Landsdale Community Wesleyan Methodist Church -Owns a Parsonage!!!!!

Day 1 painting crew at the new parsonage!!

Today, we received the keys to the parsonage!   It was a very exciting day! This evening as church people were popping in to help paint, and to see the new building finished to the builders standards, it was really exciting... To know that for 9 years we have been praying for a way to be able to give some permanency to this church, and God has shown us a and directed us, and we now have a building that belongs to the church!  

This evening in 4 hours we were able to seal all the rooms that will be tiled, and did 1/2 the rooms that will be carpeted... We still have 5 hours tomorrow and then 9 hours on Saturday and 7 hours on Sunday we can get painting finished... So, at this rate we should well and truly be on our way to being finished by Monday morning.   We still need to sand back the walls, touch up the sealer, and then put two coats of colour on the walls.

Tomorrow morning our tiles get delivered to the premises. Please pray that our house does not get broken into.. Tonight we hung curtains up on all the windows and left toilet lights on and worked hard to make the premises look as if someone was living in there.   But, at the same time, I don't want Chris to go up there and stay by himself either as that is not safe!   So, please pray that our house will be protected from break-ins while we are finishing it off and not living there.   "Here are the things you can pray for the next few days.
7th- painting of sealers to brick walls
8th- painting
9th-Painting
10th-Painting
11th- Tiling
12th-Tiling
13th-Tiling
14th-Tiling finished
15th-Carpets installed
16th-Moving.
17th-Moving...   (pray for Chris this day as he has to be at like three places at one time, and we need to finish moving this day.)  With his new role as Zone coordinator apparently one of our other churches is desperate for help on the 17th and they need him at their church from 11-3. Pray that Melissa will be able to finish up the move on her own and pack and move and unload trailers etc.
18th clean old premises
19th-clean old premises

On a different note, we have lived at the old premises for six years. In Australia because rent is so expensive you, must pay a bond when you move into a property.   Please pray that we would get our bond back.   It was $1800 which is a lot of money. And, quite often people come up with lot's of little things that eat away your bond, so you end up getting none of it back. So, please pray with us that we can get our bond back.  

This seems like a really long post.  But, your prayers are so important and they really change what does happen here in Australia.  We couldn't image a day without our prayer support team. Your prayers move God's hand here! And, we have seen it in our lives in the last two weeks!