Rev. Hartmut Borries
Wk – (09) 525 2305
Email: hartmutborries@mailbox.org

Rev. Cheryl Prigg
021 023 20932
Email: cheryl.n.p@gmail.com

GENERAL ENQUIRIES:

Rev. Cheryl Prigg
021 023 20932
Email: cheryl.n.p@gmail.com

ADDRESS:
10 Rawhiti Road, One Tree Hill, Auckland.

DIRECTIONS:
Click Here – Google Map

DONATION ENQUIRIES
Rosser Thornley
Tel –  (07) 852 5662

WEBSITE QUERIES

matthew.bond@thechristiancommunity.net

CONTEMPLATION  Luke 10:  1 – 20
Before Christ chose His disciples, He spent a night in prayer.  Later He told them that they had not chosen Him, but that He had chosen them; First twelve, then seventy and today possibly anyone of us.  When He sent out the seventy, He told them how much work there was to be done, the laborers however, were only a few: “Pray therefore the Lord of the harvest to send laborers.”
Being sent out into the world to work for the kingdom of God, the disciples will be faced with much more than they can do.  Part of their spiritual work is therefore to pray and ask for help, so that others in heaven and on earth may join and support them.
There is also a second way of understanding Christ.  Being sent to work we need to always again pray for the renewal of our sending, for when we pray we use our own free will offering ourselves to the heavens.  We ask them to do their work through us.  By letting the heavens know that we want to work together with them, we set them free to do their work on earth.
Another gift of prayer is that we sharpen our own awareness.  We may even ask that today we shall have the presence of mind to realize when and how we are to do the work of God.  While more and more people all over the world are losing their work, the work that needs to be done for the kingdom of God increases rapidly.  May I today be able to open my heart and mind, to listen and perceive where I am truly needed.  Let me be your apostle, perhaps only for a few moments, in one meeting, wherever you need me in your vineyard today.
One morning I woke up much too early and turned around to continue sleeping.  For a moment I opened my eyes and looked out of the window at the full moon setting between the trees.  Just then, a thin veil of clouds was lit up by the brilliant white moon light, so that it was as if a huge comet with a big white tail had appeared between the trees.  I closed my eyes and opened them again.  The light in the cloud had faded and a little while later also the moon had disappeared behind the clouds.
What was the likelihood of me waking up at that moment, to turn around and open my eyes just then to see this spectacle appear in the sky?  That is what I am praying for, to awake and to open my eyes so that I may not miss the time and place where I am needed.  May I have the presence of mind to open myself for inspiration so that I may realize where, when and how I can work as an apostle of Christ today.

Hartmut