People at St Matthew’s Port Hedland are praying that God will use their outreach activities to grow his church in their town.
Revd Eion Simmons said most members of the church had been in town for less than 12 months but were keen to share the good news of the gospel with friends who don’t know salvation through Jesus.
“Last year we held three evangelistic evenings. The first was a dinner, movie and talk about ‘Christ, the Ransom for all’.
“In preparation for our second evening, we asked church members to write the names of local unbelievers to pray for. We had a wonderful response and prayed for 51 people – that they might come along! We held a curry evening, with a talk about ‘Forgiveness from God’ and watched the movie ‘I Can Only Imagine’.”
The year ended with an outreach Carol Service.
Eion said that the church was united by the gospel which “is the power of God for the salvation of all who believe” (Romans 1:16). Their prayer is that, like Paul, they would not be ashamed of the gospel.
“It was wonderful to see these evangelistic events unite our church family in prayer for the work of proclaiming the gospel. They helped us grow in boldness and being unashamed of the gospel.
“God graciously answered our prayers for unbelievers to come and hear the gospel, and now we pray God will bring spiritual life.”
This year the church will do some equipping with personal evangelism training and hold more outreach events.