Barrington Long Weekend: 27 January, 2007

Len Scott organised for the Uralla Book Study to go away for the weekend to the Barrington River and then to attend the meeting at Gloucester KH on Sunday. We had a lovely experience; when we arrived for the meeting there was no one there. We guessed that everyone was away at a one day assembly...but there was a man waiting too. He said he hadn't 'seen anyone for a couple of years'. Len decided that we should go to the park and do our WT and we invited the man as well. We all felt that if Uralla BS group hadn't been there he would have been quite discouraged!

The experience that makes for memories:
The van broke down in a no mobile phone area....Phil had to walk to ring for help; a couple of old ladies picked him up and drove him to a nearby house. The man there put his 2 batteries on the charger while Phil rang Len to come pick us up. In the meantime Steve Melville saw us on his way to Narrabri and kindly turned around and took the girls to Barrington so they wouldn't be stuck waiting.

Belinda and I on the other hand took advantage of a bad situation; dragged a rug, cask of wine and camera to the river bank ....oh yea, Phil just so happened to break down by a gorgeous bubbling river! And there we waited

Days out Witnessing in the Bush

A Day in the Bush around Armidale – 26 June 2006

When a country girl goes to the city she loves it for ages….so fun and exciting, lots of places to go, people to meet. But after a while she yearns for the country again and she comes home to feel the country air and rejuvenate her stressed mind and refresh her inner self. She even yearns to go bush and in the particular case of which I speak, she wants to get in a car with 3 girls and endeavour to speak to the friendly country people who live in the rural areas around Armidale about promises of paradise to come.

So off we go; her Mum (me), her mum’s two friends Belinda and Nadeen in her mum’s red car up the dirt road which is Apple Tree Lane, very close to town…. Werrina Court, Arundel Drive area

I have a very clever car: it turns the lights off when I get out the car so I never have to remember to turn them off. But when doing rural witnessing I should always remember to turn them off because I don’t always get out of my car. I’m not as clever as my car!

Consequently, yes you’ve guessed, the battery went flat. Problem was we were at a house that I remember the man told us to get out quickly last time we were there and I was petrified he would come back and find 4 Jehovah’s Witnesses at his home and he would feel obliged to help them with their car troubles. NRMA was going to be 2 hours! Good lot o help they are when you really need em!...tried to call Steve, would answer his phone or mobile….tried to ring Adam, same!

Nadeen said, ‘We don’t need men’… Belinda concurred and so did Grace. So without panicking, we girls had to push my little red car 300 metres up his winding dirt road out onto the road off his place before he came home.

Nadeen, Belinda and I pushed while Gracie steered. We got the giggles… too funny we almost lost the strength we needed to keep pushing. And then we spotted a truck coming onto the property. He was a Fertilizer spreader and said he would drive a couple of us into town to get jumper leads when he finished spreading his fertilizer. So we continued pushing and got quite a momentum up and scattered a mob of cows that, as you probably know just STAND THERE…well there was no just standing there this time…they had to move or woulda lost a toe nail. No injury done to any cows! But as I turned around to check how far we’d pushed all the cows were running after us and so a fresh uncontrollable bout of laughter…well, we all wished someone would’ve taken a picture. So I’ve had to make one up

One Monday at Kingstown with my very good friends Nadeen Kelly and Belinda Rowe

This convention, Deliverance at Hand 2006, was preceded by a global invitation to people in the territories of the world to attend so that they could benefit from instruction from Jehovah; vital guidelines they would need to be protected in the coming Greatest time of Trouble the world has ever seen.

It is a common human reaction to take no note of warnings that are given in the face of an oncoming natural disaster. The coming Great Day of Jehovah will not be a natural disaster but a true Act of God!

The Full costume DRAMA entitled "Accept Jehovah's Authority-Reflect on an Independant Spirit", encouraged humans to realise who the true authority in their lives is.

Jehovah made it clear where and when and how his people should show appreciation for his Authority. The drama illustrated in a powerful way the consequences when individuals decided for themselves where, when and how they should worship The Creator. It became clear that ignoring Jehovah's word results in death!

Very fun times have been had in the Greatest Bible Education Work the world has ever seen....
The world has finally recognised the good affect that our uncompromising stand has had for everyone; advertised as the 'untold story of Jehovah's Witnesses'
A trailer for documentary, "Knocking", http://www.knocking.org, about Jehovah's Witnesses is on youtube.com.