... It's certainly not as busy as yesterday but we still did our last perform ace for the trip. This time it was in Marble Bar primary. Marble Bar is called the hottest town in Australia. It is about 200-250kms inland from Port Hedland.
We left Port Hedland at about 8am and made the two(ish) hour drive to Marble Bar from Port Hedland on a 20 seater bus. Arriving in Marble Bar we had a look around the town. There are about 400 residents and most are Indigenous people who come and go from the town and live out on stations or in the bush or somewhere like that.
Marble Bar gets it's name from a deposit of rock that looks a bit like Marble in the nearby creek. We visited this and it was amazing. I really loved this spot. I took lots of photos which I'll post in due time.
After that we went to the Marble Bar Pub. It is about the only thing in the town. We had lunch here before heading to the school. Here we did our performance in front of the whole school, which today was about 30 kids (they have 70 people enrolled but most of them are indigenous and so they don't come that often because they are off doing other things in other places). The kids seemed to really enjoy the presentation and we were able to leave them all with some tracts explaining the Gospel. Hopefully these will be seen by some parents too.
After going to the school we went to the Anglican Church. This was a pretty amazing building. It was in an old BHP demountable. Very small. Church meets there once a month. Every Saturday however they have what they call 'Sabbath School' where a local Christian teaches kids about Jesus, up to 20 kids come to this. Which is pretty amazing!
Following that we started the long drive back to Port Hedland. We got home at about 5 and we had to wash the bus with a hose (very novel for us Melbournians who can't use a hose at all thanks to the drought!). Ellisa and I then hung out and had dinner together and ate down by the beach and got to talk about some of our thoughts and reflections on the mission so far. This was very good for us to do to support each other on the trip.
Then I came home and caught up on all this journalling.
Tomorrow we are digging a hole with some council people for some community service. Should be good we start at 7:30am. Should be good.
Things to pray for:
- Pray that we would continue to have energy
- Pray that Marble Bar would be a town know for being hot for Jesus not just having really hot weather
- Pray that the kids who heard the message in Marble Bar today might respond to Jesus with faith
- Pray that God would continue to keep the whole team in good health.
- Pray opportunities to share the Gospel while digging a hole tomorrow
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