Hi everyone,

Time for another update from Jesus and I.

I know you that most of you haven’t seen or heard from us in a while but we are still here doing our thing! And we still have plans to bring you some new Divine Truth material and interactions over the coming year.

Jesus has still been teaching regularly in our home and at God’s Way Ltd events multiple times every month but we remain limited in terms of our editing capabilities which is why no new material has appeared on our website or YouTube channels.

Before I get on to the update, Jesus and I would like to express our heartfelt thanks for your donations. We are glad that you find value in what we are passionate about sharing and teaching.

For those in the USA, please note that the bank account details for US transfers (for Divine Truth donations and personal gifts) with Wise have now changed. There is also now an option for direct bank transfers to a Canadian bank account. Details are available on the donate page of the Divine Truth website.

Jesus has also just updated our website to include our financial records for the past 6 years. You can now view those on the same page (scroll down to Divine Truth Financial Records table).

I’d also like to say a special thank you and hello to those of you who write us emails of gratitude sharing the personal benefits that Divine Truth teachings and a relationship with God have brought to your lives. I would love to have time to communicate with all of you personally. Writing emails is just not a good use of our time, but I hope one day we can meet in person and have a chat.

Here are just some of the things we’ve been up to since my last update:

God’s Way Ltd Management & Leadership

Last year Jesus became a director of God’s Way Ltd, making the current board of directors Eloisa Sparks, Jesus, and I.

This year, administrative management of God’s Way Ltd, project leadership, and activity day management have taken up quite a lot of Jesus and my time. While we love this work, we have lots of other projects and ideas for sharing Divine Truth with people beyond those immediately involved in God’s Way activities. So we are hopeful that in time others will qualify to take on these roles.

In July and August, Jesus completed an internal audit of God’s Way Ltd accounts. Following the audit, Jesus highlighted some areas for improvement and Eloisa and I completed a major overhaul of our accounts list and accounting procedures based on his recommendations.

God’s Way Ltd focus in 2023 and for the coming years is on environmental recovery; and the preservation, collection and responsible storage of vital resources such as water. The company has projects tackling these priorities underway.

Regular activity days provide opportunities for participants to engage in these projects while aspiring to love themselves, others and the environment in harmony with God’s Love and Laws.

It has been our pleasure to see certain people among our regular participants blossom this year as they experiment with receiving God’s Love and changing their lives in accordance with that Love. You can read more about God’s Way activities here.

Teaching

Two or three Saturday afternoons per month Jesus and I host a spiritual discussion in our home. Invitees are those people who have participated in God’s Way Ltd activities on these days.

This year, Jesus has lead a group of participants through a number of presentation series on topics such as; Forgiveness & Repentance, Longing for God’s Love (prayer), How Progress Occurs, The Importance of Truth and a number of other moving and motivating themes.

These discussions have had a new depth and quality that many participants have found to be exceptionally helpful in their relating to God and in their engagement of the five key qualities taught in the 2016 Assistance Groups: Love, Truth, Faith, Emotion & Action. Jesus has demonstrated how to use these qualities to solve problems, find direction in life and to establish a relationship with God.

The talks, held in our modest living room, have inspired many to experiment for the first time with receiving God’s Love and helped them to gain appreciation for the beauty and potentials of that relationship. Participants have commented that they feel a new understanding of concepts that they had heard about, but not really connected to, in many Divine Truth seminars in the past.

Jesus has shared that, in future, his focus for presentations to first time listeners will be different to how he approached such talks in the past. I believe that the group who has gathered in our home three out of four Saturdays per month over the past couple of years has benefited directly from Jesus’ change in focus.

This relatively small group has had a unique experience which, I believe, is almost un-quantifiable in its value.

And it is exciting for me to consider how our teaching will further evolve and improve the more Jesus and I grow towards God and each other.

