4myKing

We jetset soon...

2007-08-03T11:08:00.001+07:00

We will miss you all! XOXO

"where in the world is Carmen Sandiego"...

2007-07-18T23:20:00.000+07:00

and Shane & Kim...

I better make this quick cause i have 1001 things to do... and right now I'm not doing any of them... so here it is MEGA quick!

THAILAND
(29 May Tue - DEPART PERTH 16:50
29 May Tue - ARRIVE BKK 22:50
30May Wed - FLY TO CR)

I got to see my amazing financee again! WOW! she surprised my socks off! She was there waiting for me in the airport in BKK! (thats a story in itself... one day it will see the light of day) ;-) for now... lets just say we were so excited that we didn't stop kissing for a long... long... long... long time...! Wait... we never have stopped! :-D
We visited the Teak (the place where our wedding and reception will be held)... it is all working out great
I arranged Suits for the boys... we will look smashing... don't worry about that :-)
WE FOUND A HOUSE! God has blessed us with an awesome Newly painted & tiled house! We will live there for the 12 months approx. after we are married!
Got to hang with the great crew in Thailand again! Love you all :-)

NORWAY
(11 Jun Mon - DEPART BKK 23:55
12 Jun Tue - ARRIVE Frankfurt 6:05
12 Jun Tue - DEPART Frankfurt 10:15
12 Jun Tue - ARRIVE Stavanger 12:00)

Met Kim's family for the first time... in real life... so cool!
Met Kim's friends... we had a lot of good times together... there are some cool Vikings over there ;-)
GAVE KIM HER ENGAGEMENT RING @ HER HOME TOWN BEACH IN BRUSAND! (I'll fill you all in later on that too!)
Went fishing... I almost caught one... it got away ;-)
at Dolly Dimples Pizza... GREAT PIZZA... only problem... costs AU $50 for 1 family size Pizza!
Went to Berit & Gunnars WEDDING!

PERTH
(04 Jul Wed - DEPART Stavanger 12:45
04 Jul Wed - ARRIVE Frankfurt 14:40
04 Jul Wed - DEPART Frankfurt 17:45
05 Jul Thu - ARRIVE Hong Kong 10:30
05 Jul Thu - DEPART Hong Kong 23:35
06 Jul Fri - ARRIVE Perth 07:20)

Got to see my sister BRUCE (Camille) for the first time in 6 months! It's so good to have her home! We are one BIG family (living in the same place) again :-)
Hanging with my awesome family.
I'm working again... rocking the world of the Geek. The company website is the go at present.
Helping Berit and Gunnar to settle in here in Australia (they are starting at UWA)
Kim is planning our WEDDING :-) !!!!!! And hanging out with the crew!
We are catching up with you great Perth crew... missed you guys too.

Now i better get back to the work... about 3 weeks left in Australia... and there already isn't enough time! I will miss you guys like crazy!

Love!

'the elysian orchestration'

2007-07-16T12:02:00.000+07:00

A Poem by Shehan Abrahams:
Date Composed: 16/07/07 @ 1:00PM

Shane and Kim sitting on a limb
he kissed her, she kissed him
they then married and away were carried
all over the globe in their ywam space probe
so in love with their eyes on the One above...
their union felt as right as a smooth suede glove

Family Man

2007-05-01T21:31:00.000+07:00

Family Man

from "Love & Thunder"
Words and music by Andrew Peterson

Lyrics:

I am a family man
I traded in my mustang for a minivan
This is not what I was headed for when I began
This was not my plan
I am a family man

But everything I had to lose
Came back a thousand times in you
And you fill me up with love
Fill me up with love
And you help me stand
'cause I am a family man

And life is good
That's something I always knew
But I just never understood
If you'd asked me then you know I'd say I never would
Settle down in a neighborhood
I never thought I could

But I don't remember anymore
Who I even was before
You filled me up with love
Filled me up with love
And you help me stand

So come on with the thunder clouds
Let the cold wind rail against us, let the rain come down
We can build a roof above us with the love we've found
We can stand our ground
So let the rain come down

Because love binds up what breaks in two
So keep my heart so close to you
And I'll fill you up with love
Fill you up with love
And I'll help you stand
'Cause I am a family man

I'm saving my vacation time
For Disneyland
This is not what I was headed for when I began
This was not my plan
It's so much better than

11 MONTHS & mostly OCEANS

2007-04-16T18:31:00.000+07:00

"Tonight, I'm here on my bed, but my heart and my head...!
They are gone, they are far, they are where You are!

My heart is over there... ACROSS THAT OCEAN! I yell.
Is it lost?... somebody say.
No, Its found across there! But the one who holds it is so far. So far away! SO FAR FROM HERE!

Too far to feel? I MISS HER TOUCH!
Where is Her embrase? Right now there's not enough!
But I can hear her heart when I listen!

I HEAR IT LOUD ACROSS THIS OCEAN... almost like the waves of God have carried it here. It beats with mine! It says my name. She says, We'll make it, you can be sure. We will always make it, I'M SURE!

But this OCEAN in between... i don't know how to swim. But I'll try... yes I'll try... like my heart has longed so many time! But the OCEAN is so far... CAN I SWIM?

Soon you will take me... God soon you will take me...
right now teach me and make me... make us more what you want us to be....
until you take me... you'll take me there..."

Today is 11 months since Kim and I have been 'together', but hearts hurt when they are apart! These have been 11 AMAZING MONTHS! And WE know with all OUR heart that WE would both do it all over again if we had too! In those 11 months... we have only spent 2 months and a week in the same country! ALL THE REST IN BETWEEN... there has been OCEANS! Some people say that we are doing the 'IMPOSSIBLE' and WE agree! But GOD has made it POSSIBLE! This is over soon my love! 43 days... and this is done! I MISS YOU! I LOVE YOU! THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH FOR HOLDING ON!!!! XOXO :-)

YOUR hand, MY ring & OUR love!

2007-04-06T10:05:00.000+07:00

(watch again)

It is an amazing journey with you my financee! To find one so loving... One with a heart like Your's is more than a dream come true! For God knows our hearts desires. Now we have seen that he truly has given us more that we could ever have dreamed about... more than we ever dared to ask! HE GAVE ME YOU! XOXO

YESTERDAY
Yesterday I made the final payment for Kim's engagement ring! It is such a blessing to be able to give her a ring that shows her and the the world my complete commitment to her! She has my life... it belongs to her XOXO! :-) I can't wait for you to wear my ring my wife! My lover is mine and I am her's and this ring on your finger is love!

TODAY
Today is FOUR MONTHS since i proposed to my amazing girl! There are moments in my life that i will never forget... and that day was full on them! I will never forget when i asked Kim's dad for permission to marry his daughter. Before I called NORWAY I prayed and committed our future to God! I read over the scripture verses that God gave me before WE were US. I let the faith of the past and faith for the future rise in my heart once again. What would God have ahead. I was not sure... but i knew in my heart... deeper than anything else... SURELY HE WILL BE FAITHFUL! And I realized... that is enough to build a life on! ON OUR ROCK... WE ARE BUILDING OUR LIVES!

There is No way that I will ever forget the moment that Kim said YES!!!!! I cried... you could hear my heart beating a forever away... and i felt that my life... it was changing forever... changing for good... in that moment CHANGING FOR THE GLORY OF GOD! I love you my Kim Kristina Bjørk!

THE FUTURE
We see a horizon... we see a distant land... and we don't quite know the way... but Kim take my hand... I will take God's... He'll lead.

Invites need Envelopes and Envelopes need addresses...

2007-04-03T00:08:00.000+07:00

... and stamps... and Australia Post.

Right now I'm awake, well kinda awake, but not really awake... my eyes are still open, but only just enough.
I'm putting addresses on Kim & My WEDDING INVITATIONS!!!! Some will be jumping into that postage service! :-) Others will come soon ;-)

This is something that Me and My AMAZING WIFE-TO-BE will do once in our lives!!!!
My AMAZING WIFE!... XOXO MMWAAHH!!!
I LOVE YOU!
I'M FOREVER YOURS MY KIM!

Love...

2007-02-18T14:33:00.000+07:00

I have a desire
I want to love
To love with Your love
That changes worlds

I have a desire
I want to be a man
To be a man that loves his wife
With love, with pure hands

Here i am
I'm trying
Here i am and im crying
Crying out to You
Please show me how to
To do the thing You desire
Make me love like You

Your love
Makes wounds clean
Your love
Washes everything
Make me new please
Please make me new

I need You
To bless my future
Bless HER now God
Bless HER well

FOR I WILL LOVE HER
TIL WE ARE OUT OF
OUT OF THIS WORLD
INTO YOURS....

1 Corinthians 13:4-7
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

For The Love Of God

2007-01-28T10:31:00.000+07:00

For The Love of God

from "The Far Country" - Andrew Peterson
Listen: go here + click on open player > then select "FOR THE LOVE OF GOD"

Lyrics:

(Ephesians 5:25, Hebrews 12:26-29, John 13:34)

Yesterday we drove all night to Pittsburgh
Jamie laid her head down in the back
My little boys asleep beside their sister
They’re the best I have

I brought an old recording of your father
He was teaching men and women how to love
He carried on about his sons and daughters
Growing up

As we drove across Ohio
At the dawning of the day
I could hear the tune of truth was in his voice
And it felt just like I knew him
Though I never saw his face
Maybe that’s because I know his boys
Who live their lives

For the love of God
In the name of Jesus
The groom who gave his life
To love his bride

I know you thought you’d never find a woman
I never thought I’d have to write this song
But here I am and there you are together
After all

You felt like you were buried
In a city underground
All broken bits and pieces of the past
And somewhere she was searching
On the surface of the mound
She was digging for a treasure that would last
Now she’s giving you her heart

For the love of God
In the name of Jesus
The groom who gave his life
To love his bride

Now, love is not a feeling in your chest
It is bending down to wash another’s feet
It is faithful when the sun is in the west
And in the east

It can hurt you as it holds you
In its overwhelming flood
Till only the unshakeable is left
“This new command I give you,” He said,
“Love as I have loved”
So brother, love her better than yourself
And give her your heart

For the love of God
In the name of Jesus
The groom who gave his life
To love his bride

©Andrew Peterson

Take Off My Shoes

2007-01-26T12:54:00.000+07:00

I’ll take off my shoes, I’m coming in,
Untie this rope, I’m staying with him,
Love of my life, I’ll live and die,
Just for the moments for my king and I.

