Vital Statistics for April- Christians engaged: 25
- Pre-Christians engaged: 15
- Miracles reported: 9
- Easter videos
- Home schooling support
Easter Video Series
Because of the Coronavirus Lockdown, I made several videos to explain: Why do we celebrate Good Friday? and Why Easter Sunday is the most important day in history I was also asked to record a sermon for Bethel CF so I made this Video on Revival. I also led two Zoom prayer meetings for revival this month.
Home Schooling Support
Then Christine and I went round and visited 7 healthy local families who we'd met before at Pizza Nights and offered to help them with homeschooling as Term 2 has started. We served 7 children in the first week, running two students for the morning and then two students in the afternoon for several days. We helped with reading, writing, projects then celebrated with cooking and made videos. We even took two kids to the Corio Police Station with a card and a box of warm ANZAC Biscuits to comfort them after they lost 4 officers in Victoria that week. Thus there have been several miracles in the Home Schooling Support program so far! Just seeing kids grasp basic reading is a little miracle. Seeing mute and withdrawn children engage in cooking is a little miracle.Personal Development
I'm thrilled to be working with Paul Hills from Bethel Christian Fellowship to make sermons and to be involved in leading revival prayers in Corio/Geelong. I'm thrilled God has opened up opportunities to help the local kids with learning. But I'm frustrated I'm not seeing more results. The Lockdown is causing us all anxiety too, but I'm a bit scared we will push for revival but see nothing much. Perhaps this is OK. It is hard to be perennially positive and casting seeds when non-believers think you're deluded. I'm looking forward to when the virus is over and we can run Family Pizza nights again and preach the gospel with power. I'm also aware society suspects men such as me who want to teach children to follow Jesus of being pedophiles. So I am trying to get the parents to sign off on their kids coming here and to ask them how the feel about coming and then give me the documents.
Please Pray
I'm having trouble lobbying the council to give me official permission to plant trees and I want to run a large community party to celebrate the end of the virus. Please pray for these evangelistic opportunities. Please pray I will have the power to encourage and lead successfully in Jesus' name. We have a total of 137 miracles since we started, but we have only planted 54 trees. So to honour God for the miracles He's done, we need access to plant 83 more trees!
