As embers die down from the devastating Tingha Plateau fire and farmers are still reeling from the effects of the ongoing drought, Inverell’s churches are coming together to pray for much-needed rain.
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“The hope would be to stand together following the fires,” Reverend Jean Bell from Inverell Uniting Church said.
The town is invited to come along to the Town Hall from 4pm this Sunday, February 24 to pray for rain, as part of a free event hosted by the combined churches.
“We believe and trust in God and we believe that if enough of us are there praying, that it increases hope and it feels like you’re actually doing something to help,” Inverell Salvation Army Major Kaye Townsend said.
Kaye has been on the frontlines, assisting families devastated by the drought and those evacuated during the height of the bushfires. She’s watched farmers who’ve had to sell all their stock and helped out evacuees who left home with only the clothes on their backs.
“It’s just very hard and the longer this goes on the worse it’s going to get. We need a break,” she said.
She encouraged locals not to lose faith in God in the face of these obstacles.
“God is there and he cares about us and he loves us, but there are a lot of problems in this world that are not his making, and he just longs for us to talk to him and prayer is a way of talking to him,” she said.
“He can work, and us talking to him about it, it just helps. It does.”
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