Why did you call, why did you wait,
For someone so guilty, someone so fake.
There are no words for my beautiful song,
Now I’m in the arms of my beautiful one.

Hold me, blow all the pride from my bones,
With your fire.
Hold me, breathe on this heart made of stone,
Keep it pure.
Hold me, saviour of heaven and earth,
King forever.
Hold me, love of my life lead me on,
Through the fire, lead me on...

I’ll take off this crown and fall at your feet,
The secret of joy are the moments we meet.
How could a man with all of your fame,
Pull me from darkness and call me by name.

So hold me today, as I carry your cross,
Into the desert to find who is lost.
Look at my hands, they’re still full of faith,
God keep them clean till we finish the race.

Written by Delirious? ©2005 Curious? Music UK

a month with you | AFFIANCED

2007-01-06T22:42:00.000+07:00

On the 6th of December 2006 Kim and I decided to tell the world that we will spend the rest of our lives together! Today marks 1 month since that moment... It has been an incredible month! We have planned alot since that day... and have grown even more in our love for eachother! I thank God for everyday that he gives to us... we dont want to take even one for granted.

Tonight as we read Jeremiah Chapter 17 together... we stumbled across two significant verses for us as a couple. We fell over them without knowing, but God knew right where He put them ;-)

Jeremiah 17:7-8

"But blessed are those who trust in the LORD and have made the LORD their hope and confidence. They are like trees planted along a riverbank, with roots that reach deep into the water. Such trees are not bothered by the heat or worried by long months of drought. Their leaves stay green, and they go right on producing delicious fruit.

During our DTS, kim gave these verses to me... little did she know that i was seeking God about how and if i should tell her of my feelings for her! God encouraged me amazingly through the verses and in the same action showed me that this is a Godly woman that is pursuing his heart for her!

We are ever thankful to God for these verses!
Right from the start He knew the plan He had for us!

I love you my amazing girl
XOXO
YOURS ALWAYS

TODAY | 7 months of the rest of our lives....

2006-12-16T23:19:00.000+07:00

on the December 6th 2006 at 3AM
I asked Kim Kristina Bjørk to be my wife
SHE SAID "YES!!!"

They call me 'Boo Bie'

2006-11-03T16:09:00.000+07:00

I know it sounds bad when you read it quick in English... its sounds like something girls have and guys don't have so much. But i guess now im stuck with it :D Some thai friends here in Chiang Rai decided that a fitting name for me is 'Nong Boo Bie'... 'Nong' (what you say to someone younger than you) & 'Boo Bie' (something out shape... meaning that im crazy!)

But even though the words make perfect sense in Thai... Kim & Grayce think it is unbelievably (wet your pants) funny... i think they will have a smirk on their face everytime they hear it! :-) To quote Grayce, "Basically You're an out of shape boobie... HEHE!"

But on a more MANLY note... i'm getting better at making Smoothies everyday! Tonight will be my last night working at the Smoothie Bar called 'Bun Lak' = 'Blend Anything'. I've been there cleaning the shop most days, getting it ready to open & then working there for about 5 hours. It's been awesome to help out Pi Mae, Pi Nan, Pi Uab & Pi Jesse... give them 2 extra hands. Speaking of those hands... i better go jump on some transportation and travel 10 minutes down the crazy super highway (with as many U-turns on that one road as there are on all the roads in Australia)... try not to go past the shop again, like i did the other day... and get to fixing (Southern American lingo for making) some smooties!

BRUNEI

2006-10-16T08:20:00.000+07:00

Right now we are in the transit area at Brunei airport... WE MADE IT! :)

We got in at 9 this morning and will depart Brunei at 7.20 tonight.
WE ARE TAKING IT SLOW CAUSE WE ARE CRAZY TIRED... but we are gunna go outside and and EXPLORE! Maybe sleep abit here first? SO here we go...

You know what they say... "Another day, another country"
or is it "Another day, another BRUNEI dollar"

take it to them....

2006-09-14T09:17:00.000+07:00

LEAVERS CHAPLAINCY 06

2006-09-14T08:04:00.000+07:00

leaving on a jetplane...

2006-09-07T19:17:00.000+07:00

UNBELIEVALBE sums its up... I thought it would be at least 2yrs (and I'm not even joking!) until this would happen... "am i only dreaming or is this" jetplane bring KIM to AUSTRALIA!

KIM KRISTINA BJØRK (my amazing NORWEGIAN girlfriend) is heading back to YWAM Chiang Rai Thailand to join the staff of DTS 07... but before she goes... She will come here to Perth! I can't wait to see her (IT HAS BEEN AGES... 3 MONTHS & 22 DAYS actually!)... To show her WA... and to introduce her to everyone here...

She arrives at the PERTH International Airport on the 20th SEP @18:40... If you can... COME AND GIVE HER A BIG AUSSIE LITTLE V-E-G-E-M-I-T-E "G'day Mate!"

Seriously can't wait to see you again babe!
XOXO
Shane

A Child of God

2006-09-07T18:48:00.000+07:00

VERSE 1:
With every breath, with every thought
From what is seen to the deepest part
I offer all that I've come to be
To know your love fathering me

CHORUS:
Father You're all I need
My soul's sufficiency
My strength when I am weak
That love that carries me
Your arms enfold me, till I am only
A child of God

VERSE 2:
With every step on this journey's walk
And wisdom's songs that the soul has sought
I give myself unreservedly
To know Your love fathering me

3 since words flew...

2006-08-16T01:05:00.000+07:00

This is more than i had EVER hoped for... more than i had ever dared to ask! Today is 3 months since this ALL started. 3 months since i received HER love. 3 months since WE spoke the same feelings that took hold of OUR hearts. 3 months of FAITH (Heb 11:1 "What is faith? It is the confident assurance that what we hope for is going to happen. It is the evidence of things we cannot yet see"). 3 months of trusting GOD. 3 months believing that he gives us the desire of OUR hearts... and HE gives them for a reason (Ps 37:4 "Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart")!

JEG ELSKER DEG KIM!
ThankYOU for giving me YOUR HEART! ThankYOU for PURSUING GOD with me!
Your's...

Back in Australia... just now with family dispersed around the world

2006-07-18T01:25:00.000+07:00

my DTS school graduated

WOW... i'm back! I HAVE ACTUALLY BEEN HERE FOR 10 days 19h 24m 07s and counting! It is such an AWESOME thing to be back here in Australia again... to see people that had missed (and so far everyday has been jam packed with that)... NOW try to catch up on 6 months... hard going but we are trying... "when the going gets tough... PUNISH!"

At the same time it's weird to miss a whole new group of people (my family disperesed) now that i'm here and not there... my DTS family... I LOVE YOU GUYS!!! MISS YOU LIKE CRAZY!!! May the God who was SO faithful before... continue to be faithful to you... OUR UNCHANGING FATHER! You will always be in my prayers and in my heart! I thank my God every time I remember you! And I remember you ALOT!

THIS ROCK listen here
Every time I come back to this rock
You’ve reminded me that I am not alone
That I will never been alone
When I turn to see that the tides have changed
The people change and I am not the same
No I will never be the same

Hey did you know that you fed my soul
The day that you opened up to me
I just couldn’t be still and tie down my will
I just wanted to run with you

I thank my God every time I remember you

When I start to think about you and me and how we came to be
I start to think about time and how we made it through fine
And then I turn to see that the times have changed
The people change and I am not the same
No I will never be the same

Hey did you know that you fed my soul
The day that you opened up to me
I just couldn’t be still and tie down my will
I just wanted to run with you

I thank my God every time I remember you

Ever since you stepped foot on this rock
You know it doesn’t really matter how you came
We will never be the same

THIS ROCK by Brandon Heath
www.brandonheath.net/

FRIDAY

2006-07-05T14:43:00.000+07:00

SAWAT DI KRUP! POM CHU SHANE KRUP! MAJAK AUSTRALIA KRUP! POM OW ANI KRUP! MI OW KRUP!<

WOW... Two more days here and ill be leaving THAILAND! It's starting to feel abit more real... that I'll be leaving!

I have a few more things to do before i leave though...
eat some 7 11 hotdog & drink some 7 11 milk(THAT GEAR IS AMAZING... You could basically just live of that!)... I just ate some ROTI so that is off the list... but maybe i should eat some more so it's back ON! :-) hehe! AND THEN SAY 'SEE YOU LATER' TO SOME CREW!!! Here we go again with the tears...

Then I'll be PUNISHING that AIRPORT!
I seriously can't wait to see you guys... I'll see you soon!

If you can make it to the AIRPORT... or even if you can't... your welcome at MY HOUSE after!!! I'll show you some photos... and bring your photos too! WE CAN CATCH UP! IT'S BEEN AWHILE! :-)

FLIGHT DETAILS

LOVE YOU GUYS!
SEE YOU SOON... FRIDAY MORNING EVEN! :-)
GOD BLESS!
SHANE

Saying 'Goodbye'...

2006-06-30T18:12:00.000+07:00

Why is this so hard! Why are we crying so much!
Why are our hearts breaking! But STRANGELY we are SURE!
SERIOUSLY THIS ISN'T EASY!

It has been AMAZING... and I'm sure thats why! DTS is over & i'm left thinking... what if we had been saying 'Goodbye'... what would we have felt... what would we have done with it all?!? But this isn't 'Goodbye' & i don't think it was ever meant to be! We were just meant to say 'SEE YOU SOON'... I just said 'SEE YOU SOON'... You just said 'SEE YOU SOON'... So now we wait! NOW I WAIT!

I saw you at the Airport & felt like i lost something... I saw you get on the 'Song Tow' and wondered why you were going... I saw you at the Busport & prayed it wouldn't be too long... SEE YOU SOON? I'LL SEE YOU SOON!

