on the homefront (oct to dec 2013)

October – December 2013 From our home missionaries .

Page 4 – PCC Slacks Creek Br & Sis Vasquez

Page 6 – Red Dust Home Missions Br & Sis Meijer

Page 9 – Gold Coast Report Br & Sis Caltabiano

0 – Ballarat Report Br & Sis Butcher

Page 11 – Northern Light - Darwin Br & Sis Namakadre

Page 12 – Seedlings

STOKING THE FIRE ON YAM ISLANDEarlier this year, Australian Home Missions sponsored a Five day Bible school Intensive on Yam Island in conjunction with a Youth rally. Brs: Dennis Jacobsen, Kevin Hall and Paul Nightingale were the teachers that taught on Doctrine, Christian living and other practical church topics. This was held in conjunction with a Youth rally ministered by the AHM Director Stanley Harvey and a young man from Sydney, Br Matt Cogin. It was an outstanding time of teaching and ministering with many receiving the Holy Spirit. The Church was blessed as they met daily for the intensive and services for over a week long.

Pictured: Sis Kepa with her certificate

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Australian Home Missions Committee Director. Rev. Stanley Harvey (Campsie)

Treasurer. Rev.Cameron Butcher (Ballarat)

Resources. Rev.Bill Morris (Shellharbour)

Member. Rev. Peta Marks (Adelaide)

TS Member. Rev. Jeffrey Ses (Murray Island)

AHM DIRECTOR’S EDITORIALBEYOND A SMILE...

As I began to get acquainted with another substitute tennis partner, I eventually led the conversation to the subject of Christianity with a view to sharing my testimony. Luke seemed like an open and friendly young man and when he discovered that I was a pastor, he began to share with me his experience with Church.

He said that he attended a Church for two whole years, several years ago but now no longer attends. After, pressing him to continue his story, he explained that he faithfully attended Church service every Sunday and somehow after two years, he still did not feel any more connected. I suggested; “were

the people not friendly?” He said “No, they were very friendly and often smiled.” And what he then said to me dropped like pennies from heaven in my brain. “They were smiling and friendly people, But it never went any further than that. It never went beyond the handshake and smile at Church on Sundays.

In other words, Luke never felt truly connected in a significant relationship with anyone else in the Church. Nobody made the effort to become his friend. Immediately, I thought about our own Churches and how many of our folks are friendly and make the effort to shake the hands of our guests and even manage to put on a smile. Yet how many have come and not stayed because they were not able to develop any meaningful relationships with the people in Church.

The need for relationship is perhaps the primary issue with new people coming into the Kingdom of God. Part of that is the need to belong and a sense of acceptance. Every member of the Church has a responsibility to create an environment of acceptance and friendliness, even if they are not your style or of the same background or culture, we can learn to befriend everybody.24 A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that

sticketh closer than a brother. Prov 18:24 (KJV)

Discipleship = friendship with a Christ centered focus. We are all called to be disciplers. We are not called to become spiritual giants and then become disciplers. Anyone can be a friend. The problem with most people is that they feel insecure when it comes to reaching out. That is a flaw in our human nature. Everyone sits in the crowd and expects someone else to reach out to them. When no one reaches out, they feel lonely and isolated. The person beside them feels exactly the same way. Though people with introverted personalities struggle more with this, even charismatic people have this problem. They can be fun loving and handshaking, but still never get beyond the surface of a smile. We can easily be surrounded by smiling faces and touched by no one. You can touch someone’s hand with a warm handshake but that does not ever get beyond the surface and into the need.

A good illustration of this was a couple in a church of a particular pastor. “This couple that was so loving, kind, and energetic. I considered them to be one of the nucleus members of the church. They attended home Bible studies and knew all the members. What seemed sudden to us was actually a slow growing problem with them. They quit coming and we soon found out they were visiting other churches. That is not uncommon, but the reason has always stuck with me. She said that the reason they were leaving was because she felt lonely. She didn’t know anyone, didn’t have any friends and felt alone. Wow! How could one of the life-blood member of our group say she was alone and friendless? The reason is that there was no discipleship. No one ever got beyond the surface and into her life.”

