I hope everyone is well and having a great week!
We are in the middle of organizing a Testimony night at the Cloncurry Christian Church to be held in a few weeks time. We are excited about it, and also realistic about it.
Myself and Shane and our Girls have spent quite a lot of time building rapport in the community and in the local Christian church and Anglican church here in Cloncurry and our aim has been to try and light a fire for God in the hearts of the Christians in the outback Churches here and in the heart of the community.
We decided a while back we would have a simple testimony evening Church service and see what comes of it. We've planned a simple night service, with 2 testimonies and a message, worship and prayer time and a sausage sizzle and fellowship time. We hope that new people will come and hear about what God has done in peoples lives (testimony) and feel that pull on their heart towards God and His LOVE, and also that we may fire up the Church with their own relationship with God and to reach out more into the local community.
I am a very enthusiastic person, I always hope for the best...I'm also realistic! Being part of this church and Cloncurry for over 6 months now, I have been able to see how difficult it is to run Churches in these areas, it almost seems as though the outback churches are the forgotten churches, the forgotten people, the forgotten communities, and if I could hope for one thing for these communities, it would be that they would fire up for God, and not be dead dry bones.
Most weeks the church here in Cloncurry maybe has a regular attendance of between 10 and 15 people (that includes the 4 of us), maybe close to 20 if everyone was to attend on the same Sunday, but that rarely, if ever happens.
So we are hoping to change that a little..I'd like to say at the end of our testimony evening the congregation would have grown by hundreds, but I'm not so sure about that, however, I know that all things are possible with God and I will always, ALWAYS be HOPEFUL! I have hope and am hoping for many to attend our testimony night, however, we are prepared either way. We are prepared for if many turn up and we are prepared for if 1 person turns up.
Somewhere along the journey, God showed us how HE LOVES everyONE! It's about the 1's and 2's and 3's. We just want to fire this Church up so that they can reach out to Gods beautiful, hurting people and there are many hurting people here in the Curry, many lost and hurting people, so this is one way we hope to reach some of them!
God has put this simple testimony night on our hearts, so we are being obedient and seeing what comes of it...It's in His capable hands!
We ask that you pray for Cloncurry, the testimony night and pray for us as we organise, host and share on the testimony night, and reach out to this small outback community. Pray first and foremost that Gods will, will be done here. Pray for peoples hearts to be softened to God. Pray that as we make ourselves available, God will in turn make us capable to do what it is He wants us to do...show HIS people HIS beautiful Love for them!
Thank You in advance for praying for Cloncurry and for us xo
Take care,
Love Dimi