You guys have changed something... You guys gave us your heart! And we knew that it wasn't that you had to give it, but you did! And that is why this is hard... that is why we cry... that is why we break inside... BUT THAT IS WHY WE ARE SURE!

GOD gave us this... He gave us 6 months... And we changed... for the better! And we loved for the better! And we know Him better than ever before... and we will make Him known! SIMPLY BECAUSE GOD HAS A PLAN... we will be SURE! Because He gives and takes away & that is for the better! - (read more)

We know He meant for us to MEET! We know He meant for us to LEAVE! WE ARE SURE HE MEANS FOR US TO MEET AGAIN SOON... whether that is here or there... i will see you soon! UNTIL THEN WE WILL BE SURE! GOD'S PLAN WILL CONTINUE TO BE FULLFILLED... SO WE WILL FOLLOW! FOLLOW HARD... FOLLOW!

Thanks for EVERYTHING my brothers and sisters!
GOD BLESS YOU!
SPEAK TO YOU SOONER!!
ALL MY LOVE XOXO
Shane (mr. sudyat) Beckingham - Chiang Rai YWAM DTS 2006

Homecoming queen... or just SHANE COMING HOME!

2006-06-12T20:21:00.000+07:00

Here they are crew... all you needed to know... and even the stuff that you didn't... THE FLIGHT DETAILS!
I'll see you all soon...

Thu, Jul 6-Fri, Jul 7: THAI AIRWAYS INTL LTD, TG 0985
From: BANGKOK, THAILAND (BKK) map
Departs: 11:10pmThu, Jul 6
Departure Terminal: TERMINAL 1
Gate: Check for latest information

To: PERTH, AUSTRALIA (PER) map
Arrives: 6:55amFri, Jul 7
Arrival Terminal: TERMINAL 1 INTERNATIONAL

Class: Economy
Seat: Check-In Required
Status: Confirmed
Confirmation: J4SHH4
Meal: Meals
Smoking: No
Aircraft: AIRBUS INDUSTRIE 330 JET
Mileage: 3327
Flight Time: 6 hour(s) and 45 minutes

HAPPY 45th BIRTHDAY!

2006-06-07T20:32:00.000+07:00

MY MUMMY!

You have lived 45 Years & I have been blessed to be there for 21 of them! YOU ARE A BLESSING... And I'm crying!

I MISS YOU XOXO... I'll see you soon!
THANKS FOR EVERYTHING!
I hope to live out everything that you and dad have taught me!
I LOVE YOU! XOXO
Shane

see also: 45 today... & May everyday be Mothers Day...

Moving on up... moving on up... time to break free... nothing can stop me!

2006-06-05T16:03:00.000+07:00

Ok... well actually... we just moved EAST (about 5 hours by train)... not Up! & Well... we didn't need to break free from Kantharalak (it was kinda weird & sad to leave)... and we actually had to stop a few time on the train trip... at train stations...

I don't know... that song just came to mind... IT KINDA WORKS?!? In an opposite kinda way :-)

WE ARE HERE... I'm not actually even sure of the name of this city... FOR about 1&1/2 weeks. We are staying at a church - the pastor of this church is the brother of the pastor we worked with back in Kantharalk.

I will keep you posted on what we will be doing here. I guess that we will most likely be doing some english teaching in schools or an english camp :-) but i don't even know that for sure. hehe SO WHEN I DO... I'LL LET YOU KNOW!

Sorry guys... i just really wanted to let you know what was going on here in Thailand... but I'm not really sure myself yet. Right now all i know is that PULSE WON STATE YOUTH GAMES... and TOM (my bro) PUNISHED THE STICK DANCE!!! YOU GUYS ROCK!!!

SERIOUSLY... 21!

2006-06-01T15:18:00.000+07:00

(check out that NEW Blog Banner - by Shehan Abrahams!) Shesh seriously... You are ABSOLUTELY AMAZING BRO! If i was at home i would have fully been trying to make a B'day Banner for my BLOG... and here I am in Thailand without FLASH! AND SHESH COMES TO THE RESCUE! THANK YOU MAN... IT LOOKS SWEET MAN!

Hey crew... TODAY IS THE BIG DAY... the BIG... TWO... ONE. 21?

Last night we Kicked of the celebrations at 12 oclock... we got on our FLIP FLOPS and went for a walk to the nearest (and only in Kantharalak) 7/11 - a 24hr convinience store! We stocked up on junk (just like we would of at home)... and then attempted to eat it ALL... it was sweet except for the sick feeling we had in our tummies after! It was worth it ;-) hehe

Today we have just been hanging out. We thought it was going to be a clean up day around the Church where we are staying... but something kinda happened to that... and now we are just PUNISHING the hang out?!? SWEET! I don't know how i got the DAY OFF?

THANKS SO MUCH CREW FOR ALL YOUR SMS, EMAILS & PHONE CALLS AND BLOG BANNERS!!!! You guys have seriously ALL made my day! I LOVE YOU GUYS SO MUCH! AND MISS YOU LIKE CRAZY! I'll see you guys in AUZ July 7!

GOD BLESS!
XOXO
Shane

ALMOST ANOTHER YEAR... I'm trusting it has been EVERYTHING it should have been!

2006-05-30T18:26:00.000+07:00

ME ON TOMS BIKE
Originally uploaded by Shane Beckingham.

Wow... try writting that in your blog's post title & try to not start to cry (thats what i'm doing). Well atleast with the tears welling up... standing in the security of God's loving hands & knowing He has a plan... somehow it all seems OK! :-)

ALMOST 21 YEARS OLD! I remember something that God spoke to me earlier in DTS... "How can a Man make something of His life? How can he make a name for himself that lasts? How can he ensure that he makes a difference for the Kingdom? IN & OF himself he can ENSURE nothing! But if He trusts in God and follows... HE CAN BE SURE!"

Now I have another year to continue to respond to that... MAY IT BE ALL THAT MY KING HAS PLANNED!

So on Thursday, 1st June I will be 21! I'm pretty sure that I am set to miss ALL of you big time on my Birthday! YEAH THATS PRETTY MUCH A GIVEN! hehe :-)

I love you guys!
GOD BLESS YOU!
Shane (sticks) Beckingham

Spend a day in an internet cafe? Who would do that? :-)

2006-05-22T14:47:00.000+07:00

What do you do on a day off? Well if your me... I guess you come to the local Kantharalak Internet Cafe - its not much of a cafe actually... but they do have internet here... it kinda works ok ;-)

Today we just get an opportunity to hang out... so i put up some more photos of what is going on here, in Kantharalak!

On both Saturday & Sunday I got to be a Radio DJ for an hour! "Welcome to 106.2 FM" - Well i think Piyarat said that in Thai... i just smiled and looked nice :-) Piyarat (my DTS staff) was the radio host & my translator... she did great! It's kinda crazy when you think that the area this radio station services has about 2 million people in it. So maybe 2 million people tuned in... OK I guess maybe a few less did... it was still AWESOME anyway! The first day we PUNISHED a whole lot of english songs (United, David Crowder & Switch Foot) & the second day we HIT those thai songs (School of Worship 04 & 05). I got to share about being a Christian in Australia & being a Christian furan (foreigner) here in Thailand! As well as share a whole lot more! I even made a SHOUT OUT to all the DTS crew! PUNISH THAT!!!

Well I have to run... we have to get back to talk about what to teach the kids tomorrow at school... and to go to a WEDDING RECEPTION (it had been canceled the last 2 nights on account of RAIN... so tonight it might actually happen!) I let you know :-)

How do you WRAP things up?!

2006-05-17T17:27:00.000+07:00

Two days ago, Monday, 15th May, we left base at 4:45PM. I was the last one packed as was predicted, must have had something to do with the 2 hours sleep the night before. I had to try and wrap things up... "try and get my house in order" as usual! It takes something like outreach to make me complete the things that need to be :-) I spent the night burning "The God's Story VCDs" & burning photos to cd for some crew + hanging out with the all nighters :-) I think things are alot more exciting when there is the prospect of not being ready to leave hanging over your head! Is it really the only way i pack?

This last week (last lecture week & the weekend) was packed out... well as much as was humanly possible! So it must be possible to live with only 2 hours sleep! It was pretty much all we allowed for! Alot of nights we averaged watching 3 movies a night & then ended up sleeping in the class room. As DTS ends we're trying to make the most of it... knowing that it's not long until it will not be the same. So we grab after every last moment when life & these relationships are this easy. Soon they will be harder & a 7+ hour flight, but their worth will not change! The end doesn't look easy (leaving for outreach was hard enough), but it will be the start of the rest that God has planned (Psalm 139:16).

So here we are, 24 hours worth of travel later @ KANTHARALAK CHURCH - the envangelical fellowship of Thailand. It is a small church of 20-30ish people at high season (when people are back from working away). This Church has had alot of YWAM teams come through in it's 6 years & they are seeking to reach out to the community.

We arrived here at about 4:30PM, yesterday - Tuesday night. Unpacked some of our stuff. I'm sharing a double bed with Will and Johno bagsed the floor! The girls are all sleeping on mattresses in 1 rooms, then Pi Num Yai & Pi Nam Khang are in the other room.

The first thing i did was PUT MY PHONE OF CHARGE! Now we'll see what happens :-)

May everyday be Mothers Day...

2006-05-14T19:48:00.000+07:00

My mum
Originally uploaded by AlbinoAsian.

This is TRUE of the one i have the privilege to call my MOTHER...

