Morning Dawns on the Noonkanbah in Yungngora Community, a 4.5 hour drive East into the Kimberley’s from Broome.
Pastor Jongil arranged to have a weekend training in this Aboriginal area with Christ followers he has known for many years. The pastor in this area of the Kimberley’s has passed away and they are praying for the next generation to step up and lead this congregation.
Would you pray with us for God to call more young people to follow Him and serve him in this area? Pray for the Holy Spirit to guide this process of identifying and training this next generation to take up the quest to follow Christ with all their hearts, minds and souls and preach the word?
HUGE THANK YOU to all who gave to make BEAUTY (Caravan) and BEAST (Land Cruiser) a reality over the last 12 months! As we arrived in Noonkanbah, we learned that many of the community elders who manage the assets of the community (school, gymnasium, etc.) had changed leadership. The old school master was a Christian and allowed past teams to stay in the school on the weekend where there was heat for the cold desert nights and A/C for the very hot days. The new headmaster had no desire for Christians to be in the community at all. The team that had come to lead the training was forced to sleep in the church which had no heat or A/C. The other problem was the washrooms on the church property had blown down sometime back and the only public bathroom was a mile away. There was certainly no place to prepare and cook food.
God’s prevenient grace was at work over a year ago for this very opportunity. PTL. While we were both attending the Regional Conference in Manila during July, Pastor Jongil happened to invite me (Rob) to come along and bring the caravan for this excursion and ministry to Nookambah. Little did we know how important that Caravan would be to provide a space to prepare food and a landing spot for all to eat together. THANK YOU, THANK you, thank YOU everyone who supported us in the last year to make this happen when we needed the caravan MOST. We would not have been able to stay and complete the training without the caravan that weekend.
NOTE: We were not able to use the toilet on this trip in the Caravan due to the challenge shared last month with the Domestic vacuum toilet – THANK YOU for all who gave this month to the “POO Project” – we are 2/3rds of the way to raising the support to purchase the OGO composting toilet and cover the installation costs. If interested in contributing to this important project, click the URL BELOW this. All extra funds raised will go toward the cost of our annual caravan maintenance inspection due in NOV/DEC.
***Since the Noonkambah trip I(Rob) have been able to jerry rig the toilet for the short term to get us by…Praise the LORD