Dear Friends at BPPC, Health Prognosis is Quite Good Thank you for your concern and the good news is that I’m doing very well with no infection in the lungs but I am still very tired and still in recovery mode. I went to see the oncologist on Tuesday and he felt after examining all […]
Para Marcia Reports Over the past few months, about 5 babies have been found dumped & deceased in various locations in Timor. Sujana, the Director of Casa Vida was interviewed on Monday on Timor Television News about Casa Vida’s stance on the issue of abandoned babies. Casa Vida has said they desperately want to help […]
Dear Friends, For those of you not yet aware, I would like to introduce you to the Christian Organisation, Casa Vida in Dili, Timor Leste. Casa Vida was founded in 2008 to address and respond to the needs of children who are victims of physical, emotional & sexual abuse. Casa Vida provides safe and secure […]
The Epistle to Diognetes, c. AD 130 Here is a gem we are most fortunate to have as only one copy survived the centuries. We do not know who wrote it. It came from the second century. It was, as the New Testament, originally written in Greek. In this brief excerpt, we have preserved a […]
Dear Everyone, First Activities I have had a busy time since arriving back in Timor. The first weekend back I went to Weberek with Moyses, Josie & Anarela, a young Timorese Christian woman working with us. Josete, a former YWAM missionary who served in YWAM with me till 2007, returned to Timor to start work […]
John Rowse – Spiritual Shakings Heaven or Hell? The big seminar I had been looking forward to for so long has finished – disastrously. After 18 hours of teaching over five days, a good group of the pastors and some of their wives – and mothers’ union leaders – seemed to be coming onside. By […]
Rowse’s News – 15 June 2019 Dear Friends, Please thank the Lord for safe travel from Singida to Bariadi and then to Musoma, on the eastern shore of Lake Victoria. On the way, I visited a bush Bible school run by the son of a bishop friend of mine with the African Inland Church […]
A new pastor for the Presbyterian Church of Osaka Rev. Kuno was inducted and he started working at Osaka Presbyterian Church from April. He moved to Australia to study at a Theological college at around the same time when I, Tomoko, moved to Australia in 1997. Please pray for our church and catch up with […]
Prayer and Predestination A Conversation Between Prayerful and Prayerless (by John Piper) Prayerless: I understand that you believe in the providence of God. Is that right? Prayerful: Yes. Prayerless: Does that mean you believe, like the Heidelberg Catechism says, that nothing comes about by chance but only by God’s design and plan? Prayerful: Yes, […]
Subject: School chaplaincy abandoned by ACT Government schools Date: 13 March 2019 at 2:13:47 pm AEST Dear Friend, Earlier this week School Chaplaincy ACT received the deeply disappointing news from the ACT Government that it would abandon the school chaplaincy program at the end of 2019. In its place, it will introduce a secular support […]