PROVERBS 31:10-31

A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than
rubies. Her husband has full confidence in her and lacks nothing of
value. She brings him good, not harm, all the days of her
life. She selects wool and flax and works with eager hands. She is
like the merchant ships, bringing her food from afar. She gets up while it
is still dark; she provides food for her family and portions for her servant
girls. She considers a field and buys it; out of her earnings she plants a
vineyard. She sets about her work vigorously; her arms are strong
for her tasks. She sees that her trading is profitable,
and her lamp does not go out at night. In her hand she holds the
distaff and grasps the spindle with her fingers. She opens her arms to
the poor and extends her hands to the needy. When it snows, she
has no fear for her household; for all of them are clothed in scarlet. She
makes coverings for her bed; she is clothed in fine linen and purple. Her
husband is respected at the city gate, where he takes his seat among the elders
of the land. She makes linen garments and sells them, and supplies the
merchants with sashes. She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can
laugh at the days to come. She speaks with wisdom, and faithful
instruction is on her tongue. She watches over the affairs of her
household and does not eat the bread of idleness. Her children arise and
call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her: "Many women do noble things, but you surpass them all." Charm is deceptive, and beauty is
fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. Give her the reward
she has earned, and let her works bring her praise at the city gate.

"I will call her blessed... for the LORD has made all her ways prosper! She speaks truth and life! She can always be trusted! She is honoured in the sight of man & God! She has loved without condition... I will love her forever!"

love... your son

EASTER... A privillage to know!

2006-04-23T17:41:00.000+07:00

Easter was an amazing time for me this year. It wasn't the being in Thailand part, but the being in the Kingdom part that meant so much! I think i finally realised some... it's a privillage to know!

If i went through Easter... and if all it meant to me was a whole lot of chocolate eggs, a bunny and a public holiday then the 3 days wouldn't be a big deal. However, I'm willing to believe that Easter is a BIG DEAL! I have 3 days to try and understand what Jesus did... and at the end of it still not comprehend... but marvel at everything He did!

On that Friday// my Saviour was betrayed, arrested, falsey accussed in a trial that was a sham(the people in power found no fault in Him... desiring to set Him free), wipped & beatened, mocked and spat at, sentenced to death, still he spoke forgiveness, died on a cross with people left saying "Surely this was the Son of God!" - Mark 15:39

Saturday// He was in the tomb & still the Pharisees feared Him! "The next day, the one after Preparation Day, the chief priests and the Pharisees went to Pilate. "Sir," they said, "we remember that while he was still alive that deceiver said, 'After three days I will rise again.' So give the order for the tomb to be made secure until the third day. Otherwise, his disciples may come and steal the body and tell the people that he has been raised from the dead. This last deception will be worse than the first."" - Matthew 27:62-64

Sunday// He rose from the dead! Appeared to people! CHANGED MY LIFE! "I am the Living One; I was dead, and behold I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades." - Revelation 1:18

As I sought to honour Jesus with the 3 days of Easter... God took me on the journey with Him! I'm thankfull that i can try and understand his suffering for me and see what it should now mean to my life! I want to respond to Him... a response that required my life! Why would the King of Everything... the One who deserves all glory come down to earth to bring me back to Him! That doesn't seem to add up! STILL I AM CONVICED THAT EASTER IS A BIG DEAL! MY WHOLE LIFE & ETERNITY WAS CHANGED BY IT!

JESUS RECIEVE YOUR GLORY!

Princess

2006-04-09T21:05:00.000+07:00

Today my princess became 1 year older. It's amazing what one sleep will do... yesterday she was one day younger & then came the sunrise. My heart is full of love for her & eyes full of tears of joy. My King said that He is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think. I'm sure that He has done this for us in giving us her! Beautiful, precious, Godly, honourable, clever & intelligent, she is everything that honours the King & makes people wonder at what must be in store for her future. For now we believe for another year filled with God's blessing and after that for a life of the same. I love you my princess and so does our family. Camille... You are our blessing, daughter and sister! HAPPY 19th BIRTHDAY!!!!! xoxo

Open My Eyes

2006-03-25T08:07:00.000+07:00

For DTS I had to read a book... I read a book on Spiritual Warfare by Dean Sherman
As the book report... I wrote a song, "Open My Eyes"

You can check it out here

2006-03-25T05:36:00.000+07:00

Wow!! Where did all the time go?!? I feel like i just got back from OUTreach and I'm going OUT again... I think the proof of that is in the Cha Yen>> the last time i Blogged i had just got back from outreach & the time before i was just leaving to go there! Confusing hey?!? So how can i summerise this 4 weeks before another 2 get away :)

Well straight up it has gone just amazingly quick... but not to quick to make decissions. Each day has been a day where i have been able to choose to seek what God has instore with an open and teachable heart or to just wander through. And there have been times of wander. But there have been times of God speaking clearer than the light of day! And it seems to be up to wether i want to listen to Him or not. This is the struggle of alot of humans i think... somedays we just drift through... (and I'm thankfully for the weekend so i don't mean days of chilling, but just days that we don't acknowledge God) Will i choose for today to be rightfully God's or will it be unrightfully mine. So my resolve is to give it rightfully to God! Maybe not as easy as it sounds, but definately not as hard as I make it out to be. And I am comforted as a think about all the things God has taught me so far on DTS & what amazing truths that He is just looking for an oportunity to pour out.

so 4 weeks of lectures have passed... But I'll just let you know about some of it.
Teaching on: Sin & Repentance / Openess & Brokeness
Coming into that week i was abit unsure. I had my reservation i think? I knew/thought there could be some aspect of public confession of sin & I wasn't too sure of that. Do I have to dig up all my past? It's forgiven. I had read the scriputre before about "confess your sin to one another and you will be healed". Before the week started i was sitting down and was in the proccess of Gin Cow (eating food/rice) and chatting with some of the crew here. They shared their reservation about digging things up to speak things out & I replied pretty confidently... yeah i'm not really worried about this week... I think thinking that there was really nothing that I hadn't confessed before God. And as the week went on i realised that was true. But there were some things that I had never shared with anyone else. So as God spoke to me i started to share. The enemy had spoken to me before saying you haven't ever said anything about it... you're scared... you haven't really been forgiven because you're hiding... if you had you wouldn't be! So things needed to come out into the open, but the reason they had never come out before was that they needed to stay where no one could see them? Well so I thought? God has brought about healing in this... and thats better than hiding in a corner of some room. So pray about taking the opporunity to step into openess with God and maybe one of his people aswell.

SO WHAT NOW!!! Chiang Rai? When: This Sunday! & What are we doing there? ...well thats a good question... & thats where it gets EXCITING!!! We don't really know! :-) All we know is
that God has spoken to some people in our team of 11 people to go to a village near Omkoi
(about 3 hours out of Chiang Rai). We have decided to go for around 4-5 days & other than that everyday we will simply pray and ask God where He wants us to go and what He wants us to do! There are 2 other team going to Chiang Mai to just follow whatever God says! Thanks for your prayers! This is gunna be amazing! I can't wait to see what God has planned. Going with no planned accomodation or purpose leaves alot open... so i praise God for that!

Back... well... kinda home!

2006-02-24T23:45:00.000+07:00

We're back @ the DTS base after 2 weeks of outreach! What a great, blessed 2 weeks it has been! It had its fair share of hard labor work. We moved a lot of dirt around & around & around and hand mixed a bulk load of cement (the roof was up and the walls were partly built so we were laying the foundation the "thai way"... second). The bucket line we had going worked a treat! But we also were blessed to really be given opportunities to pray for people too! For the grandmother of the chief when she was sick, to pray blessing for kids on their birthdays, to prayer walk, to pray for a guy to be set free, to bless the church & it's people, & pray for the chief too...

I've cranked up some pictures so you can see what it kinda looked like
and Straight up... heres a glimpse of what our lingo was like while we were in the hisouse "don't hold back... CUT LOOSE!!" "I'm just gunna GO FOR IT!!!" "Gin Cow guys... Gin Cow!!!!" "God is good all the time... All the Time God is good!!" "that pretty much what I'm talking about..." "...and I'm not even kidding"

I think the biggest think that I learnt on outreach was that God does give and he takes away. No matter if I have a lot (have it all easy) at this moment or have nothing (finding it hard) I will bless the name of the Lord! He is truly good to me no matter where I am & what my circumstances are. I was feeling pretty taken back as I knew tom was flying out of Thailand back home. I was counting the minutes till he would touch down at home. And realizing that I was only 1 plane ticket away from being together with the WHOLE family again was pretty pressing on my heart! But God spoke something to me in my time of having less than what I would have loved (feeling like I was in a desert place). Whether God gives me time to be with my family or takes that time away... I will praise His name... It is best that his name be blessed no matter what. God bless you my family!!!

Blessed be your name

Blessed be your name
In the land that is plentiful
Where the streams of abundance flow
Blessed be your name

Blessed be your name
When I'm found in the desert place
Though I walk through the wilderness
Blessed be your name

Every blessing you pour out,
I turn back to praise
When the darkness closes in, Lord
Still I will say...
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be your name
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be your glorious name

Blessed be your name
When the sun's shining down on me
When the world's all as it should be
Blessed be your name
Blessed be your name
On the road marked with suffering
Oh, There's pain in the offering
Blessed be your name

Every blessing you pour out,
I turn back to praise
When the darkness closes in, Lord
Still I will say...

Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be your name
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be your glorious name

You give and take away
You give and take away
My heart will choose to say
Well Blessed be your name

Matthew 19:29

And everyone who has given up houses or brothers or sisters or father or
mother or children or property, for my sake, will receive a hundred times as
much in return and will have eternal life.

What A Friend I've Found - Delirious

what a friend i've found
closer than a brother
i have felt your touch
more intimate than lovers

Jesus, Jesus
Jesus, you're my friend forever

what a hope i've found
more faithful than a mother
it would break my heart
to ever lose each other

Jesus, Jesus
Jesus, you're my friend forever

Here I go!

2006-02-11T23:48:00.000+07:00

I will be away for 2 weeks starting from today (sunday). we are leaving @ 2pm and traveling about 45 minutes from here (from Chiang Rai). The village we are going to is called Hui Nam Rim. It on a mountain. We will be working with a Pastor called Aje. We will be helping to build the cement foundation of what is I believe their first cement CHURCH building there. I think that there has been a church (people) there for a while... but now we will be helping them have a new place to meet.

Please pray for protection while we are there... For both us & the stuff we are taking with us. I believe the area we are going to has issues in these things. We have been encouraged not to go off alone. But God is strong! He knows the place that we are going to & what will happen which make confident. Your prayers would be a blessing!

