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Archive for January, 2008

Starting in Brisbane…….

Posted by Bessie on January 27th, 2008

Resuming this Thursday night at 7pm ….. at Ashgrove.
Gettting to grips with what the Bible says overall instead of just wallowing around with selected fav stories or just swallowing what some leader says or just having an arsenal of proof texts or ……………?
This is part of the same course I have presented for the last […]

Tom Sine’s latest book……

Posted by Bessie on January 27th, 2008

From http://www.simplechurchjournal.com/
Perhaps the church is neither emerging nor re-structuring so much as re-claiming its true nature as an underground, insurgent movement.  By that I mean that the truest work of the Holy Spirit always seems to be initiated among the least and the unseen bringing forth true kingdom life that is contrary and even subversive […]

Testimony From Kenya - House Church Unity Protects Christians

Posted by Bessie on January 27th, 2008

From http://www.simplechurchjournal.com/
There is real challenge here now that the post election violence continues.  People continue to be killed, their houses burnt, and property destroyed. Several families have run to our home for refuge.
There is a woman who ran to us with 7 month twins.  Her husband was hacked to death, her house burnt, she ran […]

Home church in Kenya……..

Posted by Bessie on January 27th, 2008

Dear Bessie Pereira,
Was good hearing from you. Yes, I have learnt much from house church concept where relationship matters. at the moment in kenya we are experiencing the most trying times where tribe is turning against tribe and hundreds of people have so far been killed, at a refugee (camp) where more than 100 people […]

This would make an interesting discussion…..

Posted by Bessie on January 26th, 2008

How to know when you’ve created a MONSTER
-by Terry Somerville.
 
Have you ever noticed how you can follow the Lord, and lovingly
create a ministry organization to better do the work, then one
day the “creature” develops a life of its own, gets off the table and
begins to terrorize those who created it? It happens because of
fallen human nature […]

Bateman’s Bay and Darwin….

Posted by Bessie on January 25th, 2008

Does anyone know of home churches in the Bateman’s Bay area, and also Darwin please?  Contact OIKOS through our web site.

From Venezuela……

Posted by Bessie on January 25th, 2008

Greetings from Caracas, Venezuela.  Please continue to pray.  100´s coming to Christ through youth baseball camps, traditional church evangelistic meetings, street evangelism, parks and schools.  Our house church planters arrive tomorrow.
 
We are working with top government officials to establish a one on one meeting with Hugo Chavez. 
 
Pray for our African travelers coming from Burundi.  God […]

A lovely day-Church under the Sky

Posted by Bessie on January 23rd, 2008

Well, I have been to a few funerals in my time, but I have never been to one under the sky. 
Today Friday 18th January at 11:00am, friends and family of Helen Beech gathered at Whylie Park, Petrie to pay their last respects to our friend of some months now.  Helen, like so many others lived […]

God is in Control and God is at Work!

Posted by Bessie on January 21st, 2008

From Margaret Wright, Sydney N.S.W.  
I remind myself every day of these two truths and most everyone has heard me repeat them over and over again or also write them to others.  Let us today take time to establish these truths in our hearts and they will become our convictions.   We may agree with these truths […]

Christlikeness - A Defence System of a Nation

Posted by Bessie on January 19th, 2008

Published in the Australian Prayer Network newsletter  www.ausprayernet.org.au 
Christlikeness is a tremendous factor in the life of the Lord’s people. Christlikeness, which is both spirituality and faith, is a tremendously important factor for both the Church as a whole and we as individuals to aspire to. Christlikeness lifts us above the affairs and concerns of this world. […]