February '99

Volume 5.1

Tim & Dawn Yates, Missionaries

After months

of preparation waiting on paperwork

from the Aus-

Iyear,web
and the min

gin not only a new chapter

in our lives as

a family, but a new chapter in our ministry istry of the

church with which we are

tralian governwe fi-

nally received
our and have arrived in Australia. It has

working.
The Charlestown

we miss being in America but in other ways we feel like we're still there!

taken us quite Church of a while to get Christ in NewThe whole family celebrating Leah's first birtiiday. our shipment . ' castle has from America, buy the welcomed us with open Thank you for being so w' things we need and get arms and with great ^ encouraging to us. settled into our new hopes for the future. This As you can see. we home. We are fortunate congregation of believers have been here long enough to live in the has not had a full-time enough to celebrate house right next to the Leah's first birthday. We minister for overtwo church. years. Needless to say, are blessed to have Many of you have they are excited about the friends in the church been in touch with us possibilities the Lord has who helped us to cele through email, which has created by bringing us to brate this momentous been a big blessing. We gether. occasion. It is always certainly are in a more We will need many difficult to spend times communication-oriented prayers as we begin to like this away from fam society than we were in build up this church both ily and loved ones, but Malawi. In some respects Lord blessed us by spiritually, and in number.

providing our adopted family here in Australia! As we begin this new

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better at those big
words.

Toddler Ta\K

Hey everyone! Ihave

been wanting to write you for some time. I guess Mommy was wait ing for me to get bigger. I think I had a birthday be cause people sang to me and then put a big cake in front of me and kept star ing at me. Did you know we moved to a place
where koalas live in trees

yet surprisingly, many things remind us of

Africa.

Well, I think my time is up. I had my shots to day, so I'm pretty tired. I will write more to you
next time.

We are conveniently
located just beside the
church, a few minutes
drive to several different

Hugs and Kisses,

Leah

beaches, and a short

walk to the main shopping

center in town. The

house we are renting was

Meat pies, sausage

rolls, lamb chops,
barbecues, beaches, iced coffee, bubs, ta's, ankle biters, good tucker, beautiful views,

very old and worn, but we

"have"made it into our

and kangaroos hop

across the road? Well, it

is true, except they are very sleepy during the day. i don't know how anyone can sleep during the day! I have my own room
here, which has been great! I was

colorful birds, friendly people, kookaburras,

tea.

home after many hours of cleaning and painting and repairing. I cannot possibly ex plain to you how nice it feels not to have to dig through, trip over, pack, unpack, and walk around
U-haul boxes! It is a

These are some of

the things that come to

happy feeling for all of us to be settled once again. Thank you for

\ all of your
prayers and

^^Ithink

Lauren with church kids at our New Year's Eve

srvice.

Currently I

Lauren is starting to like me more. She plays 3 with me and she reads me le stories. I try to read them to her, but she is much ich

mind as I think of how to describe Australia after

only three months of liv-

ing here. Many things

remind us of America,

am trying out my new role as "the preacher's wife." I have found that there are many responsibilities that go

February '99
along with that title! Be ing involved with my hus
band in this way has been a real blessing. Lauren is adjust-

and try to make a differ ence in people's lives.

From Tim

school teacher. She often mentions her old friends, home, and church in Knoxville, but she is
new friends, home,
and church here in

ing to her mommy being her Sunday

adjusting well to her |w -,f

H|| HH ||H H| jH

i-lres lo ksa bitdfgive us a choice! In this

case, the area code for Knoxville has changed. Also, our email aderent. Please don't

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orget to put the "au"

lesignates it as

it the end of it, which

There are some of

'ou who have been

jenerous enough to
;end us checks for

Charlestown. I | She enjoys learn- 1

words for things and

correcting Mommy and Daddy when we

ing the Australian

jB

Ka Australia is dif er)ur birthdays and

:;hristmas, etc.

Thank you so much or your kindness.

' ent from Malawi in

that we can receive

can also sing plenty H|

of songs "the Australian way", which basically means leav-

make a mistake. She ||||

your checks by mail

here with no problem at all. The only glitch in the system, howLauren, Leah and their friends at Leah's birthday. ever, is that they

ing out the "r"s.

Leah is walking every where and getting into
whatever she can. Both

We have so much to
tell you about that
we don't know where to

charge us seven dol

lars for each foreign

check we deposit! On a

the girls seem content in

their new home. I am en

joying every moment of

watching them grow. Having children
seems to open many

begin! I want to remind you to please look at the changes that have been
made to our address

typical $20 check, they keep almost half of it!

