Christmas?? But its 90 degrees out!!!!

I cannot believe how quickly the time has gone this trip, its funny how I always think, " Oh I have plenty of time to send out a newsletter," Sorry to those that have been waiting, looks like it will be a Christmas/missions newsletter.
Things to do when I get back:
Sleep.
Catch up on movies.
visit with family and friends
Taco Bell
Dr. Pepper
Peppermint Mocha
Spread the word about what God is doing here in Australia.
PRAY.
Get ready to come back here.
Not necessarily in that order =D
 I know I say this alot but I cannot wait to see what God has in store this next year. I expect BIG things in 2011, Salvation's, healing's, you name it! Islands!
God is so good and He needs us to move on this earth! I love following God!!
See you all Stateside in a week!!!!
Love,
Deborah

When did I become a missionary??

It has just hit me that my life is not normal =D Crazy I know, but I don't like to think about that kinda of stuff. But here I am on the other side of the world doing things I would have never thought I would do on a regular basis. From helping home school to helping with a catalog delivery route, to praying for people, to teaching in kids class to playing keyboards to going to the homeless shelters....... There is so much more and yet I find myself asking "God there are so much better equipped people for this than me," I am not trying to toot my own horn. I am just amazed at what God has given me! The opportunity to be here making a difference and to be here during all the groundwork being laid down for the next steps in this great adventure that's called Following God!
 Please remember those that are serving on the mission field! If you know of people overseas in missions, if you can drop them a line of encouragement. It is not always easy to be so far away from what use to be comfortable. They are truly a force to be reckoned with and the are facing some major obstacle's to get God's word out there! I love missionaries if you haven't noticed =D We are all called to GO but those that GO all over the world are my hero's!!

Thanks for all your love and support!!

Deborah

truth quotes, needed for such a time as this

"I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father (creator of all things) but through Me." Jesus, the Messiah speaking in the Christian Bible. John 14:6

The Truth is heavy, therefore few care to carry it.

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. ---Josh Billings

Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so. --Theodore Parker

The truth that makes us free is always ticking away like a time-bomb in the basement of everybody’s church. --Robert Farrar Capon

Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.-- Winston Churchill

To see what is in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle. -- George Orwell

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.-- Galileo Galilei

We are often unprepared for Truth, which is why Truth is revealed to us progressively. --Chip Brogden

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth. --Agnes Repplier

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable. --Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Truth: the most deadly weapon ever discovered by humanity. Capable of destroying entire perceptual sets, cultures, and realities. Outlawed by all governments everywhere. Possession is normally punishable by death.-- John Gilmore

Do not fear to repeat what has already been said. Men need the truth dinned into their ears many times and from all sides. The first rumor makes them prick up their ears, the second registers, and the third enters.--Rene Theophile Hyacinthe LaÎnnec

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable. --Jim Davis

The truth is "hate speech" only to those who have something to hide.--Michael Rivero

From the cowardice that shrinks from new truth; from the laziness that is content with half-truths; from the arrogance that thinks it knows all truth – oh God of Truth deliver us!—Unknown

The search for truth implies a duty. One must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true. --Albert Einstein

God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please; you can never have both. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. --Thoreau

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.-- Martin Luther

In this world, those who seek the truth will also find trouble. --Gary Amirault

One truth out of context can prove very dangerous. –Gregory Phillips

The truth is "hate speech" only to those who have something to hide. -- Michael Rivero

To some the truth is an insult, to others life from the dead. --Gary Amirault

Honesty has a beautiful and refreshing simplicity about it. No ulterior motives. No hidden meanings. An absence of hypocrisy, duplicity, political games, and verbal superficiality. As honesty and real integrity characterize our lives, there will be no need to manipulate others.--Chuck Swindoll

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. --George Orwell

Candor is a double-edged sword; it may heal or it may separate. Wilhelm Stekel

Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself.--Sydney J. Harris

The ability to lie is a liability.--Unknown

Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.--George MacDonald

When in doubt, tell the truth. --Mark Twain

Always tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember what you said.--Mark Twain

It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the truth. --CS Lewis

"It's not a matter of what is true that counts but a matter of what is perceived to be true." --Henry Kissinger

Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying. -- Vincent de Paul

The folks who know the truth aren't talking…. The ones who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up! --Tom Waits

If a thousand old beliefs were ruined in our march to truth we must still march on. --Stopford Brooke

First they ignore it, then they laugh at it, then they say they knew it all along. --Alexander Humbold

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. --Arthur Schopenhauer

Truth, the only thing that will change the life of a person from one of death to one of life.

Know the Truth and it will set you free

God moving

I find it interesting that even when you are going about doing what God has called you to, that He is also preparing you for the next step. How great is He that not only can we be moving and doing but also learning and growing for the next level. Think back to how your life has gone. Can you see the fingerprints of God in your life? Can you see where you did something that at the time didn't make sense but know is something that you use all the time? Now I am not saying that God causes bad things to happen to us to teach us. That would be like saying at Christmas you should give knives to kids in order for them to learn not to play with knives. Foolish right :D
The awesome thing about God is He can take something that the devil or someone may have tried to steal, kill or destroy us with and turn it around so we can show God's glory out of it. He(God) is always mindful of us and always watching out for us. The Bible says He will lead us with His Spirit in all truth!
Its our job to listen and respond to that leading.

I find that more and more true each day being here. Talking with new believers and even the unsaved. If I trust the Spirit to lead me in what to say and do then I know that God is working in me on their behalf. Things I would never think to say come out and you see the proverbial light bulb go off in their head! God knows how to best reach everyone that is lost and hurting. There is no one formula that will work for everyone. Just as how God deals with you differently than He deals with me, than it stands to reason it would be the same for the lost right? I am astounded at the vastness of God and His infinite wisdom!! Who are we that His in mindful of us! WOW!

People here are so hungry for the things of God. I was talking to one lady over lunch the other day and it was amazing how much she was pulling, wanting to know and talk about what she is getting from the bible and from books. Such a unsatisfied hunger for God. It compels me each time to evaluate myself and see where I am lacking in my walk with God. He is so good!

Keep us in your prayers and we walk out the new paths God has for this ministry and for the Islands. Please pray for the Church as it grows and expands with new believers. Please pray for doors opening to the North with Aborigine camps and also the Islands! I will be sending out a newsletter soon with more information as soon as I can! Thank you!