There's a new baby in our household! Steve and Karen Ellis are now the proud parents of Michael Duke Ellis. It tends to make things a little noisier around the house though! The Ellis' are doing a great job juggling both the task of adjusting to being parents and continuing their staff jobs at the same time. 

The semester has finished off on a positive note with two girls accepting Jesus, both international students met through our 'English Conversation Group'. One of them, a Chinese girl had told Roslyna how she wanted her husband to come out to Australia but he wasn't interested. So Roslyna offered to pray for her. The following week she excitedly told Roslyna that her husband had suddenly had a change of heart and now wanted to come visit. It led her to being interested in a God that answers prayers. 

A Masquerade dinner was organised and hosted by the students at the end of May as an evangelistic event. About forty people came wearing a rather interesting assortment of 
 
 
There was a time during High School when I was once feeling very competent after reading a book on how to evangelise Jehovah Witnesses. I prayed for God to send me some JW missionaries that weekend so I could try out my newfound arguments. Now JWs never come knocking in our neighbourhood, and so I wasn't greatly surprised when they didn't come that weekend either. 

I'm not exactly sure what I was planning to do, but my confidence lay in this book and being able to utilise its contents. Feeling that I had done my duty by being willing to share, I gave the book back to my friend. The following weekend, when I was at home again, bookless, the JWs did come and was I unprepared! Caught off-guard I didn't know what exactly to say to them. I stumbled from one half-remembered argument to another. As they left they asked "Do you think God may have sent us to you today?" Yes, I thought, he did and he's probably having a good laugh right now. 

One lesson I learnt was that confidence in arguments alone is 
 
 
Be the difference that makes a difference
 
masks. Lee Travaskis from Sydney Missionary Bible College came to give a great evangelistic message to the newcomers.  

CULTS 
Chi who prayed to receive Christ at the end of the Christianity Explained course has been going to a Mormon Church for some time and is quite happy to remain. He says he doesn't really believe the bizarre doctrines, but he feels accepted there and, admittedly, there is a love-interest involved as well. 

Since I have always enjoyed good intellectual debates, reaching out to people in Cults has always been something I've wanted to get into more. 
 
 
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