Ps Donna Shelton

At church this morning we heard from a visiting pastor from the USA. Ps Donna Shelton is the pastor of a church in St Louis, in the USA. She pastors it along with her husband. It is the church that Joyce Meier used to attend. Ps Donna preached very powerfully from Ps 37: 3-4. She also had a some very prophetic words for the church and it's leaders. She prophesied that our church will not be like the Titanic, but instead will be a very impressive cargo boat. I feel that it will be a remarkable time ahead.

Another wet Wednesday

I was cold and really wet all day. I did not do much all day except go to the gym and then go to the supermarket. We had another meeting of the Shiraz club in the evening, this time at the Furness house again. Kevin wanted us to sample his latest batch of wine, so we did not have to bring a bottle. The meeting did not end until 11.00 pm, as we discussed a lot of past and present issues.

Connect Church 30th Birthday Celebrations

Today, Connect Church Bendigo celebrated it's 30th birthday. Yep, 30 years old today. To celebrate, our former pastors were on hand to preach and help celebrate. In the morning, it was pastor Ian Fenn and Pastor Ian Parker and their wives who were on hand to help celebrate. In the evening Pastor David Doery and his wife was there.

After morning church we had a luncheon in the Hall. It was a great day overall. I attended both services, which is unusual for me.

Dinner at Mt Edgecombe Hotel

This evening the Shiraz club met again. We met for dinner at the Mt Edgecombe Hotel in Quarry Hill. Only six of us were there including a chap named Ken Moffatt, who is a friend of Rod Geri. He is a barber and a member of the Ulysses Motorcycle club. The fellowship was fantastic as usual, but while the food tasted great, I felt that I did not get enough on my plate. I left feeling that I did not have enough to eat. This just seems to be the way it goes with restaurants these days. The food seems more decoration than nourishment.

Feeling very relieved

I received notice recently that the old church website hosting service would expire at the end of the month. This would create a problem as to what to do with the church emails. However after contacting Ps Simon Williams, he told me that he felt would be best if we just maintained the old hosting site so as we don't lose the emails. I was glad to hear this as it means we will not have to risk loosing any email information.

I also ended up completing an important job for Kath at BUCO. Also, Max Blume is up and running with my new database program. It will be interesting to see how he gets it into action next friday.

The weather is still cold and wet. That is cool. I am making good progress with my gym work.