Building for Eternity
Archive for July, 2006
Do anything to me, just don’t leave me the way I walked through the door!
5 years ago
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We hope this is your prayer as we meet together today. We hope to never live such comfortable lives around God that we start to miss the things he is doing and saying among us. The LORD challenged the people this way in Isaiah’s day,
You have seen many things, but have paid no attention; your ears are open, but you hear nothing.
Isaiah 42:20
And the LORD still speaks to us today saying when necessary,
I know your deeds; you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead. 2 Wake up! Strengthen what remains and is about to die…
Revelation 3:1-2
Is there anything that can still move you to tears and to prayer?
Never imagine that God has forgotten you or abandoned you or rejected you! How could God convince you of that? And how then would you respond to him? The LORD describes his passion for you in this way,
“Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you! 16 See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands‚Ķ
Isaiah 49:15-16
Peter Hutchinson
Bulletin 16th July, 2006
5 years ago
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What happened last week.
Bulletin 16/07/06 (pdf, 1.6MB)
If You Had This Every Day…
5 years ago
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‚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” Рpray that they will come to “Follow the Son”! Give thanks for the clear gospel messages that our teams are giving.
Lyndall Bailey