Our church has sent 33 of our members into fulltime Christian service, both within Australia and overseas. Currently we support financially:
2 Global Interaction mission partners
2 S.I.M workers
2 G.R.N (Global Recording Network) workers.
1 C.E.F Worker.
They serve in such diverse places as Malawi, Mozambique, Southern Africa and Asia.
We have adopted the YAO people of Malawi.
In addition our Members serve beyond our own Fellowship with Christian Community Aid in Eastwood
Baptist Community Services at Hope Street in Glebe and a country church in a drought stricken area
"Dafarasha, get up! Up and run! The slave traders are here!
Quickly! Run to the forest and hide. Now! Run!" His mother
grabbed her son off the mat on the dirt floor. She pushed the still groggy lad out the door. The boy gasped at the pandemonium in the village. Terrified people were running in all directions. Armed men with whips and ropes were chasing them. Here and there struggles took place as the captured ones were subdued and tied up. A gunshot sounded nearby and the distress cry echoed across the valley. "Run and hide," his mother shouted again..................
This enthralling account of mission life in the front line as experienced by the author Richard (Dick) McLellan, supported by his wife Vida, serving with SIM for 23 years in Ethiopia, is now available from Dick for $15. plus P & P who can be contacted at:
Dick is an active member of Eastwood Baptist Church
"Messengers of Ethiopia" is the sequel to Dick's first book "Warriors of Ethiopia" and it is recommended that
they are read in order. Dick wrote "not to tell our missionary stories, but to record the stories of the men and
women of Ethiopia who took the stories of Jesus into the dark places of that country".
In this book Dick vividly brings to life more of the lives of these Ethiopian messengers, people who as "lambs
among wolves", went out to bring peace, hope and reconciliation. And alas, many of whom it could be said, "the
world was not worthy".
Dick trained at Sydney Missionary & Bible College where he met his wife Vida. They were married in Ethiopia
and had four children. For 23 years they served together in what was then called the Sudan Interior Mission (SIM)
At the end of the oppressive communist regime in 1991 Dick has returned nine times to Ethiopia, one could say
that his heart is in the land that has truly, "stretched out her hands to God"
Contact Dick @ PO Box 1221. Eastwood. NSW 2122 - or email dickmclellen@bigpond.com
Jackie Bolger serving in
South Africa as a SIM missionary.
Click on the picture to read her latest news.
The Girvan Family.
Serving the Lord in Malawi. Click on the picture to read their last newsletter.