Timeline of Ministry, A Summary
We want to thank our ministry team of Ps Shirley Miller, Deborah and Lillian Miller, Colleen Burfitt, Thomas and Judy Miller and Joanne Radke for their huge dedication and anointed ministry. They are worshippers and prayer warriors. Ps Shirley Miller has led up prayer for many of our conferences and services, Ps Shirley also preaches when Norman and Barbara travel and all the ministry team share leading communion. Colleen Burfitt is our creative ministries director and Thomas Miller and Colleen Burfitt lead the praise and worship on weekend services with Norman song leading at conferences and the rest of our ministry team joining the worship team. Deborah Miller looks after our overhead projector and Judy Miller looks after our sound. All help with organization. Being the Tabernacle of David, worship is an important part of our services and we often have extended free worship as led by the Holy Spirit.
We also thank those who joined us from time to time and helped out e.g. office volunteers Pam Wordham, Cheryl Weiden, Sue Willetts and Jane Michail. Sarah Kenny Pascoe and Marian Millard from PNG, Roger Wall, Doreen Burness, Brad and Kim Hubner, Elizabeth Knudson, Valerie Davies and others were a good support for many years. We appreciate the support of Torres Strait Islanders who were part of our church who attended the Torres Strait Islander prayer meetings we hosted – Wallace Pau, Martina, Rowena Bullio, Kathy Bullio, and Timena Mara who we took to Israel. We also took Ps Aiden Pensio from Darnley Is to Israel with us and many groups from Yarrabah Aboriginal community over the years with the support of Fr Les Baird.
A special thanks to David Jack and Sonia Harriman for videoing our conferences and Tim Jack for updating our website. David also did our logos and most of our conference brochures. We thank all those who opened their homes to us to enable us to minister in their city. It is not possible to thank everybody but be assured, we do remember you, and, more importantly, God does.
A special thanks to those who have donated money to the ministry and prayed for us over the years. Dad Barclay Miller, and Mum, donated a ministry van to the church in 1997 which is amazingly still in use and Dad blessed us in many ways till the Lord called him home.
Of course, with our weekly church services, we have done children’s church, baby dedications, adult baptisms, marriages and funerals. We changed our services from Sundays to Saturdays after Purim 2014 and we have had many Friday night Shabbat meals in Norman and Barbara’s home and at our church, especially in earlier years. The following timeline gives you a taste of our ministry.
Norman has built a gunyah in our backyard and is setting up a Gospel From the Gunyah ministry to reach out to Indigenous communities. We had hoped to have a small museum to educate about Israel but this has not eventuated yet.
1996
Oct – We pioneered the Pentecostal Church of Reconciliation at the Band Hall at Charles St Cairns. About 60 attended.
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Our first newsletter was published and we have continued them ever since, initially weekly and not digital. Later it became digital and in recent years has only been bi-monthly.
Ongoing – Women’s Home Group led by Lyn Gargan, Biblical Justice Ecumenical Home Group led by Norman and Barbara Miller and Christian Counsellors Interest Group, every 4th Monday.
Oct – Reconciliation Seminar for pastors and leaders with Rev Jim Nightingale.
Oct – Norman founded the Aboriginal and Islanders Ministers Fraternal.
Oct – Norman and Barbara Miller attended Praise Corroboree, Parliament House Canberra and ran a workshop on Reconciliation. It was hosted by Ps Peter Walker and Ps Warwick Marsh.
Nov – Norman and Barbara Miller attended World Christian Gathering on Indigenous People, Rotorua NZ. Stayed on a marae.
Nov – Apostolic and Prophetic conference by Prophet Chris Gaborit of Cutting Edge International
1997
All year – Norman founded and facilitated the Aboriginal and Islander Ministers Fraternal and we met in various towns around the north including Yarrabah, Atherton and Innisfail on a monthly basis. We had regular outreaches in Munroe Martin Park Cairns as a fraternal and Ministers breakfast at the Pier. Warwick Marsh and family and Wheels of Fire ministry joined us on occasion over the years in Cairns and Yarrabah for outreaches.
Weekly outreach at Dija Meta and Douglas House and Bama Healing Centre to Indigenous people in hostels.
May – Reconciliation Week attended and organized events. Norman and Barbara attended the National Reconciliation Conference in Melbourne and were later part of Reconciliation Qld’s committee, going to Brisbane for at least one meeting and holding meetings in Cairns.
July – National Aboriginal and Islander Week (NAIDOC) attended and organized events. Norman was often asked to open in prayer.
Sept – Norman and Barbara went to Reconciliation 97 conference at Coventry Cathedral. Norman repented to the British for any resentment of Aborigines re colonization and Barbara repented for anti-Pommy attitudes of white Australians. English intercessor Jackie Hopkins travelled to our church the following year to release forgiveness.
Sept – Norman and Barbara spoke at Sacred Assembly, Sagkeeng, Manitoba, Canada and stayed with First Nations Anglican deacon on the reservation. They ministered at many meetings in Canada organized by Roger Armbruster and were interviewed by John Sandford for Christian TV.
Sept – On the way home, we visited the Toronto Airport Vineyard church where there was revival.
Oct – Norman and Barbara attended Praise Corroboree, Parliament House Canberra and spoke at churches. It was hosted by Ps Peter Walker and Ps Warwick Marsh.
Unsure date – Our ministry hosted and apostolic prophetic conference with Prophets Greg and Julie Bailey and Prophet Chris Gaborit at our Charles St Church and RSL Hall
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1998
All year – Norman founded and facilitated the Aboriginal and Islander Ministers Fraternal and we met in various towns around the north including Yarrabah, Atherton and Innisfail on a monthly basis.
