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Saturday, 9 February 2019
Dennis' New Job
For the past few years Dennis has been preaching at Dungog and Clarence Town Presbyterian churches part time.
This has come to an end. He has worked with the congregation and helped them step out in faith. They decided to trust God to fill the position of a full time minister. They built a manse, and now have it filled.
We are so proud of the congregation with how they are willing to step out and trust God to help them grow the church.
While this was great, it meant that Dennis had worked himself out of a job. What to do next. As our support level is no where near enough to live on, we had to look elsewhere for us to be supported.
Long story short, Dennis was approached and asked if he would be prison chaplain. This was what happened, but he is part time chaplain for Tamworth Jail. That is 3 hours drive from our home in Woodberry.
Dennis will take the van to Tamworth and stay there for 3 days one week and then 2 days the following week. He will be working with prisoners on remand at this particular jail.
What is sad, is that 80% of the inmates are indigenous. Once again, God is ordering our steps and keeping us working in the area he called us so many years ago.
Dennis is employed by Jericho Road. This work is with the Presbyterian Social services.
If you are interested, you can look at their web site to gain more info about this important work. This ministry also works wit a correspondence bible study course for prisoners.
Some inmates are already using this Bible Study course, and Dennis will be there to help them with any problems or questions they have on the course.
There have been some small discussions about us helping to develop some Bible Study material for the Indigenous people in jail. We will let you know if that develops further.
Please pray for Dennis as he travels many miles each week.
The people he works with need God's blessing in their lives.
Dennis also works with the staff at the jail when needed.
It is a very mixed and varied ministry.
Glenys will be at home holding the fort. Please pray for her as she looks after 5 kids while doing her own work as well.
This has come to an end. He has worked with the congregation and helped them step out in faith. They decided to trust God to fill the position of a full time minister. They built a manse, and now have it filled.
We are so proud of the congregation with how they are willing to step out and trust God to help them grow the church.
While this was great, it meant that Dennis had worked himself out of a job. What to do next. As our support level is no where near enough to live on, we had to look elsewhere for us to be supported.
Long story short, Dennis was approached and asked if he would be prison chaplain. This was what happened, but he is part time chaplain for Tamworth Jail. That is 3 hours drive from our home in Woodberry.
Dennis will take the van to Tamworth and stay there for 3 days one week and then 2 days the following week. He will be working with prisoners on remand at this particular jail.
What is sad, is that 80% of the inmates are indigenous. Once again, God is ordering our steps and keeping us working in the area he called us so many years ago.
Dennis is employed by Jericho Road. This work is with the Presbyterian Social services.
https://jerichoroad.org.au/
Another mission that Dennis is involved with is Crossroads Prison Ministry
https://cpm.org.au/
Some inmates are already using this Bible Study course, and Dennis will be there to help them with any problems or questions they have on the course.
There have been some small discussions about us helping to develop some Bible Study material for the Indigenous people in jail. We will let you know if that develops further.
Please pray for Dennis as he travels many miles each week.
The people he works with need God's blessing in their lives.
Dennis also works with the staff at the jail when needed.
It is a very mixed and varied ministry.
Glenys will be at home holding the fort. Please pray for her as she looks after 5 kids while doing her own work as well.
Ch ch ch changes
Changes Again!
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It has always been our desire to be able to provide remote Indigenous Christians with solid biblical teaching.
While we were working with GRN, some issues arose, as we were limited to writing gospel stories. Biblical, chronological teaching is not really their main thrust.
This led to us being led to go a different track. While we would love to keep working with developing teaching material, we are unable to find a mission that is working in this area. We are looking at using You Tube as the medium to get the stories out.
While we loved the 5fish idea, it was not something we found the people we were dealing with would keep returning it. We did notice that You Tube is always being watched, so felt this is more viable.
We are not working with any mission at the moment. We put a proposal to the APWM, the missions department of the Presbyterian Church. Unfortunately this proposal was not accepted.
The main reason is that we did not fit into the criteria that is required for us to be a missionary with the church. We need to be under a recognized mission to continue what we feel God has called us to do.
