Please Pray...

for Randwick Girls Lunchtime Group - "Curious?"

One of the girls feeding me Chocolate Mousse while blindfolded.

Over this year (well and last year), I have struggled with the lunchtime group and found it to be discouraging at times. No week is ever the same. I am always perplexed by what faithfulness looks like with this group. Is it wrong to think I 'waste' a study if only 1 girl turns up, or is it okay just to pray with the one girl and send her off... and it often passes through my thoughts of whether its worth it going in week by week to find that no girls turn up!

Irregularity of girls makes it really hard to be motivated to plan well and limits potential of being creative and making the most of the opportunity of being in the school.

PRAISE GOD for technology - being able to sms text the girls on Friday mornings has been a help to reminding them to come.

PRAISE GOD. Over the term 3 year 10 girls who came sporadically last year are coming regularly! They said that when they were away on their church camp, they were convicted of the importance to support school ministry and to reach out... and so they are keen to be there every week! But since that there has been lost of planned school events on Friday lunchtimes.

PRAISE GOD. Last Friday, I had 3 year 10 girls and then we were playing Feed-Each-Other -Chocolate-Mousse-while-blindfolded Game and one of the girls sisters in year 8 walked past with a whole bunch of friends - and they all came in wanting a go! They got mousse all over their faces and then stayed for the discussion on John's Gospel - Doubting Thomas. So this week there were 3 new girls who had never been before and 8 girls all up!

PRAISE GOD they all heard the gospel and read from God's word!

I invited them all to join us next term when we will be looking at The Gospel According to the OC - They seemed really keen and thought it was so cool that we would watch a snippet of episodes each week.

Please pray for this as I think it will be a great outreach tool but also means a lot of work in getting the research done! I haven't watch The OC but the box set series on DVD has landed in my lap so I thought it would be good to use it for the Kingdom.

Pray that I will be able to find suitable scenes from The OC to help illustrate glorious truths about our glorious King. Also pray I would use my time well while writing these studies as watching series on DVD is a lot of hours in front of the TV!

And PRAISE GOD that SCEGGS Lunchtime group will probably use the material as well!


THE CRAZY WORLD OF SCHOOL MINISTRY...

For the word of the LORD is upright, and all his work is done in faithfulness...By the word of the LORD the heavens were made and by the breath of his mouth all their host. Psalm 3:4-6