, Prestatyn. We’re excited to be all on one site for our main celebrations, seminars and accommodation! There’s lots of extra activities on site including a swimming pool, football and tennis courts, high ropes and a fabulous beach just over the road.
 
Accommodation
 
We’ve made getting accommodation really easy for you this year as we’re all on one site! You can choose from 4 or 6 person self-catering chalets in Popular or Classic style.
 
All-in-one price from just £110
 
We’ve scoured the country to find the best venue and accommodation all at an amazing price. Popular chalets will cost students just £110 for your ticket and chalet from Tuesday to Friday. For regular delegates it will cost just £125.

Here's our quick guide on how to book for Mobilise 2012.

REGISTER FOR MOBILISE 2012 HERE

Our tickets prices include your conference ticket and accommodation - no searching for hotels, youth hostels or B&Bs anymore!

 Ticket Type

Bookings extended for those made

up to midnight 29 Jan 2012

Bookings made from

30 Jan 2012

Concession ticket in POPULAR apartment
                    £ 95 (save £15)
               £110 Concession ticket in CLASSIC apartment
                    £100 (save £15)                £115 Standard ticket in POPULAR apartment
                    £110 (save £15)                £125 Standard ticket in CLASSIC apartment
                    £115 (save £15)                £130

 

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Please find details on our accommodation here.
 
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** Please note that we will do everything we can to place you in your accommodation preference, however we do not have unlimited accommodation and therefore can not guarantee that we can place you in your exact accommodation preference or grouping. **

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Jo Wells speaks to Dave and Jude May from Emmanuel Church Oxford about leading a Mobilise Worldwide team in Turkey:

Breakfast bagels and coffee bouncing, we all ran towards our departure gate while the words “last call for departure gate 3 flight xxx to Turkey” rang in our ears.

How did we manage to fall so far behind when we left the hotel 30mins earlier then we had previously planned?! The dream of visiting a church in Turkey almost didn’t take off at all.

Touch down in Turkey, and we soon realised to our horror that we had somehow managed to drag the British summer along with us, and the usual 30-35+ degrees had mellowed to a very average 22. The unusual dip in temperature was much appreciated however when we started our manual work. Cleaning and gardening at the church building and retreat centre were first on the agenda. The boys dug up some big rocks, cut down trees, built a big bonfire, and felt, well very manly. That evening we sang around the huge bonfire in Turkish (very upbeat songs) and then some classic English ballads (“My Jesus… My saviour…” – no joke) were enjoyed by all.  As the Turkish believers shared how they had met Jesus, and what they had to sacrifice to follow him, the reality of their stories hit home hard. This wasn’t a distant article in a magazine or a 30 second burst on a promotional DVD, this was real. Their love for Jesus was so tangible, and it broke our hearts, we will never forget that evening round the bonfire.

We can’t go any further without introducing Michael. He leads the church in Yalovah, and has so many stories about God’s faithfulness and goodness. Our times with Michael affectionately became known as ‘Story time with Uncle Michael’ and as we listened to Michael tell stories of God’s miraculous provision we could see faith rising in our students. What an amazing opportunity to hear first-hand how God is building his church – and how he can use you in his extraordinary plans.

We met so many people on our adventure to Yalovah, and we can truly say it felt like home the minute we arrived because we were among family. Even the language barrier wasn’t a problem thanks mainly to Google translate, however a bit of miming seemed to go down a treat as well (how DO you mime ‘do I flush the toilet paper down the toilet or not?’).

Over the trip we had the joy of seeing our students step out in ways they never had before; praying for people on the street, moving in new spiritual gifts, meeting God in powerful ways. They really came out of their shells, and we started to see future leaders, and church planters. We know they all took something really special away with them from the trip. God spoke to all of us while we were in Turkey and we all saw more clearly the importance of establishing God’s church and seeing his Kingdom advance around the world. Our students have learnt so much, and it’s great to see them now applying that new found knowledge and passion into our church context back home.

Leading a team abroad has been challenging at times, but also hugely rewarding. We really believe the trip to Turkey has enabled us to be more effective in equipping our students to follow God’s call for their lives. We can’t think of a more exciting adventure to be on.

We are looking for up to 30 people to help us make Mobilise 2012 run smoothly and safely as Stewards. Could this be you?

When applying to Steward at Mobilise 2012, please note the following conditions:

1) that you will need to be available from mid-day Tuesday 10 April to 2pm Friday 13 April.
2) you will be allocated shifts for approximately half of the conference time.
3) as a thank you from us, we will reduce your booking price to just £50 (we will give you a refund if you have already booked in or a voucher code if you have yet to book in).
4) there are only 30 Stewarding positions available and will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis.