The number one reason that people leave their church is they have no real relationships. People come into a congregation; they feel accepted and welcomed so they join. They may be respected and well liked, but because discipleship never gets beyond a Sunday morning handshake, they begin to feel isolated. Church becomes a routine instead of a hunger. People then go to church out of a feeling of obligation to God, not because we have a true love for God’s people. When we get to this point, we are only one disappointment away from giving up. We all need something more than this routine. The reason why we long for something more is because we were designed for something more. God did not create any ‘Lone Christians’. God calls us to lift each other up. There should not be a single person in the church that does not have at least one friend they meet with in an unstructured environment outside of church.

This is what made Jesus so effective was that he developed a relationship with his disciples. He didn’t disciple everyone but they in turn would disciple others. We must mobilize our people and our church to open up their homes and hearts to befriend, love and disciple every soul that God brings our way. Then we will not have enough room to fit them all in our churches.

19 We love him, because he first loved us. 20 If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? 21 And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also. 1 John 4:19-21 (KJV)


THE POWER OF SYSTEMSIn the 1950’s, the Japanese automotive industry was completely transformed by an American man named Edward Deming. Until just after Word War II, few people knew who Deming was. An obscure professor at the University of Chicago, he spent a lot of time constructing and lecturing on ideas about quality measurement and control. Shortly after the end of the war, leaders in Japan’s automotive industry heard about Deming’s research and came to him for advice. They had a notion that the automobile could be Japan’s key

to renewed prosperity and acclaim, but the industry was, at present in shambles. To own a Japanese car was to own a dud. Something wasn’t working right. In the minds of the industry leaders, that “something” was their people.

Already convinced that their problem was the result of a disinterested and lazy workforce, the Japanese automotive top tier brought Deming in to conduct extensive research on how their cars moved from inception to final product. They wanted to know where the breakdowns were occurring and who, specifically, was responsible. So Deming commenced with a ten-year evaluation. His results were surprising. The Industry leaders had it all wrong. They didn’t have a people problem at all. In fact, their employees were committed, hard-working and eager to put a good product on the market. They just didn’t know how to go about it. Why? Because the industry’s systems for moving a car through the stages of production were ineffective, at best. This was not a people problem.

Deming went to the Japanese hopefuls who had hired him so many years ago and delivered this message: “Your system is designed to give you exactly what it is giving you”. In essence, he was telling them that they were responsible for their own failures. They had put weak systems in place that, by design, could not produce their desired results. No one had ever told them how to set their systems up for

effectiveness. With Deming’s help, the industry leaders spawned a revolution by putting strong systems in place and started the turnaround that eventually made Japanese cars the highly sought-after commodity they are today. Even now, Japan celebrates Deming Day, in honour of the man who showed them how to structure for success through a series of interrelated systems……. Excerpt from Healthy Systems, Healthy Church by Nelson Searcy

We may not be building cars but we all utilize systems; whether it be our daily system for going to work, cleaning the car, preparing our food, any kind of human endeavour for that matter requires a system, especially if we are to be effective in our task. Even our human bodies contain systems which may sometimes be simple or for the most part incredibly sophisticated.

Church is no different. Just like the human body the church as a body requires systems in order for it to function and fulfill it’s purpose. When there is a flawed or dysfunctional system then problems arise and the body becomes unhealthy and unproductive. Could it be that the reason we as churches are not reaching our goals and targets is not that God is not with us, or that our people are incompetent or lazy(like the employees of the Japanese car industry) but because our Systems in the church are flawed or worse yet may

be non-existent. Perhaps it’s not the lack of effort or sincerity, or a love for the Lord Jesus that we are not seeing greater results but it may just be that we are expending time and energy in a flawed and inefficient system.

Nelson Searcy identifies 8 Church systems that are essential to church growth: The Service System, Evangelism System, Assimilation System, Small Groups System, Ministry System, Stewardship System, Leadership System and Strategic System. If we are not seeing the growth that we could have, it may be time to revisit our current systems and look at what can be improved.

