Newsletter Vol.3, No.8
23.7.07
Final Newsletter from Broome
Well mission is over but our work for the Lord will never be over.
Here we are in Broome for a holiday yet it is 10.47am and we are still involved with people. Perhaps it is the nature of the people i.e. Ian and myself.
We don’t mind, it is good to be useful and interact with people because unless you do, how can you tell them of our wonderful God.
Some of our commitment here is pastoral care for the people in this place also visitors to Broome. I, that is, Judy, am finally resigning myself to my life not being my life but the Lords full time. In fact yesterday I said to him ok your will be down. He knows all I want is to be a grandmother yet he keeps taking me away. So perhaps the time has come to stop fighting it and surrender, whatever that will mean. I think of things at home that I could help with and serve him well doing them but I don’t know! It makes me wonder what next. Pray for us as we look forward to what next!
Well that’s enough of the heart pouring out stuff. Let me review Derby for you.
Like Broome it was an amazing ride only very different.
Firstly we attended the Daystar Christian Fellowship Church three times during the week we were there and Ian gave his very 1st sermon at one of these services. It is a indigenous church and this gave us the opportunity to fellowship with local people, they also worked along side us at the two breakfasts’ we gave in the caravan park this was followed up with coffee at the Neals and a chat. It was good to listen to their stories especially those of their ancestors. One lady who shared with me recounted her great grandparent’s stories, they were so different, one was good, the other horrific.
Here we are today with this generation and the big issues that are happening to them. When you are up here you can see what needs to be done but will it ever happen? You ask why I say “I don’t think so,” it is because there are too many people making money off them and there addictions.
They are a people who have lost there way and the only way back is to have a purpose in there lives. This won’t happen when big corporations and the government give them sitting under tree money. Again I say give them a purpose in life we all need that. Certainly give them what they are due, but do it in a way that helps them not harms them.
My heart cries for the innocent ones that don’t stand a chance.
Derby mission was good, our first breakfast, we had 75 for breakfast. ‘mmmmmm they were tasty but filling’. I joke.
It was great to have such a good number and at the second breakfast our number was 95. We met some interesting people but what came over most during the mission is that these people are a hard group to reach with the Gospel. They are too comfortable and don’t need God.
All you can hope for is the gospel talks we gave and the message heard will bear fruit in the future. Perhaps in the future they will reflect and say, “those people did have something I need” and the help will be there to lead them to the Lord. There are a lot of good people out there [humanitarians], good works and all that.
What we can say is that over the three weeks at least 500 people heard the good news of Jesus.
We will remain here in Broome until the 31 July when we will start traveling home. We plan to call into Newman for a week and Mt Magnet for a couple of nights. The next main stop will be in Adelaide to visit an aged uncle of Ian’s then it is off to Armidale and then home. Hopefully we will arrive home about the September 12th.
I am not sure how I will cope with the weather when I return home as I think I have acclimatized to living in the north and found it a little cold having a swim today and yesterday chose to have a brief sleep on the beach instead of going for a swim. Tonight it is 24 degrees and I am sitting her with Ugh boots and with a jacket on.
Another interesting fact is that when we were talking with a local last night we commented on the water dripping off their roof and wondered if their solar system had sprung a leek. No this was not so it was condensation on the roof dripping off. We are apparently in a new season now.
When we arrived it was dry and cold now it is dry but the humidity is coming back, thus the dripping. All the roofs up here are metal and cool off quicker than the rest of the house thus condensation build up and drips off. A most unusual phenomenon for those of us who come from the south.
TODAY, 26.7.07 we had two sea mists. One at midday and the other tonight when we were driving home at 10.30.pm
We plan to be home on about the 12 September having stopped over in Newman for a week; Visiting Ian’s aged uncle for a few days in Adelaide then traveling to Armidale for a week.
P.S. 27.7.07
As it has taken a few days to post this on our web page so let me share with you life/weather as it is now.
Every night we have sea mists that are so heavy that for us it is like rain.
We are camped under trees and there is a constant dripping on our van until about 10am in the morning when the sun is well and truly up.
The humidity in the morning is getting higher.
Also last night Ian fulfilled a dream and that was to go to a live concert of the Pigram Brothers, a local indigenous music group who write their own music and play in a country music/seaside rock style.
They played for 2 hours without a break in a backyard style forum at the luggers museum with pictures of there younger days projected on the sail of one of the luggers.
This group has chosen not to continue traveling around the world with their music but to stay home with their families and perform for the tourists each week here in Broome.
If you want to know more about this group go to www.pigrammusic.com
PPS
We had some issues with our van from a power surge in Derby but again God provided and we up and fully functioning again.
Bye for now.
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Love to two fiathful servants from the inner city dwellers
and His love
Paul
— Paul Dew 26 July, 14:43 #
Safe travelling as you leave Broom for all points south. It was great to share with you in Broome just a few short weeks ago. My trip through the Kimberley region was fantastic and Darwin was very interesting. I couaght up with a cousin I hadn’t seen since 1984!
Will keep you in my prayers.
love,
Faye
— fayehansen 29 July, 11:13 #
Great to hear of your great work for our Lord. May you be blessed for your faithful witnessing and hard work and may you be granted a safe trip home. Be assured of our continued prayers
Lois and Dennis
— Lois and Dennis Quinn 29 July, 21:22 #