Because of this, we

would like to ask you to

please continue to send

all checks, whether for the Mission or for us per

and phone numbers at

the end of the newslet

doors into people's lives. With so many young fam

ilies around us, it is im

ter. Not only have our

sonally, to the Mission ad

dress at the end of the

phone numbers on the

field changed, but the phone number for the
Mission has changed,

portant to have a com

mon bond with which we

newsletter. If you are giv ing to us personally, please make your check
out to Australian Christian Mission, and write

can open the doors of

communication and

too! We try to avoid

those kinds of changes,
but sometimes the

friendship. Please pray

for us as we make friends

phone company doesn't

"personal gift" in the memo portion of your

Before you move, please send the mailing label with a copy of your new address to
MISSION SERVICES ASSOCIATION, PO Box 13111, Knoxville,TN 37920-0111.

AUSTRALIAN CHR1S|'IA1^, MISSION

Non Profit Org.

37950-9998

Mission Services Association PO Box 13111

Knoxville, TN 37920-0111

U.S. Postage Paid

Knoxville, TN
Permit #374

TIN

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Return Service Requested

AUSTl PHONE: 61-2-41

FAX: 61-2-49-20^603

BMAIL: YATCSFASIILY@OZEHiUL.COH.AU

INTERNET: WW.JBC.EDU/MISSI0NAR1ES/YATES

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August '99

Volume 5.2

Tim & Dawn Yates, IVIissionaries

Praise be to ^
knew that you

God! We fjl
d
1 |

fident that the

i Lord's work
here is not yet

ing for the work | i| ;J

here in Australia, but we cartainly didn't ex- j j|

had been pray- | ;|

'latanend.
; There are many

f/

,
.

"^opportunities
1 that have been

pect your pray-

1 presented to
witness to oth-

ers to be an

swered quite so

J ers about Jesus

since

quickly/ We are re...

Christ

riEs-'ft

joicinQ in the
Lord that five

j.i_

aptized.^v3men have LeeMcl Lee McMinn was one of the fiveyoung men to be baptized.
sion to give their lives to
the Lord.

these young
come fon/vard.

itized young men were baptized

.th, into Christ on June 6th,

The families of the five Tti

1999. They range inIage age

low from 16 to 21, and show

What a witness this is

to those who think that

young younc men are not Chris tians, but they came to
see the tt baptisms and

isity an enthusiastic curiosity

lis about the Lord and his
Word.

they are too old to make a

difference The Lord uses

have been back to visit since then. The last

young younc man that came for ward ward is a part of the youth group. He is the only one grouf
that is a Christian in that thatii

every one of us to witness

to the world that Jesus

It took an elderly man :o in the congregation to

denbring them along and en jy courage them to study nnell their Bibles. Ken Fennell s old, is nearly eighty years

Christ is the Savior/

The Lord continues His

work here, as another young man that the congregation has been pray-

trtubut he took the opportu !se nity to witness to these ously. young men very seriously. ble He was eventually able to get them to come to
church and through preaching and Bible

ing for came fonward on

June 27th to be baptized.

group! grouf. Please pray for all of PI these these non-believers who have seen the power and saving savin grace of Jesus
Christ Chris in the lives of these

We rejoiced with the angels in heaven that many years of prayer and teach-

young youni men. May they se-

ing had led this sixteenyear-old to give his life to

the Lord.

hously riousi consider their posi tion in tion ii eternity.

study, they made

3 decithe

August '99

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and say big words like she the poinsettia trees in

Toddler

knows. Sometimes I get

tired of her and scream,

bloom! I keep hoping for

a few snow flakes, but they say it is next to im
possible.

Hello! it is me,

Talk

Leah again. As

you can see from

then mommy finds some thing else for me to do. I don't like to sit still very long, but I try. My favorite

this photo, I got to see a real live kangaroo! Actu ally we got to see a lot of them. It was very inter_esting,_but my concern

thing to do is eat. Mommy

says I eat more than Lau ren, so I guess I will be bigger than her in no time.

