OUR THREE AUSSIE CUTIES!

    Caleb on the left, Joshua in the centre and Keirsten on the right! Do you think they are always this calm?                                    

DECEMBER 2012 NEWS UPDATE

Dear friends  thank you for taking time to read this Christmas post. 2Corinthians 8:9 “For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.” It seems almost impossible that Christmas is just a few weeks away and the world is once again scurrying about celebrating a “season” which they really know nothing about. To the world it is often called the “silly season” but to us which know personally the Saviour it is a time to rejoice in the fact that He “...made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father” Philippians 2: 7-11.             

Thanksgiving has come and gone. We had fourteen around the table with I Thessalonians 5: 18 positioned in prominent places in the kitchen and dining room to remind us that in EVERTHING, yes EVERTHING we are to thank Him! We gathered in a circle holding hands with each one giving thanks for something or someone and then David quoted I Thessalonians 5: 18 and then gave thanks to the Lord in prayer.  

Only the Lord knows what 2013 will bring and in many ways we are thankful for that. We could never imagine that 2012 would have Pam undergo open heart surgery and a pacemaker implanted in David. David has had no more fainting spells since the pacemaker was implanted for which we thank the Lord.            

Pam went to the endocrinologist again last month for her thyroid. He wants her to take some radiation medication to kill the nodules on her thyroid. He told her the percentage is in her favour that it will only kill the nodules and not the thyroid. However, she is putting off taking the medicine until after the grandchildren’s school Christmas programmes as she is not to be around anyone for a couple of days after taking it due to its radiation. The place where she goes to have the medicine administered is changing doctors as well so it may be in January when it happens. 

In closing this last epistle for 2012 we thank the Lord Jesus that He has allowed us to “preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ” here in Australia these past thirty four years. We also ask the Lord to give each of you a very blessed Christmas with the knowledge of God’s having given “his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” It looks like our Christmas is going to be a HOT one. Summer began the 1^st of December and it was over 100 degrees that day.

We are certainly nearer His Coming than this time last year,

David and Pam

Pam took this beautiful rainbow after a rain shower.

Our October & November News Update

OCTOBER – NOVEMBER 2012

 

Proverbs 3:5 “Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.” In this fast paced and ever changing world we who know the Lord NEED to reflect on, meditate on and practice this verse each and every day!

The month of October brought some sad news our way. Our Pastor’s eldest son’s wife passed away with cancer at the age of sixty-two. It is so hard to imagine life without the one you have walked so long through life with. Then Pam’s niece lost her husband with a heart attack. He was only fifty years old. Lastly David read online that an evangelist he had gone to college with had passed away in October at the age of sixty-eight. I suppose age makes one ponder more the words James wrote “For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.” Each time I see the steam rise from the kettle when making a cup of tea I think of this verse.

The radio station in Dubbo is hopefully getting closer to being a reality. We are preparing the papers to send to the proper authority for a temporary broadcasting license. The station has also been approved as a deductible gift recipient by the Australian Tax Office which means gifts (donations) over $2 given to the station are tax deductible. We have also applied to the owner of a building in the city who has had a room for lease for many months to consider donating the room for to the station and they then could receive a tax deduction. We are still waiting on their answer. This room is not exactly what is needed for the studio but it would give us a place to begin. My desire is different from the others in the group as they have their likes but Pam and I desire that the Lord will use this medium to get the precious gospel out to a small part of this lost world in which we live.  

In November we make another trip to Sydney. I have an appointment at the Royal Prince Alfred for a two hour hearing and balance test. The next day the neurologist has referred me to an audiologist to hopefully determine what frequencies may be causing the buzzing static in the left ear. We can only wait and see (or is it hear?). The buzzing is not as frequent as it was several months ago for which I am very thankful. Pam has an appointment with the endocrinologist in Orange also in November. She must have some more scans done at radiology here in Dubbo before her appointment with the endocrinologist. He will be making an assessment on whether to kill her thyroid or not at this time. I guess most of these physical disorders have appeared due to the length of our days upon this earth.

