G’day Praying Partners,
Thank you so much for your prayers for our mini show! It was
a good day and filled with blessings. For us, it was a blessing to see 100% of
our church stay to help out at the outreach – that is always an encouragement!
It was a busy weekend as we set up most of the games the day before, then took
about 2 hours after church to put the finishing touches on. We had over 50 kids
plus over 20 parents attend. Rob gave the gospel presentation using a paper
snowflake we put in each child’s bag. It was a winter themed show so he used
the uniqueness of a snowflake to share about the one thing that we all have in
common – sin. The kids had so much fun and the parents were appreciative of all
the effort we put into the day. It could get discouraging to do these
outreaches year after year and seemingly see no fruit for our labor – but what
a beautiful reminder that we are sowing hundreds of seeds that God will use in
the lives of these young people – and their parents. Continue to pray with us
that God would use the truth of His Word to shine the Light into these precious
lives. I have put some pictures on our blog of you’d like to see them:
ernstfamilydownunder.blogspot.com.
It’s taken me a bit of time to get this out because we are
on a bit of a working holiday. We decided to take some time to celebrate Rob’s
birthday with family and visit some of our supporting churches at the same
time. We would appreciate prayers for travel – and as we return to Australia on
October 17. It has been an incredible blessing to see our family and especially
the grandkids.
Thank you for your continued prayer support. We see God
moving in the hearts of our church family and are so blessed to be a part of
what He is doing. Somebody asked me the other day if it just seems common to be
in Australia and I shared that every day that I’m out and about and see a
kangaroo, I just marvel that God allows us to serve Him in this beautiful
country. We are truly blessed! Your support of our ministry – financially and
prayerfully – isn’t taken for granted. It’s a team effort and we are so
thrilled to have you as part of the team!
Shining the Light Down Under,
Rob and Jackie