I am five months along now with this pregnancy. We found out at my last
appointment that we are having another GIRL! We

Well, better go get some

climbing-in, 1-don't-want mommy to get too com

kept me from getting too close. Sissy was very brave and petted and even fed the kangaroos!
Mommy hand fed them m

fortable sitting down

XOXO Leah

think she was just pre- |p

tending to enjoy it for I

with some grain too. I H

again when Iam alittle ||||

bigger. Ithink that is a 9

good idea! m

shewould never say H that. Mommy said we H may go back for a visit I

Lauren's sake, though [L

1 realyikestobein
other sister, so she is

are happy about it, though I'm sure in a few years,

own bathroom! Lauren

Tim will be building-oniiiswas really hoping for an really happy.

P Speaking of Lau
* other children and

ren, she is really fitting

in well here with the

volved in things. She

sang a solo for all the mothers and grand
mothers on Mother's

Iam talking better jS

few words, if you ask II me who something be-- H

although, sometimes I H just go through every- H one's name until Iget it H right. Iam usually the H
first one awake in the H
morning and yell for
mommy until she comes in and gets me out J^uren andLe^ feed a b^y kangaroQ.^

now and say quite a

day and did a beauti ful job. She doesn't seem to have a shy
bone when it comes to

singing that is for

longs to, Iwill tell you, H

Having a third child will bring changes for us I'm sure. I will probably
have to take a leave

from teaching Sunday

of my bed. Then Lauren ("sissy") and I have break fast together. I like play ing with Lauren a lot! She

From,

Well, winter has defi

nitely settled in
now. It feels like Christ
mas around here with all

school group. know what time mom"

and youth I'm sure I will being a "fullreally means

when the third one ar

is teaching me how to sing

rives. We are still deciding where we are going to "fit"

the new one in our house

August '99
I wanted to say a spe cial thank you to all of you who have been praying
outside of Toledo, Ohio

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hand the skills and per
sonalities of those who

for us regularly, ennailing

and participated in an in ternship with Australian Christian Mission in May

us and corresponding
mail. It means

hmmt'

are interested in working with the Mission. Lastly, it gives the Australians an op-

so much to us
and is a true

Mjl

'-"f^Sperience the ' ' HI get interns and i to know

them a little
better.

blessing. We

love each of you |Sj9||

'

and thank God

Of course,
one of the out-

for you every

day!
From Tim

standing
benefits of

having interns
is their en-

ourselves busier and bus

w:

Bill and Cathy Guminow just after church services seem to find of 1999.

II Gharlestown.

couragement . ... and ministry to

ier lately. Keeping things

going at the Church and

the Mission at the same

An internship is quite different from a personal visit. They actually ap

both the missionaries and the nationals. Bill and

Cathy seem to have made a very positive Impact on

those they were able to
minister to here in Charlestown.

time is a real challenge.

Because of the schedule

plied for, were accepted, and performed a mission ary internship here under
the direction of the mis sionaries on the field.

we are keeping, we'd like your permission to get the

newsletter out on a "when we can" basis. We will

We want to thank Bill

and Cathy for the time and

effort they put In here in
Australia. The fruits of

This kind of experience serves several purposes.

It allows those on the in

continue to make every

your labors are still con

tinuing. Will you pray with us
that the Lord will lead Bill

effort to keep you in formed, though it may not

ternship to see how they

like the field and consider

be quite as often as be
fore.

whether they would want

to serve in that field in a

and Cathy in their future

decisions about where to serve the Lord? Also,

BILL & CATHY GUMMMOW VISIT

more full-time basis, and it allows the interns to see if

One of the many bless

they are compatible with

those who are serving on the field already.
It also serves the mis

pray that the Lord would

send the right people to
work in Australia.

ings we have had over the

last few months is a visit from friends we had made

while on furlough. Bill and Cathy Gummow live just

sionaries on the field by

allowing them to see first

Phil & Sharon Eagling Speaking of the right

AUSTRAUAN CHIUSTIM MISSION

Before you move, please send the mailing label with a copy of your new address to MISSION SERVICES ASSOCIATION, PO Box 13111, Knoxville, TN 37920-0111.

P0.iB0]n:il25^ KNOXVIIXS^TN .37920

PHONE: 251-579-2664
nSLDADllBESS;

Non Profit Org.

37950-9998

Mission Services Association PO Box 13111

Knoxville, TN 37920-0111

U.S. Postage Paid

Knoxville, TN
Permit #374

DAim,LAUllN&LMHY
SPUDIiinrHP
p- aUSTKAUAI

Return Service Requested

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HABLES1'0WN,NSW,229

PHONE: 61-2-4rf
FAX: 61-2-49-2

EMAIL: YATESFANILY@HOTKEY.NET.AU

INTERNET: WWW.JBC.EDU/MISS10NARIES/YATES

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