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Dwayne, Valerie & Austin
Lifting Christ Up
Down Under
14 women and children,
including
3 first-timers attended the August Unwind
and Design night. Valerie gave a
devotion on “Let Your Light Shine.” Pray for our next evening, the 29th
of October.
We hope this will be a great outreach.
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Pressing On . . .
This week marks our third year of ministry here in
Jerrabomberra. The time has flown by quickly. We will be having
a special three- year anniversary celebration next month.
Unfortunately, in the past year we lost several individuals and
families due to moves. A pastor who grew up in Australia just
wrote to us today and told us that it takes at least ten years
to get a ministry started here. His advice was “to stay and
pray.” That is what we intend to do: to keep praying and
pressing on.
We have been praying about new ways to reach our
community. We have done a good job with advertising and making
our name know in the community. However, this is not bringing
the results we would like. We feel led now to go out and knock
on every door in our community. There are over 1250 homes here
so this will be a big task. Please pray that other church
members will also come and help us. We hope to be able to hand
out some information about our ministry and leave each home with
a Gospel tract that has a clear presentation of the Gospel. We
hope to have this project which we are calling “Operation
Jerra” complete before the end of the year. Pray with us
that the people will be receptive to us and will be encouraged
to visit our ministry.
We are also very excited about starting a youth
ministry here. One of our young couples has expressed an
interest in heading this up in their home each Friday night. We
hope to have a good crowd for our kickoff evening the 9th of
October. Each week teens will be invited to come for a time of
Bible teaching. The last Friday night of each month, they will
enjoy a special activity. We expect several teens to attend who
do not go to our church. Pray for Stuart and Michelle as they
lead this exciting new ministry. They are also helping Valerie
out now sharing some of the Children’s Church responsibilities.
Prayer Requests
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Australian dollar continues to
rise. We are getting less for our money. |
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A quick and complete recovery
for Valerie’s foot. |
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Our new youth ministry, for
local youth to be reached for Christ. |
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Operation Jerra, visiting over
1250 homes in the Jerrabomberra region. |
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More people to visit our
ministry. |
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Opportunities to reach our
neighbours and friends with the Gospel message |
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WE NEED YOUR HELP!
We have snail mailed several letters but still haven’t
heard from a few of our faithful supporting churches. If
you have not responded to us in a while, we would really
like to hear from you. We want to be sure that you are
getting our letters each month. If you do receive them
via snail mail and would prefer e-mail, let us know.
Be sure an tell us the address you currently receive the
snail mail copy. Thank you so much for those of
you who have allowed to use e-mail. It is helping us to
save a lot of money that would otherwise be spent on
paper, printing, envelopes and postage. We hope you like
our new letter design. Let us know what you think.
We are considering redesign of our web site as well |
SURGERY UPDATE: Valerie is recovering well from her
recent foot surgery. Her foot is still swollen a little.
She cannot wear regular shoes yet. The doctor said it
might be November before she can get into some normal
shoes. Thank you for your prayers!
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