In addition to these living room presentations, Jesus and I often have long informal lunch discussions with participants on God’s Way Ltd activity days. Activity days occur 9-12 days per month and we often talk for 2 or 3 hours. So, these chats, along with the Saturday discussions (in which we often talk for 5 or 6 hours) amount to over 50 hours of teaching a month!

Because God’s Way Ltd activity days offer the opportunity to put God’s principles into practical action, lunchtime questions and remarks often stem from experiences in the morning. As a result the topics Jesus and I have discussed throughout the year have been wide ranging, stemming from matters of practical environmental recovery principles to inter gender addictions, conflicts, and parenting, along with matters of global concern.

Trip to South Australia

In September Jesus and I took a trip to South Australia. There were a number of reasons for this travel. We wanted to investigate some heating options (fireplaces) for our ecotent to cabin conversions. We also wanted to meet with our accountant who operates out of Adelaide and to visit Jesus’ parents who have both been very sick this year.

It turned out to be a hectic 6 day trip but I enjoyed seeing a lot of green grass and trees in South Australia! It was quite the contrast to the very dry and brown landscapes of South East Queensland at the moment.

Home Water collection & Accommodation overhaul and renovations

As I mentioned above we are currently experiencing drought conditions here in South East Queensland and the predictions of rising temperatures as a result of climate change have already become our reality.

Living in a farming community we rapidly see the effects of decreased rain fall and the increased heat. On visits to more coastal, suburban, or industrialized areas we often observe that the starkness of these climate change effects is being buffered by ‘manufactured’ or manicured lawns, plant and tree life that is tended, and nature’s ability to survive in the reduced but still occurring rainfall of coastal areas.

By contrast, the land in our and neighbouring districts is used to farm grains, meat and other primary products – products that those living in more urban areas rely upon. It is this land that is struggling; its fertility and productivity degrading rapidly. I feel that we are on the brink of so many tipping points and most Australian inhabitants aren’t seeing how precarious their food supply is becoming. Looking around our district we see how close to exhaustion the land and resources actually are.

We are passionate about eating a plant based diet, and in creating systems for water storage and food production that are not only sustainable in a hotter and drier future but that also work to support and regenerate surrounding lands for native flora and fauna. The directors of God’s Way have decided to focus our attention over the coming years on water collection, and water security.

Similarly, here at our home, we are conscious of the need to capture as much of the limited rain that does fall (our current rainfall for this year is very, very low) on the land and in tanks for drinking, washing, and basic home facilities.

Our current rain water tank system was installed by previous owners and is quite old now. While it has, over the past 15 years, stored a large amount of water, over the past year, due to ground movement and tree root growth, a large number of the old tanks have developed cracks which means that we’ve lost significant amounts of water. We’ll soon run out of water and so there is an urgency to deal with the problem in a way that is robust and long lasting.

With that urgency in mind, and with the understanding of what a vital resource water will be in the years to come, Jesus has been working hard on design solutions for:

• rain water collection (water harvesting),
• secure undercover tank storage for our drinking and home use, along with
• additional systems for pumping and plumbing dam water for use on our land and gardens.

As I’ve mentioned, our home is the current informal venue for Divine Truth presentations and we would like to be able to host our guests in a larger area and have a set up so that they can use toilets without taxing our water stores. At the moment we don’t have enough water for guests to flush the toilet and so most guests make use of the great outdoors for bathroom breaks.

To meet water goals, Jesus’ new design for water harvesting combines a large roof which doubles as protection for a new bank of tanks and as a place to maybe later mount panels for solar power collection; it has a large open deck for meetings and presentations (with the option of enclosing this space if funds allow in the future); storage for chairs; and a workspace for his computer and server repairs (this will reduce a lot of strain on our studio space which is often overwhelmed by technical build and repair projects).