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PENTECOSTAL COMMUNITY CHURCHLIFE GOES ON

It was September 2012 when we decided to establish another Pentecostal Church here at Logan City area, the hub of so many churches of different denominations. The Lord Jesus Christ is always good though.

The atmosphere was tense but faith was resolute, the first and the second meeting was conducted at the minister’s house with the members of the family and Four others who joined to support the work. The guitar and the dedicated voices of the group welcome the presence of God that floods our soul, worshipping and blessing Him with praises and thanksgiving.

On the first Sunday of October 2012, with a new place to gather together, the brethren were excited with much hurdles to contend with, legalities, insurances, and many others, the church named “Pentecostal Community Church” was born at 177 Meakin rd., Slacks Creek.

Rejoicing with the freedom that only God can bring, people starts to invite visitors and they were busy with Bible studies so that nine brand new souls were added into the kingdom. God is great!

Tithes and offerings were generous and we are able to buy few musical

instruments to grace our Sunday mornings services, and also enable us to pay our rent every week for the facility. Retithes were given and the church financed the two brethren to attend the Ministers and Leaders Retreat at Sydney. Brother and Sister Teeny together with their daughter Sister Terry Spears and Pastor Chadwick King blessed us with such precious teachings. It was a soul-enrichment event.

As the word of God was sown into people’s hearts, the first fruit was harvested in whom we had our first soul baptised in the ample salty water of the beach of Maroochydore November of that year. And life goes on. The first baby dedication was done, the first wedding and the first church annual

general meeting was also successful.

Brother John Downs our UPCA Superintendent and Brother Ike Glass our former Overseas Missions Director blessed the congregation with their presence last 24th of March 2012, who installed Brother Romeo Vasquez to be the Pastor of the Pentecostal Community Church.

With the church service done only every Sunday morning, there’s enough time for the church to hold the Bible School in the afternoon and bible studies and fellowship afterwards.

During the week, Prayer meeting is attended every Monday at 7:00pm, Wednesday Bible study at 7:00pm, Friday nights at 7:00pm Youth Service.

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Discipleship courses are going on and souls are being established and grounded in the truth.

Visiting ministers came and the first one was Pastor Bill Morris who pastors the church in Shellharbour preached last 18th of November 2012 a wonderful message of “rejoicing”. The church was encouraged.

SE Queensland UPCA Presbyter Pastor Errol Paulus was with us last September 21st - 22nd 2013 with the joint service at the Gold Coast Church – Grace Point Pentecostal Church Pastored by Rev. Jacob Caltabiano.

Last 2013 conference in Sydney PCC pledged 3thousand dollars for two years for the Australian Home Missions. The GYM (Godly Youth Missionaries) the PCC youth group organised a fund raiser walkathon which contributed some $600 to the Sheaves for Christ for the Australian Youth Missions.

Last October 2013, the first Sunday of the month, we celebrated our first church anniversary. Reverend Stan Harvey, Pastor of the thriving Pentecostals Church of Sydney at the

same time our present Australian Home Missions Director was invited to be our guest speaker for the three- day event “Church Family Camp” at Thunderbird Park situated at Mount Tambourine, at the Gold Coast Hinterland. The church rejoiced.

Prayer was made for God to shower us with His Blessing and the result was five souls were gloriously filled with the Holy Spirit. Five brand new babies in Christ were born as God baptised them with the Holy Ghost with the evidence of speaking in other tongues as the Spirit gave the utterance. A breakthrough!

What a wonderful service we had, and as life goes on… our Lord Jesus Christ is always with us confirming His words with answered prayers and many lives were changed in His saving and wonderful Name. And still life goes on… wonderful things are still happening here at the Pentecostal Community Church because we need a bigger place to gather. Souls are added to the kingdom because the church keeps moving on, trials and tests goes along with growth but these are things that strengthen and bind us because we are serving a great and wonderful God – our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen.

Romeo and Marj Vasquez PCC Slacks Creek

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TARGET CITIESThere are ten cities that we are focusing on to plant churches;

Gladstone QLD Mooloolaba QLD Toowoomba QLD Armidale NSW

Newcastle NSW Dubbo NSW Wagga Wagga VIC Mildura VIC

Bunbury WA Launceston TAS

We are looking to Churches to appeal to the workers and leaders in their assemblies to take up the challenge of going into these new areas and we are praying for individuals to take the step of faith in doing the same.

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RED DUST HOME MISSIONS 12 – 24 SEPTEMBER 2013

Flew to Alice Springs with bro. Roy from Faith Point Church and settled into the shopping preparation routine.

After Br Colin French from Townsville also joined us, we were on the road by 9.00 a.m. and came across bro Otto Simms on the road just outside Tilmouth Well. This good brother’s wife has renal failure, and has to go to Alice Springs twice a week for dialysis, a distance of 500km each round trip!

We met Pastor Jimmy in Yuendumu who had been miraculously held up from going to Laramba so that we could catch up with him. The Government accommodation in Mt Allen, which we had been welcome in for the past 3-3 1/2 years and had made an application to use this time, became unavailable the afternoon before we left Alice so we were in desperate need of accommodation.

After some searching and the help of the Lord we secured some very reasonable lodging in the Shire Guest House in Yuendumu. So, we would have to travel daily to Mt Allen.

We drove to see bro Patrick in Mt Allen as planned and spent some time catching up, and discussing the current situation in Yuendumu.

The back road is rightly so called as it left my wife’s back a mess later that night.

SUNDAY 15TH SEPT

In Mt Allen, Sis Meijer & I taught Sunday School.

Most families were away at a Sports weekend.

Exhausted at the end, bro Colin kindly drove us to Yuendumu for lunch and

rest. We invited bro Micah and his wife for dinner to catch up with them before service. After dinner we had service at South camp but not before an AOG relative had come around to borrow a keyboard from bro Micah.


We recommended Pastor Micah not to further the aims of the AOG. We later found out that he decided not to lend the keyboard, and hence sadly there was again no AOG service that night. Bother Micah simply told us that he had ‘changed his mind” praise God! This was a brave and non customary action on his part.

That evening we returned to Mt Allen but the wind was up at the church, so there was no service. We sat and fellowshipped and then returned to Yuendumu.

Bro Patrick gave me the amazing news that he has regained feeling in his feet through asking the Lord, and giving up on sweet foods. This is remarkable, and as far as I know does not normally happen, because with the diabetes, the nerves die, and do not grow back, but then we serve the God of resurrections.

MONDAY 16TH

We drove to Mt Allen early, the visiting brothers pulled down the old sign, and erected the new one, meanwhile sis Meijer had a Sunday School /women’s seminar. We then had a short Bible study. Sister Rosina has bought a small Toyota bus, and the mob was off to Cairns later on in the week. There was no planned service so we stayed till late lunchtime and then returned to Yuendumu.

After a rest we prepared to go to church in Yuendumu, organized by bro Micah. Sister Meijer admonished, bro Roy testified, bro Colin and I preached, and the presence of the Lord was there!

The evening was great!

TUESDAY 17TH

Brother Jimmy had arranged to see me when he returned from Laramba. We moved into the now vacated house where we usually stay in Yuendumu.

Sister Meijer did a Bible study with sis Nola, who explained that amongst some sisters there is still fear of going to services. The brethren did a short bit of sightseeing, and that evening sis Meijer and I visited with a contact, Charlene. The brothers stayed at the house and fellowshipped with our hostess Soraya who, it turns out is related to bro Colin.

WEDNESDAY 18TH

We travelled to Nyirrpi on a road that has not been graded for nearly a year & you can tell that it hasn’t!

After settling in, we visited with Pastor Micah & had service. The whole team ministered, bro Roy preached his first message on Ezekiel 11:19: A new heart.

The Lord was there!