As a DTS we have split into 4 teams for this outreach... we are all going to different locations in northern Thailand. So please pray for them as well.

I think i will be without internet & phone coverage for the 2 weeks... so that will be interesting for me ;-) Crazy hey!!

love you all!
Speak soon!
God bless!

Sweet McGrega

2006-02-09T22:29:00.000+07:00

Guys... how long has it been since i have posted!!!
SORRY GUYS ABOUT THAT ONE!! & a just as HUGE apology for my lack of emailing everyone & anyone! I was bad at that back at home... so i pray i start to get abit better at that here! I miss you guys heaps! xoxo

So a quick summary of the massive amount of gear that has gone on in this last 4ish weeks must be in order. (there is NO WAY I COULD HAVE SAID THAT IN THAI... At least not yet :-D )

Well I guess thats a good place to start... :-) PASA THAI = Thai Language
MAN WHAT A LANUAGE! Yesterday when trying to introduce Dad, Mum & Tom to the crew here at DTS I accidently said MUM was a Dog/Horse or something like that... HOW GOOD IS THAT! just incase you don't know yet. I think PASA THAI has aleast 4 different tones you can use for any one word... the only problem is that it changes its meaning totally... FROM MUM TO DOG (Kortort Krup MUM :-) = excuse me MUM)

BUT ON A POSSITIVE PASA THAI NOTE... I am actually learning some thai. Like the basic greating... food names... how to say > where? here! there!... and heaps of other cool gear! :-) But man you should hear TOM speak thai... thats cool!

Hey well i live in a village that is called Barn Den (sorry about the spelling... that will take me even longer than the speak thai i think). The word for Village is Moo Barn. So you say to the bus driver... Moo Barn Barn Den (but Barn Den for short). And this viallge i live in has alot of christian kids boarding houses here. So that is cool! This is kinda hard to explain... but i think that each Moo Barn has a Village leader & there might be like 20 properties in our Moo Barn. But just next door is the next Moo Barn... so its not like we are all by ourselves. OK! hope that helps.

Probably the next big news is that we have just finished 4 weeks of lectures so that has ben teaching on 1.Prayer 2.Worship 3. Character, Nature & Father Heart of God 4.Relationships.
& that has been awesome. I have honestly learnt alot about Worship & Prayer. That Worship & Prayer both are about being honest with God from our hearts and loving him from there & then the actions and express follow (singing, music, dancing, prayer & other gear). I definatly don't have it all figured out but I am trying to Worship God out of my heart and the overflow. & this might be crazy to say... but i think that before there has been alot of times when i have got through to the 2nd last song in the music set at church and still haven't really wanted or asked or desired God to have my heart... and still have that abit here... but God is getting me to be more open and honest with him quicker... which is sweet!

I love you guys and i hope that made sense and maybe helps you abit.

Now that 4 weeks is up we are going on 2 weeks of outreach. I am going with a stack of other furungs (foreigners) & a few thais (champs) up into some mountain. I will try and find out where so i can tell you all... but we must be called the Aje team for some reason... maybe that is where we are going. But Aje in Thailand not Aje in Indonesia. We will be leaving on Sunday at 2pm to go for 2 weeks... and i will be with out my phone... but thats not too scary... but please pray for us. We will be helping to build a church & i think it is the first church building they have had there. Please pray for protection as the area is apparently not that safe for anyone to go of alone. I don't know exaclty why... but that is what we have been told. But we will not be affraid cause God is there with us... AWESOME!

I have to go cause @ 11 the computer has to go off.
God bless you guys. and sorry that this has been so long in the PROVERBIAL!
Speak soon!
xoxo

UPDATE... BETA VERSION

2006-01-26T00:07:00.000+07:00

hey crew... missing you all as much as G-DOG misses his HOOD!

It is seriously past my bed time so I'm making it my goal this weekend to update you guys on whats actually happening here in the THAILAND DTS hood! Thanks so much for your emails, sms, SHOUTBOX msgs, and phone calls! They all mean so much to me!!! love you guys heaps! i will write back ASAP!!!

I'VE CRANKED UP SOME NEW DTS PHOTOS... so click on the "Pictures" button just above this post or click here!

GOD BLESS YOU ALL!
love the stix ... or as they say here in Thailand STICKY MAN! :-) or Mr. Sud Yod (my thai spelling isn't quiet up to my thai speaking level yet :-)

In da house!!!

2006-01-14T18:04:00.000+07:00

hey crew :-)

Just a quick post to let you all know that i am in the Thailand hood now!! I had a cool flight over... I will give you the details now :-) and maybe crank some of my journal (first entry) up here later!

Well as some of ya know i cranked out of Perth at 9 on Friday morn & that was a good flight, but fully long! I couldn't believe it... I thought "are they taking me somewhere cause this seems longer than you think on the map!!!" But NO.. we got there! so i hung out for about an hour in the transit area and got my first ASIAN FLAVOURED MENTOS - 1. red orange & 2. something else! hehe :-) and then back on the plane to Bangkok. I kept falling alseep and kinda heard them say something about an extra 45 mintues. Well when i final woke up from my half dazed state i found that my connecting flight was due to leave in 20 minutes and we were only just touching down!!! so i did the good old RUN! and finally got to the transit area and then sat around for about 2+ hours :-) but then again. so did everyone else. All the flights were delayed. and mine circled bangkok for 45 minutes and i wasn't alone on that one! but met a Christian couple that are working with World Vision up in Chiang Rai... so it was actually a blessing in the end! so finally got on the plane and cranked to Chiang Rai! I got in and was collecting my bags... but as every second past i realised that so did the chance of my 2nd bag turning up! So filed a missing bag report, met some DTS crew and was on my way!

The LOTS BAG was found today it came in from somewhere on a plane :-) with the way the Chiang Rai airport was last night it could have gone to africa and back! But God blessed me big time and i got all my stuff in the end (clean clothes... yay!!)

well i gotta run and get tea!! but seriously miss you all big time! this feels abit crazy being here, but good at the same time!

AND A MASSIVE HAPPY WEDDING TO LUKE & NAOMI - so spewing i couldn't be there with you guys today!

God bless you all!
love the traveling stick - shane :-)

DANCE like G-Dog

2006-01-12T14:39:00.000+07:00

learn to dance like Napoleon Dynamite

click here

Peluca

2006-01-05T22:51:00.000+07:00

click here to see Peluca...

the short film that inspired Napoleon Dynamite. Featuring John Heder & written by Jared Hess. SWEET!! It's... Amazing!!! It's Awesome

2005-12-25T02:16:00.000+07:00

May you all have an awesome CHRISTmas as we Thank GOD 4 sending our KING JESUS! Praise God that He is what CHRISTmas is all about!

Seemingly an IRIVER Update

2005-12-14T23:29:00.000+07:00

As we speak I am listening to music on my new and improved Iriver H320 (mp3 player)! Was just about to blog something... as I haven't blogged for sometime and plus my mate Shehan checks my blog each day to see if I have updated. But before I began I thought to see if the awesome people at Iriver had been busy at work on a firmware upgrade for my H320. Well what a pleasant surprise! V1.29K has arrived :-) YESS!!! - Napoleon Dynamite moment. You can check out the details here.

On a more serious and eternal note... I am really thankful for this mp3 player. Some people may say it is just technology... and fair call... but as i am heading off to Thailand I am blessed to be able to take a whole bunch of worship music over there with me. Just then it was Approx. 29 days 00h 44m 13s till I leave Perth for Thailand for 6 months (if go on one of a few different flights)! What a step... what an adventure... maybe what a test... even maybe a trial... but definitely God's will and that makes it the best place I can be! A friend said they believe I will be a man of many sorrows... like my king. Someone who will look at the people around and feel their pain and sorrow… and I PRAY know what God desires me to do. I don't know what God has in store, but I wait like a kid the morning before Christmas. This seems like the present I have waited all my life to open... I have picked it up... felt it... shook it & listened to see what I heard move around inside it... but NOW finally... the wrapping is being TORN OFF! HERE WE GO!

Bro. Ferdie Flores WEBSITE UPDATE

2005-11-01T09:21:00.000+07:00

(TAKEN FROM FBC's WEBSITE - CONNECTED to Ferdie Flores)

UPDATE

November 1, 2005

As of this morning we had received dozens of e-mails and phone calls from several countries from many concerned parties requesting information concerning rumors about the impending execution of Bro. Ferdie Flores. Apparently the information is circulating via e-mail and SMS. I've contacted a source close to Bro. Flores regarding those rumors. That source has responded as follows:

"The information you have received is not correct. That information has been going all over the Philippines and even to the States the last couple of days. Actually Ferdie and his family have experienced quite a bit of persecution recently instigated by the Roman Catholic Church. Several threats have been made by priests, but there has not been any physical harm done to Ferdie as of yet. Although last week a mob of about 250 people did surround Ferdie with stones, sticks, and machetes, but the Lord intervened and the crowd was dispersed without incident. As of now things are calm, but could erupt at any time. Ferdie has requested much prayer. But, he was never arrested and was never scheduled for execution as was reported. Hopefully this will clear things up for you. Thank you for writing."

This is all the information we have at this time. Further updates will be posted on this page as we deem necessary to do so.

While we praise the Lord for this report, we do want to encourage you to continue in prayer for the Flores family.

Widest dissemination of this information is appreciated.

Sincerely,

Robert D. Monteith

Pastor

FBC CHURCH's email response

2005-11-01T09:20:00.000+07:00

Faith Baptist Church
Misawa, Japan

Dear Friends,

Thank you for the many kind e-mails expressing your concern for Bro. Ferdie Flores. I've updated our website with all the information we have at this time. You can view this update and any future updates at

http://www.fbc-misawa.org/missionaries/Flores.htm

Again, we thank you for your concern and prayers.

Sincerely,
Pastor Monteith

More... Regarding Ps. Ferdie

2005-10-31T23:59:00.000+07:00

Extract from BIMI World - Online Magazine, simply describing some of his life.

