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Dear Friends,
Happy Merry Christmas from Japan! I’m enjoying sharing the true meaning of Christmas with the students in the Outreach English classes by reading the Bible passages about Jesus’ birth and each week adding to a little knitted nativity scene that my mother made. I was encouraged last week when one lady said that she would go home and share with her son what Christmas was really about. Please pray for these students that God will open their hearts to the message of the Saviour.
Answered Prayers!
Thank you for praying for the young lady who came to our Wedding Blessing in Japan and who was moved to study the Bible after this event. Praise God that in November she accepted Jesus as her Saviour. Please pray that she will quickly find a church with whom she can fellowship and who will help her to grow in her faith and knowledge of God.
Thank you for praying for Mr Jeon, our elder in the church who has been suffering from lung cancer. He will complete his chemotherapy this month. Praise God that the cancer tumours seem to have disappeared.
International Worship Service
We are continuing to pray about the possibility of an international worship service to reach out to Japanese people who enjoy an international atmosphere and to non-Japanese in the town. But it seems that changes don’t happen quickly here and I don’t know when and if this service will begin. An encouraging thing is that some people in the church have started praying about this. Please keep praying with us and if it is God’s will for that service to start, please pray that God will raise up the workers required.
Purpose Driven Life Group
Yas and I have started a small group in our home on Saturday mornings and we are studying the ‘Purpose Driven Life’ book and a 6 week DVD series that has been translated into Japanese. There have been 5 people attending, a young man who is not yet a Christian and a lady who has never been in a small group before. Thank God for good times of fellowship and please pray that all of us will learn how to apply the Bible to our lives and actively live out our faith. Please pray that the young man will accept Christ as his Saviour.
Thank you again for your faithful partnership in prayer, financial support and encouragement throughout 2009. I am so thankful to God for you and I pray that God will bless you and continue to provide for your needs in these difficult economic times. I pray that you will have a very special Christmas celebrating the amazing birth of Jesus and His gift of life to us. Blessings
Nerida Shimizu
mission partners The Australian Presbyterian World Mission
8 Sylvan GrovePicnic Point NSW 2213 02 9792 1373 apwm@optusnet.com.au
Support Coordinators
Alison Schofield 9 Mack St Richardson ACT 2905 bluecamel_31@yahoo.com.au
Andrew & Heather Greatbatch 02 9545 4130 gbatch@optusnet.com.au
Nerida Shimizu 5-17-2-511 Masago, Mihama-ku Chiba-shi 261-0011 JAPAN neridabell@gol.com
********************************** MACKELLAR AREA SCRIPTURE BOARD AT MACKELLAR GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL ON THE NORTHERN BEACHES.
MACKELLAR AREA SCRIPTURE BOARD
Established by our local churches 25 years ago, MASB exists to ensure that high quality Special religious Education (SRE) is provided at Mackellar Girls' and Balgowlah Boys'High Schools. Legislation still permits us top teach every student up to one hour per week, and in many schools today the church simply doesn't provide this. In our schools, students see their Christian SRE teacher for one school period every week, for four years. The teachers are able to build long-term relationships and oportunities exist for our churches to be involved in daily activities of the schools. The Board has local church representatives from all major denominations, representing your partnership in evangelism. we are deeply committed to providing the next generation with access to the good News of Jesus Christ at this crucial stage of their lives.
TERM 1, 2010 2010 promises to be a year of transition for MASB. Max Sullivan has decided not to continue at Balgowlah Boys, so we have employed a new teacher, Kieran Degan. Kieran is an ordained Baptist Minister, and has worked previously as a chaplain at Narrabeen High School. We are very excited to have Kieran on the team, but he will need our prayers as he settles in to his new role. Megan Halvorsen has also announced that she is expecting a baby, and so will be taking a year’s maternity leave from July this year. This is joyous news for Megan, but she will leave very large shoes to fill at Mackellar Girls. Please pray for Megan’s health and safety over the coming months and for the Board as it prepares to fill her position. I was fortunate to attend the Annual Conference of the NSW High Schools Special Religious Education Association in January. It was interesting to meet and chat with board members from all over NSW. We are indeed blessed in Manly to have supportive local clergy and principals. Please remember our brothers and sisters in other parts of the state who are struggling to install scripture teachers in schools. The Prime Minister’s announcement that federal chaplaincy funding will be continued until 2011 was very welcome news for the Board. Whilst this funding significantly offsets the costs of the ministry, we are still dependent on local churches for 70% of our income, so the need for continuing financial support remains. Please contact me if you have not received an envelope and would like to make a donation. The Annual Commissioning Service for MASB will be held on Sunday, 21 March 2010, at St Matthew’s Anglican Church, The Corso, Manly, commencing at 6.30pm. This is always an encouraging time, and I look forward to seeing you there! Peter Richard
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Joint Ministry with the Brazilian Christian Church in Sydney - Primeira Igreja Presbiteriana De Lingua Portuguesa Em Sydney
Brazilian Christian Church Existimos para glorificar a Deus em nossa comunidade brasileira em Sydney, amando, vivendo e servindo ao nosso Deus e ao nosso proximo, comunicando a mensagem da graca salvardora de Jesus Cristo. Nossa oracao e para que Deus nos fortaleca e nos use para sermos uma bencao para a nossa comunidade, e de um modo bem particular, para voce.