THURSDAY 19TH

Sister Meijer and I had Bible study with Pastor Micah for several hours. Brother Micah invited me to minister to one of his saints and the Lord did great things.

That evening the team ministered again and sis Meijer finished with a powerful altar call. Almost every one was out of their seat and at the altar. I walked over to the one lady still sitting, and as I laid hands on her she began to shake in the presence of the Lord. The person whom I had been asked to minister to earlier that afternoon, told me they had some bush turkey, a delicacy which for white people, would cost much more than caviar. He told me to wait and he would bring us some, so at 11:00 p.m. home delivery bush turkey came to our door, with a smiling delivery man. We each had a piece, and slept well.

FRIDAY 20TH

With Brother Micah as our guide, we travelled to the base of Karku mountain where bro Colin and Roy scaled the climb!

Service was at the basketball court in the evening. The morgue was lit up

and contained the body of a loved one who was going to be buried the next morning, hence people would not turn up for service at the church.

Once again the team was teaching testifying & preaching. Visitors were present and many people asked for prayer & counsel.

SATURDAY 21ST

At 10am sharp, Colin Gibson came over for a Bible study we had arranged the night before when he had brought a grandchild in need of prayer.

It seems our friend had been baptized by bro Henwood, twenty something years before, but had fallen away, never having received the Holy Ghost.

We did a study on the promise of the Holy Ghost, and afterwards the brethren laid hands on him. There was a prophecy for him to give up and to turn away from the ‘things’ in his life: at the end I led him in a commitment prayer, and then gave him a Bible, which he is actually able to read! Brother Micah and I then had a wonderful discussion on ministry and mercy; we both left each other feeling very refreshed! We packed the equipment whilst sis Meijer held a meeting with sis Ursula the pastor’s wife.

As the day went by I noticed strangers at the church, including the Baptist missionary from Yuendumu. They were there because of a notable Baptist man’s funeral here in Nyirrpi. There had been a great ongoing ‘kafuffle’ between the family members about where the funeral should have taken place: the


Baptists insisting on Yuendumu, the Pentecostals and local family members insisting on Nyirrpi. There had been up till two days prior the threat of legal action, should the shire begin to excavate a grave. These factors were in bro Micah’s prayers before he agreed to allow the Baptist missionary to officiate at the funeral.

Bro Micah had actually been asked to officiate at the man’s funeral by this high profile man himself, and many of the community were aware of this, but for the sake of not starting a ‘blood feud’, he deferred to the Baptist section of the family.

As it was, all went well until, right in the middle of the ceremony a couple of young women, evidently in laws, started to create quite a stir with shouting & scuffles as people tried to restrain them.

It was time for us to leave to get to Yuendumu before dark, so we said our good byes. A couple of bad road bone shaking hours, we arrived. Our bro Roy, so impressed bro Micah that he gave him his grandfather’s stone axe: a high honour!

We spent some time with bro Jimmy after helping him move some bedding to his new temporary house whilst the Housing Commission pulls down and replaces the old one!

SUNDAY 22ND

The priority of the day was to talk with bro Jimmy about the circumstances in Yuendumu. Bro Jimmy contacted the clinic, and arranged for brother Colin to see the nurse, as his face was swollen from a toothache that had started the day before. We then climbed into the truck and after a quick discussion with our friend in NT Housing cruised around looking for the site of the new ‘Living waters church of Yuendumu.’ We walked the land, claimed the block in Jesus name, and then drove back for a rest, awaiting evening service.

A little later, bro Otto and sis Ormay called by asking about service. We had a service with a guitar in the house, but felt like the lepers of 2nd Kings 7:8, who needed to share the blessing with our brethren. In view of this, we all drove

to sis Nola’s house: she was sitting, clothed on her bed on the verandah, with the small form of a child who she was looking after, asleep on the bed. There was no light, we had left the guitar with its owner, and pulling up some chairs, we had service. People came out of the woodwork, and we had a total of ten people squeezed on the verandah in the moonlight, with Bro Roy sharing a word on faith by mobile phone light, and then torchlight.