Ultimately, Bruce and Jeanne are joyful because their ministry has come full circle. One of the Bible College graduates is committed to going to East Timor to plant churches. Ferdie Flores, already a seasoned church planter and pastor of Linamon Baptist Church, in a town two hours from Cagayan de Oro City, has resigned his church. Seeing Ferdie move toward a ministry in missions is particularly gratifying to Bruce and Jeanne because Ferdie was one of their first converts when they arrived in the Philippines. After Ferdie came to the Lord in 1987, he faced severe opposition from his family in Mindanao. They had planned for him to have a successful career as an engineer in the Middle East and support the education of his five sisters.

Ferdie remained faithful and attended Lapasan Baptist College. By the time he had graduated, both of his parents and all of his sisters had become Christians and were baptized into the fellowship of Lapasan Baptist Church. Ferdie’s deputation period is over and the Flores family arrived in East Timor in April 21, 2001. With his wife and two young daughters, he is presently living in the capital city of Dili, with a population of approximately 200,000. They are learning the Tetun language, and will eventually begin a work in one of the smaller villages outside Dili. Pray for them in this potentially dangerous and certainly frightening field.

Bruce wrote in a recent missionary letter after reporting on his resignation from Lapasan Baptist Church: “On July 30, my last Sunday as pastor, we had 899 persons in attendance on Sunday morning with four people saved, ten baptisms, and three transfers of membership. When I think back to when Jeanne and I first arrived in 1986 and then look at what God has done in this place in spite of us, it is just simply amazing. May Jesus Christ be praised!”

Adoniram Judson took a step of faith and preached the gospel in a country most people of his time didn’t know existed. Years later, Bruce Rice read Adoniram Judson’s biography and followed the Lord to the Philippines. There he would eventually meet and mentor a young man who would hear the same call to a land equally unknown to most people as Burma was in 1812.

We can only wait to see whom Ferdie Flores will touch in East Timor and where the mission call might take those new Christians. It is true that God has no grandchildren, but He has a long line of older brothers and sisters who pass on a testimony of His promises and faithfulness to the next generation.

And this is a link to a blog with peoples comments regarding the sms'

http://speak-not.blogspot.com/2005/10/pray.html

Like one person on that blog said, "...the rumour of his execution are inaccurate, thank the Lord!"

TRUELY WE DO HAVE THIS TO PRAISE HIM FOR!!!

Prayer Board

2005-10-31T23:32:00.000+07:00

this site
http://light-a-candle.org/

is a Prayer Board site. There have been many prayers for Ps. Ferdie Flores & also many statements quoting the FBC site stating the facts as 'inaccurate'.

In the end it is God who knows what their needs are... so we are taking it to the right place. To him!

REGARDING Ps. Ferdie Flores - email to church

2005-10-31T22:11:00.000+07:00

Here is an email that i have sent to a church... that seems to be connected to the missionary Ps. Ferdie Flores. (the subject of a large number of sms' 31.10.05)
I will post The Church's response here on this site when i received one.

Dear people at Faith Baptist Church in Misawa, Japan.
http://www.fbc-misawa.org/

My name is Shane Beckingham from Perth Australia, I attend a church here in Perth.

I am writing to you regarding the Flores Family. Today (31st of October) we have experienced a major prayer chain phone message for Ps. Ferdie Flores from East Timor. The message has been sent around a major number of churches here. And many people have been earnestly praying for Ps. Ferdie and his family. Even myself included. However, we have come across your site... and seen your page written by Ps. Ferdie

http://www.fbc-misawa.org/missionaries/Flores.htm

I am so amazed at how many people have really been praying for them & i would like to encourage people to continue to pray for them!
However, i desire that they can pray about the truth & persecution that the family does still face.

Can you please confirm for us that this phone message has not been totally ACCURATE.
And inform us of how we can continue to pray for this family.

We have been encouraged through this situation... feeling called to pray for the persecuted.

Thank You in Christ!
Shane Beckingham

(THEN I SENT)

I forgot in my email to you earlier to mention that the phone messages stated
"Please pray for Pastor Ferdi Flores, missionary in East Timor. he is going to be executed tomorrow by beating.please forward to Christians". This would mean for us that he will be executed on the 1st of November.

Thankyou for your help to know the truth.
shane

here you can see a large list of missionary pages stored on the Faith Baptist Church's web server. http://www.fbc-misawa.org/missionaries/

or see the family listed specifically under their ASIA page
http://www.fbc-misawa.org/asia.htm

These claims may or may not be true. And i don't desire to ask people to cease praying for this family, but may we pray even more for the missionaries around the world!

What is the Direction?

2005-10-02T23:23:00.000+07:00

some BIG NEWS in the HOOD :-)

most of the People i know will probably know the news... but there are some out there that might not so wanted to post it here on my BLOG. Now everyone will understand when i say... "I CAN'T WAIT FOR JANUARY!" :-)

on the 11/09/2005 at 22:59 i got an email accepting me to the 2006 YWAM Discipleship Training Schools in Chiang Rai. This is going to be HUGE for me! I can't wait to see what God will teach me... how He will shape me and weed out junk in my life! Inspire me and teach me to serve Him with more zeal! What an adventure...! I will miss my FAM HEAPS & my Friends! Even still I will follow!

Psalm 119:1-19

2005-10-02T22:47:00.000+07:00

This is such a blessing to me... these words give me hope for what is ahead! LORD I thank You... because You have shown me the direction and I will follow You!

Psalm 119:1-19 (The Message Version)

1 You're blessed when you stay on course, walking steadily on the road revealed by GOD.

2 You're blessed when you follow his directions, doing your best to find him.

3 That's right--you don't go off on your own; you walk straight along the road he set.

4 You, GOD, prescribed the right way to live; now you expect us to live it.

5 Oh, that my steps might be steady, keeping to the course you set;

6 Then I'd never have any regrets in comparing my life with your counsel.

7 I thank you for speaking straight from your heart; I learn the pattern of your righteous ways.

8 I'm going to do what you tell me to do; don't ever walk off and leave me.

9 How can a young person live a clean life? By carefully reading the map of your Word.

10 I'm single-minded in pursuit of you; don't let me miss the road signs you've posted.

11 I've banked your promises in the vault of my heart so I won't sin myself bankrupt.

12 Be blessed, GOD; train me in your ways of wise living.

13 I'll transfer to my lips all the counsel that comes from your mouth;

14 I delight far more in what you tell me about living than in gathering a pile of riches.

15 I ponder
every morsel of wisdom from you, I attentively watch how you've done it.

16 I relish everything you've told me of life, I won't forget a word of it.

17 Be generous with me and I'll live a full life; not for a minute will I take my eyes off your road.

18 Open my eyes so I can see what you show me of your miracle-wonders.

19 I'm a stranger in these parts; give me clear directions.

OBEY... YOU

2005-08-18T23:48:00.000+07:00

This song feels like it is straight from God to where I am at... cutting right to my heart... bringing conviction.

To Obey Is Better Than Sacrifice
by Keith Green

To obey is better than sacrifice
I don't need your money
I want your life
And I hear you say that I'm coming back soon
But you act like I'll never return

Well you speak of grace and my love so sweet
How you thrive on milk, but reject My meat
And I can't help weeping of how it will be
If you keep on ignoring My words
Well you pray to prosper and succeed
But your flesh is something I just can't feed

To obey is better than sacrifice
I want more than Sunday and Wednesday nights
Cause if you can't come to Me every day
Then don't bother coming at all
La,la,la etc.

To obey is better than sacrifice
I want hearts of fire
Not your prayers of ice
And I'm coming quickly
To give back to you
According to what you have done
According to what you have done

MY PRAYER:
May i OBEY You GOD! I don't want to ignore Your words anymore... You are meant to be my LORD! I should follow You in all Your request. I NEED Your forgiveness for not coming to you everyday! I want to have a real relationship with You... not just on the days that i am in church... God You know that this is true! Make in me a heart of fire... that will be ablaze with Your light.

MY BLOG?

2005-07-28T23:21:00.000+07:00

You may have noticed that something is not right with my BLOG & its something other than me actually posting for once :-) hehe. My pictures and countdown timer arent working... its something to do with my IINET hosting - so please be patient with that.

Well this problem has produced something good... I thought i should POST... firstly to let you know what is going on with my blog, but secondly to let you know what is going on in my life.

EVERYTHING has been FULL ON this last few weeks. I think i've experienced a whole gamet (hehe that word just jumped into my head, heard someone else say that before and then we all laughed at how OLD SCHOOL it is) of emotions.

I have been soooooo!!!!! stoked(happy) with getting to spend almost a MONTH with TOM (my bro) while he has been on holidays back here from Thailand. I just love him STACKS... and i show that with alot of kisses, hugs & my prickly beard (all these things TOM loves!... but in moderation... and still maybe not the beard) hehe :-) No guessing what my Love Language is!?! He's back in Thailand... serving OUR KING... doing what he loves most. Go it Bro!!! That brings with it sadness... but Joy that he is doing what God want him to!
I have been HEAPS! flat out with EXO. It is such an awesome event that Christians run in local High Schools around Australia to share The Gospel of Jesus Christ with the students. It went really awesome in our school with a Christian Band (doing both secular & christian song - all recieved awesomely by the students), a free BBQ for 900 STUDENTS (crazy?... YES! worth it?... For Sure!), Testimonies (they were HUGE... one Yr 8 student just proclaimed the grace of God... quoting JOHN 3:16 and saying what it means to His life!... go it Seth!) It was soooo good, but full took it out of me. PLEASE PRAY that as this outreach continues... this Friday Night... Students who are going to come to a Christian Youth Event will be convicted and give there lives to Jesus!
And in the middle of all of this I strugle with the sin that so easly entagles us... BUT READ ON! CAUSE WE WILL THROW IT OFF IN JESUS NAME!

HEB 12:1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. 2 Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3 Consider him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.

HEB 12:4 In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. 5 And you have forgotten that word of encouragement that addresses you as sons:

"My son, do not make light of the Lord's discipline,
and do not lose heart when he rebukes you,

HEB 12:6 because the Lord disciplines those he loves,
and he punishes everyone he accepts as a son."

