Praise God!!!

Pentecost Sunday 2007 saw us focussing on the infilling and empowering of The Holy Spirit. I'd love to be able to say that He came in obvious power and that the Mercy Seat was lined with seekers. But I can't!

What I can say is that we had the biggest congregation for the year. 1/3 of these were people who weren't part of the corps at the start of last year. We may not be seeing lined Mercy Seats or people rushing to receive salvation or sanctification, but God is moving. He is drawing people to our corps. He is making them feel welcome. Now we need to do our part.

Come Holy Spirit with your empowering and anointing!

Time to catch up

The Red Shield Appeal is now almost over and I have time to breathe again. I guess I never actually stopped, it just felt like it. We tried hard but we just aren't going to reach last year's amount.
We've had an Assistant Officer appointed to join our team for which we praise God. We look forward to her joining us as a means of improving our mission.
My mother spent some time in hospital and has now returned home, hopefully OK.
Our eldest son, Ben had to miss Melbourne Staff Band practice amongst other things as he had pneumonia and almost end up in hospital. No wonder I'm tired! He's making a good recovery.
So as we mop up the Red Shield Appeal admin, I have the time to catch up on blogs and a few other things. I'm certainly looking forward to Officers' Fellowship in a few weeks and furlough in a month or maybe slightly more.

Now one of the things I regret is that I appear to have attracted some regular readers and I haven't given you anything to read lately. I sincerely apologise!

I'd love to know who you are!!!!!