We do rejoice and thank the Lord that most of our lives we have not had many physical ailments.
We will close this epistle with Psalm 71:18 “Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.”  
Serving the Soon Coming Saviour,
David and Pam Bennett

             

           

 

AS TIME GOES BY!

   Boy, the days, weeks and months which turn into years do go by fast!!! August 26th we celebrated our oldest Aussie grandson's sixth birthday. We remember the morning he was born so how can this be? And if that isn't enough our oldest grandson, Taylor will be soon celebrating his 24th birthday! Talk about feeling old!
   Spring has sprung here in Australia and new life is seen all around us. The trees are budding, the flowers blooming, hay fever and allergies are affecting many people including my dear wife. She has been suffering for a couple of weeks now and hopefully its end will be soon. It did rain the other day which seemed to help.
   The Lord is good in that He continues to provide for our needs and many of our wants. Our job is not yet finished for 2Peter 3:9 tells us "The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance."
   One of our Face book friends posted this photo of a woodpecker on a tree. Oh, how this brought back memories of when I was a young boy living just outside Ottumwa, Iowa! Early every morning for several weeks this woodpecker would peck on the power pole just outside my bedroom window. Annoying, yes but what a marvel of the Creator's ingenuity. Colossians 1:16 "For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him."

   This coming Monday, 10th September we will be in Sydney at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. David will be taking some neurological tests to determine what is causing the buzzing in his left ear. He has tinnitus in the right ear but this is something different. It has been contained somewhat with Clairty2 which our Pastor has graciously sent him but it does still bother him at night. We will see what if anything is found out Monday.
   Thanks for taking time to read this update.
In His Care,
David and Pam

GROWING OLD/ER UPDATE

Psalm 71:18 "Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come."
Proverbs 20:29 "The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the gray head."

Do older people have more physical problems or do we just talk about them more than younger people do? Well, I think I know the answer to that but that allows me to bring up the subject of our present health.
1. I had to cancel the trip to the Royal Prince Alfred Hosptial in Sydney for neurological tests due to a pinched nerve in my back. O what a feeling! The chiroprator said it would be better to wait. I have a second chiropractor session Thursday. Hopefully after Thursday I will be able to get in and out of the car with a little more ease.

2. Now my teeth are giving some problems. Yesterday, Monday, I went and the dentist began a root canal which he will finish Wednesday. There is another tooth giving problems so that will be after this root canal.

3. As to the buzzing I had, it has departed and gone. Our Pastor has sent David a product called Clarity2. He is on the second bottle of 60 capsules and that may be the reason for the buzzing leaving. It is soooo nice that it is gone.

4. Pam has an appointment with the endriconologist October 9 in Orange. This is an hours drive east of where we live. That may be when it is decided whether to kill her thyroid or not.

Other than these few ailments we continue on. The Lord is good and these "ailments" are expected as we continue on our road to Heaven.

The Lord has brought several unsaved folk into our lives here. Our prayer is we may be that witness in life and lip that may be used of the Lord in bringing them to Himself.

August - September 2012 Update

The neurologist has referred David to undergo neurological tests at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney the 20th of August for the buzzing he has had in his left ear for several months now. However, our Pastor has sent him a product called Clairty 2. David is now on the second bottle and he hasn't had any buzzing since last Friday, 3rd of August. 

Nevertheless, we will go to the hospital for the tests to see if they reveal something that may have been the cause for the buzzing. He does have ringing and some deafness in his right ear which definitely is tinnitus (which the audiologist said is probably due to David's firing machine guns when he was in the Army Reserves) but the ringing in little bit of deafness isn't as disturbing as the buzzing was. We are so thankful the buzzing has ceased as it sometimes was so intense it caused dizziness.

We suppose some of this is due to growing old/er. We will keep you updated on what the results from the tests at Royal Prince Alfred reveal.