One of the most recent events that I have been able to take part in was a Youth Day at a park reserve. (It’s an aboriginal name which is really hard to spell so I won't try to spell it) We had about 12 youth come out from our church and other neighboring churches for a fun day of sports, a barbeque, singing (which was lead by me) and a short devo talk done by my teammate Jonathan. It was really a great day and I had loads of fun, we played soccer, cricket, Frisbee, jump rope and of course the ever popular football, which in
Another event that I have taken part of recently is a Games night where the church here in Blacktown and a church in a neighboring suburb were able to get together for the night, play games and enjoy the fellowship of each other and in the process getting to know one another. My teammate Jonathan and I were in charge of Youth and Young adult each group and we had heaps of fun playing all kinds of games with them. We even played the card game called Mafia which everyone enjoyed greatly, something that I thought only the Youth group at Metro thoroughly enjoyed. We are hoping to start up another Games night soon, probably within the next few months or so and possible have some other events that we will be doing with other churches to bring about more fellowship and unity with the church here in Blacktown and other churches in the area.
Remember how I made mention about the Internet Cafe that my teammate Jonathan and I have been going to as a form of evangelism and getting to know the people there? Well unfortunately God had other plans for the guys at the internet cafe because they have to close up shop at the end of this week. Their rent was bumped up 500 dollars and that was just too much for them. There is a ray of hope though because Jonathan and I have really become good mates with the owner of the internet cafe and we have exchanged numbers with him to hopefully spend time with him and still have the possibility and studying with him. We have had much discussion that could be considered biblical discussion with him and we have also explained what we are doing here in
Another awesome contact that we have made that I want to ask your prayers for is a guy at the Kebab place that Jonathan and I tend to eat at if we ever go out to eat. He is a really nice guy and is interested in why we are here and what we are doing. One day while we were sitting down eating he came up to us, gave us deserts and asked that we pray for him. This was huge for us because, like I said, we had talked to him about why we are here and what we are doing and he sees us pray before eat and I guess he figured why not. He hasn't told us specifically what he wanted us to pray for him about but I ask your prayers for him and that God opens his heart to us to be able to listen to what we say, also pray that God gives us the words and courage to talk to him about God.
In other news, our studies have been going well. I was able to teach last week on the subject of which is the "right church", speaking about how we really shouldn't say whether this church or that church is the right church because there is only one universal church which is God's and it is made up of people not various church groups. It was very enlightening for me and I think it was for the guy from our church and his mom that we study with. It's really been great having so many opportunities to teach, lead and work with the church here in
I'd also like to inform you of an awesome opportunity that my teammate Jonathan and I are going to be able to take part of. We have joined a commitee recently to start up a soup kitchen here in Blacktown. Everything is still in the works but I ask for your prayers that we can get this off the ground and start serving the community through this outreach.
I hope all is well with you, I pray for your safety and that you each grow more like Christ each day.
In Him,
Zachary W.
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