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Q.M.B.C. Inc. publishes a Prayer News four times each year in February, May, August, and November. This is to keep you informed of happenings here so that you can pray more intelligently for us and the work of spreading the Gospel through the post.
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Dear Friends and Prayer Partners,
Happy New Year! We trust that you all had a blessed Christmas and a good rest, and that you are now ready to face another year. Here at QMBC we have had a welcome break and are now back at work once again.
We must sadly record the passing of our dear sister and fellow QMBC worker Lucy Moorhouse, who passed into the presence of her Lord on 13th January.
Some of us were privileged to attend her memorial service at Burpengary on 19th January, when we heard many testimonies attesting she was “a true daughter of the Lord.”
Lucy was a highly qualifified nurse and as such worked in PNG from 1958 to 1973.
After returning to Ausralia and after the commencement of QMBC, she regularly went to QMBC at Yeronga to mark students’ lessons. During her travels in PNG she had met many young people, but a young man in Tari remained vivid in her memory. He had asked her to find for him an Australian penfriend. So with permission she sent some QMBC lessons to him.
She had also met Sandra Baldry who was training health workers in the remote west of PNG. When on leave in Brisbane, Sandra met with Lucy, and it was decided that all Sandra’s students would become members of QMBC. And when she later visited a prison for problem boys in Kiunga, Sandra persuaded them to become members also. So we can see that, in a very real way, Lucy was instrumental in introducing the QMBC lessons to PNG. As she herself wrote in a brief autobiography last year, “I did not feel my visit to PNG had been a great success, but the Lord works in His wonderful way, and in answer to prayer, thousands in PNG have completed the QMBC lessons.”
It is now two years since Gary and Joanne Akehurst announced their resignation from QMBC, and more than a year since they moved to Sydney.
We indeed praise the Lord for enabling us to continue over the past year, but we would still like to have replacements for Gary and Joanne, as this would take some of the work-load off those remaining, and give fresh direction and impetus to the work.
So we continue to pray to this end, confident that the Lord has heard our prayers, and that he will answer them in his own way and in his own good time. But one thing we need is perseverance. James reminds us of Job’s experience in these words: “You have heard of Job’s perseverance and have seen what the Lord finally brought about. The Lord is full of compassion and mercy” (James 5.11).
The initial draft of supplementary lessons on Daniel and Esther for the Panorama of the Bible Course have now been sent out for review, and it is hoped that the final modules in booklet form will soon be sent out to our students who have already completed the Panorama Course.
Meanwhile work has begun on Ezra and Nehemiah, and we are thankful to the Lord for a small company of Christians at Corinda who are helping us to develop lessons on these books.
We also thank the Lord for providing another member for our Management Committee. It is expected that his membership will be confirmed at the next meeting scheduled for 13th March. We will then have six members in all to care for the important work of QMBC.
A new committee member.
Progress with lesson writing.
Praise the Lord for how he has used QMBC lessons in the spread of the Gospel, especially in PNG and Thailand.
Replacements for Gary and Joanne.
Wisdom in answering students’ queries.
Guidance and help in the writing of new lessons.
I am really thankful to you for sending this certificate to me. This helps me prove to the United Nations that I have become a Christian. After my release I would like to continue my lessons, but not in my home country Afghanistan where these lessons are not allowed. That is why I am trying to go to a Christian country so that I can continue my lessons. Please don’t forget to pray for me.
Let me tell you a little about my family. I am a citizen of Cambodia and I come from a big family of eight members. I am the first born and have three brothers and two sisters. My father and mother are farmers, and my father does a little business after harvesting. All my family are Buddhist, so they pay respect to the Buddha. But I became a Christian and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. I confessed all my sins and asked him to come into my life and be my Saviour. Here I would like you to help me. Please pray for me and my family, especially my parents.
I’m writing to let you know how your letter helped me. Thank you for that letter, it helped me a lot. When I was reading it, I started to realize that I am saved. The letter brought peace and joy into my mind and I feel happy now. I know that I am saved. Also the Scripture in the letter has helped me. Thank you for that wonderful letter. May the Lord bless you.
I lost both my parents some years ago, and have been adopted by a lovely family. It’s been a very great challenge for me trying to cope with living a normal life like every young person living with their biological family. I’ve searched, but nothing in this world could I find so satisfying as Jesus Christ my Lord and King, and the Lover of my soul. Then on, I began to realize that my parents had to go away so that I could depend on him entirely, so that I would be who I am today - all according to his master plan. For nothing on the surface of this earth happens for nothing but according to God’s timing (Eccl. 3). Upon understanding this, I’ve become strong, happy always, and content and very much loving the Lord.
I just want to thank the Lord for you. The lessons have greatly enriched my life and I’m learning very important truths. Even though I get carried away with other activities, I always find time to do the lessons, because I know that every lesson has a new truth from God’s Word just for me. I have been greatly encouraged from the lessons to embrace Christ in my life. I thank you for faithfully sending lessons to people like me.
Way back until now I have come to know the importance about accepting and receiving Jesus as my Saviour, and because of this I am sure that I am already safe in him. I proved this when I started my ‘D’ course - The Life of Christ. It has really taught me a lot, and I have now done away with all earthly desires and decided to live for Jesus.
I am a Cambodian. A long time ago I sought my fortune in Thailand. One day there was an incident which made me commit a crime (murder). I was such a hot-tempered man before I came to know Jesus Christ. When I had been 8 years in a Thai prison, one of my Christian friends invited me to church, and there I came to know about Jesus Christ. He is the best God I ever knew. My life is full of happiness now because he is a part of my life - it is a vital part actually. And he is really the Way, the Truth and the Life as stated in the Bible. I thank God for having known his Word more and more through the Bible studies that you have provided for me.
I’m sorry it takes so long to send your lesson, because this lesson is very hard. I read the Bible many times, and I do not fully understand, but I don’t give up. This Christmas time we had a small party in prison, and we prayed for all missionaries and all of our Christian friends. We had a sing-song and sang “Joy to the World”, a song I like very much. I pray for your family members, for happiness and good health in 2010.
I am very grateful to you for kindly supplying the Bible lessons, which I have completed, including the Panorama Course. I keep all your Bible lessons with me so that I can study them from time to time, and apply them in teaching at our prison church. I would like to inform you that I have moved to Bangkok --- This must be one of the “all things” (Rom. 8.28), and God does have a good purpose for the move. I think. I can now adjust to this new prison. It is not as comfortable as the last one, but I have found new Christian friends, and I am able to serve the Lord among them, for which I rejoice. --- I have met two inmates in this prison, but I am so sad that both of them are false Christian people. --- They do not believe about the Trinity, nor believe that Jesus is God. ... I oppose their false teaching and argue with them so often. Please also pray for them. I hope they would follow the true doctrine of God in the Scriptures. It is good to hear that you are producing some more Bible lessons. I would like to receive them when they are ready. I have been in touch with a Buddhist woman who is in prison in Thailand. --- I have shared Gospel messages with her and she would like to receive your Bible lessons.