Baby Church in Tirau

Since coming back to New Zealand at the beginning of 2016, we have wanted to start a new work in Tirau. It is about 45km away and the center of a hub of cities...all without a church. We are looking forward to planting a baby of our church there and watching it grow. We will run Sunday afternoon services to start with, so Pastor Shane can do the preaching till someone is called to take over the baby mission work. We went over on Thursday to check out renting a space for church. Praying some of the contacts work out for us. We plan to start this work mid-February 2018. Please pray for our church as we move forward with these plans. We will be beginning right after family camp...

Which starts in about six weeks, so I am full on busy organizing the menu and accommodations for about a hundred people. We will be at Finlay Park Camp which is about an hour away. We are going to have so much fun, we do every year. This year we will have the main camp (which means motel type units and maybe a bunk room or two for our young people and overflow) instead of the "tents" in the wild blue yonder like last year! It will be tons of fun.

Hope your weekend looks to be as amazing as mine with being in my happy place and going to church!! Roll on Christmas!

Happy Summer!

Debi

P.S. I had this ready to post early, I decided to edit and tell the story! We did make that trip and found a place to rent! It is amazing how God works. We could have parked anywhere, went anywhere, and started pounding the pavement anywhere, BUT God led us to park in the center of town, next to the information center. We decided to start there and we were truly led by God. They control the local War Memorial building and it was free every Sunday, ready for us to use! We checked out the building and it even has an organ! It even is kinda  set up like a church on the inside! We are truly praising the LORD for His leading.