We were very blessed to have Brian Pickering, National Prayer Coordinator for the Australian Prayer Network come and share with us during the ACC Prayer Conference. Part of his message will be posted here in the near future.
Jill, Mandy, Karen, Ruth & Johnny outside the front of the Macedonain Evangelical Uniting Church. Melbourne November 2007. Many thanks to the congregation for allowing us to use their church for the prayer network meetings.
The ACC National Prayer Network co-ordinated by Revd Anne Hibbard provides regular prayer updates to those people who have asked to be included as ACC intercessors. Anne has also now started a monthly prayer calendar.
Revd Rob Tann is responsible for the prayer bulletins which are sent to a broader range of members. These bulletins include significant Australian and overseas news and requests as well. Most of the material is provided by e-mail to save costs and also because of timing. It is anticipated that in the future prayer items will also be provided in the ACC Magazine and also the newsletter.
Wash - a song based on Isaiah 1: 16-18
Song written by Rev. Anne Hibbard. Please feel free to use it if it is helpful to you download song
It was reported to me some time back that it was said that "if the ACC had not changed the UCA within three years that we would have had it". That comment worried me a great deal. I do not see the role of the ACC to be on a great campaign about "changing the UCA". God and the Holy Spirit are the only ones who can open their eyes and soften their hardened hearts.
I was in Sydney on the 22nd June 1977 and flew to Kingston the next morning to celebrate with our folk in the (Circuit) Parish, and I have always been convinced that the UCA was the work of the Holy Spirit. Its what some have done through the structures of the Church that has caused us to lose our way. It seems to me that we will only make a difference within the UCA by becoming leaven or salt or the light on the handstand and so influencing the UCA from within. The greatest influence we can have on the leadership of the UCA is to influence individuals and particularly the ministry within the church by opening their minds and hearts to the Holy Spirit and the truth of Gods' Word.
Dear ACC members, be loving, caring and understanding (as I know you will) and give the Holy Spirit freedom to speak through you. Jesus promise for you is "if the Son will set you free you will be free indeed".
Bob Imms
Some of the prayer network team ejoying refreshments after the service on Friday night at the Macedonian Evangelical Uniting Church in Melbourne during the ACC National Assembly, November 2007.
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