GIVING ERROR!

Recently we received a very dissappointing phone call from Global Partners. A Church that had been supporting us for 2 years with $300 a month, had phoned into GP. They had a new treasure and she was reading her receipt and realized that it read "George Family".
The family they were suppossed to be supporting was NOT us! For two years this church sent their money to our "MISSION" account. And, for 2 years, they thought they were supporting another family. We had phoned this church and sent thank you's. But, for some reason it never clicked that things weren't right. When GP brought this to our attention, we felt immediately the right thing needed to be done. It was one of the hardest things we have ever done. But, felt it was VERY IMPORTANT that we give back all the money to the correct family. In doing so.... We have dropped below the "dange line" in our fund account. This means that if we don't get our account above the "Danger Line" after two months, our family will have to come home from Australia and raise more support!

GP has been VERY understanding and is willing to stand with us and pray that God will bring these funds back into our account in a quickly manner. Basically it means we MUST have a month were twice as much as normal comes in! Will you pray with us, that God would speak to churches, financial partners, prayer partners, friends, and families hearts to support us in what we are doing here in Australia.

Honestly this has hit us harder than just giving back the $7200. It also meant we "LOST" a monthly partner who we believed was on our support team.

Would you join us in PRAYER?

1) Pray that we would pick up $300 more in monthly faith promise partners?

2) Pray that we would have an AWESOME month of giving and that our GP account would come back abover the "DANGER LINE"

3) Pray for Chris and I to be able to be diligent about raising support, WHILE serving God full time on the mission field. The time zones are totally different and it is not an easy task to get ahold of churches.

WE love you all greatly and covet your prayers! We believe this is a stumbling block Satan has thrown in our way! For the first time ever we have been in Australia for 22 months straight! God is moving, people are coming to Christ, the church is growing, Kids club is exploding with Kids, and we are on the verge of what God has in store for this church. SATAN knows that! OUR God is bigger, stronger, and mightier. Would you stand with us and pray for God to move in people's hearts to give to his work here in Australia, by supporting the ministry and our family.

In His Palm,
The Georges

We are STILL IN AUSTRALIA!!!!

Please pray for Chris and I as we start to phone churches and individuals and thank them for their support and remind them we are Still here in Australia serving God! This is the first time Chris and I are STILL in Australia being Global Partners Missionaries this long! We are STILL pastoring the Landsdale Community Wesleyan Methodist Church Plant and being faithful to what God has called us to do! THIS IS EXCITING! :) We are so happy to be in the center of God's will for our lives. Every day we live here is a joy, honour, and blessing! We are so thankful God has called us here to teach his Word, Bring people to Christ, and bring up a generation of Adults, Children,and families who LOVE GOD with all their heart, soul, mind, and strength!

Another Busy Sunday

Today we had a really full on day. The church is sponsoring a kids tball team starting from October through to February. Chris will be the coach of the team. So, this morning we had a parent meeting to allocate responsibilities. Then the kids had two birthday parties for a family that attends our kids club.
Straight after the party we loaded up the car to head "South of the river" to a church plant in Harrisdale. Back in January we ran a kids club here and some movie nights. So, it was great to go back and see the people we had met! It was an honour and a privilege for Chris to preach down there. So, we drove 45 minutes down there, chris preached, and then we drove straight home to set up church this evening for our church!

Landsdale was very exciting tonight because we had a family attend tonight for their second week in a row. So, this was very exciting for all of us. As this week was not a "special" advertised night. It was just the "normal" us!

Christianity Explained
We have started a new session of Christianity Explained. Please pray for Carolina, and Leanne as they have committed to meeting with us every wednesday afternoon at 1:00. Pray for them to come to a point in their life where they are ready to make a decision to follow Christ! Our meeting are on Wednesday afternoon at 1:00pm. Which is 1:00am wednesday morning for you. So, if you could please pray before you go to sleep on a tuesday night for these ladies. That would be fantastic!

