G’day Praying Partners:
“He is not here: for he is risen,
as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.” Matt. 28:6. We pray
that you had a blessed time celebrating this Resurrection Sunday! What a
blessing it is to have a time to reflect on all that God did in order to have a
relationship with us. It never ceases to amaze me.
Thank you for your prayers for our Easter outreach. We held it the
Sunday before Easter. God was honoured and that is always our prayer. The day
included a gospel presentation, egg hunt, egg colouring, craft (decorating
cookies) and a large assortment of games for the kids to play. There were over
50 children in attendance and more than 30 parents that stayed. Again, we had
such an assortment of cultures and religions represented. I shared in our last update
that Luca (who is the man that was baptized at family camp) was bringing the
gospel presentation. We used large egg-shaped cut outs in the colours of the
wordless book to demonstrate to the children. Luca did a fantastic job!
Afterwards, one of the Muslim mums came up to him and talked to him a bit about
the “interesting presentation” he gave. We stand in constant amazement of the
opportunities God gives us to share the gospel with people who may have never
heard and have been blinded to the Truth. Please pray with us that the Holy
Spirit would use these seeds of His Word to bring fruit into the lives of the
people who hear it.
In years past I’ve shared how our Easter service (unlike America) is
usually one of our lowest attended services since it happens during school
holidays and many families go out of town. Well, this year, God proved that
theory wrong! We are praising Him that our church family was so faithful to
invite their own families to come along. There were also 2 families visiting
that found us by our website. All in all, there were over 80 people in the
service! Many of them were unsaved. Easter is such a wonderful opportunity to
share the Good News – and Rob gave a clear gospel presentation on the day. Pray
with us that many of these people would return and join with us in worship.
I will put some pictures from the outreach up on our blog:
ernstfamilydownunder.blogspot.com. Take a look and see how God is answering
your prayers!
Our niece, Kait, arrived safe and sound from America mid-March. She is
with us until August. Please pray that she can find a temporary job while she
is here. We are so enjoying having her visit with us and taking her around our
beautiful state.
Thank you for your prayers on our behalf. We are honoured to think that
you take the time to pray for us and our ministry in Australia. Thank you for
allowing us to team up with you to serve God in this beautiful country. May God
be honoured and glorified by our efforts here – and yours across the pond.
Let’s be faithful to proclaim the good news of Easter to those who need to hear
it!
Shining the Light Down Under,
Rob and Jackie