We finished up with a discussion on the gifts of the Spirit and an exhortation to reach out for the gifts and to support their pastor in prayer.

MONDAY 23RD

I visited bro Jimmy in the morning, encouraging him to look after the church!

I then went to bro Otto’s to give him some teaching materials. He told me the church was going to support bro Jimmy and try to help him with a new vehicle.

We drove to Alice Springs, in time to get bro Colin to the clinic. He was given emergency dental service free of charge when it was realized that he had just come from a community.

Our brothers Colin and Roy have been a wonderful blessing to both sis Meijer and I, helping pack, clean and cook, as well as ministering to the communities every service evening!

TUESDAY 24TH

Leaving our brother Colin in Alice with the vehicle for another night, our reduced team boarded the plane and flew back home to the Illawarra.

Headstone for Br. John Henwoood


GOLD COAST REPORTWell it’s nearly been two years since we first arrived on the Gold Coast and took on the church. What an amazing journey it has been so far. The church is doing great with a weekly average of between 35-40 people. The unity has been strong as people seem glad to call Gracepoint Church their home. Last week we had our record attendance for 2013 with over 50 in attendance and that evening we had a powerful prayer meeting where the spirit of unity was revived amongst us. Over the last 20 months we have seen souls added to the church and they have grown. In 2013, we have struggled with consistency in regards to regular attendance however in the past few weeks it seems people are becoming a lot more faithful in their attendance to church.

In September, we had a visit from our Presbyter, Bro Errol Paulus. We combined with the Pentecostal Community Church, pastored by Bro. Romeo Vasquez. The ministry was outstanding and God moved in a mighty way throughout the weekend. Praise God!Recently we were blessed to have our AYM weekend lead by Elizabeth Everett from the Pentecostals of Sydney. The other members were Gilbert, Austrie, Victoria and Sione, all from the Pentecostals of Sydney. The team were a huge blessing to the church, not only were they extremely encouraging to our youth but the entire church commented about how moved they were by the testimonies and message preached by Elizabeth on the Sunday morning.

Our focus now is on visitors and follow up as we have noticed that we are getting visitors on a regular basis and we want to turn visitors into members. At Gracepoint we have implemented a new follow up system that ensures every visitor will get a phone call thanking them of their time at Gracepoint church with 36 hours as well as a postcard with a coffee voucher within the week. We first tried this 5 weeks ago and the visitor has been coming every week since. Last week we had 2 first time visitors and the follow up was done

and they commented that they found the church to be very friendly and have stated they are definitely coming back. In the coming weeks Home Missions are sending us Greg and Stephanie Hackathorn to do a day of training and development with our church family. The purpose of the weekend will be to get us as a church more focused on reaching the visitor, closing the back door and getting new people involved in some form or capacity. I truly believe that this will be the beginning of a new chapter for Gracepoint church. Please continue to pray for the church on the Gold Coast and all our other Home

Missions churches throughout Australia.

God bless.

Jacob Caltabiano


BALLARAT REPORTYOU ARE NOT FORGOTTEN!

This was the message our Presbyter preached to us over the weekend of the 20th October. The text was taken from Exodus 2:23-25 as the Lord hears His children.

“…and God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto them.”

What a wonderful Saviour we serve. Regardless of who we are or where we are – He knows our every up-rising, down-sitting, thought and intent.

Have you dwelt on that lately? Did you remember to be thankful?

Lean on Him church of Australia, whoever you may be and wherever you are reading this little note. He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defence; I shall not be moved. Psa 62:6

Aren’t you glad you know Jesus as your Lord of lords and King of kings.

We are so thankful for this Saviour we know and love, and for His family.

Here in the beautiful city of Ballarat we have been so blessed with continuing support and ministerial visitation from our wonderful church family across the country. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.

Recently one of our Sisters completed the full 12 lessons of Exploring God’s Word and is now teaching a family connection. Please pray for this family – another two members came to our End Times mid-week series and we are praying that they will be our first two saints to be baptised.