Weekly outreach at Dija Meta and Douglas House and Bama Healing Centre to Indigenous people in hostels.
May – Reconciliation Week attended and organized events
July – National Aboriginal and Islander Week (NAIDOC) attended and organized events. Norman was often asked to open in prayer.
Sept – Norman and Barbara were part of the Reconciliation Tour of Australia by the British in 1998 when they came to Australia say sorry for the treatment of black and white Australians. The Australian Prayer Network APN) were the hosts.
Sept – Our ministry hosted the International Conference on Reconciliation and Peace in Cairns including the British team of intercessors. Speakers – Brian Mills from UK, AD 2000 United Prayer Track, Linda Ohia, Maori leader, NZ, Edward Sello, South Africa, Rev Dr Djiniyini Gondarra, Chair Uniting Aboriginal and Islander Congress, Jeremy Jones, Executive Council of Australian Jewry, Tom Hallas, Director WYAM Australia and South Pacific, Rev Jim Nightingale, House of Prayer For All Nations, Rev John Blackett, Joint National Facilitator AD 2000 Reconciliation Network, Ps Tim Edwards, Emmanuel College, Norman and Barbara Miller and others.
Oct – Norman and Barbara attended All Nations Convocation Jerusalem with Ps Noel and Diane Mann as leaders and were part of the Australian presentation.
Oct – Norman and Barbara spoke at an African American church pastored by Wilbert and Gloria Clayborne in Los Angeles, attended a Christian International conference in Florida and the Pensacola where the revival was happening, joining a long line of people waiting to get in.
Oct – Millers attend the World Conference on Intercession, Spiritual Warfare and Evangelism in Guatemala, hosted by Ps Harold Caballeros’ church, El Shaddai and Ps Peter Wagner of AD 2000. Norman and Barbara were part of the South Pacific presentation to the conference under the leadership of Ps Ben Gray.
While Carlos Annacondia, a noted evangelist, was speaking to a huge crowd of people in the pouring rain in the main street of Almolonga, we asked Brian if the APN would partner with our city of Cairns in prayer evangelism. The APN has done this with other Australian cities. It has taken us till 2001 to have our city almost come to the point of making that decision, with Brian speaking to our pastors meeting on March 6 (2001) at our request. He spoke to the pastors of Atherton the following day. The APN’s Prayer Evangelism is similar to the Ed Silvoso model and South American revival but is also based on what the Lord showed Brian and his team was needed in Australia. It didn’t eventuate in Cairns.
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1999
March – Norman and Barbara attended a Regional Consultation on Reconciliation with John Dawson on a marae at Tauranga, NZ
May – Reconciliation Week attended and organized events
July – National Aboriginal and Islander Week (NAIDOC) attended and organized events. Norman was often asked to open in prayer.
Oct – Norman and Barbara stopped in Turkey on the way to England to take part in a 4-hour prayer event at Ephesus organized by Ps Peter Wagner.
Oct – Norman and Barbara were part of the Reconciliation Tour of England to say “we forgive you” to the English and accept their apology from the year before. The Australian Prayer Network were the hosts. Norman and Barbara spoke at Freedom’s Ark church in London.
June – Brian Pickering visited Cairns in the lead up to the National Prayer Gathering. Norman and Barbara set up and facilitated weekly meetings of intercessors from various denominations praying for Australia on Thursday mornings.
July -We attended the National Prayer Gathering at Uluru and God gave us prophetic words there.
All year – Prayer walking Cairns, strategically leading a team of intercessors from a no of churches and doing spiritual mapping
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2000
All year – Prayer walking Cairns, strategically leading a team of intercessors from a no of churches and doing spiritual mapping
Feb – At the 21st Century church conference in Brisbane hosted by City Harvest and Ps Peter Wagner, Norman Miller and Muriel Olssen, as Indigenous people, opened the gates for the birthing of the 24-hour prayer watch in Australia.
May – Reconciliation Week attended and organized events
July – National Aboriginal and Islander Week (NAIDOC) attended and organized events. Norman was often asked to open in prayer.
July – Sonja Corazza from Alaska preached at our church. She had a prayer assignment to pray on the top of Uluru one year after the APN who prayed there but did not climb the rock.
August – When Norman and Barbara were invited to speak at three Intercessors for Zimbabwe conferences on Reconciliation by Ps John Chimbambo, the Lord did not allow Barbara to speak on reconciliation until she’d spoken on spiritual warfare and the Africans had done some breaking of covenants with false gods and re-covenanting with the Lord. Barbara shared on coming out of Babylon, idolatry mostly for black Africans and mammon, mostly for white Africans. Barbara shared on rebuilding an altar and that’s what the pastors did.
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2001
All year – Prayer walking Cairns, strategically leading a team of intercessors from a no of churches
Feb – Norman and Barbara attended a workshop by George Otis Jnr the one who coined the term spiritual mapping and who made the Transformations video which shows revivals in many nations. Hosted by Ps Ian Shelton. We later hosted Ps Ian to share the vision with pastors in Cairns.
Unsure date – Norman and Barbara attended a conference in Toowoomba with Dick Reuben as speaker and Norman was one of the appointed shofar blowers
Feb – Norman and Barbara attended a conference at the Aussie Church at Springwood Brisbane hosted by Ps Royree Jensen. Speaker Apostle/Prophet Bobbie Jean Merck
March – Norman and Barbara attended the Sydney Belongs to Jesus rally by Australian Prayer Network.
