My prayers were answered! (not that I'm surprised at that :))

I've been away from Perth (and my home church, Riverview) now for 2 months and I just wanted a church and some christian friends here after having such trouble finding a normal church in the US. I feel like my life is a bit selfish and I'm not doing anything practically to help those around me. I know there are opportunities everywhere and I do see that, I mean in a way that I can regularly contribute and that it doesn't matter if I don't speak the language.

Yesterday we went to a church of the C3 (CCC) flavour.. C3 Lausanne. My buddy Uee goes to C3 is Glasgow and Mark from college goes to C3 Hepburn Heights. Anyway, it was SO good. The worship was in French which was cool (we've all be wandering around singing "God is so good" in French! hehe) and then the sermon was in English, translated into French. Perfecto! The people were all really down-to-earth, friendly and just lovely! I met a really nice girl from the YWAM base nearby so am going to try to get to their Thursday night thing. Definitely going back to C3 next Sunday and am going to look into cell groups and other stuff they have going on. It's a 15 minute drive or something but it's well worth it!

Here's the website: www.c3lausanne.ch if you wanted to look.

The guy who started the church with his wife, Mark, is American (married to a British/Swiss lady who was so smiley and lovely!) and gave a great message. He spoke on the laying on of hands and gave all the places in the new testament that it talks about laying on hands to see the sick healed and for people to receive an infilling of the HS. It's true. Jesus' last words in Mark are about laying hands on the sick to see them healed. I totally know the power of God to heal, in my own body and in the bodies of others - and in miraculous ways too.

Just before I left Perth I went to VLC (Margaret Court is the pastor) and heard the testimony of this guy Phil who hadn't walked in 2 years and walked out to share his healing testimony. God is doing great stuff and we (I am preaching to myself here..) are priveleged to be in the family of God and be a part of it. People are searching for our God, who loves, cares, protects and showers mercy, grace and forgiveness on us. We've got a personal relationship with Him which is mind-blowing! I have been over-awed by how spoilt just to know God and that He is with me always and will never leave me. That is amazing!! All we have to do is submit and obey and God does the rest.

Bit of a mixed-up post and I hope I didn't freak anyone out by being overly-Christian. I just have to share what's going on as I'm excited and share what is the truth. And so excited about finding a church family! We even met a couple that are a bit older than me that are from Adelaide!

Oh, the rest of the day Luke and I went out on the pedal boats again but it was brewing a storm and very rough, so we just buzzed around for a half hour before going ashore. Managed to drop Mandy's camera case (note: not the camera) into the lake.. hope it's still doing ok at the bottom.. :( Good job Kellie.. )