MINISTRIES TO HELP OTHER CHURCHES.
THERE IS MIGRANT SUPPORT.
Yew Meng Lim is originally from Singapore, now lives in Toowoomba, runs a "The Connecting Point" which is a migrant support group in many areas like accommodation, cars, employment. There are contacts for over 20 nationalities in 2009. Can contact Yew Meng Lim through [email protected] or 0419743296. Through Toowoomba City Church, see http://www.geocities.com/discoverchurch/tatotci.htm
COVENANT KEEPERS. Covenant Keepers offers support for anyone interested or going through divorce with the view that marriage is a Godly covenant. The movement was borne from a Pastor who worked in a congregation which area had a divorce rate of 70% and now it is 5%. Hence, the "eye of the government" are closely watching this as a model for marriage for civil change. The Pastor now does not re-marry anyone for any reason. Even adultery. That divorce is allowable but re-marriage is definitely seen as unscriptural. The Pastor does not condemn a re-married couple but gets them to see that they should teach their children that it was wrong to re-marry after a divorce. They call this "repairing a breach" and the story goes closely like this - "A man lived in a village surrounded by a wall. One night he caught a big fish but the walls were closed and he had to spend the night outside of the walls. But the big fish were only available at night. So he made a little whole in the wall by his house and constantly covered the whole up by day. A neighbour said "What a big fish." The man said "Don't tell anyone but I have a small whole I crawl out of at night." So the other neighbour soon made a whole in the wall as well. After 10, 20 years there were 160 wholes in the cities wall." Covenant Keepers has home group meetings in many cities in the world including Toowoomba and Brisbane. Contact New Hope Assembly of God Moffat St and/or Sundays 9.30am Harristown State High School.
CAN I GIVE MONEY TO A CHRISTIAN 3RD WORLD ORGANISATION AND RECEIVE A TAX DEDUCTION? HADA is an arm off WEC but not officially. WEC is principally concerned with church planting. HADA is predominantly concerned with AID and as such is tax deductible. HADA was formed by Neil Young who is not a full member of WEC but an associate member, as he is re-married. In about 1995, he formed HADA and all the literature is not Christian orientated but the 5 or so workers in China are all Christians. HADA very much helps in areas of Visas. HADA stands for "Health and Development Aid Abroad - Australia Fund Inc". The big bonus is that there are NO administration fees which makes this investment very worthwhile. (With OTHER aid organisations 8% administration charge is considered low, 25% is really high, 0% is extremely rare. In England, if you give money to charity the government will ADD 30%! In the USA, any money given to CHURCHES alone attracts a tax subsidy! 55% of the USA go to church compared to 12% in Australia and 5% in England. [Source : "Operation World"]) They can do this as the workers are getting paid from their jobs ALREADY, for example, one USA citizen works in China and is paid by the Chinese a low wage to work in a hospital but they still need funds to produce walking frames, wheelchairs of which there are none.) Dr Peter Moody from Toowoomba worked for WEC and HADA in Brisbane. Registered Charity No. 1273. See www.bridgewatercare.org
WHAT WAS THE John Bradshaw VIDEO SERIES? John Bradshaw has toured the world running workshops is a teacher and theologian. There are three series costing $50 each with 10 segments each going 4.45pm - 7pm. 1. "The Family." 2. "Home Coming" which is on the inner child and wounding. 3. "Creating Love" is about care for ourselves. Rick Ireland ran it at St Patricks Catholic church in 2005 however it’s not about preaching Catholicism. The library has the "The Family" series for free. There are 16 people in the group maximum, including 3 qualified counsellors. There are small group sessions after the video, similar to Alpha.
JIREH (MY PROVIDER) OUTBACK
MINISTRY TEAM.
1. Number of people in the ministry: 2. 2. Number of people they hope to minister
to: Small to large groups.
*3. Type of person that will typically go to in their ministry: Country and
outback adults, not a children's only ministry. 4. Socio-Economic Status of
ones being ministered to: Rural. 5. Amount of kids which are hoped to be ministered
to: Some. 6. Ages of people they hope to minister to: All ages but probably
20-50yo group mainly. 7. Percentage of men which are hope to be ministered to:
50%. 8. Weekly offering anticipated for the ministry and ways of giving finance
to them: Donations and separate offerings gladly accepted. To keep the bread
and butter on the table they would like some people to buy a wide range of ordinary
household and commercial products sold at normal prices bought through them
through mail order so they get a small commission. Please ask for a brochure
or a catalog or their web site for ordering information.
*9. Lateness of people getting involved in their ministry in ministry appointment
getting: Quite late, appointments needed urgently anywhere in the outback of
Australia so they can hold complete special services which involve ministry
for adults through a large puppets show, WORSHIP during church using clowns
and clowning to get people to lighten up which goes over really well, so effective
is this that people who have never came to Christ have received salvation just
from short messages and creating a light atmosphere. During non service times
they will even help restore church buildings.
***10. Any other interesting information: This ministry has a $100,000 caravan
style decked out mid sized bus with all the mod cons. They got this by God asking
them to give a $10,000 non-refundable deposit so they mortgaged their home in
a great step of faith. Only one week later a large inheritance came from England
to pay the remainder plus extra. 11. Time I spent with them AND date of visit:
4 hours 9/2/02. 12. Length of services they give: Not too long. 13. Times they
plan to have services: Anytime. 14. Preachers involved: John and Heather Newport
which were both highly experienced teachers in Christian and Secular schools
on the Darling Downs until 2001 until deciding to serve the Lord full time.
15. Feeling of ministry: Good. 16. Estimate style of belief: They will fit into
any churches style of belief. They have a good understanding and background
of all churches having spent time in many churches from Anglican to Charismatic
to Salvation Army etc.. 17. Dress code so as not to stand out when being involved
with their ministry: Casual. 18. How to contact them: John and Heather Newport
[email protected]
ARMSTRONGS. In 2009, the Armstrong's have an interest in supplying vehicles for outback ministry.
The Armstrong's in Baker St until 2004 HAD a "Pregnancy Single
Mothers House." Where those finding themselves in difficulty can get support
and accommodation. This is no longer functioning as of 2005.
MOST OUTSTANDING EMAIL I HAVE EVER READ out of tens of thousands of emails & web pages I have read. -A Pastor was actually raised from the dead - on the famous Reinhard Bonnke crusade. It is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED reading and widely reported on. (says Tim Hart, author of this 100,000 word web site Christian researcher & web master) http://www.geocities.com/discoverchurch/daniel.htm