HEB 12:7 Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father? 8 If you are not disciplined (and everyone undergoes discipline), then you are illegitimate children and not true sons. 9 Moreover, we have all had human fathers who disciplined us and we respected them for it. How much more should we submit to the Father of our spirits and live! 10 Our fathers disciplined us for a little while as they thought best; but God disciplines us for our good, that we may share in his holiness. 11 No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.

HEB 12:12 Therefore, strengthen your feeble arms and weak knees. 13 "Make level paths for your feet," so that the lame may not be disabled, but rather healed.

This is AWESOME! We must be disciplined for our sins because GOD loves us! And this discipline may not seem pleasent at the time (we may ask... why do i need to follow God... why His ways and not my own), but we will see in the end that we are HIS Children... and we will see a harvest of righteousness and peace... BECAUSE HE TRAINED us!

I LOVE YOU LORD! Thanks for your faithfulness to me!

Ben, Julie & Elijah James Alexander Zambra ARE IN THE HOUSE...

2005-06-21T17:01:00.000+07:00

Well... Almost... :-)

tonight @ 11:30 the family of 3 who when they left Perth the last time where not quite yet are family of 3 but not just a family of 2 will fly into the hood. They are here for Russ & Beks wedding (which i will be groomsmaning at) and to show of the lovely new baby. It's gunna be a great week coming up, but it is going to be as busy as anything.

I'm sure i will see you at the other side...
of the week that is :-)

P Plate Drivers? to be or not to be...

2005-06-19T16:11:00.000+07:00

This Wednesday just passed I cruised on down to the licensing centre in Kelmscott to undergo a rigorous test. To be scrutinised on my HAZARD PERCEPTION SKILLS!!! Good skills hey?

Would the ROAD ever be the same again if I was on it? Would you hand in your license just to get out of my way?

HERE IS HOW IT WENT...

BEFORE & AFTER
(click on the links above to download the .MP3 files to you computer and then play it)

On this FOUNDATION we stand?

2005-05-21T22:41:00.000+07:00

I went along to a youth rally tonight... I became desperate for God to speak. Just praying "Lord what is with me and what is with my desires?" Feeling like I have been really just trying to build my own life with my own two hands lately.

Then He spoke "the foundation that you build your life on, you must be willing to stand on!" As I sat there with Him these were my thoughts. If I build my life on persona, charisma, words and even my actions I better be willing for those things to be what saves me when I need saving. If I build this life with my own hands and my own plan I will only have sand left when all the sweat and tears are washed away. But if ask God to build my life upon Him I can be sure that He will be the one to save me. His walls will never be shaken and His foundation never washed away!

But I am left with a choice.
PUT MY HOPE IN A HOUSE OF SAND OR CEMENT?
if I build a house (my life) on sand (my own efforts, all things that I have to maintain)... when the storms comes and my foundations are getting washed away and I need saving...I have 2 options left. Stay and be washed away or run to Gods house to find refuge (where it is built on cement). Why not choose the CEMENT in the first place?

I find in my life that when the storm comes all you can think about is the storm... you can't control your emotions and pretend to be something your not anymore. All your efforts that held you together get washed away and you a left with your pile of sand. If we only ever chose God's cement life there would be no need to pretend let alone say we "have it all together" in the first place.

MATTHEW 7:24 "Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. 26 But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. 27 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash."

Thankyou JESUS that you are preparing a room for me in your FATHER's house!

Forgiveness

2005-04-28T22:08:00.000+07:00

This is out of praise to God for FORGIVENESS

click here

Cry of my heart. ONLY YOU!

2005-03-26T22:12:00.000+07:00

How I want to do what is right, but I don't seem to do what is right!
I think I want the best, but I choose the worst!
How is this?
Wouldn’t I be committed to do what I know is right.
But why do I choose to commit to everything else first.
What is this war I am in? A war for my heart!
Please win this war! I pray. I know only You will!

2005-03-21T23:14:00.000+07:00

A photo of my family on a fully cranking holiday! a big one to remember!

are you serious? 1 day left? what is this... a house for ants? :-)

2005-03-09T15:37:00.000+07:00

hey all

pattaya

2005-03-06T14:03:00.000+07:00

pattaya
Originally uploaded by Shane Beckingham.

This is a photo of the walking street in Pattaya (from a distance). It's a full on place! It's basically just one street lined with brothels & full of foreigners. Dogey vil! But there is a YWAM ministry, the Tamar Centre, that is working in the area. They are helping to give the prositutes a new life. Praise God that He gives us all new life.

PHOTOS IN THE HOOD

2005-03-05T14:00:00.000+07:00

postage stamp

ive put up some more photos on my photo flicker. got heaps more to upload though, but don't have the camera with me today. so keep your eyes on the spot.

You can use the link on the side of this page :-) just over >>> that way a bit

the day after yesterday so its pretty much 5.5 now

2005-03-05T13:12:00.000+07:00

this morning we got into the Chiang Mai at 5ish. we jumped on a bus last night at 8:50 and cruised all the way here from Bangkok. it was cool. but now im feeling like i could grab a bit more sleep. that would be pro.

hey check this out. last night when we jumped on the bus. they started playing this movie. the name was MEGIDDO. it looked pretty dodge because it had kid that got consumed by fire and didnt burn up. then he tried and killed his younger brother. then went to this evil looking priest guy and it goes on. so im like man... this is in thai... i cant understand it. whats up with this!

... but i kept trying to follow it. Im going "Tom, this look dodge man". but then i was like "Tom, this look like a movie about the antichrist".

How crazy is that man. jump on a bus in the middle of Thailand. and they chuck on a Christian film. MEGIDDO (hebrew) translates as Armageddon.

http://www.8x.com/films/megiddo/

check it out. they did a pretty good job.

I WONDER WHAT THE PEOPLE ON THE BUS THOUGHT?

by the way. the beast gets chucked in the lake of fire. God kicks it.

I WONDER WHAT HAPPENED IN THEIR HEARTS WHEN THEY WATCHED IT?

6.5 to go

2005-03-04T11:12:00.000+07:00

man it flying ahead. its approx. 6.5 days till i will be at home in oz again.

man i have a stack of stories to tell. so i will chuck them up here as time goes on.

Its been a full on time here, but an HUGE time at that! God has blessed tom with great friends here. and i have got to spend a heap of time with them. And know i consider them my mates too.

have to run.
see ya all soon.
Worrrd out!

cranking

2005-02-17T13:34:00.000+07:00

today is thursday, that means one day left until my fam heads back to perth. its been a Huge week and a bit!

Its great to hang with the whole fam once more. With five plates set out at the table. we normally set five out at home and then realise that tom is in thailand, except when ryan comes to eat, then the fifth get put back out. :-)

hey Tom is crazy (he is seriously thai) it's true. he speak, lives and eats like one. its amazing and it is God who enables him to speak like he does. His church family put on a feast last night to say goodbye to the rest of our fam and toms mate somphon (full bomber guy!). His church family here is great. fully welcoming to him and everyone who comes.

All toms gdogs (mates) here are full nice. it has been great to meet them all. I feel like they are my mates and i only meet them a few times each. from peoples testimonies here... they are challanged so much, not just DTS but just life in church here... i can only imagine what God will do through the people here.

WORRRD out...
God bless!

my photo blog

2005-02-14T14:40:00.000+07:00

go to http://www.flickr.com/photos/50178246@N00/

will chuck some more up soon :D

In the thaiLAND of my brother!

2005-02-09T15:41:00.000+07:00

Hey crew.

We are in Chiang Mai! Full up towards the top of Thailand. We jumped on a plane full early this morning and started the trek. After just over 6 hours of flying... we had a "one" hour stop over in Bangkok = 1 hour in the terminal & 1 on the tarmack. But honestly it was really cool :-) On the rest of the plane trip sat right next to some people talking about evangelism. So decided to talk to them. They are here short term, and will be encouraging Christians. Got their email to catch up... go the crew all the way from America!

We got here and booked into our hotel and then went cruisin'...

1. We grabbed our complimentary free drink from the lobby.

2. stopped by MacD's - I cranked out the double cheese burger (i thought of you matty mort - GO THE CHEESE! I got myself a FEEEEEEEDDD!!!!) Mum and Dad got into the PORK burgers? And BRUCE(camille) got into the good old chicken! what a HUGE way to start off in ASIA - the land of the noodle!

3. We stopped by the 7/11 - purchased some pepsi (good chris!!!) - ice & fire flavours? haven't drunk them yet.

4. Dad bought a lovely pair of Board shorts

5. Then we walked all the way here - the internet cafe - costing us a grand total of $1 per hour.

And is's only 15:40 - we got so much more of the day to go. Go the markets night. On friday we should be moving on up to Mai Taeng to visit Tommy. CAN'T WAIT! will keep you posted.

WORRRD OUT!

send me

2005-01-18T01:22:00.000+07:00

here are two desktop backgrounds that i have made using some sweet photos taken by my brother, Tom. The first is called "send me" - based on Isaiah 6:8 & the second called "strong fire burn" - about passion for Jesus our Saviour and His Holiness. If you would like these in a larger size feel free to let me know.

strong fire burn

2005-01-18T01:19:00.000+07:00

Reconsider Purity!

2004-11-02T00:29:00.000+07:00

This post comes from something God has just been stirring in my heart in these last few minutes. And I pray that my frankness will serve as a glimpse of Gods truth & heart on this issue. And all I can give is a glimpse, because his purity and desire for it is so much greater than that of mine and He is completely different to me (HOLY).

RECONSIDER PURITY TODAY! before it is too late. I sit here and see the lust of our hearts. We are corrupt and we don't know it, or desire not to recognize it or we will be undone.

I say as a single person, "I desire purity!" and strive with all my heart to achieve this goal. But should there ever be a time when this Standard is allowed to lapse? Can I come up with any excuse or "reason" that will acquit me for a time that I might have a fling with the lust of this world. OF COURSE NOT! NOT NOW, NOT WHEN MARRIED, NOT EVER! But sadly I believe that Purity is considered to be something for the single. Can I say that this shouldn't be so. That it may be in fact more necessary for the married couple!

