Would You Do It For One?

I'm excited to share the outcome of our Testimony night we had on Sunday just gone.
Shane and I and our beautiful girls planned the night from A to Z. We prayed over it each night with the girls and on Sunday with the Church. We kept it simple and hoped and prayed for the best. The purpose of the night was that new people would come and hear about God and what He has done in peoples lives, and that these people would feel a pull on their hearts towards God and His beautiful LOVE, Grace, Forgiveness, and also that we may encourage and fire up the church with their own relationship with God, and so that they will be encouraged to reach out to the local community...so that is what we hoped for!

Our Greeting Team...

Well we planned this event weeks in advance, and the week before the Testimony night on Sunday, myself and Shane found that it seemed the church wasn't really on board with us. When chatting with the already limited members of the church, we found that about half of them weren't coming to the testimony evening and it seemed no one new was going to come to the event.
Well...Shane and I felt a little discouraged, and so we did what we do best...We Prayed! We had a chat with God! 
You know what we felt God put on our hearts...We felt Him say these words..."Would you do it for one?"
So we thought..."would we do it for one?" and we shared this with the church. We asked them if they would minister to 10 people so that 1 person might come to the testimony night, would they just try for that one person? Would they reach out for that ONE hurting person?

We thanked God for always being the ultimate WISE ONE :-) and always being there for us, backing us and anointing the work of our hands and we said 
"YES God, we will do it for ONE. 100% without a doubt, we will do it for 1."
That is what our journey has been about, the one lost sheep here, and the one lost sheep there! I LOVE IT!

So with a bit of encouragement to the church, Shane and I worked hard and made the night happen the best we could and...
The church fired up that night, Gods BEAUTIFUL presence flowed and filled the building, worship time was AMAZING (even though we had No band, just played 3 songs we hand picked for the night), the work of our hands was anointed, tears flowed and flowed, the testimonies reached out to people, the message from Shane was evangelistic and touched peoples hearts, we prayed for people and showed them Gods LOVE...AND MOST OF ALL...people gave their lives to GOD...WAAAAHHOOOOOOO! WAAAHHOOOOOOO! PRAISE GOD xo

We had 26 people turn up to our testimony night, and this is a BIG number for our small outback church that usually gets 10 (sometimes less, sometimes a little more) attend on a weekly basis. Also, having 3 people give their lives to God may not seem like a big number, but really it is! For a church this small, 3 lives handed over to God is HUGE, HUGE I tell you, WAAHOOOO...THANK YOU GOD.
 We were able to speak with people about their hurts, we were able to offer them the Christian curriculum we offer to all people we minister to as we travel around OZ so that they can read and learn more about God, and we are also able to catch up with these beautiful people and mentor/disciple them while we are here in Cloncurry. What a privilege!

Some Prayer Time...

So would we do it for 1 person? YES, YES we would, YES we have, and YES we did throughout our whole journey and including on Sunday.
Thank YOU God for the 1 and for the bonus extra 2 people who felt the pull on their hearts and opened their hearts to you 💜😀

Some Fellowship Time...

You know what? God will never let you down, never! People might, circumstances might, life might, this world might, but God, He will NEVER let you down, choose to follow HIM and live HIS way, and HE will walk with you ALWAYS. It doesn't mean your entire life will be pain free, debt free, perfect in every way, it does mean that HE will walk with you through thick and thin. He will hold onto your hand and never let you go, He will bring peace and comfort to you in those difficult times, HE will never let go of your hand, so once you grab onto HIS beautiful hand, don't ever let go of it xo
 
I hope we've encouraged you all to step out in faith, give it your all, reach out to the hurting, even if it's just for that ONE hurting person...they need GOD and they need HIS Beautiful, REAL LOVE xo
God is SOOOOOOO Good xo 

A HUGE THANK YOU to everyone who prayed for Cloncurry, for the testimony evening and for us, we appreciate it and we appreciate you and your support so VERY much...THANK YOU xoxox

Also a VERY special mention to these two beauties...Our two daughters helped plan this night from the begining till the end. Our girls created the posters to advertise the evening, they were the greeting team, they organised the food on the tables, served the food and drinks, took all the photos of the night and helped clean the church up after the service, they also faithfully prayed every night for the testimony night to be a sucess. We are VERY proud of our mature, godly, helful, kind daughters, they certainly have hearts that love and want to serve God and people...Thank You Elissa xo Thank You Serena xo

Take Care and Enjoy Life,
Love Dimi, Shane, Elissa, Serena xo