Tuakau Christmas Parade

Two weeks ago (I know... late post) our church and Bible Club where in the Christmas Parade here in Tuakau. About 40 people from church and Bible Club turn up, which was a blessing. We had a great time sharing Jesus Christ with the people of Tuakau. 800 tracts and candy canes were distributed and many people read the signs. When we passed the judge she read the sign over the van on the loud speakers which read, "What is a man profited, if he should gain the whole world and lose his own soul?" (Matthew 16:26) And then the sign Mercy was holding in the trailer which read, "We love him, because he first loved us." (1 John 4:19) Praise the Lord! :) 

So here's a heap of pictures from the day... I tried not to post too many, so as not to bore you all too much. :)

A Kiwi Thanksgiving

And you are thinking... what exactly is a 'Kiwi Thanksgiving?'

Well, it's summer here - which means hot. And so instead of the tradition Thanksgiving meal we had a church BBQ! About 27 of us there. It was a beautiful day and we had a great time of fellowship and thanking the Lord for all he has done for us! :)

 Dad cooking the hamburgers and sausages and fellowshipping with Pastor G. 

The kids love Brother Spackmens water wheel.

Baptisms

This past Sunday we had four people who wanted to follow the Lord in believers baptism - Vicky, a girl from the University Bible Study; Brother Quilty, an older man from our church in Pukekohe; and Mercy and Malachi. It was so exciting to see these people take this step. We use a baptismal at a church about forty-five minutes north of Pukekohe, so there was several people from our church in Pukekohe, all those from Auckland Bible Baptist Church, and about 20 students from the University there. It was a great time of worshiping the Lord, watching these follow our Lord in believers baptism, and fellowship... oh, and food, we are Baptist! :) 

And to read my Dad's post about the day you can click on this link! :) It was a very busy Sunday with three church services and lots of driving and food prep and so on... but a exciting and very blessed Sunday! :) Praise the Lord! :)

And here is a few pictures form the day! :)

Vicky giving her testimony. She gave it in Chinese because all the students from the University are Chinese and because she's not great at English and neither are many of the students... and then Ethan translated it to English for the rest of us. 

 Vicky

 Mercy

 Malachi giving his testimony...

 ...and then being baptized.

Vicky and Mercy

 Brother Quilty, Vicky, Mercy and Malachi

A heap of students from the University and some Snyders talking.

 Shephine and Paris. 

(Stephine is a little girl from Auckland Bible Baptist Church and Paris is one of our club girls from Tuakau.)

 Little girls playing after tea.

 Emmaline and Joy(another girl from the Bible Study at the University.)

 Pastor Snyder and Pastor G fellowshipping over tea.

 Emmaline, Mercy, Vicky, Joy, Nicolea, and me(Jillian)

 Mrs. G and Vicky

And a random picture of Matthew leading music.

Paris and Mercy in there matching dresses for the day! :)

Teen Camp - Mission Aotearoa

Finally a post of Teen Camp!  In April  we went down to Otaki for teen camp. It was a GREAT trip. It was great to catch up with friends and the preaching was incredible. 

The Lake

Friends!
Jillian, Amber, Grace, Emmaline, and Beth

All the teens from our church singing plus Beth and Andrea.

The graduates from BOOT Camp singing.

MBBC skit

Pastor Jono's daughter, Kara.

The team leaders with their flags.

Air Force(YAY! lol no we didn't win but it was still a great team!), Marines, Army(The winning team!), Navy

Our Saturday and Sunday...

~On Saturday we went up to Hillsbourgh, Auckland and went door knocking with the Magallanes' in the morning. Then we had a good time of fellowship and a great meal at the Magallanes' house with about four other families. After that we had a small service: sang some songs and then my Dad preached. And then today was a busy Sunday of Church and Bible Club. So, here's some pictures from the last two days...

 Singing at the Magallanes' on Saturday.

 Dad preaching.

Matthew teaching on Sunday Morning. 

 Independent Baptist Church

 Paul leading music.

 And my Dad preaching again! :)

 Tiffany on the way to Bible Club. She was so excited about her skirt! :)

 Some kids walking with Matthew.

Tiffany, Dean, and Whitiora

They were waiting in the drive way for us with there Club Shirts on and Bibles all ready to go when we got to there house today. 

 Bible Club

 Mr. and Mrs. Magallanes holding David and Linda during the lesson. The kids love them! :)

Singing :)

Emmaline working on verses with Laaquesha. 

Andy working on verses with Sonny. 

Alicea working with me(Jillian) on her Studies. We were doing Noah's Ark today! 

And game time... Supper Dodge Ball :)

I hope you all had a good weekend as well. May the Lord bless you this coming week!

Independent Baptist Church of Pukekohe

Hello Everyone!

I was just thinking I would upload some recent pictures of our church for you all. We have been blessed with a few faithful people and we have visitors a lot of Sundays. There is one man that my Dad has been teaching and discipling and he takes turns with Matthew teaching fortnightly before my Dad preaches. So that's great!

So, here's some pictures from the past couple Sundays!

There we all are on a Sunday Morning!

Mr. Quilty teaching!

Fellowship

Cleaning up after church!

Matthew taking the keyboard and a bunch of hymn books out to the car!

And then a bunch of random photos of the kids at church!