CHURCH PLANTING IN AUSTRALIA
AUGUST, 2001
Dear Prayer Partners,
Romans 10: 11-15 "For
the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over
all is rich unto all that call upon him. For whosoever shall call upon the name
of the Lord shall be saved. How then shall they call on him in whom they have
not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and
how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach, except they
be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the
gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!"
Sunday 29 July was
our combined meeting between the Dubbo and Gilgandra fellowships. This is also
our missionary Sunday where the entire offering goes to a home or foreign
missionary. Praise the Lord we were able to send $200 to home missionary Pastor
Liam Luz in Port Adelaide, South Australia.
Thus
far the Lord has allowed us to send two offerings to brother Luz, and one
offering to Brother Hadfield, an Australian
independent Baptist church planting missionary to New Zealand and one offering
to brother Holowaty, an independent Baptist church planting missionary to
Paraguay. Our next missions offering (30 September) is designated for the
Zooef's in Kazakastan. Adrian and Ann McKinley are unsaved friends who used to
live in Dubbo but have recently moved to Tamworth in northern New South Wales.
He is Roman Catholic and she high church Anglican but attended several preaching
services when they lived in Dubbo. They were in Dubbo the last week of July and
visited us in our home. David was able to discuss some Scriptural things with
Adrian who seems to know more than the average Roman Catholic does. David and
Adrian also discussed the ecumenical climate and Adrian made a statement of
which David took note. Adrian calls us dissenters and said the only hurdle for
unity with other churches is their accepting the Pope as official head of the
church. He believed all other differences could be negotiated. When they left
David gave Adrian the ETERNITY tract. Pray they will read it and this may be the
beginning of the Lord's dealing with their coming to faith in Christ. We had Bob
and Elizabeth Lloyd (he is Uniting Church and she Roman Catholic) to our home a
couple of times in July. They are both school teachers and she is very
interested in sewing, patchwork, etc. so she enjoys Pam's company. We have given
them several tracts but as many of you know from personal witnessing experiences
there is often no visible conviction. Please continue to pray for Bob and
Elizabeth's salvation. We seek to be faithful in preaching "the word; be
instant in season, out of season" to those the Lord brings our way but as
for now they "will not come to me (Him), that ye (they) might have
life." 2 Timothy 4:2; John 5:40. Pray we will continue to "be found
faithful." 1 Corinthians 4:2 Andy and Ellen have not attended a service
since they came back from Sydney.
As
we said in our last letter David has visited them and now Pam has gone by to see
them.
She had a good visit but they did not give any reason why they have not returned
or if they plan to attend again. Pray for them as well. The Lord Jesus said in
Revelation 3:19 "As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten." Also please
add these to your prayer list. John Ferguson is an elderly aboriginal who has
been attending the Gil fellowship. He was recently in hospital for what they
think was a stroke and is now home. Abel and Phyllis Morgan are in need of a
car. The car they were driving was her father's and when he passed away a few
years ago he willed it to a family in Sydney who had befriended him at some
time. We don't understand this but that is what he did. The couple to whom the
car was left now want the car and that leaves Abel and Phyllis without
transport. Last month was a great month for computer virus. David received three
emails with attachments containing a virus. Fortunately he only opened one but
that was enough. He has an anti-virus on the computer so it didn't do as much
damage as it could have. He downloaded the attachment he opened onto a CD which
in turn affected those Word documents he had saved on the CD. He was able to get
online and download a programme to fix it. Now he has upgraded the anti-virus
hardware. In the future he will not open attachments until David has verified
the attachment with the sender first. Again we want to remind you to pray for
our mini-furlough next year. Pray the Lord will use us in someway to stir hearts
for witnessing and missions.
FURLOUGH 2002
February
Sunday 24 - Crossroad
Baptist, Pensacola, FL 850-944-3544
Wednesday 27- First
Baptist, Black River, NY (David's brother pastors this church)
March
Sunday 3 - Evangel
Baptist, Dale City, VA 703-670-5152 (Our home sending church)
Thursday 7 - Bible For
Today Baptist, Collingswood, NJ 856-854-4747
Sunday 10 - Columbus Road
Baptist, Quincy, IL 217-222-5891
Wednesday 13 - Bethany
Baptist, Galesburg, IL 309-342-3132
Sunday 17 - Stony Point
Baptist, Kansas City, KS 913-299-4774
Wednesday 20 - First
Baptist, Grafton, IL 618-786-3379
Sunday 24 - Ottumwa
Baptist Temple, Ottumwa, IA 641-682-4836
Wednesday 27 - Bible
Baptist, Ottumwa, IA 641-682-9609
Thursday 28 - Grace
Baptist, Cherokee, IA 712-225-4533
Sunday 31 - Tomah Baptist,
Tomah, WI 608-372-2071
April
Wednesday 3 - Woodcrest
Baptist, Fridley, MN 763-571-6409
Sunday 7 - Galilee
Baptist, Kent, WA 253-854-5828
Sunday 14 - First Baptist,
Windsor, CA 707-838-6694
Thank
you for your prayers and financial gifts. God's richest
blessings as we serve Him together. 2Thessalonians 3:1 "Finally, brethren,
pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified,
even as it is with you."
Your
Missionaries to Australia,
David & Pam Bennett 
