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Prayer
Moore Sunday: Prayer, Provision & People
6 months ago
Sunday 7 August is Moore College Sunday. A day to highlight the College with prayer, provision & people.
The college seek our ongoing support with prayer for the College, helping them financially and encouraging people to go to Moore College to study and be equipped for Christian ministry.
Please praise & thank God:
- for the students, their humility in learning & enthusiasm to serve.
- for over 7000 external studies students & for progress in the on-line learning environment.
- for 15 mission teams that partnered with churches in Australia & Overseas.
- for graduates serving in Sydney, Australia & the world.
- for the Centre for Christian Living that is helping people to follow Jesus in all areas of life.
Please pray:
- that College remains faithful to the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ in everything it does.
- for those who heard the gospel from the mission teams.
- that students will be well-equipped for the ministries God leads them into.
- that many people consider studying at Moore in 2012. ± for wisdom for the future.
Special Prayer for August & September
6 months ago
Please pray throughout August & September for the following points …
Commitment: from our many volunteers who will help us make the transition work.
Defence: from vandalism and theft of trees & plants and internals of our building.
Enthusiasm: as we move the service of celebration to Saturday the 3rd September.
Guests: Our special guests already invited to join us in our opening Celebration Service are able to change dates with us.
Manufacture & Delivery: for all remaining manufacture, delivery and installation to occur on time.
Patience & Perseverance: as we move to a changed schedule.
Sunshine: we need fine weather for the bitumen in the southern car park and to complete our landscaping.
Wisdom: as final decisions are made about furnishings and fittings.
Our revised Timetable is this:
From Monday, 1st August: carpeting and half of foyer flooring
Saturday, 6th August: major landscaping. Remember inductions of what to do 9am and 1pm
Sunday 7th August, Mufti Sunday: come to church at 10am in clothes ready to work, stay for a sausage sizzle (or meet us at 1pm ready for work) and then help finish off the landscaping.
From Monday 15th August: installation of air conditioning, front doors and audio & visual equipment.
From Monday 22nd August: painting and final fit-outs
OPEN DAY & CELEBRATION SERVICE Saturday, 3rd September
10am walk through & view our new building then at 2pm Service of Celebration,Moombara Street, Dapto
Sunday, 25th September at 7pm: Confirmation Service.
CHARLSIES Angles – keeping in touch from Santiago – Chile
6 months ago
Michael & Jo Charles with their children; Sam, Caleb, Emma & Lola are serving with Church Mission Society in Santiago, Chile and are one of Dapto’s Link Missionaries.
We’ve just received 3 newsletters in quick succession from the Charles family in the field in Santiago, Chile.
They’ve had a busy few months with friends Rev Andrew & Heather Reid (Holy Trinity Doncaster, Melbourne) joining them leading up to Easter for an intensive course on the book of Exodus.
Great news about Jo’s women’s bible study group. The ladies decided to continue meeting while Jo was in Australia. A very big step for these ladies! They discovered that they didn’t need Jo to run this group and learnt instead to trust God. They are studying Isaiah and while a little bogged down are making great links from the Old and New Testament.
More recently, Michael reports on a mission to Antofagasta where they spent a week in evangelistic events. A highlight for Michael was being able to preach in English at a service held for nearby miners. It was great for the students with him to see a very different part of Chile and experience the difficult reality of a minig city where there is a high turnover of congregation members due to short-term contract work.
Why not check out their newsletters #77 to #79 for yourself by clicking on the links here.
Charles – Newsletter #77 April 2011
Charles – Newsletter #78 May 2011
Charles – Newsletter #79 May 2011
News from the Chins
6 months ago
As we support our Link Missionary Richard Chin – who works as the National Director for AFES; working to bring the gospel to the students attending our Universities, Richard and his family are struggling through suporting wife & Mum Bronwyn who has been afflicted with cancer. Read on and uphold Richard and his family with prayer.
Richard writes the following:
Dear brothers and sisters, I am so sorry for being out of touch.
Bronwyn remains fragile. She hovers around 39-40 kg and has chronic back pain. This means she is unable to sit in a chair or stand upright for long periods of time. Although we don’t know exactly what is causing the pain, a recurrence of cancer is at the top of the short list.We have a CT scan next Tue (12th July) which will reveal more. Either way the treatment is the same with sporadic chemotherapy.
However, although her diarrhoea is constant due to the surgery, her vomiting has settled (apart from when she has chemotherapy).But she remains (as always) in good spirits with good humour in the sovereign grace of God. She is also able to get to church and bible study most weeks.At church she sits in a bean bag in the office foyer listening through a speaker that broadcasts the entire service. We usually share this intimate ’church plant’ with some mums and babies.
In God’s kindness, our children remain well because of Bronwyn’s incredible endurance.
As I write, Naomi (15), and Grace (13) are at a CMS Camp called Triple M. Thomas (11) has enjoyed a local Christian Kid’s holiday club,and Rachel (17) is studying hard for her HSC.
Our church family continue to flood us with love – organising meals, a cleaner for our home, mowing our grass, and regularly praying for us.
I am weary but generally well and am due to speak on the books of Joshua, and Job, … and the mission at the Wollongong campus soon.
On the AFES front,
It is Mid Year Conference season across the nation. Students are engaging with God for a week in campus or regional conferences exploring great doctrines such as the Cross, church, relationships, and humanity.
Some dear supporters have enabled us to set up the “AFES New Ministry Initiative” to seed fund strategic staff appointments throughout Australia.
Please continue to thank God for
* preserving Bronwyn’s life and hope in him
* keeping our children well
* the opportunity to know Him better and make Him known at our Mid Year Conferences
* the generosity of friends to set up the New Ministry Initiative
Please ask our Father
* to cure Bronwyn if it is His will and alleviate her back pain
* to continually strengthen her with a steadfast joy in Him
* keep our horizons large with a ballast of humility and a sails full of adoration for Jesus
* to transform the lives of the thousands of students meeting at conferences this month into the image of Jesus.
* to raise up more workers for the University harvest field in Australia and overseas.
Thank you for loving us,
the Chin family.