Paster Wilson Fernandes
ATIVIDADES E HORARIOS DOMINGO EM MANLY TERCA-FEIRA EM MANLY QUARTA-FEIRA EM BONDI
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About PIM Stay On-Track with the PIM Quarterly Newsletter The Presbyterian Inland Mission (PIM) is the successor ministry in the Presbyterian Church of Australia to the Australian Inland Mission founded in 1912 with the Rev. Dr John Flynn as its first Superintendent. The PIM is a ministry of the Presbyterian Church of Australia and has an expanding network of patrol ministries in Western Australia, South Australia, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania & the Northern Territory. The PIM is also involved in a growing range of caring/Philanthropic/community assistance activities - including the provision of relief to assist with the impact of drought, isolation, suffering and medical emergencies. These ministries and activities are offered freely to all and any of the people of the great Outback and Inland of the Commonwealth of Australia, in the name of Jesus Christ the Lord. For many who live within the ever expanding ministry areas of the PIM, life continues to be very hard indeed. This makes the labour of the patrol teams of the PIM more and more demanding but also increasingly important, as by the power of the Holy Spirit they touch a growing number of people with Christian love.
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Allowah Children’s Hospital - A hospital for severely disabled children. At the moment we are fund raising for extensions that will cost $6 million.
The redevelopment of Stage 1 is done, and what an amazing transformation has happened to Allowah. It is new, it is bright, it is spacious, it is airy, it is colourful—it is just wonderful!! As you walk down the long corridor you can see the large wards with their own big bath-rooms, the colourful carpet, the natural light coming in from the long skylights above, the huge recreation room where the children can gather and be entertained, the large windows in the wards looking out over the valley and trees, the wide corridor where children in wheelchairs can be easily transported side by side. It is all too much to take in at once. But over and above all of this are the wonderful staff, with big smiles on their faces, going about their daily tasks of making Allowah such a happy place. In December 2008 the new administration block was finished and the admin staff moved in. This building is brand new and was built in front of the old existing building. This overlooks the front car parking area and the covered front entry to the hospital that is easily accessed by ambulances and wheelchairs via the ramp. On entering the hospital people cannot believe the transformation from the old Allowah. The hospital now has spacious recreation areas where the children come together to watch television, have fun at play, and have interactive therapies. This looks out through the big windows to the colourful softfall area at the side where the children can play on the spe-cially constructed wheelchair swing, and the raised herb and vegetable garden allows them to enjoy the touch and smell of these plants. Shade sails will soon be erected over this area to give the children protection from the sun. The cost of this will be around $50,000. The children moved into the new wards in January 2009, and the development was finally finished in May 2009. In June 2009 The Hon Andrew McDonald, Member for Macquarie Fields, and a Pediatrician, officially opened the new Allowah.. It has truly fulfilled our dream of making this a ?beautiful place for very special children?. Of course, all the Allowah Supporters have had a part is this. It is due to each and every one of you that this has been achieved. Every donation, small or large, has contributed and for this we are very, very grateful, and would like to thank you all most sincerely. Without you it would have taken much longer to achieve. Since the Presbyterian Church purchased Allowah in February 2004, we have received $1,225,136 in donations. What an amazing effort!! We also say a very special thank you to the Dorcas Committee of the Presbyterian Church of New South Wales who have donated many thousands of dollars for special items that Allowah needs. However, we still have to repay a sizeable bank loan so that the hospital can be free of debt. We give thanks to God for Hiss continued Blessings upon us.
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