Merry Christmas! This season, our goal is to know Jesus Christ, the Anointed One, in a deeper way, and to help others know Him too. Whether it is through the church, the hospital ministry, the homeless shelter ministry or nursing home ministry, we are seeking to take the truth of the gospel to lost, hurting and desperate people. This is why Jesus was born, why He had to die and why He rose again. It is our greatest desire to fulfill the Great Commission until He returns.
Over the past month, more people have received Jesus for the first time and the church continues to grow with new believers! We have received several testimonies from people we prayed with needing a job. Not only, have they gotten work, but in the field they wanted and for excellent pay! God is above the economy! Through the hospital ministry, a man who was supposed to be dying after a sever stroke, was healed by receiving the Word on healing and believing it! Another man was suffering from TB. The doctors said he would not recover fully from it, that his lungs were severly scarred and it would continue to inhibit his breathing. He is now healed of TB and able to breathe freely! When you take God at His Word, He will meet your faith every time!
Looking back over 2010, we are in awe of the God we serve! We started out the year trusting Him to bring us to the place He called us to. At the time, it looked impossible. However, He BROUGHT us, He has KEPT us, He has PROVIDED for us, He has PROTECTED us, and He has ANOINTED us for the work of the ministry. Our family is happy, our children don't lack any good thing, and our home is a blessing. All Glory to God!
Thank you to all of you who have stood with us this year! You are an important part of what God is doing here! We feel your prayers. We are strengthened by your encouragement. We are grateful for your support. Together, we are fulfilling God's plan for Australia and the South Pacific. This has been a great beginning, but it is only the beginning. We are believing God to expand the ministry in every way in 2011! We are claiming new territory for Christ. God said to ask and He would give us the nations....well, we want the nation of Australia and the Islands of the South Pacific!! He WILL bring it to pass!!!
Merry Christmas to you and may 2011 be your best year yet!
Stephen and Rachel
We owe a huge THANK YOU to Deborah Lloyd who spent Sept. - Nov. with our family. Deborah left two jobs and her position as Youth Director at her church in Indiana to help us here in Cairns. Deborah was a great help, doing everything from helping Rachel with the household chores, to helping the children with homeschooling, to ministering with us in outreaches and playing the keyboard for church. There are actually so many ways she was a blessing, it would take this whole newsletter to list them all! Deborah has a heart that burns for the people of Australia and the Islands. She plans to come back in the New Year and spend more time here. If you would like to help Deborah return to Australia to help us, you can send a love offering to her home church. The address is:
