Well yesterday was Valentines day, it was an all round great day...full of emotion, I started the morning by leaving each of my kids and Lei ( my Husband) a valentines day card on the bench in the kitchen...each of the kids had a small pressie too! Lei and I wrote them a message each in their cards, and some words of encouragment, they were all so excited and loved the card more than the pressie...they appreciated the loving words and both Asia and LJ kept on telling us yesterday how special they felt.
Last night I went to "Valentines Day" dinner which is held by Bronwen Healy, she is an amazing woman with a heart and a passion for woman especially those who are "sex workers", drug addicts and homeless...you see, my lovley friend used to be one of those girls, when she was younger she got in with the "wrong crowd" and fell in love with a herion addicted boyfriend at about 16...before long Bronnie was hooked to herion and then turned to prostitution to fund her $1000 a day habit...cut a long story short she admitted herself into to a fabuloso rehab clinic, which just happened to run by christians and found the mighty man Jesus...he washed her clean! she has been clean and free from drug addiction & prostitution now for about 8 years. Every year Bronwen holds a Valentines day dinner and pamper evening for the "future light of our world"..the lost ones and also has a "Christmas in July" dinner which I helped with last year, I feel so fortunate to be able to assist on these nights, I normally take the photos, but last night I also got to pray in the prayer room and man that was amazing! there were some women in there that dont pray much and then there were women that were full on intercessory prayer warriors, oh man it was amazing, at about 7.25pm (started it 7.30) there was only two of the 10 tables full each tables seated between 5-7 women, we started to pray that God get these women here and honestly it felt as tho the roof was lifting up all these women praying, singing, and speaking words of afformation and speaking in tounges, I went down stairs to check on numbers at 7.45 and all but 2 tables were full!!! it was really a sight to behold, i just started to cry because these women really needed to be there to hear what Bron had to say...if she can kick it so can they! When they came in to sit down, they were fed a 3 course meal, then volunteers handed out gift bags...each bag valued at around $100 each, it consisted of DVD's, tapes, personal hygene products, books etc...they also got given a Gebera on coming inside and a jewellery voucher which they could exchange for a peice of jewellery after dinner...but you know what, it was the most amazing feeling to see the looks on the faces of these women as they were being blessed with these gifts, and it was as equally amazing too seeing the looks on the faces of the 100 volunteers that were there last night! they felt honoured to share in such a wonderfull event, and to be able to minister to people to whom they would not normally cross paths with...so bring on "Christmas in july". So Bronwen "may God continue to speak thru you to others, and may your ministry to the "future lights" of our world...be blessed!!!

We also started our first mainly music session yesterday and had a wopping 77 people come...wow what an amazing ministry to families! cant wait for the next fortnight! and we had our first NBC Women for the year last week and next Wednesday we have a guest speaker Olga Ossabar, so i can't wait for that...God is doing some really amazing things with us as a family and individuals and of course in our church! Well thats about it for now, keep ya all posted!