Indiana Ministries Update
May 3, 2010 - Vol 2, Issue 9
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Making a Difference by Dr. Doug Talley
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 During the last few weeks I've connected with David Ravell,
a church planter for the Church of God in Australia who is a graduate of
Mid-America Christian University.
Several years ago David was sent by the Church of God in Australia to
New Zealand to plant a church. To
simplify a complicated story, when he returned to Australia after successfully
planting the church, the Church of God in Australia was in chaos and basically
disappeared. End result was that we did
not have any Church of God congregations in the entire country.
David loves the Church of God. He believes in our message. So he responded to God's call to plant a new
congregation just south of Brisbane with the dream that this congregation would
plant other Church of God congregations and restart the Church of God. That is a big dream - A BHAG. A huge dream! Apparently David thinks God wasn't kidding when he gave the words of
Ephesians 3:2 to Paul: "God can do anything, you know - far more
than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams! He does it not by pushing us around but by
working within us, His Spirit deeply and gently within us" (TM). Read the rest of this article.
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