Jono Miller

EVERYTHING IS BROKED!

I remember a news clip from Northern Queensland after devastating floods a few years back. A little girl was on the phone to emergency services saying the house was broked, the car was broked, everything was broked. It was both cute and heart wrenching.

My van is almost broken. It feels like it. I had trouble with it idling and then going in town last week. The muffler is also broken. My old boat motor is broken. The electricity in the front room doesn’t work. The fridge door broke (fell off) last week. My CD Rom drive is broken. It is a fact of life – THINGS BREAK. Their usefulness comes to an end or needs fixing.

We break too. Actually – that is good. It doesn’t feel good. We don’t want to break. But we need to come to a place of brokenness so that we can recognise the fact that we need fixing. Thankfully God prefers renovation to demolition. Yesterday a young fellow, who spent a bit of time with his back to God, told me that he now feels that his heart has been damaged. And it has. And it’s not a good thing to turn our backs on God – to deny Him or betray Him. But the good news is that God specialises in mending broken hearts.

Meanwhile – I’ll try and fix the fridge door.

UTSIM

We had a very short working week last week. We are frantically trying to do tests with kids so we can finish up the end of year reports. On top of that we are trying to practice items for our end of year concert/prize giving.

I’m also looking into the advertising for next year and how we are going to go about filling as many spots as possible so as to make the business more financially viable.

This coming week I’m heading to Norway for a conference which I am looking forward to. I will probably take the laptop and try to use the travel time to get some written work done for UTSIM. We are definitely in countdown mode to summer and I know I will appreciate the break from the hectic timetable I have been keeping.

LIFE OUTSIDE OF BUSINESS

MAY 9^TH

Today is Victory Day here in Ukraine. We celebrate victories of wars. We celebrate sporting victories. Politicians celebrate election victories. Couples celebrate anniversaries. What reason do you have to celebrate today? I want to live with the idea that every day can be a celebration. I can celebrate my Creator and my Redeemer. I can celebrate victory over a bad habit. I can celebrate one good moment in the middle of a time of crisis. Celebration is more about attitude than the event. Choose to celebrate this week.

CONFERENCES

Although our little church in Rzhyshchiv is not affiliated with any particular group, we still keep in contact with a number of Calvary Chapel churches around Ukraine. This weekend was their annual national conference and I was there for Saturday afternoon. It was great to see a number of old friends and there is a feeling of encouragement I get as I see someone continuing on with joy in their walk with God.

Tomorrow is Passion Conference in Kyiv and about 50 people are going from Rzhyshchiv and I think about 30 of them are not believers. Please pray that this will be a time that God moves in their hearts and causes them to hunger for Him.

PRAYER AND PRAISE

Passion Conference

Conference in Norway

UTSIM end of year activities

That God mends us when we are broken

THANKS

To Daniel for a good sermon about the Holiness of God today. God is Holy!

Love Jono

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