It’s been a while since my last update. Our life has been increasingly busy over the past few years. And, while that is a challenge in terms of our personal progression, it is wonderful to be back presenting truth publicly again. We also love working together with others to expand the God’s Way organization and develop projects here in the local area.

We plan to travel overseas each year for the next four to five years, or until political events or economic limitations prevent us from doing so. We believe that face to face meetings are the most powerful in assisting people to understand and practically apply God’s Principles. And so, we are doing what we can with the time and resources that we have, to offer that opportunity to as many people as possible. And while we already have regular contact with people here in Queensland, we are also open to interstate travel in Australia over the coming years.

Of course, we are aware that our personal progression remains vital to our personal happiness, our energy levels, and the extent to which we can continue to share God’s Truth. So, we are constantly weighing our need for personal time against our other desires.

We face the juggle between presenting material, the need to focus on our own progression, the work required to edit and share recordings, project work in God’s Way and care of our own home and property here in Wilkesdale.

Our Greetings & Gratitude

Jesus and I returned home from our round the world trip in November. While the trip was very busy for us, it was our great pleasure to meet so many of you. Thank you to those of you who participated in the talks in a spirit of curiosity and openness.

Thank you to those of you who donated to us during the talks and a warm and special thanks to our friends in Portugal, Belgium and North Carolina who gave us their homes to stay in while we were in those locations, and, in Portugal and North Carolina, to people who gifted us a venue to hold talks in.

We also want to acknowledge and thank those people who helped with finding other venues, who loaned us their vehicles, who dropped us off and picked us up at airports, helped with set up and pack up at events and arranging equipment hire. The generosity of each of you not only helped us to make the trip possible but also made the experience all the richer, as we got to spend a little more time with you all.

We would also like to thank those in Australia who donated towards the trip and to everyone who has made donations to us since returning home. In particular, one individual donated significant funds to us which has enabled us to pay for the next overseas trip and to purchase new equipment which will hopefully make it easier to make video recordings at future talks. A special thanks to David!

Finally, thank you to those people who have assisted me over the past few months to find new venues for our 2025 world trip. Over the past few months, a small team of two or three people in England, Portugal, Canada and the US have investigated and visited a great many venues on our behalf. We have now secured a venue in each of these locations and we are extremely grateful for the efforts of our helping teams.

There are quite a few considerations we must take into account when searching for a venue. These include the size and layout of the room, lighting, acoustics, comfort for participants (including the type of chairs and number of rest rooms), proximity to airports, parking and wheelchair access. And of course, venues must be OK with renting to a couple claiming to be Jesus and Mary Magdalene.

On our return I designed a research sheet outlining our venue requirements to assist the people who were helping with the venue search. They then had to spend quite a lot of time firstly finding potentially suitable venues, checking them against our requirements and then visiting ‘finalist’ venues to ensure that they lived up to their advertising.

What We’ve Been Up To Since We Returned Home

Trip Planning & Preparation

As soon as we returned home in November, we started to get organized for our next overseas trip. We wanted to capitalize on the lessons we learned in the prior trip and, as we had decided to visit the northern hemisphere earlier in their summer this year, we needed to act quickly to find venues and accommodation.

We decided that for our overseas travel in 2025, we wanted to have less of a carbon footprint (and less of a sleep deficit). This meant reducing our number of stops to four countries. We decided upon England, Portugal, Canada and the USA.

We’ll hold a three day seminar in each of these countries, with the first being held in England at the end of May. This year, we’ve extended our stay in each country to allow more time for informal catch ups and possible social gatherings in each place. Sometimes the informal discussions we have with sincere people are quite powerful and meaningful for those involved.

This year we also want to be able to share audio recordings of the events more quickly. Having less events will allow time for Jesus to edit the audio recordings as we travel. While we know that a number of people kindly made ‘bootleg’ audio recordings of our last trip so that others could keep up with the presentations as they happened, the quality of these recordings was not as clear or easy to follow as our own. If we can share our high quality recordings more quickly this will be of benefit to everyone.

At this stage, in 2025, we are hoping to expand our recording capabilities to include not just audio but also to make video recordings at the events. However, researching and testing a set up that we can use (and carry) internationally, takes quite a lot of work.

Since our return in November, Jesus has been very busy researching and trialing new video recording potentials. It is quite the task since the gear we carry with us needs fit in two bags, meet the airline weight limit, allow for recording a three day event, be reliable, compact and easy to use. Adding video recording capabilities means not just adding new cameras, but also extra cabling, recording devices, screens to check camera feeds, along with a storage server to copy and back up the recordings.

Jesus has carefully selected items that he thinks will meet our requirements. Each new piece of equipment that is purchased often takes weeks to arrive and once it is here, must be tested on arrival to ensure there are no faults. After that, various other tasks are necessary such as firmware updates, learning how to use the devices and/or software etc. Only after all that has happened, can the items be trialed in the context of a full audio and video recording set up to see if it will offer an effective solution. It is taking a lot of time in an already busy schedule. For this reason, it may be that in 2025 we still do a simplified version of video and audio recording but in future years we hope to have a more complete set up.

After making the video recordings, our additional challenge remains in us finding the time, or willing volunteers, to edit these recordings. There are some new people who have expressed a desire to help with this task and we hope to be able to train them in what is required. Jesus has already spent time with them over the past few months educating them about the job, the necessary computer hardware and software required to complete the edits, and the important spiritual principles (such as thoroughness and attention to detail) that will be required.

