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A “Fantastic” Month!
Where do we begin describing a very busy but wonderful month?
Valerie spent a lot of the month training the 21 sixth-grade
girls from the local school with their Easter stick drama. The
“FANTASTIX” performed three times for school assemblies,
including the school’s Easter Assembly, and made a special
appearance at the Rotary Club’s Autumn Fair. A half-page story
about the team even ran in the local paper. We received many
compliments on their performances and are making plans now for
them to perform again this Christmas. Please pray that the
Easter message spoke to the hearts of the girls performing and
the hundreds of people who saw it. We hope we can get the girls
to perform at our church soon. It would be a great opportunity
for them and their families to get a first-hand look at our
ministry. On Palm Sunday we held our annual Easter
Eggstravaganza. We were very thrilled to have 16 children attend
and 31 people at our Worship Service. Three families were
first-time guests! On the 29th we set up a booth at the Rotary
Club’s Autumn Fair. We were very pleased with the turnout. We
presented the Gospel to over 50 children using the Wordless
Bracelet. Over a hundred people came by our booth that day and
many took one of our new brochures. Four women signed up
interested in our ladies craft night. Overall it was a huge
success. We plan to do it again next year. The last week of
April we will be letterboxing (putting our brochures in
mailboxes) to over 2650 homes. This will be the week after
autumn holidays when a lot of new people will have moved into
our area. We have printed an attractive, professional brochure
about our ministry. Please be in prayer that they will be
well-received and we will get some response.
Upcoming Events and
Prayer Requests
We have a lot going on in April including a Men’s Retreat the
25th-27th. Dwayne will be taking several men up to the Great
Snowy Mountains for a weekend of fellowship and fishing. He
plans to have several devotion times with the men. At least one
of the men attending doesn’t know the Lord so pray that his
heart will be stirred. We have begun a Thursday night Prayer
Meeting. We are inviting our people to come out on Thursdays to
pray for the ministry and one another. We hope that this will be
a special time to really lift up our ministry in prayer. Valerie
will have a ladies craft night on the last Tuesday of the month.
We’re praying that the ladies we contacted at the fair will
attend. We may have an opportunity coming up soon to purchase
some land in the area. Since land is a scarce commodity here we
will need to move quickly to secure finance backing to make this
move. In order to have a greater impact on our community, having
our own place of worship is vital. This will be a major expense
and a major step of faith. Please be in prayer for this project.
Contact Dwayne if your ministry would like to help contribute.
Once again thank you for your faithfulness in prayers and
finances to help us minister here!!!
Dwayne, Valerie and Austin Keefe
Lifting Christ Up Down Under
Phil. 1:3
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