Dear Praying Friends,
He is risen! This last Sunday we celebrated the Triumphal Entry of our Savior and now we are preparing for Easter. It is an exciting time. The Lord has provided us with a home to be able to host people and on Good Friday we will be having a fellowship dinner at our home. There will be somewhere between 20-25 people for the fellowship. Also, the Lord has provided opportunities for us to share the Gospel with individuals in our community and to speak with them about visiting Grace Baptist Church. Recently we had an electrician come to our house to fix a few things and I was able to talk with him a bit and invite him to our Easter service (because he said his church attendance amounted to Christmas and Easter).
Grace Baptist had what was called a "car-boot" sale on Friday last week. It was a combined rummage sale with other people. All of the money from the sale is going to Baptist churches in the Philippines that have recently been hit with a typhoon. The sale raised over $300! While at the sale I was wearing a Michigan Wolverines basketball shirt and a gentleman noticed the shirt and was very excited. It turns out he is a Michigan fan as well. After talking with him for a while he shared his testimony with me and that he is looking for a new church to attend and so I invited him to Grace and he said he would visit. I know what some of the Ohio State fans are thinking, 'At least that shirt was good for something other than wiping up spills,' I guess the Lord can use anything even a Michigan shirt to reach people.
There is much to pray for here in this ministry. Pray for the few Christian teenagers here as they battle the pressures in the school system. Also, pray that we would have visitors for Easter Sunday as we had for Palm Sunday. There is the matter of setting up our taxes here in Australia that still needs to be worked out. We have been praying for that as well. Pray that Stephen, the man at the rummage sale, would visit soon, and also the electrician, John.
We are so thankful for your prayers for us. God is able to answer and meet our every need! Eph. 3:20, 21 "Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen."
In Christ,
Mark Pitts and Family