March – Norman and Barbara led prayer on the Sydney Harbour Bridge to deal with the rainbow serpent being flashed in fireworks over the bridge New Years Eve. Norman already repented for worship of the rainbow serpent by Aboriginal people in Australia in 1997 and in Israel at the All Nations Convocation Jerusalem 1998.
May – Reconciliation Week attended and organized events
May – We hosted Tom White, Frontline Ministries USA, a leader in the prayer and transformation movement, who spoke at our church and we organized him to speak at Ps Adem Xhafer’s church and a spirit-filled Catholic church. We also prayed with him over Cairns on top of Copperlode Dam.
July – National Aboriginal and Islander Week (NAIDOC) attended and organized events. Norman was often asked to open in prayer.
We moved into the first church built in Cairns at Clare St and renamed our local church the Tabernacle of David.
August – Norman and Barbara attended the Burning Heart conference Brisbane hosted by City Harvest Int and Norman had an opportunity to share.
August – Norman and Barbara attended the Thunder Down Under conference at Gold Coast and Norman and Barbara preached at a Filipino church
Sept – Our ministry hosted the Positioned for Dominion Conference Cairns with American Apostle Leon Walters and others and Apostle Prophets Greg and Julie Bailey. After the conference, on 9/11, Norman and Barbara were ordained as an apostle and prophet respectively by Apostle Leon Waters of the USA. When we saw the TV afterwards, it showed the Twin Towers falling in the US. Norman received a word from the Lord that Amos 9:11, rebuilding the Tabernacle of David was His answer to the fall of the Twin Towers.
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2002
Feb – Norman and Barbara attended Golden Gate and Bethany Gate conference in Singapore
Feb – Norman and Barbara attended Wagner conference Brisbane hosted by City Harvest Int
May – Reconciliation Week attended and organized events
July – National Aboriginal and Islander Week (NAIDOC) attended and organized events. Norman was often asked to open in prayer.
Oct – Norman and Barbara spoke at a Light horsemen event in Sydney hosted by Bruce Poulsen and RUN
Not sure date – Norman and Barbara attended the first Mosques and Miracles conference in Sydney, hosted by Ps Ben Gray with Dr Mark Durie and Dr Stuart Robinson as speakers
Not sure date – Norman and Barbara attended the Christian International conference in Sydney and Bishop Bill Hamon confirmed their ordination with Norman as Apostle and Barbara as Prophet.
Barbara held a no of Women’s Breakfasts in Cairns
Nov – Norman and Barbara apologized for Australia’s almost closing the doors to Jewish refugees from the Holocaust at Evian in 1938 to a Jewish representative in Cairns, and in Sydney to Jeremy Jones, the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, the Sydney Jewish Museum and WIZO.
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2003
We formed the Cairns Evangelistic Committee with other churches.
Feb – Our ministry hosted a Prophetic/Apostolic Workshop by Apostle Prophet Greg Bailey of Eaglenet/Christian International
March – Barbara and Norman led an Apostolic and Prophetic workshop, a Spiritual Warfare Workshop and Pam Wordham led a Financial Breakthrough and Release Workshop
April – Barbara taught a Counselling Techniques Workshop
May – Reconciliation Week attended and organized events
July – National Aboriginal and Islander Week (NAIDOC) attended and organized events. Norman was often asked to open in prayer.
July – Our ministry hosted a Take a Stand and Make a Difference Conference Cairns with Apostle Prophet team from USA Linda and David Roeder and Prophet Barbara Edwards as an Eaglenet/ Christian International event.
July – Our ministry hosted the Re-digging the Wells (of revival) and Reconciliation conference Cairns bringing together speakers from Aboriginal communities who had experienced revival and the City Transformation Movement. Speakers – Ps Vuniani Nakauyaca from Fiji revival, Ps Maratja Dhamarrandji, of Elcho Island revival, Ps Rodney Minnecon of Pinnacle Pocket Yungaburra revival, Fr Mick Connolly of Yarrabah revival, Brian Pickering, Co-ordinator Australian Prayer Network and leader of city transformation movement in Australia, Rev John and June Blacket, Khesed Ministries, author of “Fire in the Outback,” Ps Carl Musch, IMLA, apostolic support to outback ministries, Norman and Barbara Miller and others.
Barbara held a no of Womens Breakfasts
We turned our Wednesday night music practice into soaker services and received many prophetic songs
Oct – Apostle David Swan spoke at our Sukkot service and was with us for our 7th birthday celebrations.
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2004
Dec 03-Jan 04 – Jewish Prayer Focus Tour of Israel led by Jill Curry. Norman and Barbara repented to Solly Kaplinksi, head of the English desk at Yad Vashem for Australia’s response at Evian when the nations met to deal with Jewish refugees from Nazism in 1938. Mr T.W. White of Australia said we did not have a racial problem and were not desirous of importing one. We could have saved many lives. It was our first visit to Be’er-Sheva and we began our support for an ANZAC Museum there because of the Australian Light horse connection. We also met Ephraim Ben-Matityahu, former Consul General to Israel in Sydney, now back in Israel.
Various dates – Four trips to Canberra to organize conference there and one of these was to host a prayer meeting based on spiritual mapping of Canberra at which Christians from Canberra and Sydney attended. The mapping was based on research by Judy Monticone.
May – Reconciliation Week attended and organized events
July – National Aboriginal and Islander Week (NAIDOC) attended and organized events. Norman was often asked to open in prayer.
