God bless friends in Christ. We arrived in Oamaru, one hour south of Timaru.
We decided to stop for ten minutes in a small town called Palmerston, which explains the Palmerston North name.
As we entered Oamaru, we came across this dairy, dedicated to Jesus, praise God.
We just had to go in and meet our brothers and sisters in Christ there. We enjoyed a fellowship with an Indian family. They were so kind as to bless us with lunch.
Deuteronomy 6:5-9 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.
And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
We arrived at the freedom camp in central Oamaru. A car park with public toilets. Very handy to the Main Street shops. The camper parking is free during the night, but during the day parking fees apply.
We discovered that the parking meter was out of order, so I called the local council, who confirmed, free parking until the new machines are installed, hallelujah! Praise God.
Psalm 54:4 Behold, God is my helper;
The Lord is with those who uphold my life.
We were quite tired and the Main Street was fairly empty, so we decided to rest Sunday, Monday and continue outreach on Tuesday.
We discovered that most shops where actually closed on Sundays. We went to the public pools, just down the road for showers.
On Tuesday we set up a table with books outside an empty shop. There were a few more people about and the sun was out, but windy.
Brother Logen preached across the road for a good length of time. I sensed the anointing on the words as they echoed down the street.
John 7:38 He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.
We met a dear sister in Christ on the street. She shared how the doctors had given her all kinds of bad reports about the condition of her health, but she refused to acknowledge them. She loves Jesus and stands on His word.
Proverbs 30:5 Every word of God is pure;
He is a shield to those who put their trust in Him.
Many people surrendered their hearts to Jesus today, sixty all up, all glory to Jesus. I met a fellow brother in Christ who said he was struggling with some personal issues. I ministered and prayed with him for sometime as he wrote notes on his phone.
Thank You Jesus for all Your wonderfull Spirit led appointments today. Many people are receiving Your life in abundance everyday, through those who abide in You and You in them. Amen.
Hosea 13:14 I will ransom them from the power of the grave;
I will redeem them from death.
O Death, I will be your plagues!
O Grave, I will be your destruction!
Pity is hidden from My eyes.
We meet Roy just as we were leaving Oamaru. Brother Roy is a Spirit filled on fire for Jesus, active evangelist. We enjoyed a wonderful fellowship with him as he shared about his ministry with Jesus.
Brfother Roy had three crosses painted on the side of his car, like we have on the buses and van. We prayed together then departed Oamaru.
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Paul
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About Oamaru….
Oamaru is the largest town in North Otago, in the South Island of New Zealand, it is the main town in the Waitaki District. It is 80 kilometres (50 mi) south of Timaru and 120 kilometres (75 mi) north of Dunedin on the Pacific coast; State Highway 1 and the railway Main South Line connect it to both cities. With a population of 14,300,[3] Oamaru is the 28th largest urban area in New Zealand, and the third largest in Otago behind Dunedin and Queenstown. The town is the seat of Waitaki District, which includes the surrounding towns of Kurow, Weston, Palmerston, and Hampden, which combined have a total population of 23,200.[7]
Friendly Bay is a popular recreational area located at the edge of Oamaru Harbour, south of Oamaru’s main centre. Just to the north of Oamaru is the substantial Alliance Abattoir at Pukeuri, at a major junction with State Highway 83, the main route into the Waitaki Valley. This provides a road link to Kurow, Omarama, Otematata and via the Lindis Pass to Queenstown and Wānaka. Oamaru serves as the eastern gateway to the Mackenzie Basin, via the Waitaki Valley.
Oamaru has been built between the rolling hills of limestone and short stretch of flat land to the sea. This limestone rock is used for the construction of local “Oamaru stone“, sometimes called “Whitestone” buildings.
Oamaru enjoys a protected location in the shelter of Cape Wanbrow. The town was laid out in 1858 by Otago’s provincial surveyor John Turnbull Thomson, who named the early streets after British rivers, particularly rivers in the northwest and southeast of the country.
The name Oamaru derives from the Māori and can be translated as ‘the place of Maru’ (cf. Timaru).[8] The identity of Maru remains open to conjecture.
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