Service time in the Great Southwest    Roma: 9am every Sunday
Surat: 11:30am third Sunday of the month
Charleville: 9am every Sunday
     

Bruce and Alison Clarke    Our Mid-Year Newsletter is available from the DOWNLOADS PAGE.
Prayer points:
1. for the many still (yes even 4 months on) recovering from the floods and those supporting them.
2. for the Roma and Charleville churches.
3.for the weekly Kids' Club and the child that God send along.
4. for the Presbytery of the Darling Downs as it discusses the next stage in considering the long term ministry needs in the Southwest.     

Charleville    We arrived back in Charleville in time for the vacation Kids' Club program. This will be followed by a weekly program until September.     

Roma Church    WE arrived back in Roma on New Years Eve. We are having a prayer breakfast for the year on January 10th. We have been greeted wamly again and the rain has lifted everyone's spirits. Please pray that the glory of God might be everyone's goal.
We will be in Surat to lead a fellowship luncheon on the 3rd Sunday. Later we hope to join the town bible study in Surat.     

Quilpie sunrise    I delivered the sermon and helped lead the PIM service at Quilpie. Our intention had been to do other services but rain had made that less then feasible. We were up early so that Andrew the PIM patrol padre could do some fishing on his day off. We found a lovely spot near Cheepie on a big water hole in Beechal Creek a tributary of the Paroo River.

Our accomodation in Quilpie was courtesy of the McKays who run Opal House Quiplie which is gallery and accommodation in the "Brick" an historic two story brick hotel. www.quilpieopal.com     

road to Windorah    15th March saw us leave for our trip to see some far flung members of the Charleville congregation. Windorah is five and half hours drive. We stayed Wednesday night in Windorah before heading out to visit Scott. Later that afternoon we stopped in Quilpie (about 3 hours drive) to renew our conection with the Christians in Quilpie.     

Wandoan Church    We will not be returning here in 2009, but please continue to prayer for the church in Wandoan and at Noonga. We remember the warmth of the Wandoan people.      

Noonga Hall    Noonga Hall where there are afternoon services each month.      

    The Kingaroy Church where we were based in January and February 2008.     

Bee eater at Charleville    Many of you know that Alison is a "birdo"; after spenting time in Roma and Charleville the species count is usually 100 each time.