Hey all, long time no see! I am now back in Margaret River and until I go back to school, don’t have regular access to net! Hence the lack of blog posts.
Anyway, the month of January has been quite interesting. On returning home from Brisbane I found out my church is in a designated month of prayer, meeting together twice DAILY! 7am-8am and 7pm-8pm. Now, obviously not everyone joins in every prayer time, but usually 8-10 people are at each and it has been very powerful so far. We are taking the time to really seek what God wants for us as a church and how he wants us to be involved in this town of Margaret River.
Also just this week I bought a CAR! It is a ’97 Holden Commodore. I bought it off Sarah and Duncan. It is a very cool car, I love it very much.
Also, 2 nights ago during our prayer time I was praying about Margs and felt God has asked me to do something…so I am! I feel God has asked me to stop drinking alcohol. Now let me make this clear, I do not believe he has asked me to do this because it is wrong…but because, for whatever reason, he wants me to make a stand on this particular issue to help my mission in Margs. I have always held that drinking ‘in moderation’ (aka not getting drunk) is fine, and still do, but have myself chosen to adopt a ‘no drinking’ policy. This will be tough because drinking is SO ENGRAINED in Aussie culture, and often ‘having a drink with a mate’ can open up some great witness time. But I will trust God on this one…so from now on I am going tee-totaller!
This shouldn’t actually be that hard to be honest. I don’t ‘mind’ beer, but don’t really anjoy it. I haven’t quite adopted a liking of wine…I do really enjoy spirits but don’t drink them much because it IS so easy to get drunk of them. What ‘will’ be hard is explaining my stance to unbelievers…but I suppose I am hoping IN that doors for discussing issues of faith might be opened because of my stance. We will see!
There are a few other things going on with church and stuff, but I will leave them for another day. Hope I catch you all well!
Over and out.
holden vectra james, not a commodore:)