In April 2016, Lauren Crase will be leaving Australia to commence full time ministry in the village of Weberek in Timor Leste. Lauren recently visited the APWM office for some training and we asked her to say a few words.

Lauren’s support level is currently at 60%. If you would like to join her support team then please email finance@apwm.org.au or go to https://www.apwm.org.au/missionaries/

Lauren’s commissioning service will be held on February 21 at the Browns Plains Presbyterian Church in Brisbane.

It’s time to commence Christmas shopping!

Why not give a gift that keeps on giving this Christmas? Through the APWM Christmas Catalogue you can support the work of those who serve in other cultures and help spread the gospel.

Click here to download the 2015 APWM Christmas Catalogue.

The second General Assembly of our partner church, the Evangelical Presbyterian Church in Timor Leste, started last night.
Please pray for this significant milestone in the life of this 7 year old denomination.

Surendra Wesley​ together with his wife May, serve in the remote outback town of Mount Magnet in Western Australia which has a high percentage of Aboriginals. Andrew Letcher​ from Presbyterian Inland Mission (PIM)​ and Darrell Thatcher​ from Wycliffe and Kevin Murray have been visiting the district over the last few days. Please take the time to listen to Surendra speak briefly about the ministry in which he is engaged. Surendra’s ministry is supported through APWM Australian Presbyterian World Mission​ and PIM.

Joy Arundell (Venning) was recently in Sydney and so we asked her to say a few words about her time overseas.

Australian Presbyterian World Mission is looking for someone to serve as a full-time lecturer at the Talua Theological Institute, the Bible College of the Presbyterian Church of Vanuatu.

The ideal candidate will have

• a heart for training the next generation of pastors and leaders in gospel ministry in Vanuatu

• either a Bachelor or a Master’s degree in theology

• pastoral experience in Australia or elsewhere

Please note that the position requires the raising of Partnership Support.

For further enquires please contact the APWM Office 8073 7490 national@apwm.org.au or Kevin Murray

In March this year, Vanuatu was hit by Cyclone Pam. The members of the Presbyterian Church of Australia responded with great generosity to the needs of our brothers and sisters in Vanuatu. In this brief video the Moderator, Pastor Kalorongo Ova, expresses the Church’s appreciation.

Over a few years an APWM Workpartners team built a classroom at the Presbyterian Church of Vanuatu’s Bible College on Tanna. In March this year the roof of the building experienced major damage during Cyclone Pam. A team from New Zealand and Queensland will soon be travelling to Tanna to to rebuild the roof so that it can better withstand a cyclone. In this video the Principal of the College, Rev Tom Richards from the Maidavale Westminster Presbyterian Church (Western Australia) thanks the Presbyterian Church of Australia for its partnership.

This week marks the 150th anniversary of Hudson Taylor’s Brighton Beach experience, when he asked God to give him twenty-four willing, skillful labourers for China. Please take the time to read this piece and give thanks to God that the gospel is going out.
http://www.challies.com/articles/beginning-with-impossible

Please take the time to watch the accompanying video https://vimeo.com/131434433

One of the results of Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu was that the books belonging to some Pastors were destroyed or badly damaged. One of the ways that APWM is seeking to help these Pastors is by running a Book Drive which Glen Connor is coordinating. We are seeking good quality second hand theological books that you would be willing to donate to Pastors in Vanuatu.

There are two ways you can get books to APWM:
(a) send the books to Glen Connor at 15 Emu Road, Glenbrook NSW, 2773.
(b) if you are coming to the NSW Assembly then you can bring them with you and put them in the box that will either be in the foyer or in the display room.
(c) if you are in Sydney you can drop them into the APWM office at Christ College, 1 Clarence Street, Burwood.

Attached to this post are some leaflets/posters. Could you please print one and put them up on your church noticeboard?

Please contact Glen or APWM if you have any questions.

Thank you for your partnership.

Kevin Murray

You can download an A4 version of the poster here.

You can download an A5 version of the poster here.