Shingles.... Prayers Needed...

Over the weekend as we were preparing for the Easter Egg Hunt, Melissa kept saying she was in severe pain in her back.  But, she just thought she had pulled a muscle running around and being so busy. But, Monday came, and although, she would put ice and heat on,  there would be no improvements. By Tuesday she could barely move and then she came up with a rash on her stomach.   She went to the Dr.'s and she has shingles... Shingles is very painful and because it is across her belly and back it is painful to sit, it is painful to stand, it is painful to lie down, so it is very hard for her to get comfortable. They have given her codeine to take away the pain but, when she takes it , she just sleeps all day.  The good news is, it is a public holiday here till Tuesday. So, pray that she can recover and be able to go back to work next week. The bad news is, the kids are home every day as well because it is a public holiday.   Pray that she would get some rest and recover. The Dr. Said it can take up to 7 weeks for pain to go away.  That is an awful long time so, Melissa is a bit nervous and worried.  So, please pray that this would  heal up quickly.  They also gave her an antibiotic to help clear up the spots.

To top it all off the kids and myself have a head cold.  So, everyone in our house is feeling a bit under the weather. Please pray that God would watch over our family and heal us!

Easter Egg Hunt

Bunny Hop!

Colouring Contest

Toddler Easter Egg Hunt

The Easter Egg Hunt was a huge success.   We had 87 kids on registration forms. And, there were another few groups of kids we saw wandering and participating that hadn't fill out forms. So, I think we probably had about 100+ kids and then their parents!  So, it was a massive group.  The day went wonderfully! Melissa shared a sermon with the kids on the verse Jesus came to seek and save the lost.   She then finished with the story of Jesus Christ raising from the dead and gave an opportunity for the kids to accept Jesus Christ as their saviour. Then we handed out "crystal" plastic crosses that were on necklaces and we bought 150 and only 30 were left! So, almost every kid took one.  We had craft stations. They made butterflies that said He has risen, Crosses and decorated them, and they made animal eggs.  We then gave out chocolate bunnies for the best colouring pictures, we had 4 different age groups, and prizes to the kids who won the bunny hop and also the egg toss.  The afternoon was fantastic and we had ordered these awesome bags from oriental and we were able to send information home this year on our church and also on the soccer/cheerleading camp we are holding in July. It was a fantastic day!   We also have seen kids wearing the crosses we gave out

 around town.. So, we feel that God did use this day to work and move in people's lives.

After the Easter Egg Hunt we had quite a few families stay for church. So, it was fantastic

Colouring Contest

Egg Hunt

Praises and Prayer Requests

Prayer Requests Pray for new families to come to our church over the next three sundays as we do a big bring a friend to church each week! Pray for Our churches Sausage Sizzle on April 6th. Pray for our Youth Camp May 1st-3rd. Pray for the churches Outreach event, the Easter Egg Hunt on 24th of March Pray for the church as we start the next phase of the house bulding and we do prestart. Where we pick colours etc.

Praises Praise God the Wesleyan Women's Italian Cooking night was a success and we have been able to secure a guest speaker for our retreat in July. Praise God we had two new families in church last week. Praise God everyone who went to family camp this year has ALREADY booked for family camp 2014!!! Praise God two new families from Landsale came on the family camp. Praise God family camp was a huge success with just over 80 of us attending

Brayden's Monkey Luau and Machine Pitch finale

Today Brayden turned 4! Can't believe time has flown by. He had his first party where he invited friends from school. The weather was fantastic and almost everyone he invited could make it. He picked a monkey luau. So, we made monkey ears and played surfing music and the kids LOVED playing musical bobs. Which is where the kids listen to music and when it stops you sit down really quick.  It was a great morning.. Then we had a family barbecue for lunch. and we ate lot's of  really yummy chunky monkey cupcakes!!  This weekend is crazy busy as we have a lot on... But, we wanted to make sure we took time out to celebrate Brayden.  He is such a hard working, fun loving, easy going kids who has lot's of friends.  He loves God with all his heart and we can't wait to see what God is going to do with this beautiful cheeky monkey!

  After the party was over we headed out to our machine pitch baseball team season  finale.  Chris has been the coach for the last 6 months and has worked really hard as well as our team manager and umpires. So, we went to a park and had a massive pizza party to celebrate the kids who play and learnt a new game really well and all the staff.  It was a fantastic day!!!

Bring a Friend to church Sunday

The next three weeks we are taking a break from the Story and focusing on Easter. Tonight we had bring a friend to church Sunday and our goal is for everyone to bring someone new each week, the next three weeks.  Tonight we had a fantastic turn out. Not one person came without bringing someone.  There were 32 people in church and they all came just for church.  In the past people come because their kids are singing or their kids are getting their kids club badges. But, tonight people purely came to hear the word of God. It was a wonderful evening of God moving in hearts and lives and we can't wait to see what God is going to do next week!

Wesleyan Women

Tonight we had a Wesleyan Women Fundraiser.  Our goal was to have 20 ladies come together and experience an Italian cooking show.  It was a fantastic night of laughing, eating, and most importantly thanking God for all the ways he has blessed us. But, the food was so delicious and we learnt soo much fantastic information. We got to make our own noodles and everything.  We also raised enough money to fly a guest speaker in for our Women's Retreat this year!  I am super excited and REALLY hope all these ladies will join us on our women's retreat this year!  It was a fantastic evening.

Family Camp

What an awesome weekend!  Family camp was an incredible time.  We had two new families come this year and we just had an amazing time.  We all packed up our cars and drove north.
All together there were almost 80 of us that came together to worship God on the weekend.  The Landsdale families had such a great time.  We had 18 kids in the kids program and 8 teenagers that went. The rest was adults and young adults.  The speaker did a fantastic job. Thank you Brookside Wesleyan church for supplying the "Adventures on Promise Island material" The kids thought camp was AWESOME! They made treasure boxes, and prayer journals, and t-shirts, and had an awesome time learning about God. The theme was God is with us, God care's about us, God will give us what we need, God will save us and God will answer us!  It was a fantastic trip of building relationships with each other and for some their first time starting to build a relationship with God.   We gave an opportunity for kids to accept Jesus or make commitments. Two boys accepted Jesus for the first time, and a few kids made commitment to make sure they tell others about Jesus and invite them to church!  One of the fun things we did on the weekend was played 44 home at the pinnacles.   It was really spooking everyone would hide and the desert would look empty, then people would be running everywhere to get home.  It was alot of fun, but incredibly spooky to watch everyone entirely disappear!

Family Camp 2013

Today Family Camp starts. We are loading up our car and trailer and car top carrier and heading North a few 100 km's  to a town called Jurien.   WE have 30 people attending camp from Landsdale! I am super excited!  We have brought in a guest speaker and I will be doing 5 Kids lessons over the weekend.  Chris will be running all the family games and activities as well as a youth session. We are super excited.  The Kids will be doing a theme on Luke 3:19  He came to seek and save the lost!  The kids are excited and so are all the adults.. I can't wait to see what God is going to do in our lives!
Please pray for our camp that God would use us as a light and that He would speak to the hearts of our families and especially the parents.  That they would sense an urgency to come to Him and except Jesus Christ as Lord of their lives!