Parkinson Clan - Garry,Christy and family
A very interesting day
Tuesday, 19 May 2009 17:22
Last Friday was my wonderful day off. After a short sleep in I was awoken to my daughter screaming Mum someone took the wheels off our car. Then she burst into the bedroom to tell me, daddy someone took the wheels off our car. I thought she was joking so I said to her honey stop being silly no one took the wheels of our car. She said yes they did daddy. So after pulling myself out of bed I walked to the window and guess what? Yes someone had stolen the wheels of our car. After standing there looking for what seemed like half an hour I got dressed called the police and went to inspect the damage. Sometimes it is interesting, it seems the more you want to follow God and his purposes the more problems we seem to have. (Sometimes it feels like days of our lives). So Christy and a good friend waited for the police I went off to the market to buy new wheels and a new set of tyres. Praise God that we don’t need to listen to music as they took the stereo as well as the battery. So it was a very hard day. It took a full day of buying wheels and tyres, battery then getting the car off the mud and wheels back on it. Please continue to pray for us. Gods protection etc.
Where have the parkinsons been
Tuesday, 19 May 2009 17:21
Hi all. First off all let me say sorry for the lack of news. I have spent the last 2 months in a country where oppression can be very harsh towards people of different faith (especially locals), so we were asked to be very careful of what we communicated so as to not communicate anything we shouldn’t. I thought the best thing is to wait till I return to Perm to write an update.
DISCIPLESHIP TRAINING SCHOOL
As most know we have been running a Discipleship Training School and after 5.5 months the DTS has just come to an end. We started the school with 3 months of lectures. We were blessed with some great lecturers from all around the world. Just to hear them speak and share was a huge blessing for me. It was a privilege to see the students start to change, as their view of life and God changed. I have included a newsletter from one of our students to give you a bit of a glimpse of the school in her eyes.
Another Update
Tuesday, 19 May 2009 10:41
Have you ever been at an airport and watched people at the gate waiting for their loved ones to come through? Here in Russia this is a big deal. There were people with balloons, flowers, etc waiting. I know this because I was there last Sunday morning at three a.m. waiting for students to come for our 6 month course. It seemed strange that there were no arrival boards lit. But this is Russia and sometimes things just don’t get turned on. We didn’t know the news we were about to find out about.
Our students were delayed by 2 hours so we went and sat in the van waiting when a heap of police came and closed the airport. We were able to get back into the airport as our students flight arrived and we picked up three students. We were back in the van on our way home we heard that a Aeroflot plane had nosed dived into the ground just on the boundary of Perm and 88 people were dead. After this our director phoned me to see if our students had arrived. It is amazing that these guys were not on this flight. We fly Aeroflot a lot in Russia and if I was coming home this day I would probably have been on this flight. I think the thing I can’t get out of my head is the people’s faces unknowingly waiting. I was not at the airport when the news was released but all I can do is imagine the grief people would be feeling. Monday was a official day of mourning here in Perm. Please pray for the families that have been affected by this terrible accident.
What are the parkinsons doing?
Tuesday, 19 May 2009 10:37
Well here we are in lectures and listing to Pastor John Geissler from America. You may remember we have set up a discipleship training school here in Perm. We have 7 students who come from all around the world. They are a real blessing and I know as we go through this course that god will move upon these special people. The course runs for just over five months. The schedule is very taxing but it is worth it. I will put student’s photos below. This week’s lectures have been on mercy ministries and it is very challenging. Pastor John ships stuff overseas to nations all around the world and it is good to have his input.
OUTREACH INTO THE COMMUNITY
We have several outreaches we are getting involved with in the community and are very excited about it. Today we have an outreach to a hospice (a hospital for the terminally ill) tomorrow a group is going to the villages as well as a group will work in kids club with neighbourhood kids. It is sad I’m not going to the village but also I am excited to be able to multiply myself out and sometimes that means I got to miss out to see someone else grow and move. But I am a little jealous.Christy was sick last week but please continue to pray for home school and the orphanage work. They are seeing real miracles happening in the orphanage and kids are growing, starting to eat, and just love being touched. I could not imagine never hugging my kids but this happens regularly to these kids.
Who Knows Where Tuapse Is
Tuesday, 19 May 2009 09:44
Hi all I hope life is good. I would like to talk about the goodness of God in this trying time of financial difficulty as the world deals with the financial problems. As you may have heard the Aus dollar has fallen a heap in the last month and we lost a quarter of our sponsorship. I was feeling very frustrated and when I got to the end of myself and allowed God to speak to me I was able to see the huge mistake I was making. He was very faithful but very blunt in telling me, HE is God and the financial situation of the world or the Aus dollar is not. I find it amazing here I have been in missions for the last 20 years or so and he has always provided for me and my family and here I go to worrying about how the dollars are changing.
I am very thankful to God for him showing me where I was putting my security. I’m taking the finance situation seriously but I won’t let it control me. Ok just to prove how much God provides for us we are losing about a lot of dollars a month but when I checked our accounts the other day guess what? We were given extra money through the last months and guess what? It comes to about the amount we were losing. God is faithful. Let’s keep our security in the king. Tuapse I just got to spend 5 days on the black sea in a town called Tuapse. We had a leader’s conference there. It is a beautiful place. We were being assessed as leaders and given heaps of vision and dreams from the King. I found it a great time of catching up with mates and just getting together to seek God and dream his dreams and thought this is cool. I feel I’m very blessed to have a leader who just wants to bring joy to God’s heart by obedience. We had a lot of meetings and not much time to get to the beach but thankfully when we did the sun was shining. Then we had great fun 3.5 days on a train back to Perm.(just joking fun)
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