AIMing For Him

My time has now come to an end in Blacktown, Australia. It has been a growing and changing experience for me to be on the other side of the world, being away from family and familiar friends but being able to make new friends and develop family like relationships with people is great.

Jonathan and I cleaning up of our apartment.

As some of you may already know I will unfortunately not be coming back to Florida as early as I thought in coming to Australia. My now fiancé Elisha and I will be getting married here in Australia and thus I will be staying here for at least another year. I would like you to know though that I will still continue to work with the church here in Australia, especially the church in Gosford, Australia where Elisha and I will be going to, but I would also like to work with the other churches in the Sydney area on a broader scale.

Although my time in Blacktown has come to a close, this past month I took part in many events and activities. First of all was the Blacktown Youth Day, which brought together at least three other church families besides Blacktown do have a BBQ, play sports together, and then afterwards have a time of singing and praising God. This was an awesome event in which many of the youth in Blacktown were able to bring along their friends and neighbors. Speaking of people coming Jonathan and I were able to get Colin, the guy we are studying with at the University of New South Wales, to come along the Youth Day as well. I believe this was a great experience for him to be able to meet fellow Christians and really see how we treat each other. Please continue to pray for him, his studying and University but especially his bible studies. Unfortunately since moving from Blacktown I will not be able to be going much to the bible studies these next few weeks but hopefully I will be able to being studying with Colin again and spend some time hanging out with him.

It is so encouraging and amazing to me to see people learn the truth of God’s word, coming to grips with the fundamental teaches of the bible and then experiencing it for themselves. I believe there is no other feeling or emotion quite like that of when you are teaching the word to someone and they just get it and understand it. I realize though that it is not by my understanding or impeccable speak that people, like Colin, come to a knowledge of Christ and what He has done for us, no it is the power that is in work with me and all of us as Christians. I also have begun to realize that the only way we can tap into that power that Christ gives us is to go out and preach and teach what God has revealed to us in His word. We just need to live the life that Christ lived and be as He was to all others around us, that is testimony enough to the salvation that we have in Christ Jesus.

In conclusion since I will not technically be in the AIM program anymore I was thinking of changing me blog name to something more to do with my life in general here in Australia. I’m not what I will change it to yet but I will be sure to inform everyone was I have made that change. Thank you as always those who read this, the prayers that you give me and the support of being here. You are truly a blessing to me and I pray that God will bless all of you as well.

In Him,

Zachary W.