We are currently awaiting a quote for materials to start this project. The build itself will involve some initial earthworks and construction of a retaining wall to make the ground level for the tanks and roof foundations. If materials and engineering are within our price range, we’ll be using a new flooring and build system. If these systems work well in terms of strength, price and ease of construction they can be used in all future God’s Way Ltd and Divine Truth facility buildings.

We currently don’t have enough funds to complete these projects but we are hopeful that once we get underway and visitors benefit from the improvements that we may attract the necessary funds.

In a prior update I talked about our ecotent conversion into cabins project which is currently on hold due to financial constraints. We are slowly saving money to complete these conversions. Cornelius who is our builder has been working on God’s Way projects this year but we hope he can return to these buildings in the new year if we have sufficient funds.

Divine Truth Sharing

In our hearts there is still a strong desire to share God’s Truth with others. Over the past year we have understood that we must be patient in this endeavour. We are both working on ourselves and our relationship with God; we are limited in terms of time (with God’s Way activities taking up a lot of time); we are still dealing with a backlog of a technical overhaul and working towards a new and improved audio, visual recording and editing set up. While all this is going on, our home, particularly our home water collection and cabin accommodations are in urgent need of repair. And so, we have been doing what we can on all fronts.

Kate’s passing brought a halt to work on the Divine Truth website upgrade and search engine. Thank you to those of you who reached out to us after Kate’s passing to express your affection for her and your kind wishes towards ourselves. We still talk to Kate often and she is adjusting to her life in the spirit world, at times facing certain challenges, but also finding enjoyments and making progress. We miss working with her daily on our projects.

Jesus is currently searching for an Australian based programming team who we can pay to complete the website upgrade and search engine that he and Kate were working on.

We are still in need of humble committed individuals with a passion to share Divine Truth with the world who want to assist us in editing already created Divine Truth videos and audio files. For example, the bulk of the 2019 Assistance Groups have not yet been edited.

In addition, there are now many mediumship sessions, group, and private discussions that Jesus and I have held (including those 50+ hours per month that I mentioned above) which could be output as audio files to benefit and assist others in their spiritual progression.

As I have already said, the topics covered the informal lunch discussions with activity day participants are far reaching. We often share a laugh, or people have their tears, as we discuss the potentials God has created for us to change and to love.

We are still investigating options for live streaming and I will post an update about that project soon.

Over the past 6 months Jesus has continued to maintain our existing Divine Truth website and video sharing services. He was able to transfer our international servers to new overseas locations which are more secure and less costly than our prior arrangement.

Jesus continues to store, manage and back up all raw and onsite data for both Divine Truth & God’s Way Ltd here in our server and network facilities in Wilkesdale.

Mediumship Group

I have been enjoying leading a mediumship development group here in Wilkesdale.

In this group, along with talking with spirits, I’ve been teaching participants about how to engage with mediumship in a loving manner.

Topics we’ve covered include:

• The loving uses for mediumship (which are many and varied)
• How to make a conscious connection with the spirit world, how to engage my spirit sense (e.g. how to answer the question: is this just me or am I channelling a spirit?)
• The various ways we can receive messages from the spirit world (How do I receive communication from spirits? Not everyone receives messages in the same way)
• The ethical and moral principles governing loving mediumship
• The medium’s responsibility to know the spirit’s identity and soul condition before conveying any message
• How to identify the spirit who is speaking and their condition in love
• How rapport occurs (via a combination of factors including; soul condition, intention and sympathetic beliefs or experiences and how these interact)
• The medium’s responsibility to hone their skills in order to convey accurate messages
• Loving considerations and principles for mediums who give spirit messages to people still on Earth

I enjoy this group. In many ways we are just getting started. I hope one day we can reach mediums and aspiring mediums worldwide. I am grateful to Jesus for his mentoring of me in this project. Mediumship is definitely one of our soul’s passions.

Until next time Jesus and I send you our love and hope that we can see you virtually, or in person, sometime soon.

I’ll leave you with some pictures of our resident python who I keep finding in random places around our house.

Jesus & Mary