We love and appreciate you UPCA and look forward to seeing you at Conference 2014.

Please continue praying for all of the Home Missions works and remember to include Ballarat on your prayer list.

Lord bless you all and love through Him.

Your servants,

The Butchers of Ballarat.

John 14:18 “I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.”

Yes that is snow – thank you Home Missions for assisting us with heating.

Early stages in building the ‘Tower of Babel’ during the AYM weekend.

Left: Celebrating the new signage with Br & Sis Turkington

Right: Br Havran brings a spiritual principle to the children at the Sunday School Fund day during the recent AYM weekend.


NORTHERN LIGHT PENTECOSTAL CHURCH OF DARWINPraise the Lord and greetings from the topend of Australia!

We have been in Darwin now for 5yrs and 8 mnths and have pastored for the last four years and have seen many souls baptized every year and the church growing..

But by far this has been the most trying year of them all. From the beginning of the year, we’ve lost some families and some have dropped off our radar.. Church planting and ministry setbacks becoming a reality.. Especially in the last few months when I fell ill again and couldn’t do much for a couple of months due to the sickness that comes with chronic fatigue that just zapped my energy away..This may not be an exciting report but it’s a true report. It’s foolish to think that being in the business of establishing an apostolic church, we’ll have smooth sailing and arrive to all our destinations without a storm; but we have an enemy that hates us and will do all he can to disrupt God’s plan for us in Darwin.

Thanks be to God for He’s Faithfulness!

We kept praying and did what we already knew to do and understood that there are seasons for everything, that if

we kept being faithful, God will show up and things will turn around.

We are thankful for the support we received from the Home Mission department and all the prayers and support from the body of Christ all around the fellowship here and abroad.

More importantly I’m thankful for the faithful saints of God who have weathered the storm and shared the load with us.

We were blessed to be visited by Bro Michael Perry from Timor Leste followed by Bro Robert Taylor in the month of September.. they were a great encouragement to the church at this time.. We also had a visit from our presbyter Bro and Sis Jacobsen earlier on... It’s always great to have visitation from the brethren and a great encouragement to the church.

Our first ever church camp in October which was held in Riyala camp ground, about 20 minutes drive from Palmerston was a great blessing, especially the timely uplifting messages from our guests speakers; Sis Debbie Saiz, Sis Downs and Bishop Downs. I believe something broke during this time can feel things are starting to turn around!

One lady who had left us for another church earlier on has decided to return. She has been sharing the Oneness of God to a number of people in the that church and last week the former pastor

there and his wife came home wanting to know more about the Oneness of God! We have agreed to continue fellowship over a bbq and they will bring their son, also a preacher and his family over as well..

It’s exciting and it’s an answer to a specific prayer for pastors in this city of Darwin and those that are hungry for the truth to come to a revelation of the Mighty God in Christ.

Many Blessings

Bill & Arieta

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SEEDLINGS….MUDGEE NSW

Recently, a licensed minister from UPCI Fiji, Br Jim Navunisaravi spent a couple of months in the Mudgee NSW. There he spent time connecting with a many other Fijians teaching Bible studies to up to 20 people. He was able to baptize a few of them and a strong connection was made. Since then a minister from the Pentecostals of Sydney has been going monthly to follow up the work that was done there.

SYDNEY CHINESE CONFERENCE

Recently, a Chinese Conference was hosted by the Pentecostals of Sydney. There is a growing Chinese Community in Sydney and a vast majority of them are unchurched. This is not limited to Sydney however, since every major city in Australia has an emerging migrant population, many of which are from Asia. This Conference was aimed at reaching this population who are less proficient with the English language. The guest speakers were Br Xenn Seah, the former Director of Cross cultural ministries of UPCI and Sis Amy Wang, a woman with a powerful testimony and inspiring ministry in Los Angeles, feeding hundreds of homeless people. Over the weekend, 15 people received the Holy Ghost and 4 were baptized. It was a tremendous weekend with many being touched and receiving miracles from the Lord.

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