This has led to some changes in the way we are looking at doing things. At first we thought that we would just give up and get a secular job to pay the bills. Then we thought that if we do not do this task, who is going to do this.
As we have lived by faith for the last 20 years, we felt we should still trust God to help us as we still feel the calling we have is still important.
As from now, we will still be doing the recording and writing bible stories and putting them on videos to be distributed or shown on You Tube. They can also be sent to people through phones or put onto USB sticks to watch on the TV, to name a couple of ways to share the stories.
To ensure we are not 'lone guns' running amok, we have put in some checks and balances in our work.
We have to have a 'script committee' to look at the stories, and ensure they are biblically correct.
We need to have the prayer support to continue so we will have God's blessing on us and the people we are seeking to minister to.
We will be working under the local presbytery and seeking their pastoral support for our growth and well being as we seek to serve God.
This means we will need to be supported financially through this work. We will not be able to have our funds sent to the Presbyterian Church any more. They will have to be sent directly to us.
We trust those of you who supported us over the last years will continue to help us with the work we are seeking to do.
It would have been our wish to work with a mission, and we will keep looking at different missions to see if we can find one that is looking to help with the Indigenous Christians in remote parts of Australia.
When we find on, we are certainally will to work with them. While we are out on our own at the moment, it is not something we wish to have as a permanent situation. Please pray with us that God will keep directing our steps.
If you are wanting to know more about our time with GRN and what we are doing in the future, please feel free to ring us and we will talk with you further.
Dennis 0429 168 638 Glenys 0429 462 771
Do you ever wonder when life will run smoothly and there will be no problems on the horizon? Join the club.
It has always been our desire to be able to provide remote Indigenous Christians with solid biblical teaching.
While we were working with GRN, some issues arose, as we were limited to writing gospel stories. Biblical, chronological teaching is not really their main thrust.
This led to us being led to go a different track. While we would love to keep working with developing teaching material, we are unable to find a mission that is working in this area. We are looking at using You Tube as the medium to get the stories out.
While we loved the 5fish idea, it was not something we found the people we were dealing with would keep returning it. We did notice that You Tube is always being watched, so felt this is more viable.
We are not working with any mission at the moment. We put a proposal to the APWM, the missions department of the Presbyterian Church. Unfortunately this proposal was not accepted.
The main reason is that we did not fit into the criteria that is required for us to be a missionary with the church. We need to be under a recognized mission to continue what we feel God has called us to do.
This has led to some changes in the way we are looking at doing things. At first we thought that we would just give up and get a secular job to pay the bills. Then we thought that if we do not do this task, who is going to do this.
As we have lived by faith for the last 20 years, we felt we should still trust God to help us as we still feel the calling we have is still important.
As from now, we will still be doing the recording and writing bible stories and putting them on videos to be distributed or shown on You Tube. They can also be sent to people through phones or put onto USB sticks to watch on the TV, to name a couple of ways to share the stories.
To ensure we are not 'lone guns' running amok, we have put in some checks and balances in our work.
We have to have a 'script committee' to look at the stories, and ensure they are biblically correct.
We need to have the prayer support to continue so we will have God's blessing on us and the people we are seeking to minister to.
We will be working under the local presbytery and seeking their pastoral support for our growth and well being as we seek to serve God.
This means we will need to be supported financially through this work. We will not be able to have our funds sent to the Presbyterian Church any more. They will have to be sent directly to us.
We trust those of you who supported us over the last years will continue to help us with the work we are seeking to do.
It would have been our wish to work with a mission, and we will keep looking at different missions to see if we can find one that is looking to help with the Indigenous Christians in remote parts of Australia.
When we find on, we are certainally will to work with them. While we are out on our own at the moment, it is not something we wish to have as a permanent situation. Please pray with us that God will keep directing our steps.
If you are wanting to know more about our time with GRN and what we are doing in the future, please feel free to ring us and we will talk with you further.
Dennis 0429 168 638 Glenys 0429 462 771
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