What an amazing past few weeks! I have seen God move in so many ways and I have been so excited by what God is doing through this ministry! OUR BUS IS COMING BACK! For those of you who don't know, our bus broke down in WA and it has been miracle after Miracle to get it fixed and coming back. On of the pastors of a church we went to mentioned to his parents in a passing comment that we have our bus in WA and need to try find someone to drive it back. His parents felt convicted and wanted to go on a road trip, so they called us up and paid for their flights over to WA and are in the process of coming back as we speak! ~MIRACLE #1 (I'm going to start counting the many miracles in my life!) Two weekends ago we had the privilege to go to Dubbo SDA And Gunnadah Salvation Army church. I shared my testimony and after the service a number of Churh folk came up after to talk to me about my journey and to share their stories and their lives and experiences. What an awesome ministry opportunity that we can share our stories to encourage others! This past week us ladies had the privilege to go to Hillsong Colour Conference. And can I just say that it was such a beautiful and meaningful and Amazing and awesome and spirit filled and God led and Jesus encountered few days. I have been so blessed and so encouraged by all the speakers that presented. On topics like taking life step by step, little by little, being able to push your life to be next 'tent', having faith that God has the bigger picture at hand, the importance of your soul, and hilarity from all speakers! The praise and worship was just beyond words. I encountered Christ and grew closer to him with each word! What a fulfilling and much needed spiritual encouragement! I feel ready to take on this year! The past 2 days we have had the privilege to go to 2 schools in Newcastle area. Schools are always such a nervous time because kids are such a fragile and important part of the kingdom of God. These chapels Kenric (our road manager) spontaneously decided to make my testimony like an appeal/call to accept Christ for your love and saviour. This kinda happened on stage as we were performing, I expanded on my testimony a little and then we sung a song, and after I made an appeal to the students. That if anyone wanted to follow the creator of this world who loves them and wants to be their best friend, to raise their hand. I had no idea what I was doing, but I was praying hard out as I was speaking to the students, completely overwhelmed that God was using someone like me to ask people to follow Him. And praise the lord that his spirit was moving and at the first school 11 students raised their hands to follow Christ, and at the second school 19 students raised their hands. WHAAAATTT???? 30 more beautiful youths who have said, 'I want to follow Jesus and be his Friend'. Words just can't explain how ecstatic that makes me. PRAISE THE LORD!!! Please, can you please pray for these 30 students? That God would provide a support network to them so they can continue to learn more about Him? At Endless Praise, we plant seeds, but we don't get the opportunity to stay and water the seeds and help them grow. Pray for the teachers of the school so they might be able to provide instruction and love to the students. I want to tell you about 2 specific students that we talked to. One of them, a guy (let's call him John, don't want to tell you his real name sorry) for the past little while, he has been on the fence about God, doing studies and learning about God, the teachers have been encouraging him to take the step towards God. How ever, he hasn't taken that final step and said, yes Jesus, I want to follow you. That was until yesterday when I raised his hand and declared that he wanted to be a follower of Christ. What an awesome thing for the teachers who have been praying and studying with John, to see him make that choice! And what a joy it is to see the harvest of someone's seed they have planted and been working on for Jesus. I'm just overwhelmed! My second story is about a young girl called emma ( again not her real name). After the chapel we asked all those who raised their hand to come forward so we can get their names and give them to the Chaplin of the school so he can follow them up. As we were standing around sharing how exciting it was that they have joined Jesus family, emma came over to me and asked if she could talk to me. So we went away from the group and we started talking. She told me that she wanted to raise her hand but she didn't because she felt embarrassed. I was quick to tell her that if she made the decision in her heart then Jesus saw her and he knows. Emma is from Vietnam and moved to Australia 2 years ago. I found out that she moved here with her mum and she couldn't speak a word of English when she came. She's 14 now and her English is easy to understand but she's still self conscious about it. Her home life is hell. Her mother is a mail order bride and that's why they moved over. I can only imagine her mum did it to give her daughter a better life. But her home life is not good. She asked me if God is only for western people, because where she grew up, most people were Buddhist, not Christian. She didn't think that she could be a Christian because she's Asian. I told her that Jesus loves all of us no matter where we come from and that he thinks you are beautiful and lovely and his previous creation. And I gave her a hug. We talked to the teachers and asked how come she comes to this school if her parents are not Christian and they had no answer. Divine appointment is no joke. She needed to hear About Jesus unconditional love and she wants that and wants to know Jesus. What. An. Amazing. God. We. Have!!! The awesome thing about the last school we went to is that they have little gifts for anyone who responds to Jesus. They receive a bible, a pamphlet of frequently asked questions about God, and a little beginners bible study book. It got me thinking, that we as Endless Praise need to have something like that for all the students who respond to Jesus. So if you are reading this and know of anywhere that we can get theses cheep or at a very discounted price, please let me know! We don't have the funds to be able to purchase them. But it is such a necessity! We had an evening concert last night at the school as their youth program also. During this service Kenric made another appeal( more directed to the adults) and one couple who came to the youth program for the 2nd time (they are checking out the whole 'Jesus' thing) responded to the appeal and raised their hands and said they wanted to follow Jesus as well. I. JUST. CANT. EVEN!!! It makes everything worth it. Leaving all to be on the front line for Jesus and seeing people come to Him, using us as unworthy vessels, yet He is able to work miracles through us and bring people to him! ALL GLORY TO GOD!!! ~Miricle # 2, 3, 4, 5....29, 30, 31, 32 This weekend is my sisters wedding so Ive been granted a few days off! I'm the only bridesmaid and I'll be honest, I'm freaking out about wearing a very expensive dress for a whole day! But anyway! I'm excited for the celebration of Seb and Brooke :DDDDD Talk on the other side! Love you all xxxx
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