July – Our ministry hosted the Ps 24:7 Opening the Nation’s Gates and Ushering in the King of Glory, Parliament House Canberra. Speakers were Apostle David Swan, Tabernacle of David Malaysia, Ps Lou Engle, The Call, USA, Ps Michael Maeliau, Solomon Is and founder All Pacific Prayer Assembly, Ps Noel Mann, Australian leader All Nations Convocation Jerusalem and Ps Lawrence & Louise Hirsch, founders Celebrate Messiah and Norman and Barbara Miller.
August – Our ministry hosted a National Strategy Meeting in Sydney
Nov – Norman and Barbara attended Simcha in Melbourne hosted by Ps Lawrence and Louise Hirsch
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2005
May – Norman spoke in Malaysia and at a conference in Thailand hosted by Apostle Swan and Barbara, Tom and Judy Miller travelled with him.
May – Barbara took Vuniani Nakauyaca to Aurukun and Norman and Barbara took Vuniani to Yarrabah with a view to encouraging revival.
May – Reconciliation Week attended and organized events
July – National Aboriginal and Islander Week (NAIDOC) attended and organized events. Norman was often asked to open in prayer.
July – Our ministry hosted the Ps 24:7 Healing the People, Healing the Land conference at Uluru. Speakers – Ps Vuniani Nakauyaca from Fiji and Aboriginal leaders Ps Peter Walker, Ps Gloria Dyer and Ps Ella Gordon. Also, Bob Randall, a traditional owner of Uluru who welcomed us and Norman and Barbara Miller.
July – Norman and Barbara spoke at a Sons of Abraham conference hosted by Ps Jack Yeo, Emmanuel Blessings, Sydney. Other speakers – Rev Sadhu Sundar Selvaraj, Singapore, Rev Frankie Khoo, Malaysia, Rev Bruce Garbutt, Australian Director of the International Christian Embassy to Jerusalem and others.
April – Pastor Shirley Miller ordained at Tabernacle of David, 302 Sheridan St, North Cairns
April – Norman and Barbara attended the All Pacific Prayer Assembly (APPA), Auckland NZ and sat in the elders meetings.
April – Ps Noel Mann handed the baton for leading the Australian team to the All Nations Convocation Jerusalem to Norman and Barbara in Brisbane with APPA leaders flying in to witness it.
April – Norman and Barbara visit Darwin, Katherine, Alice Springs and Uluru to organize the Uluru conference
Visit to our church by a couple from Wales who gave us coal from Wales and they wanted to pass onto us the blessing of the Welsh Revival. They had been to Newscastle as the eastern gate and saw Cairns as the northern gate.
Oct – Our ministry hosted the Day of Prayer for the Peace of Jerusalem and Tabernacle of David conferences, Gold Coast (co-hosted with Prophet Lynne Hamilton) and Cairns. Speakers – Ps Noel Mann, Australian leader ANCJ, Ps Jack Yeo, Emmanuel Blessings, Ps Phil Plotnek, Celebrate Messiah, Prophet Lynne Hamilton (Gold Coast only) and Norman and Barbara.
Dec – Norman and Barbara attended the ordination ceremony at Yarrabah Aboriginal community of Edward Murgha who was made a deacon. He is also a traditional owner and he re-covenanted Yarrabah after repentance, with the Lord
Dec – Ps Les Baird and deacon Edward Murgha invited Norman and Barbara to join them on the top of a hill overlooking Yarrabah to hold a special ceremony where the Gungandji leaders, led by Edward, re-covenanted the Gungandji land and people to the Lord. At the Uluru conference we hosted, we had local soil, water, salt and oil that was especially cleansed and dedicated by tribal people from a number of parts of Australia. Barbara kept some of that in a bottle, waiting for the right occasion. So, she took half of it to Yarrabah and kept half for Aurukun. She suggested to Les and Edward that they mix it with some of their own water and soil for the ceremony of re-covenanting from the hilltop.
Many visits to Yarrabah over the years with Norman and Barbara preaching in St Albans church.
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2006
All year – Our ministry had weekly prayer focused on the Torres Strait with Torres Strait Islander leaders attending.
May – Bethany Gate and All Pacific Prayer Assembly, Cairns co-hosted by us (CFIRP), All Nations Convocation Jerusalem and All Pacific Assembly with about 3,000 attending. Speakers – Ps Tom Hess, Israel, Ps Nabil Attalla, Kuwait, Ps Mathew Kuruvilla, India, Ps George Annadorai, Singapore, Ps Michael Maeliau, Solomon Is, Ps Milo Siilata, NZ, Ps Noel Mann, Zion Christian Ministries, Norman and Barbara Miller and many others on panels e.g. Aboriginal and Islander panel, Israel panel and a Middle Eastern panel and on Mens’ Arise, Womens’ Arise and Youth Arise. We had 24/7 prayer in our upper room at 302 Sheridan St Cairns during the whole conference. Many of the PNG group went home saying now they knew how to run a Tabernacle of David.
The conference was timed for the 400th anniversary of the declaration of Ferdinand de Quiros over the south lands of the Holy Spirit. Barbara rewrote this declaration to dedicate these nations to King Jesus rather than the King of Spain, to the whole church not just the Catholic church and to respect Indigenous peoples. Leaders of nations attended like Edward Natapei, the former Prime Minister of Vanuatu and we hosted a leaders’ breakfast for them. We also had a triumphant parade of the nations through the city, with them all wearing their national costumes and waving their flags. We also hired over 20 buses with 50 people in each to take to Yarrabah, the nearest Aboriginal community for a traditional feast and a service.
