AUSTRALIA AND MORE EXCITING DOORS OPENING We returned to Australia at the end of 1999 and not having any ministry options initially open to us. We couldn’t immediately get back into our home either and were living with our son and his family for about three months. I received a phone call inviting me to teach a class in a local church Bible School which […]
TO THE ANTIOCH OF ASIA We arrived in Singapore in late December 1997, was picked up at the airport and taken to our Public Housing apartment. As we stood on our seventh floor balcony, we both felt “we are at home”. We had to go searching for a Supermarket as there was no supplies of any kind in the apartment. Once again in hindsight although […]
We arrived home on the Monday following our two weeks away after seeking to find the answer to the stirring I was feeling in my spirit but still did not have an answer. In the evening I received a phone call from the General Superintendent of our denomination, he was also the Chairman of the denomination’s Bible College (known as Commonwealth Bible College at that time) this […]
SOME IMPORTANT POINTERS PREPARING US FOR THE NEXT STEP. Before I come to write about the radical Change of direction in my life and ministry, I want to highlight some pointers, that in hindsight were keys in the preparation of the change of direction in my ministry, that eventually led to me literally “living the dream”. I want to say here, that in these years […]
MARRIAGE & PASTORAL MINISTRY When I began attending the Pentecostal church in Melbourne, I joined the choir, the tenors sat behind the altos. In the alto section was a lovely young Christian lady I was attracted too, and her name was Margaret. We courted for a few months, then she felt to conclude the relationship, I was devastated, but realised that unless I completed my […]