God loves enthusiasm, loves it. The excitement of discovering a pearl of great price and selling all we have to buy it is one of the stories Jesus told to illustrate the kind of desire God looks for in His people. Students are some of the most enthusiastic people I know, confident that everything’s possible and refusing to believe that anything could ever go wrong – anyone who thinks anything else is a miserable defeatist, and probably old.

The Bible offers a corrective to this perspective. Of course there’s no book more faith-stimulating, more confident in the power of God and the accomplishment of His purposes than His Word – but what that looks like may surprise those who expect every good thing to happen right now. Abraham and Sarah are promised a son when they are pensioners, then have to wait 25 years for the promise to be fulfilled. Acts is full of amazing demonstrations of God’s power – over a 30-year period. And there are plenty of persecutions in that time too.

This is important: if you’re not expecting obstacles and challenges, you will be floored by them when they come. If you expect every moment of your life to be thrilling, you’ll quit on important things at the wrong time. Terms will drag, friends will resist the gospel, colleagues will sin – the world is in a state.

Learn from the lives of heroes of faith, Jesus above all. See the time gaps between the chapters: the waiting, the frustrations – God in charge over them too. We don’t give up in the face of opposition, none of those heroes did. We must be prepared to stay the course: people can be healed, set free, and saved in a moment, but they are brought into a lifetime’s discipleship. We’re called to change campuses, workplaces and communities, and to build mighty churches – this will take a generation at least. Enthusiasm won’t be enough.

One of the reasons for this is that God wants to do things in you as well as through you. He loves your enthusiasm but He wants you to have more than a bit of excitement. Charles Spurgeon, a preacher and church leader for 40 years, explains:

Faith untried may be true faith, but it is sure to be little faith, and it is likely to remain dwarfish so long as it is without trials… Tried faith brings experience. You could not have believed your own weakness had you not been compelled to pass through the rivers; and you would never have known God’s strength had you not been supported amid the water-floods. Faith increases in solidity, assurance, and intensity, the more it is exercised with tribulation. Faith is precious, and its trials are precious too.

God loves enthusiasm; He loves tried and tested faith even more.

God loves enthusiasm, loves it. The excitement of discovering a pearl of great price and selling all we have to buy it is one of the stories Jesus told to illustrate the kind of desire God looks for in His people. Students are some of the most enthusiastic people I know, confident that everything’s possible and refusing to believe that anything could ever go wrong – anyone who thinks anything else is a miserable defeatist, and probably old.

The Bible offers a corrective to this perspective. Of course there’s no book more faith-stimulating, more confident in the power of God and the accomplishment of His purposes than His Word – but what that looks like may surprise those who expect every good thing to happen right now. Abraham and Sarah are promised a son when they are pensioners, then have to wait 25 years for the promise to be fulfilled. Acts is full of amazing demonstrations of God’s power – over a 30-year period. And there are plenty of persecutions in that time too.

This is important: if you’re not expecting obstacles and challenges, you will be floored by them when they come. If you expect every moment of your life to be thrilling, you’ll quit on important things at the wrong time. Terms will drag, friends will resist the gospel, colleagues will sin – the world is in a state.

Learn from the lives of heroes of faith, Jesus above all. See the time gaps between the chapters: the waiting, the frustrations – God in charge over them too. We don’t give up in the face of opposition, none of those heroes did. We must be prepared to stay the course: people can be healed, set free, and saved in a moment, but they are brought into a lifetime’s discipleship. We’re called to change campuses, workplaces and communities, and to build mighty churches – this will take a generation at least. Enthusiasm won’t be enough.

One of the reasons for this is that God wants to do things in you as well as through you. He loves your enthusiasm but He wants you to have more than a bit of excitement. Charles Spurgeon, a preacher and church leader for 40 years, explains:

“Faith untried may be true faith, but it is sure to be little faith, and it is likely to remain dwarfish so long as it is without trials… Tried faith brings experience. You could not have believed your own weakness had you not been compelled to pass through the rivers; and you would never have known God’s strength had you not been supported amid the water-floods. Faith increases in solidity, assurance, and intensity, the more it is exercised with tribulation. Faith is precious, and its trials are precious too.”

God loves enthusiasm; He loves tried and tested faith even more.

We've got hundred's of reasons for you to book into Mobilise 2012. Here, Mobilise host Tom Shaw shares just one big one.

Mobilise 2012 - The Rescue Essentials

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