May – At the above conference, a book was launched called – Uluru, the Heart of Australia authored by Ps Michael Maeliau, the Solomon Is, Ps Milo Sitlata, NZ, Janet Maki, the Cook Islands and Barbara Miller, Australia
May – Our ministry introduced Ps Nabil Attalla from Kuwait, a speaker at our 2006 conference, to Arab ministries in Sydney for follow-up ministry
May – Reconciliation Week attended and organized events
July – National Aboriginal and Islander Week (NAIDOC) attended and organized events. Norman was often asked to open in prayer.
July- Our ministry hosted the Ps 24:7 Ship Shaping History into Place, Sydney Opera House. We had a rather dramatic opening with a ship called “Tribal Warrior” coming in at the man o war steps beside the Sydney Opera House On it were some of the key Indigenous elders of Sydney, Norman and Barbara holding a banner of the Ark of the Covenant, Norman’s mother and grandmother and Peter Walker. A boat passed between us and the Opera House and it was called “Sirius” which is the name of a supply ship that came in with the 1st fleet in 1788. We prayed for the gates of Sydney and Australia to open to the King of Kings as we came in on the ship. As the Indigenous elders got off the boat, they were welcomed by non-indigenous men who cleared their path with branches and strewed wattles. We were coming in the opposite spirit to the first landing of Europeans in Australia. Speakers – Bishop Dominiquae Bierman from Israel, Rev Willem Glashouwer from Holland, Brian Ps Noel Mann, Brian Pickering, Dianne Taylor and Norman and Barbara. We had a panel on the Act of Recognition – Rev Lindsay McDowell, Ps Peter Walker, Ps Ossie Cruise and Brendon Johnstone.
July – Because of the war in Lebanon, there was a large event at the Great Synagogue 23/7/06 and it was also in honour of Gilad Shalit who was kidnapped. We had permission for our conference to join them. We also took our conference in two halves to the Sydney Jewish Museum as an education exercise.
Sept-Oct – Norman and Barbara were leaders of Australia at the All Nations Convocation Jerusalem (ANCJ) and the leaders of Bethany Gate. Also, they were the inaugural leaders of Indigenous Track for ANCJ and on ANCJ International Council of Elders. Meeting with Knesset with national leaders. Lead a 3-day prayer tour around Israel, often to Be’er-Sheva (Beersheba.)
Nov – Our ministry co-hosted this conference with Ps Aiden and Annie Pensio of Darnley Island – Opening the Gates, Re-digging the Wells and Raising Up the Tabernacle of David in the Torres Strait Islands. It was held at Darnley Is (Erub) where the first missionaries to the Torres Strait landed. Norman and Barbara were the speakers and a large group came over from Daru in banana boats. We had major breakthroughs.
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2007
All year – Norman and Barbara taught Messianic Apostolic Prophetic Indigenous Training (MAPIT) Bible College under Unity College Canberra
All year – Our ministry had weekly Bethany Gate Prayer Tower meetings with prayer focused on Israel from 10-12pm.
Jan- Norman and Barbara went to Canberra, Bendigo and Melbourne to organize conferences we were hosting
April – Norman and Barbara led a Spiritual Warfare Workshop at the invitation of Tabernacle of David Bendigo which was attended by the city pastors.
May – Our ministry hosted a Revival and Transformation Through Healing and Miracles conference Cairns. Speakers Ps Mathew Kuruvilla, healing evangelist, Heavenly Feast, India and Norman and Barbara.
May – Reconciliation Week attended and organized events. A major one was a ceremony for the 40th anniversary of the 1967 referendum where we gave out certificates to the Indigenous leaders of this movement to change the constitution as many of them were from Cairns. Barclay Miller presented the certificates to people like Evelyn Scott and others and the children of those who had passed on, including Michael who received Mick Miller’s certificate.
July – National Aboriginal and Islander Week (NAIDOC) attended and organized events. Norman was often asked to open in prayer.
July – Our ministry hosted Ps Tom and Kate Hess of Israel for ministry in Sydney with Ps Robyn Peebles and in Canberra with Hilary Moroney
July – Norman and Barbara were speakers at the Prophetic School of Worship and Intercession, Bendigo hosted by Tabernacle of David Bendigo
July – Our ministry co-hosted the Ps 24:7 Open Heaven in 2007 conference, Bendigo with Tabernacle of David Bendigo. Speakers – Apostle David Swan, Tabernacle of David Malaysia, Apostle John Steele, Bendigo Pastors Network, Ruth Webb and Muriel Jencke, Tabernacle of David Bendigo, Prody G. Bartolome, violinist Malaysia and Rowena Pang, dance leader from Thailand.
July – Barbara organized a prayer journey for those driving from Bendigo to Melbourne to attend our Melbourne conference.
July – Our ministry hosted the Ps 24:7 Open Heaven in 2007, Melbourne. Speakers – Ps Tom Hess, All Nations Convocation Jerusalem, Israel, Ps Lawrence Hirsch, Celebrate Messiah, Ps Col Stringer, author, Rev Rob Isaacshen, leader Melbourne Pastors Network, Ps Phil Plotnek, Celebrate Messiah, Jill Curry, intercessor and author and Norman and Barbara Miller. We recognized the 40th anniversary of the 1967 war in Israel which reunified Jerusalem and the 1967 referendum in Australia which enabled Indigenous people to be counted in the census. e also invited the family of Pastor Sir Doug Nichols to attend so we could honour him and they did.
August – Our ministry hosted Revival and Transformation Through Prayer conference. Speaker, Ps John Mulinde, World Trumpet Mission, Uganda. Ps John cancelled because of death in the family.