With all of that said, I’m pleased to say that we have now have confirmed 2025 overseas events, to be held in the following locations:

Cirencester, England
Vila Real, Portugal
Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada
Carrboro, North Carolina, USA

You can now book into these events via the clickable links or by visiting: event.divinetruth.com

Australian Events

In December, we made the decision to cancel the events that we were planning to hold in Melbourne, Sydney & Wangaratta. We were looking forward to visiting those places and seeing the people we know there. However, we felt the interest was quite low, especially amongst people who have never been to an event before and our schedule is already very busy. The time spent to drive to those places (over one week, one way) would have taken us away from other pressing commitments in Queensland.

In the past few months, we have enjoyed spending time with a number of interstate and overseas visitors here in the local area. These people have attending the local God’s Way Humility in Practice day events and the open group discussions in our living room.

We have continued to hold these open group discussion in our living room in Wilkesdale since our return. In the past, these were more ad hoc afternoon events, and those in attendance were simply people who were already on the property having taken part in God’s Way Ltd humility in practice activities in the morning. However, we have now started opening up these events to the general public which requires people booking in via our events page.

We, along with some of the God’s Way Ltd members, have been working over the past few months to clear out and organize the Divine Truth studio so that these discussions can be held there in future.

The studio is a larger and more comfortable space than our home living room. Having talks there will also save us a lot of time. Currently, before and after each event in our living room, Jesus and I must spend a number of hours laying cable, setting up video cameras, a mixing desk, various other devices and then testing.

Over the past four or five years, the Divine Truth studio has been swamped with a number of God’s Way and Divine Truth technical building and upgrade projects. We and our small team of helpers have spent four solid weeks, sorting, organizing, repurposing, and rehousing much of the gear. Jesus has been the director of all of this work, having to make hundreds of decisions in a day about what to do with various equipment, decide if it is still needed or if it can by given away, finding storage solutions that will enable him to access everything (from cables and screws to motherboards and speakers) in future so that he can work smoothly on all of the myriad jobs he is currently responsible for (this includes all of the God’s Way & Divine Truth computer systems and network design, upgrades, repairs and support, along with being the man who plans, understands and directs all of our video and audio recording).

To help with the organization, new shipping containers have been moved onto the property to act as storage units. God’s Way participants have painted, applied a new flooring, and installed shelving in each container.

In January, we held a seminar in Murgon, followed by a three-day Humility in Practice event which was co-hosted with the God’s Way organisation.

It was great to see many new, along with familiar, faces at the seminar.

The humility in practice event, which was held in the week after the seminar, was a great way for people to participate in an environmental recovery project together. The outdoor team worked on removal of the Lantana camara plant which is an invasive species taking over a lot of land in rural Australia.

God’s Way Ltd is working on a number of experimental techniques for manually removing the Lantana plant and have been manufacturing special tools to aid in the process.

Since infestations not only dominate eastern Australia but also large swathes of land in India, God’s Way Ltd aims to perfect and then freely share effective and time efficient methods for Lantana removal.

During the humility in practice event, the lighter duties team began work on a new project which I am excited to share more about soon.

It involves creating a durable but biodegradable ‘wipe’ to assist everyone who has transitioned to a bidet! This product will be available to people worldwide.

In future, people wishing to support the project can make a monetary donation or donate good quality second-hand towel and flannel to be used in the production of the wipes.

More about this project will be shared in future on the God’s Way Ltd website.

In March, we’ll be repeating this sequence by holding a seminar in Murgon on the 7th, 8th & 9th, followed by a humility in practice event in Wilkesdale on the 11th-13th of the month.

You book into these events here: event.divinetruth.com

Creation of New God’s Way Office Facilities

Divine Truth has entered a joint agreement with God’s Way Ltd to make the Divine Truth studio into an office/studio space that will be shared between the two organizations. This will allow God’s Way to have dedicated work space for the first time and to complete their own video recordings in the space as well.

Jesus currently provides all of the digital and systems services to both Divine Truth and God’s Way, including completing back ups of all God’s Way data. At the moment, God’s Way Ltd data is stored on mobile servers which must to be brought to the Divine Truth studio for Jesus to back up onto the servers housed there. Having all of the technical hardware on the one site will help reduce some of Jesus’ workload in this regard.

To support the increased personnel at the studio, God’s Way has been building a large new shed for water collection (funded by Jesus & I) and a new shipping container toilet block which will have a soil producing septic attached.

God’s Way Involvement

On our return there were a lot of jobs to do in order to assist God’s Way directors with the management of the organization.

Before the Annual General Meeting was held in November, Jesus checked the God’s Way Ltd financial records and found a few items to be amended. I completed a full edit and rewrite of the annual report. The report, which includes the company financial statements, can be viewed on the God’s Way website here.

In December, a number of God’s Way regular participants hosted a party for everyone who had been involved in humility in practice days throughout the year.

Jesus continues to lead various construction projects within God’s Way, including the completion of the large water collection shed on our property. We also enjoy mentoring the company directors, helping projects to move forward, and ensuring that the organization meets its legal requirements and is prepared to welcome new participants.

Recent heavy rains in the area highlighted some drainage problem around the new water collection shed.

Jesus and Cornelius came up with a plan to better manage the water.

You can stay up to date with more of God’s Way activities via the God’s Way blog.

Jesus and I believe it is our great privilege to share God’s Truth with others. We thank you for your engagement with the Truth and your support for our continued desire that everyone in the world has the opportunity to learn that God’s Laws exist and that God’s Love is available to every person.

These immeasurable gifts, of Love and Law, bring lasting joy to anyone who willingly engages with them. What a precious thing to know!

Until next time,

Mary & Jesus

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