This weekend please remember to partner in prayer with Dave Vaughan and Grant Zippel as they serve as Chaplains at the Clipsal. The team that prayed for the event, as we walked around the track, had quite an enjoyable prayer-walk with them on Monday - in spite of the inclement weather. It was great to meet a number of their contacts, including Jason the CEO of Clipsal, who thanked us all for praying for the event. The positive response of the Clipsal organisers to the prayer team was a great reflection of the respect and credibility Dave has built up over a number of years. Praise God for intentional and Godly influence of this kind! - That’s making an Impact!

This Monday, Julio and I are heading off to the Philippines for 2 weeks. While we are there we will be visiting: an orphanage, two churches, a hospital, a home-based Sunday school, a children’s feeding-program and the House of Hope drug rehabilitation centre.

The purpose of the trip is to determine if this is where God is leading us as a church - to partner with these Filipino ministries. We have so many skills and abilities in ministries here that could also be utilised in partnership abroad. We obviously have a natural association with the Philippines already, with a large number of our congregation having a Filipino background. It is exciting to think we may be able to establish a long-term overseas ministry relationship that would enable us to send teams to visit these ministries on short-term mission trips. This in turn would benefit both us and our Filipino partners – in providing assistance to them and exposure and training opportunities for our people.

Your prayer support as we seek God’s guidance is essential, to ensure we keep in step with God’s Spirit and are identifying the right country, regional locations and the right ministries.

Look forward to seeing you this Sunday