Sept-Oct – Norman and Barbara were leaders of Australia at the All Nations Convocation Jerusalem (ANCJ) and the leaders of Bethany Gate. Also, they were the inaugural leaders of Indigenous Track for ANCJ and on ANCJ International Council of Elders. Meeting with Knesset with national leaders. Lead a 3-day prayer tour around Israel, often to Be’er-Sheva.
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2008
All year – Norman and Barbara taught Messianic Apostolic Prophetic Indigenous Training (MAPIT) Bible College under Unity College Canberra
All year – Our ministry had weekly Bethany Gate Prayer Tower meetings with prayer focused on Israel from 10-12pm.
Feb – Norman and Barbara went to Parliament House Canberra for the Apology to the Stolen Generations. They were also involved over the years in campaigning for the return of stolen wages to Indigenous people.
Unsure of date – Barbara spoke at conference at Dural Sydney hosted by Lorraine Harvey
Unsure of date – Norman and Barbara spoke at a conference at the Blue Mountains
May – Reconciliation Week attended and organized events
July – National Aboriginal and Islander Week (NAIDOC) attended and organized events. Norman was often asked to open in prayer.
Aug – Norman and Barbara spoke at 080808 conference Canberra hosted by Hilary Moroney
Sept-Oct – Norman and Barbara were leaders of Australia at the All Nations Convocation Jerusalem (ANCJ) and the leaders of Bethany Gate. Also, they were the inaugural leaders of Indigenous Track for ANCJ and on ANCJ International Council of Elders. Meeting with Knesset with national leaders. Lead a 3-day prayer tour around Israel, often to Be’er-Sheva
Dec – Barbara spoke at a conference in Perth hosted by Gloria Dyer Miller.
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2009
All year – Norman and Barbara taught Messianic Apostolic Prophetic Indigenous Training (MAPIT) Bible College under Unity College Canberra
Jan – Norman and Barbara spoke at God’s Prophetic Agenda for Australia conference in Melbourne hosted by Jill Curry. We took our worship team as well – Tom and Judy Miller and others.
Jan – Our ministry hosted an Australia Day Prayer in Melbourne. We raised up prayer all around Australia praying simultaneously with us with prayer points we sent out to assist this.
Feb – Launch of the Spice Route Back to Jerusalem event at Honiara and at the Aroma Centre Malaita Solomon Is with Ps Michael Maeliau as the host. Attended by Ps Tom and Kate Hess and Ps George and Mano Annadorai, Geoff Armitage and many others. Norman and I stayed with Safina Maeliau at the Aroma Centre and had an opportunity to share and Ps Michael gave the speakers, including Norman, shell money (heavy shell necklaces) to honour them.
May – Reconciliation Week attended and organized events
July – National Aboriginal and Islander Week (NAIDOC) attended and organized events. Norman was often asked to open in prayer.
July – Our ministry hosted the Ps 24:7 The Glory is Mine in 2009, Cairns. Speakers – Ps George Annadorai, Apostle Prophets Greg and Julie Bailey and Norman and Barbara.
Sept-Oct – Norman and Barbara were leaders of Australia at the All Nations Convocation Jerusalem (ANCJ) and the leaders of Bethany Gate. Also, they were the inaugural leaders of Indigenous Track for ANCJ and on ANCJ International Council of Elders. Meeting with Knesset with national leaders. Lead a 3-day prayer tour around Israel, often to Be’er-Sheva
Dec – Norman and Barbara were speakers at Zion’s Hill worship conference, Tasmania hosted by Ps Merrilyn Billings
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2010
Jan – Our ministry hosted an Australia Day Prayer at Yarrabah
May – Reconciliation Week attended and organized events
July – National Aboriginal and Islander Week (NAIDOC) attended and organized events. Norman was often asked to open in prayer.
July – Our ministry hosted the Ps 24:7 The Government of God, Parliament House Canberra. Speakers – Ps George Annadorai of Love Singapore Movement who also oversees a network of Tamil churches, Ps Howard and Randi Bass, Yeshua’s Inheritance Messianic congregation Be’er-Sheva, Israel, Ps Kelvin Crombie, former director of the heritage center at Christchurch Israel, Norman and Barbara Miller and a number of panelists including Ps Jamie Pryor, facilitator Canberra Pastors Network, Ps Warwick Marsh, Graham McLellan, NACL, Ps Lynne Klomp, Parliamentary Prayer Network, Peter Stokes of Saltshakers, Glenys Quinlan ACL, Joanne Miller, Colleen Burfitt, Deborah Miller, Graham McDonald and Ps Gloria Neale.
July – We opened the door for the Canberra Declaration which was launched at our conference. It is an initiative by Ps Warwick and Alison Marsh and team.
July – We hosted ministry for Ps Howard and Randi Bass of Israel in Sydney with Rev Fred Nile at NSW Parliament House etc. and in Melbourne at Shalom Israel etc.
July – Norman and Barbara co-hosted a ministry tour for Ps Howard and Randi Bass of Israel in NZ with Sue Rowe of NZ. Norman and Barbara travelled NZ with Howard and Randi.
Sept – Barbara taught a Mediation and Conflict Resolution Skills workshop for Christians
Oct-Nov – Norman and Barbara hosted the 800 Light horsemen Tour of Israel and were at Be’er-Sheva for the Oct 31 commemorations. visited many holy sites as well as many battle sites. We prayed throughout Judea and Samaria and on the borders of Israel.
Dec – Norman and Barbara returned to Israel for the honouring of Aboriginal Christian William Cooper at Yad Vashem with a Chair of Resistance to the Holocaust named after him for leading the Australian Aborigines’ League on a protest against the treatment of Jews at Kristallnacht to the German consulate in Melbourne in 1938
Dec – Norman and Barbara repented to Shaya Ben Yehuda, the English desk International Relations at Yad Vashem for Australia’s stand at Evian and presented him with a plaque recording it.
