Melbourne University OCF
Reach Out, Build Up, Send Back

Scripture reading: Acts 1:8

“But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

Acts 1:8 sets out clearly what the Christian community is to be doing until Jesus returns. Through a command - promise, Jesus tells his disciples of the resources, content and scope of their primary task.

Myanmar

Population: 47,000,000-50,000,000 [figures vary]
Religion: Buddhist 88%, Christian 6%, Muslim 4%

Buddhism is no longer the state religion, but it still has great influence in governmental affairs and the life of the country. Although there is freedom of religion, converts to Christianity may face difficulties in their own communities.

Challenges for Prayer

• The country has gone through much political instability. Pray for a just and righteous government. There is much political oppression. Myanmar’s human rights record has been rated one of the worst in the world.
• Pray for unity among the different church groupings, and for a united voice towards the government and the other religious groups.
• Praise God for ongoing growth in most denominations in Myanmar. Pray for more people to come to know God.
• There are very few Christians among the ethnic Burmese. Pray for a real breakthrough.
• The Rohingya in the west of the country are a strongly Islamic group of people. There is no known Christian witness among them.
• Pray for the urban poor and Christians working among them.
• Pray for the rural poor, who are in need of health care and schools.
• Many people are dispossessed and made refugees as a result of the many ethnic conflicts, notably the Karen, Shan, Karenni and Kachin on the Thailand/Myanmar border. Pray for them and Christian organisations ministering to them.
• Pray for ongoing good missionary activities from within Myanmar. Some are working cross-culturally within the country; others are ministering in India, China and Laos.
• Pray for openings for foreign workers and that Christians would take up these openings.
• Pray for the work of the Bible Society. The Bible has been translated into 12 languages; 10 more have the New Testament and another 16 have portions of the Bible, but there are still more than 100 people groups with no portions of Scripture in their own language [Wycliffe].

OCF GU

President: U.N. Lu
Theme: “You Can Change!” Ephesians 4:17-32
Campus: Griffith University Nathan Campus

Attendance:

2005: 15
2006: 35
2007: 25
2008: 25-20

Description:

OCF GU 2008 comprises mostly of Korean and Chinese students. But we have been blessed with people from Australia, Singapore, Japan, Hong Kong Kuwait, Dubai, Persia, just to name a few. We been receiving a lot of new China faces and they bring with them a huge curiosity for Jesus and some a passion at the “audacity” of the Gospel. At present me and the committee feel a little overloaded, the harvest really seems to be plentiful at OCF but the workers are few. There seems to be so much more we can do for these Chinese which is why I am so glad that many of them come to our partner churches and can be fed and cared for outside of OCF.

Praise God For:

• Praise God and pray that He will continue to work in the hearts of the non-Christians.
• Praise God for the caring nature and obedience of our partner churches.

Please Pray For:

• We will be responsible to the job God has placed on us.
• God will raise up more leaders at OCF to help out and serve especially FEMALE leaders. Our entire committee is male at the moment.
• God will strengthen the existing members who are Christian and perhaps bring them into more active service.
• Pray that God will provide and guide us to form a camp committee for a camp in September this year