Dave and Heidi Mullender are leading The Local: Ellenbrook and have been looking for ways to ensure that the group is a serving community. From time to time Heidi is going to provide an update on what they have been doing. God has been working noticeably in the lives of some of the non-Christian people they have been meeting with and that has been a real encouragement to us all. Dave and Heidi are about to have their first baby any day now, but that doesn’t seem to have slowed them down much! They also do a mean waffle in the waffle maker, hence the title.
Here’s Heidi’s first post
The Local : Ellenbrook recently had an opportunity to put into practice some of the key aspects of our network, namely being sacrificial, servant-hearted and flexible in our application of the gospel. When one of our members saw the need that the organisation Pregnancy Problem House had to have their resources sorted, the group pulled together to go and help out. Pregnancy Problem House is a Christian founded organisation specialising in pregnancy crisis solutions. It provides counselling and a non-threatening environment for mums who are unsure what to do with the ‘bomb-shell’ of finding out that they are expecting. They provide a place to process everything, to think through options and to feel safe to share what’s on their mind. This resource of free information about pregnancy, abortion procedures, parenting, adoption and sexual health is run by a wonderful team.
Due to recent renovations and an influx of donations, PPH had a resource room that was overflowing and in disarray. The Local: Ellenbrook changed their normal Sunday morning breakfast and teaching time plans to drive to PPH and help move everything from the resource room out into the carpark (praising God that he was gracious with the threatening rain clouds not eventuating!) and back into the room in an ordered fashion, ready for more sorting. This room is used like a shop for PPH counselling clients to ‘spend’ vouchers that they earn through their counselling sessions. Beautiful baby clothes, furniture, nappies and toys are now accessible to the eight or so women who are expecting their baby to arrive any day now. It was wonderful to know that these families can redeem their vouchers and prepare in a practical way for the new little life that is coming.
Seeing the group come together and work as a team in a practical, hands-on demonstration of Jesus’ love was so encouraging to each member of The Local. Seeing the relief and gratitude on the face of PPH coordinator, Michelle and knowing that we had saved her and the other members of her team hours of work was terrific. Watching the children from our group observe the adults serving practically and also helping where they could reminded us that it is experiences such as these that teach children what it means to live for Jesus with much more impact than an isolated Sunday School lesson. Encouraging each other to glorify God and serve others through community endeavour really made it clear that there is no division between spiritual and non-spiritual activities when it comes to church.
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