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2011
May – Reconciliation Week attended and organized events. Norman and Barbara went to Parliament House Canberra so Norman could give a gift of a painting he did and he presented it to Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd as a thank you for his Apology to the Stolen Generations. Loree Rudd, who organized the meeting and Ps Irwin Ross attended the morning tea and presentation with us.
July – National Aboriginal and Islander Week (NAIDOC) attended and organized events. Norman was often asked to open in prayer.
July – Our ministry hosted the Ps 24:7 Kingdom of Heaven in 2011, Parliament House Canberra. Speakers were Rev Dr George Annadorai, Singapore, Ps Noel Mann, Gary Oakley, Curator, Australian War Memorial and Norman and Barbara Miller. Panelists on the 7 mountains of cultural influence were Family – Ps Warwick Marsh, Business – Graham McLellan, Arts and Celebration – Thomas Miller, Religion – Ps George Fattal, Media – Ps Matt Prater and Education – Loree Rudd. Uncle Boydie (Alf Turner) was honoured.
July – We opened the door for the National Day of Prayer and Fasting which was launched at our conference. It is an initiative by Ps Warwick and Alison Marsh and team.
Visits to at Yorta Yorta country and Melbourne to connect with William Cooper’s family and learn his story
Sept-Oct – Norman and Barbara were leaders of Australia at the All Nations Convocation Jerusalem (ANCJ) and the leaders of Bethany Gate. Also, they were the inaugural leaders of Indigenous Track for ANCJ and on ANCJ International Council of Elders. Meeting with Knesset with national leaders. Lead a 3-day prayer tour around Israel, often to Be’er-Sheva
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2012
May – Norman and Barbara spoke at the Vanuatu Prayer Assembly hosted by Apostle Raynold Bori and prayed on location where Ferdinand de Quiros made his declaration over the South Lands of the Holy Spirit. Barbara was asked to re-declare it with the modification the Lord gave her.
May – Reconciliation Week attended and organized events
July – National Aboriginal and Islander Week (NAIDOC) attended and organized events. Norman was often asked to open in prayer.
July- Our ministry hosted the Ps 24:7 Asia Pacific Apostolic Prophetic Conference, Parliament House Canberra. Speakers – Ps George Annadorai, Ps Israel Pochtar, Voice of Judah Ministries, Israel, Ps George Fattal, Arab Pastors Network Sydney, Ps Raynold Bori, Vanuatu Prayer Assembly and Norman and Barbara Miller.
July – David Jack, who has videod most of our conferences, made a worship DVD for us based on live worship at our Canberra conference. It was called Songs of the Kingdom and had 7 original songs on it and included a song book.
Visits to at Rumbalara Aboriginal Cooperative Mooroopna, Shepparton and Melbourne to connect with William Cooper’s family and learn his story
Sept – Norman and Barbara attended HIM Burning Ones Conference with speakers James Goll, Che Ann, Patricia King, Bruce Lindley and Royree Jensen at River of Life church Brisbane
Dec- Launched William Cooper book at Rumbalara Aboriginal Cooperative Mooroopna, Shepparton and the Jewish Holocaust Centre Melbourne. A re-enactment of the Dec 6 march of William Cooper and the AAL was organized by Abe Schwarz, the Jewish Holocaust Centre and others. Barbara organized the Hon German Consul, Michael Pearce, to accept a replica of the letter from William Cooper that the Germans did not accept in 1938 at the site of the Consulate in 1938. As William Cooper’s grandson, Uncle Boydie, presented the letter to the Consul, he unexpectedly said sorry, a moving moment for the large number of Holocaust survivors and children of survivors present.
Dec – Our ministry hosted the 12.12.12 conference at Golden Grove Sydney. Speakers – Norman and Barbara Miller. Attended by Taiwanese Indigenous pastors and many others.
Dec – Barbara launched her book on William Cooper at the Sydney Jewish Museum
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2013
May – Norman and Barbara spoke at the Vanuatu Prayer Assembly hosted by Apostle Raynold Bori and prayed on location where Ferdinand de Quiros made his declaration over the South Lands of the Holy Spirit. Barbara was asked to re-declare it with the modification the Lord gave her.
May – Barbara attended the National Archives meeting at the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture in Canberra with Uncle Boydie and Abe Schwarz to look at the original 1930’s petition of William Cooper for recognition and the uplift as he called it of his people. The federal government had refused to forward it to the King of England because Indigenous people were not citizens in their own land. The signatures were missing so we decided to collect them again on a replica of the petition and get it to the Queen. This became Uncle Boydie’s dream. By poetic justice, Uncle Boydie is the grandson of William Cooper and the Queen is the granddaughter of the King who should have received it.
May – Barbara attended a synagogue in Canberra with Uncle Boydie, Abe Schwarz, Glen Sebasio, Joy Salonga and the Jewish community where the petition was launched.
May – Reconciliation Week attended and organized events. Norman and Barbara attended the launch of the Journey of Recognition in Melbourne and started the walk with a large group. Abe and Barbara asked Prime Minister Tony Abbott to sign the Cooper petition which he did.
July – National Aboriginal and Islander Week (NAIDOC) attended and organized events. Norman was often asked to open in prayer.
Norman and Barbara made a video of the Boomerang Petition, Norman’s campaign journey to get constitutional recognition for Indigenous people and removal of racism from the constitution – http://youtu.be/a06cqhZfOwI
Nov – Barbara was invited to speak at the Annual Fundraising Dinner of Courage to Care on William Cooper. Norman donated a painting.