When someone is connected to their husband or wife, becomes one body, one flesh (MARRIAGE). Then chooses to give in to the lust of the flesh(yes this includes what is watched on tv & done behind closed doors, alone or together), they also defile their wife or husband. Their body is not their own because it belong to the other person.

I heard it said the other day, and believe it reflects the thoughts of this world (the church is not excluded), "it's ok for me to look at that because i'm married" & "I know that it's dodge, but its ok because they were married." HOW CAN ONE THING REPULSE ONE BELIEVE (single) AND BE OK FOR ANOTHER (married). MY KING IS NOT A GOD OF DOUBLE STANDARDS. I believe it is true that in marriage every thing is meant to be done with complete respect for the other person. 1 Peter 3:7 says this,

"Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat
them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious
gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers"

It says, be considerate... and treat them with respect.

A marriage is a God ordained thing (brought into being because He wanted it). It is a reflection of what the relationship will be between God and his bride. You may save yourself for marriage, but when married you must act in the way that pleases God. God's marriage will be lived out in Purity and that is his desire for each person's marriage.

My frankness may seem to say that i believe this is an easy issue to resolve or that i have got it sorted. I do not know the struggles of marriage and don't think that it is easy. However, Reconsider Purity!, because God says in Romans 13:13&14,

"Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness,
not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and
jealousy. Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not
think about how to gratify the desires of the sinful nature."

So choose to put to death the lust of the flesh, don't think about how to gratify the desires of the sinful nature, because you know that it is wrong.

I pray that God will help you to bring into His light (as in the daytime) your life, whether married or single, that you might understand God's standard of Purity and ask for His Grace to meet it.

My Fam :-) ... well minus the dog and the bird

2004-09-01T22:24:00.000+07:00

Here is a pic of my family. Taken just before Tom left for Thailand bout 3 months ago.

A New Freshness

2004-08-20T16:53:00.000+07:00

When we begin to second guess people's intentions.
LOOK TO JESUS

When we start to re-think the power of God that we have once know &
trade it in for something less than His All Powerfulness.
LOOK TO GOD

When we've lost our innocence & the world says that's the way it must
be.
TRUST GOD'S RESTORING POWER.

When we live with passion for our King less than a consuming
fire.
ASK GOD TO LIGHT OUR HEARTS AGAIN.

When He reigns in our hearts & rules over our lives.
LOVE UNCONDITIONALLY.
Zechariah 7:9 - "This is what the Lord Almighty says: Judge fairly and honestly, and show mercy and kindness to one another."

In my heart something is happening. A freshness is coming. Honestly for far to long I have been cynical of both God & people. And i hunger once more for the innocence I've known. A heart that doesn't judge or second guess. But trusts and believes!

So I'm look to God's heart! Every time I sin. Every time I repent. I find forgiveness. God doesn't second guess my intentions. Or question my prior motives in my act of sin. Simply, He embraces me. My faults cease to matter anymore.

I'M PRAYING FOR THIS IN MY LIFE.

I don't know anyone who can forgive because they in themselves have the power. Even have of themselves a kind of love that could overlook fault. But I do know people who can do this. So what is the answer to this tension. The answer is - God's love. It is only God's love that can cause this. His Amazing love in us that can produces forgiveness.

And once more I want this to be!

So I'm resolving to let Him change me - my thinking & my heart.

God's word late @ night... does He ever sleep?

2004-07-13T23:21:00.000+07:00

God took these words from the pages of His Bible and really spoke them to me late the other night.

PSALM 146

Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD, I tell myself. I will praise the LORD as long as I live. I will sing praises to my God even with my dying breath. Don't put your confidence in powerful people; there is no help for you there. When their breathing stops, they return to the earth, and in a moment all their plans come to an end.

But happy are those who have the God of Israel as their helper, whose hope is in the LORD their God. He is the one who made heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them. He is the one who keeps every promise forever, who gives justice to the oppressed and food to the hungry. The LORD frees the prisoners. The LORD opens the eyes of the blind. The LORD lifts the burdens of those bent beneath their loads. The LORD loves the righteous. The LORD protects the foreigners among us. He cares for the orphans and widows, but he frustrates the plans of the wicked. The LORD will reign forever. O Jerusalem, your God is King in every generation! Praise the LORD!

Thats what I talking about :-)

2004-07-13T22:57:00.000+07:00

Hey guys :)

I know its been along time. and I would like to say sorry to all those who have been waiting each day for me to write. I would even come to my blog and wonder when this guy was gunna write. "Why hasn't he posted yet....? ahhh.... he must be lazy!" and then I realised it was me... :-)

So here I am. WORRRD to you all!

It been a huge time of late. Since I've last posted we have had STAMPEDE (a highschool outreach event @ Church), which I believe went really well!

And I have started a new job. I've started at WORLD WIDE ONLINE PRINTING. With Peter from church. It is really a great job. Im going to be streached heaps in my design working there. Feeling it already. He is going to give me harder jobs as we go along to see what I can musta (you like that WORRRD?). So tomorrow is my fourth day there. Im in my second week, working Monday & Wednesday, 8:30-5:30!

Its school holidays so it means no doing schools ministry for 1 and 1/2 weeks more, unless we want to talk to the carpark. Doesn't really work that well. :-) just messing.

Im almost off to bed now... gotta get some sleep to get up early tomorrow. and crank some work.

May God bless you all!
Go hard in pursuit of our KING

I'm back by public demand :-)

2004-06-18T23:54:00.000+07:00

Hey guys. It's been a long time between blogs... so i'll bring you up to speed :-)

WORK: Well for the most of this year i have been working at a place called Airs Technologies. A company that works on developing air pilot training material. It's been a good time working for a christian boss, but now i feel it's time to move somewhere else.

God is so faithfull and has provided me with a job in a field that i know im going to love. Working at World Wide Online Belmont. And for a Christian boss once again. In 2 weeks im making the big move... and it's exciting... i was alway really interested in graphic design and do the promo material for my Youth Group. (Peter the boss at WWOBelmont goes to the same church as me and does all the printing for Youth Group at cost price - such a blessing). So i will be starting of just getting print jobs ready i think and doing some basic layout and information changes, but will have plenty of opportunity to learn :-)

God is so looking after me.

MINISTRY: It is going great! I guess this is a good time to let you know exactly what me and the crew do.

In School: Ben(our youth pastor), Kym(our schools pastor), Ryan(my ministry mate), Cherub(the school chaplain), and myself run a few different things to see the Gospel spread in Thornlie Senior High School.

Every Tuesday us guys help run a class. The class is called "Study of Teaching". This is a class focused at students who have some interest in going on to be a teacher (or just thought it sounded like an easy class[but it isn't that]) :-) However it is a great class.

What we are doing is help facilitate a mentoring program. Us Christian guys and girls get the opportunity to mentor the yr11's and yr12's that are doing the class as they mentor yr8. It is such an awesome idea. We help them help kids in the school. While been given such a huge opportunity to share God with these Students.

Already through this class and our other contact in the school (for example: Core & State Youth Games) we have seen about 16 people come to know Jesus(ill check that number soon and make it accurate). Those people have become Christians in just about the last 6 months... thats another amazing thing God is doing. Putting us right in the middle of a mini-revival (that how our schools pastor Kym described it & i agree).

Every Thursday we run a lunch time meeting called CORE. It is seriously just CHURCH AT SCHOOL. It goes for their whole lunch time... 20 minutes :-) Out of those 16 students that have chosen to follow God, most of them have come to know Him at CORE. Almost everyweek someone gets saved. It is amazing what our AMAZING GOD is doing. Nothing can hinder His plans. And I'm sure He will get His reward for His suffering, He will have these students as his treasure. He deserves them.

FAMILY: My family is Great! I have such a good relationship with them all. They are all Christian and following the plans God has for their lives.
My Dad: The head of our house... A God fearing & following man. He is an Electronic Engineer... and alot more. He own 2 businesses - Digital Radio Systems & Wialki Electronic. One specialises in Radio communications and the other in Smart Battery-chargers and Power Supplies. My Dad is seriously a technological genius. And a fully anointed worship-leader. God uses him greatly.

My Mum: xoxo. She is the best Mum that I've ever had & if i ever had another one I'm sure she would still be the best! My Mum looks after me. If you stand by me for just one day... you can be sure my mobile will ring.. and you will hear me say "It's my Mum! :-)". I totally don't mind being labelled a mummies boy... especially when it is true. A definatly Godly mother who is beautiful on the outside, but so very beautiful on the inside. My mum is just like the lady in Proverbs 31:10-31.

My Bro: Tom - He is great. He is out on the mission field right now and will be for there next two years. He is an inspiration, because God has called him to Thailand and so that is where he has gone. He had just recently got back from YWAM Thailand in Chang Mai, where he was as a student in the DTS and has just 15 days ago gone back to staff it. Go Tom! Your apart of God's mighty move in Asia. - check out his blog @ http://www.tomdts.blogspot.com

My Sis: Camille - My beautiful Bruce (that is my affectionate name for her. I know it sound like a weird name. But that is why i call her that, it is a stark contrast to what she is really like... the most loveliest sista two brothers could ever have). Bruce is in her last year of High School at Thornlie Christian College. She is the School Captain there and serious from the marks she gets... the top of the class.

I am blessed with a family that has always followed Jesus & will never change it's ways. He is so faithful to us.

Testing this email post thingy

2004-06-07T21:04:00.000+07:00

WORD! it works :)

PULSE! PULSE! Give us a wave!

2004-06-07T20:40:00.000+07:00

I just got back from a weekend of sport, called State Youth Games. It was great.

Thornlie Church of Christ's team known as Pulse took out second place, only 34 points behind Whitford Church (last years champs). Thats just over one first place (30 points). With so many 3rd placings we were right up there.

We really gave it a good go and had great results. And were without doubt the loudest team there.

Hopefully we can go one up next year.

WORD!!!!

My Bro Inspired Me

2004-06-04T01:51:00.000+07:00

Hey all,

Well my bro inspired me to start my own blog.
Seems to be a great thing to keep people up to date with what is going on.
And take this journey of life with other Christians. So may God bless you all.

shane