The Embarrassed Evangelist
Saturday Night, 23rd August
New Life City Church, 90 Molong Road
Doors open from 7pm

Meet local author Glenda Rouxel (Blayney) and hear about her new book The Embarrassed Evangelist.

Live Music featuring guest artist Jane Saunders and local favourites Geoff & Karen Pierce.

Plus an array of stalls & activities organized by local mission groups including Samaritan’s Purse, TEAR Australia, the Christian Lending Library, and Scripture Union Family Mission.

And, of course, Rhema FM will be there. Come and meet our new station manager, Robyn Pollack. Practise reading The Word for Today and audition.

For more information contact the
Orange Christian Book Centre on 6362 4959.

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Who is the Embarrassed Evangelist?

Amber Glass is a sweet but slightly erratic Christian working mum. One day God challenges her to step up and share her faith with her friends, and Amber has never been more embarrassed in her life.

Amidst a practical joking husband, two precocious children, a dog with a passion for vacuum cleaners, some painfully honest friends and her own obsession with chocolate Amber experiences mistakes and monumental mayhem.

Will Amber fulfill her newfound passion and successfully lead her friends to salvation? Or will she just have another chocolate biscuit and go shopping?

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On Monday Night, 28th April, the Orange Christian Book Centre will present A Girls’ Night Out.

Come and meet Christian novelist Mary Hawkins as she discusses her latest book Return to Baragula.

Set in an Australian country town, this book follows the life of an 18-year old girl as she struggles with issues of purity, shame and forgiveness.

Join us on the night at the New Life City Church building for a 7.30pm start. A light supper will be provided.

For more information, call Karl on (02) 6362 4959.

When: 7am, Saturday 19th April.
Venue: Mountain Tea House
Guest Speaker: Vitor Martens - itinerant evangelist
Cost: $10 Donation

Speaker: Greta Gaut
Topic: Ecclesiastes
Date: Saturday 3rd May 2008
Venue: Christian Ministry Centre, Cecil Road, Orange
Time: 9:30am - 3:30pm
Cost: $25 includes morning Tea and Lunch. Early Bird (before 28th April is $20)

Breastfed babies welcome. No crèche Facility.

There will be a bookstall – cash, cheque and credit will be accepted.

Registration
Lesley Pidgeon
Ph: (02) 6331 2206
18 Pine Street
Bathurst
NSW 2795
Cheques payable to: Central Tablelands Christian Women’s Conference

Tickets for the opening night are available now at the Orange Christian Book Centre. A proportion of ticket sales will go towards the ongoing work of Rhema FM Orange. The Fundraiser Tickets cost $14.

A TRUE STORY
In 1956, five missionaries dared to reach the most savage tribe in history. They were the first to have friendly contact with a notoriously violent group of indigenous people. But their excitement quickly turned into fear when the tribe attacked them with spears and all five were killed. Soon after the spearing, a wife of one of the slain men, and a sister of another, went to live with the tribe who killed their loved ones. Within two years, the tribal homicide rate dropped more than 90 percent.

This story was made famous by “Life Magazine” and the book “Through Gates of Splendor” by Elisabeth Elliott. Many people are familiar with the story of the missionaries, but no one has heard the rest of the story, from the perspective of the tribe, until now.

THE FILM
“End of the Spear” follows this remarkable true story through the life journeys of two people. Mincayani, a Waodani warrior who led the raid that killed the missionaries, and Steve Saint, the son of the missionary Mincayani killed.

Mincayani grew up knowing that he must spear and live or be speared and die. His isolated stone-age tribe struggles to survive the revenge spearings that threaten to wipe out his family completely. Their encounter with the five missionaries propels the tribe down an extraordinary path that culminates in them not only departing from violence, but caring for the enemy tribe they once raided.

Later, through these friends, I met Sue, Jesus and a whole new life (not forgetting thanks to Billy Graham at Randwick, 1979). I prayed in 1980 to fly for Hazelton Airlines. The prayer was answered immediately and led to 27 years of service. (It was God’s idea first).

In 1981, Andy scored a basing at Cudal and brought Sue and their 2 week old son to live in Orange. They still live in the same house (extended and renovated) and added a son and a daughter with a healing miracle the specialist said couldn’t be done. To date, they have four grandsons growing up in a Christian household, a son in Bible College and a daughter bent on a life of mission to the downcast.

Since 1998, Andy has enjoyed a position on the board at Rhema FM Orange and sees Rhema as an essential part of Christian community life in our region.

Steven started volunteering at Rhema in 2002. He can be found working at the Station on Tuesday and Friday evenings, uploading The Reality Zone, The Countdown Magazine, Ravi Zacharias, and Hour of Decision with Billy Graham. He also maintains the studio equipment and computer network.

Steven and Leonie are members of Mountain Hope Church (meeting at the Metro Cinema) and are both involved in their church music team.

I am very thankful to have been born in a home where both my parents had made a decision for Christ and my childhood Sundays were occupied the entire day with our Congregational church and church related activities.

My uncle was an LMS missionary in the Pacific and we often had girls from Nauru (in Australia for school) stay with us during the holidays.

When I was 8 years old, a missionary to New Guinea spoke to us about her work there and when she asked for those who would like to receive the Lord and dedicate their lives to mission work, I responded.

This decision led me to spend 5 years training at RPAH Camperdown and KGV. Graham lived next door to the hospital, but I didn’t meet him till I was at a WEC mission meeting at Strathfield inviting people to a Bible Study at St Stephens, Newtown. We got to know each other doing door to door work for the Anglican church.

Graham and I were on the first YWAM Summer of Service in Australia and we married at the end of a YWAM outreach in Fiji.

The Lord led us to Orange 36 years ago. In 1992 a friend of ours rand to say that there were community frequencies that could be applied for in Orange, Bathurst and Dubbo. We saw this as a tremendous opportunity for Christians throughout the Central West to grow in their knowledge and love for Christ.

Since the of our involvement with Christian Radio some of the most exciting things to see have been the growth of the Vision FM Network throughout Australia currently with 290 stations, the Laef FM Station in Port Vila where our son Michael assists with training, and the National Radio of Nepal reaching people who have never heard the name of Christ. Radio Nepal’s Message of Hope is supervised by Simon Pandey. His son and daughter-in-law (Dr Bijay and Tabitha Pandey) are living in Orange.

One of the golden oldies of Rhema, Kerrie began as a live radio announcer ten years ago. Kerrie now enjoys reading Word for Today.

A Sydney girl, I came up for a farm holiday in 1976, and married the farmer …. eventually! Together, Phil and I had Ben, Joel, Oliver, Sarah and Lydia. The three boys are married and one grand-baby is due soon. I became a Christian in 1979 and it has been an amazing journey … taking me along paths of volunteer building, teaching, and medical missions, witnessing God’s power and presence cross culturally. Currently working locally in District Nursing, Yeoval Hospital and at our home church in the Molong Community. Blessed to be part of Rhema FM

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