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well this months in the loop comes from the beautiful manly beach in New South Wales I'm here at our 5th annual refresh conference refresh East Coast we now refresh East Coast and a refresh west coast over in scarborough beach in beautiful perth western australia it's been a great month the month and September generally across the network is about strengthening the marriages of our church plants and refresh has been vitally important that in the conference room to my left over here 33 couples at

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the moment are being refreshed and encouraged to grow and strengthen their marriages and this is vitally important the marriage of a church planting couple is often under a lot of stress just in terms of the hours spent outside the home you know generally in the evenings and away from families seeking to you know start and grow a new church the marriage is under stress just just with the pressure that comes off and with you know the uncertainty of insurance plan and the financial pressures that come in starting something new and then finally

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you know often the expectations that people have of this church planting family are quite large refresh is all about helping our church planters have the right expectations it's giving them an opportunity to discuss and talk over their marriage with each other and also with other church planting couples who have planted churches and our planting churches at the moment I love it if you could be praying for our children playing couples and particularly their marriages praying and asking God that

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they would be strengthened and that they'd be energized for the work that God is doing through them and their teams I'd also love it if you'd be praying particularly for our next three church plans that are launching across Australia please be praying for Lancaster Murray Hill planning established church in Cronulla please also be playing for Gavin and Lara orem who are planning Gregory Hills Anglican Church and finally be great if he be praying for Lou and Kim Williams who are planting follow Baptist Church down an officer in

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Victoria I'm excited about all these three couples I've been watching them over the last eight months as a energized and fire up their launch team they've already seen people come to know the Lord Jesus they've been working hard doing door knocking doing public events to raise awareness of their church and also to point Jesus in front of people as well and there over the last few months have been doing pre launch services as they ready to do a public launch it'd be great even praying that these public launches as Jesus Christ is

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proclaimed that people would respond in repentance and faith finally as always there's loads of great resources on the website we want to continue to make these freely available so check out the latest webinar with Luke and Kathy Tucker talking about the perils of pk's be greater as well to to hear from it Andrew heard in his latest video blog and finally as always there's great articles that let you know what's going on across the network please jump on the

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the give pages world to see the latest preference I love you be praying for some of the things that I've just mentioned in this short in the loop well that's that's me from manly Beach really excited to see hundreds of new church is being evangelized across Australia thanks for being part of this amazing vision