Well it's Friday night - the planning is over, albeit for a night of sleep ( We hope!! ) and we leave tomorrow. We're excited, some are nervous, some are apathetic - well hopefully no one is really feeling that.
Pray that our packing and preparation on Saturday morning goes well. So much stuff to get into a very limited space - but we keep trusting God.
We'll write on Sunday after our service at Tambar - pray that we have a safe trip up tomorrow.
Thanks for your prayers
The Tambar Team.
Friday, June 29, 2007
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Impending Excitement
Well the time has nearly arrived for mission. We're all pretty excited but the reality of city life - work and uni exams - still fills our horizon. It will be great when Friday afternoon arrives. At that time the whole team will be able to start really focussing on the week away.
The word on the street is that temperatures in Tambar are in the 1-8 degrees celcius range some days! 
It looks like thermals will be a good investment for all team members. Will we see these images at Tambar this year?? Doubt it but we can only wish...
It looks like thermals will be a good investment for all team members. Will we see these images at Tambar this year?? Doubt it but we can only wish...The reality is that the lead up to this mission has been a Jeckyl & Hyde experience. It's been pretty tough at times - many of the team have been bogged down in a ridiculous number of exams (my arts student background says "no uni student should have more than one exam"). On top of that some of us have really struggled spiritually at times. But the Hyde side has been the encouragement of a team that has been focussed on God and serving each other. Prasie God for those blessings!!!!
We also want to convey a really big thank you to all those people who have cooked or bought food for us. We will certainly not go hungry this year. It's wonderful to be able to share the mission challenge throughout the church and feel like we are supported and cared for. Thank you.
To all those who are praying for us - grace and peace to you. We will need all your prayers next week. It is when God works that miracles happen. We want to see miracles on mission, we want to be reminded how awesome and great is the God we love and serve.
Prayer Points for the next few days:
- For our safety and logistical needs as we travel up on Saturday
- For enough room for our remaining luggage and food stock.
- Praise God for the generosity of the Emmersons, who not only will be housing us for the week but also took a trailer load of our stuff up
- For the health of each of our team members - may we not get sick in the lead up to and over the week of mission
- Pray that many children may come over the week - especially some new families and non church families.
Stay tuned for more over the next few days
Friday, June 1, 2007
Update
Perhaps read the post below this post before you read on...
Well the last day or so has been good - an opportunity to submerge myself in the scriptures and come to God in prayer. I write this not to give you an ongoing personal account of my travels but to encourage those who are praying that God is hearing and delivering.
Last night as I talked through the realities of struggling through faith with my youth minister I was reminded of the reality that God uses all things to bring about his good purpose. For me it's refreshing my understanding of grace. I don't know what it will be for the others in the team.
Mission planning is going well - we seem directed and focussed on the goal ahead. I think we are all excited about the week. But I guess the reality is that when you preach the Gospel you will come up with resistance - sometimes the resistance is in the form of physical things (lack of money, cars breaking down, people being injured, people being abused) and sometimes that resistance comes in a spiritual form. Take Job for instance, a man who clearly suffered on earth because a greater and more titanic struggle in spritual realms was taking place.
Our only hope is that in God we are more than conquerors. He will take us quite far in our troubles but never too far.
Can we continue to encourage you to pray for the week of mission. May the testing times that lie ahead for the team be times which grow us in our knowledge and love of God.
Well the last day or so has been good - an opportunity to submerge myself in the scriptures and come to God in prayer. I write this not to give you an ongoing personal account of my travels but to encourage those who are praying that God is hearing and delivering.
Last night as I talked through the realities of struggling through faith with my youth minister I was reminded of the reality that God uses all things to bring about his good purpose. For me it's refreshing my understanding of grace. I don't know what it will be for the others in the team.
Mission planning is going well - we seem directed and focussed on the goal ahead. I think we are all excited about the week. But I guess the reality is that when you preach the Gospel you will come up with resistance - sometimes the resistance is in the form of physical things (lack of money, cars breaking down, people being injured, people being abused) and sometimes that resistance comes in a spiritual form. Take Job for instance, a man who clearly suffered on earth because a greater and more titanic struggle in spritual realms was taking place.
Our only hope is that in God we are more than conquerors. He will take us quite far in our troubles but never too far.
Can we continue to encourage you to pray for the week of mission. May the testing times that lie ahead for the team be times which grow us in our knowledge and love of God.
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