G’DAY MATE!!!!
Hello lovely people,
So Cambodia …
I will just have to tell you about that in person.
Welcome to Australia. The lone Island continent, and according to the contact here, probably has less population on the entire continent than in New York City alone.
I am currently staying in the outback, Darwin, The Northern Territory and since this is the end of my first week here, I guess I’ll have to inform you all that I THINK I know will be happening in Katherine also (about four hours away from Darwin) where I ASSUME we will be staying for the next two weeks (though a different location each week).
Darwin:
We arrived on a Friday afternoon(always) and went straight to work for our contact, Roger Lathem, picking up his yard from the hurricane (cyclone) damage that had accord four weeks prior to our arrival. Roger and his wife, Vivian, minister to the local aboriginal clans located in the northern territory (that is one BIG ministry). Vivian is a midwife and a nurse in a local clinic located in Beloyen tribal grounds, and Roger teaches guitar, ministers to a mission church in Darwin, and runs a camp site behind where he lives. Roger mainly is trying to reach the entire Northern Territory aboriginal tribal groups.
This week I have been staying in the girl’s cabin behind the Lathem’s house. I HAVE A BED! And HOT WATER! And a TOILET WITH A SEPTIC TANK! And a REFRIGERATOR! And ELECTRICITY! And FANS! So if you cannot tell but I am excited about having a few amenities that remind me of home, and if you are JUST NOW reading my blog can assume correctly that I have spent the past two months without such blessings as I did back home. I have been ministering to our contacts and those who will be coming in after us by: mowing, raking, and sweeping the roof. Last Sunday I got to spend my FIRST Sunday in two months in an English speaking church, and had an AWESOME worship time, where the team preformed one of our classic skits, and Charles on team Wrecking Ball (they are doing a different ministry than us), brought the good news. After worship we had an intense prayer time “the LOVE tunnel” where we laid hand on the aboriginal congregation as they made there way to lunch at the back of the church – if they wanted to.
PRAISE:
Alison is getting baptized tonight : ) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Katherine:
Week 1:
I am staying at our second contacts, Rachel, house. Rachel is translating the Bible into Kriol (Creol), a mix of English and Aborigine, and we will be helping her however she needs it. Is there any other way a world racer helps???
Week 2:
We are staying at an Aboriginal Boarding school, I assume teaching and doing skits, and leading the kids in worship and stuff on Sunday’s.
So that is what has happened and what MIGHT happen here in Australia.
May God Bless you and Keep you. May He reign in your life daily, and may you seek his face and a deeper faith in him. May His will and kingdom come to fruition here in the natural and in your life as He moves in mine.
Thank you for the Blessings,
Kim
P.S. Please keep me in your prayers. I still need to raise my finances to another 5,000!!!!!!!!!!!!! PRAISE GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!