Brayden- Accident

For the last two days we have had Makayla on the couch with Tonsilitis. But, this evening Brayden was in the bathroom, (Suppossed to be sitting in the empty tub... waiting for his sister to get out of the shower, so we could fill the tub up) In the mean time he decided he was going to push a stool over and climb up on the counter. The only problem was, he had walked through water. So, when he got up on the counter and was making silly faces at his sister through the glass shower.. He slipped and fell into the shower, banging his he on the tiled ledge on the floor to keep the water in the shower.... Immediately he was limp, and non responsive. After a few seconds, he opened his eyes, and immediately started wimpering. But, couldn't talk, or walk, and he had a massive lump. We rushed him to the children's hospital which took him immediately through the er, and straight to a ward.

He was checked hourly to see how he progressed after his concussion. He had a hematoma on the back of his head, and they were worried about the pressureit was putting on his brain stem..

Every hour, they would take his blood pressure, check his eyes, temp, and make him walk. Funny thing is, he was so out of it, when he woke up at the 7:00am check, this was the first time he said, where am I? and noticed there was a fish above his bed, even though it had been there all night long. :)

All in all. GOD is good and he kept Brayden safe! within 24 hours you couldn't even tell anything had happened to him. He still has a massive lump, and will for a few weeks.

And, when we got home, he was straight back to climbing again! :( So, hopefuly we can make it to three without a "cast"! But, he is a very energetic two year old!!!

Thank you to everyone who was praying and keeping up with us on facebook what was happening.

A very sad day...

Today was a very sad day. Chris and I have grown very close with a family here in Lansdale. They came on our church camp, they camped with us on Melissa's bday for a night, they have spent some wonderful special days with us. They have two gorgeous children, Their youngest, Melissa prayed a blessing for when she was born, and Their oldest is going to go to school with Brayden.

I tell you all this to ask you to pray for them. Pray for their family. Today we attended her father's funeral. This was a very hard day for us. He was too young to be burying. Yet, he had been withered away by Alzheimers, blindness, and some other health issues. For the past two years he had been in the nursing home. He was a devout Catholic, but from what we were told he LOVED Jesus. As we have been by this families side. God has been nudging their hearts, and it has been a very emotional ride. But, I write all this to tell you, that if you could please, pray for this family, we would greatly appreciate it. They want to raise their children catholic, yet they still love to participate in our church family. So, what I am asking you to pray for, is that we would atleast meet the need of whether they are a Christian and know Jesus. To be honest, that is the MOST important issue. I just want them to know JESUS. They can sort out the religion stuff later. But, as of right now.. They don't go to any church, but when they do... they come to ours. I pray that our church family would meet their needs and be a help in this time of sorrow and sadness.

Busy Sundays

Today Chris preached at the John Wesley Wesleyan Methodist church in Perth for their 10:00am service. It was a fantastic time for us to catch up with families that we haven't seen in a while.
We stepped down part time working at John Wesley when we returned 22 months ago, so that we could work full time at the church plant we pastor, The Landsdale Community Church. But, we still try once every couple of months to visit and catch up with how everyone is doing. However, Pastor Phil Hotchkin is in Papau New Guinea, so Chris will be filling in this week and next at the churches he pastors.
It was a lovely service. It was a fantastic time for us to worship without us having to be leading, and Chris delivered an excellent sermon on "Living the HD life". One of the scriptures he used that spoke to me was John 10:10 10 "The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full." (NIV).

After the serice in the city, we quickly prepared dinner, and snacks, and threw our games in the car, and headed to church to have a family game day and church afterwards. One of my favourite moments was playing guestures with the kids and seeing all their crazy actions!

Although we didn't have the best turnout for the games night, we did have for the first time, people text and say they weren't coming and why! There were 6 families who couldn't come,and it was very exciting to know that they cared enough that they werren't coming to let us know... God is working in these peoples lives! And, he is working through us, I am just amazing that God chooses to use me on a daily basis to share Jesus with all these families here in Australia! It is truly amazing. And, it is only possible becuase of all the people who pray for us back home, and especially possible because of those who support us!

We so appreciate you, and the impact you have had on our ministry here in Australia!