Lucinda’s News – June 2019

Lucinda is back in E. Timor with lots of challenges on her plate. After 6 months away many things and situations have changed so she will need flexibility to face them. She’s also alone so please pray for her and her relationship with the people and Moises and Josi, two lovely Brazilian Christians who have […]

John Rowse News – 15 June 2019

  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 […]

Stewart’s News – June 2019

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 […]

Why Pray if God’s already decided?

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, […]

School Chaplaincy Abandoned in ACT Schools

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 […]

Pres. Church of Australia – Stand on Abortion

The Presbyterian Church of Australia has taken a clear stand on “the murder of unborn infants” or abortion. Here is a statement from Rev John Wilson, the Moderator-General of the PCA on this issue.  Take a few minutes to read it as it’s important.

Pray for the Lord’s work in Weberek/Para Marcia

Dear Friends, Thank you for your continual partnership with us in prayer. I plan to prepare a newsletter again soon with updates from Weberek but I felt I ought to share a few paragraphs with those of you who I know are specifically praying with us for the growth of God’s Kingdom in Weberek & […]

Lauren Crase’s Final “Tales from E. Timor”

This is Lauren’s last “Tales from East Timor” and we’ll miss them.  It’s a great run-down of many things that have happened in her and through her during her few years in East Timor.  So spend a few minutes to read it, but clicking on “read more” below, or on the photo.  She writes, “Whether […]

The Stewarts’ News – January 2019

The Stewarts – 2019 Christmas is not a public holiday in Japan but it was the last day of Term 2. We had lunch with Crystal and then visited Tomoko’s ninety-nine-year-old grandmother to whom Setsuli read the Christmas story in Japanese. On the 26th, Setsuli read the Christmas story in Japanese to her cousins. Pray that […]