If You Had This Every Day…
‚ÄúIf you had this everyday I‚Äôd come!‚Äù declared one lady who attended the first ‚ÄúRefresh‚Äù ever held in Carnarvon, Western Australia. The team had some great spiritual conversations following the talk on ‚ÄúSelf Esteem‚Äù. ‚ÄúIsolation and lack of extended family has these women crying out for someone to share with‚Äîthey need Refresh & Caf?© Church‚Äù said Hilary & Natalie as we chatted during their first ‚Äúfree time‚Äù.
The group I caught up with on Friday lunch time (10am WA time) had just finished serving breakfasts to 15 people in one of the caravan parks they are staying at and were heading out in one of the mini buses to a plantation for morning tea. Hilary described it as “cool (it was 30 degrees yesterday!) with the sun shining through the gumtrees, a beautiful orange creeper and grass instead of red sand!”
The door knocking has had “many & varied responses” said Steve Semenchuk. A Police woman who was new to town had received an invitation through the doorknocking to the Craft night last night and came along. So did someone who was invited when they attended “Sundowners” one evening in a caravan park. Their comment was “if this is what church was like we’d come.”
The Children & Youth teams are doing a fantastic job. Not everything has gone smoothly, one of the high schools decided that they could only have the Seminar after school hours and wouldn’t allow reminder leaflets to be handed out at lunchtime. No youth came. No giving up for our Youth Team—they went to the local shops and Skate Park and hung out with the kids there!
Pray for our team and all who are currently in Carnarvon. Many in the caravan parks are “following the sun” - pray that they will come to “Follow the Son”! Give thanks for the clear gospel messages that our teams are giving.
Lyndall Bailey