Nov – Norman presented the giant boomerang he made saying “No Discrimination in the Constitution” to Speaker Bronwyn Bishop, Minister Ken Wyatt MP and Warren Entsch MP at Parliament House Canberra. Barbara was with him. Norman also presented an on-paper petition to recognize Indigenous people in the constitution and remove racism from it. Warren Entsch presented it to Parliament in Dec 13.
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2014
March – Our ministry hosted The Islands Look To Me, Purim, the Feast of Esther conference in Cairns. Speakers were Bishop Dominiquae Bierman author and prophetic minister, Eilat Prayer Tower, Israel, Ps Brigitta Punia, Bethel Church Indonesia and Ps Dora Kua PNG who often leads teams to our conferences and Norman and Barbara Miller. Apostle Raynold Bori was to be a speaker but ill-health prevented him. I launched my book on de Quiros at the conference.
May – Reconciliation Week attended and organized events. Barbara, Uncle Boydie and Abe Schwarz handed the Cooper petition replica with many signatures to the Governor General at his Canberra residence with David Jack, who had prepared the documentation, taking photos.
June – Barbara attended the launch in Brisbane of the first Courage to Care workshops in Qld at the invitation of Courage to Care NSW.
July – National Aboriginal and Islander Week (NAIDOC) attended and organized events. Norman was often asked to open in prayer.
July – Norman and Barbara visited Perth to launch the Quiros book on the Duyfken boat replica and to do ministry. Norman gathered signatures for his boomerang petition at NAIDOC events.
July – Norman and Barbara visited Adelaide to launch the Quiros book hosted by Ps Jenny Hagger and to do ministry at a no of venues. Norman gathered signatures for his boomerang petition at NAIDOC events.
Unsure date – Norman and Barbara speakers at ministry events Sunshine Coast hosted by Messianic Jewish singer Susanna Galer and Gold Coast hosted by Prophet Lynne Hamilton. Norman gathered signatures for his boomerang petition.
Sept – Barbara did a Talking About Israel (TAI) Workshop re responding to media run by the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies for the first time in Qld at the Greenslopes synagogue.
Nov – A photo of Uncle Boydie giving the petition to the Governor General with Abe Schwarz and Barbara in it, was put on a memorial on the newly named William Cooper Footbridge in Footscray, Melbourne.
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2015
Jan – Norman and Barbara spoke at Thy Kingdom conference, Southland of the Holy Spirit in Hunter Valley NSW hosted by Dianne Taylor and Barbara launched her book about de Quiros at NSW Parliament with the Hon Rev Fred Nile.
Jan – Norman and Barbara ministered at Arab churches and prayer meetings in Sydney and organized the Sons of Abraham conference
Jan – Norman and Barbara spoke at Emmanuel Blessings with Ps Jack Yeo.
Our ministry made a worship CD of original songs with the help of music producer Chris McKelvie. It is called Reconciliation CD. We had a much earlier worship CD produced with the help of Robyn and Lorraine Smith. Our songwriters are Colleen Burfitt, Norman, Barbara and Thomas Miller. Darryl Miller is on the didjeridoo and Norman on clapsticks on the Reconciliation CD. Debbii uses clapsticks to enhance our church services.
May – Reconciliation Week attended and organized events
July – National Aboriginal and Islander Week (NAIDOC) attended and organized events. Norman was often asked to open in prayer.
Sept – Barbara organized for the Courage to Care team from Sydney to run their anti-bullying program in Catholic schools in the region. They use Holocaust survivors to tell their stories and encourage students not to be bystanders.
Sept – Our ministry hosted the Amos 9:11 Tabernacle of David Conference, Cairns. Speakers were Margot Gabriel, Egypt, Ps Phil Plotnek, Beit HaMaschiach, Melbourne, Mary Jones, Sydney, Founder International Dance Fellowship, Chris McKelvie, music producer Purple Sound Studios, Joanne Miller and Norman and Barbara Miller.
Sept – Our ministry hosted the Sons of Abraham Conference, Sydney. Speakers – Ps Bassem Adranly, Christian Arab from Jerusalem, Director of Open Church Media Ministry ‘Alkanisa” and prolific author, Ps Shelley and June Volk, USA who run a radio program “For Zion’s Sake,” Rabbi Lawrence Hirsch of Beit HaMashiach Melbourne, Ps George Fattal, facilator of Arab Pastors Network in Sydney, Bob Mendelsohn, leader of Jews for Jesus AustralAsia, Ps John and Magda Ackad, NSW reps of Middle East Christian Outreach (MECO) and Norman and Barbara Miller.
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2016
Feb – Norman was invited to speak by Australian Christian Nation Association at the commemoration of the first church service in Australia by Rev Richard Johnstone in 1788. The event was at Richard Johnstone Square, Sydney.
Feb – Norman and Barbara ministered for Ps Jack Yeo, Emmanuel Blessings
Feb – Barbara interviewed Jewish and Christian Arab women for her Faces of Eve book series
Feb – Norman and Barbara attended the National Day of Prayer and Fasting in Canberra
Feb – Norman presented his final signatures on the Boomerang Petition to recognize Indigenous People in the constitution and remove racism from it to Minister Ken Wyatt MP, the Speaker and Clerk of the House and Warren Entsch MP and Warren Entsch MP presented it to Parliament. There were over 5,000 signatures on it that Norman gathered personally from around Australia over a number of years from Cairns, meetings of mayors of remote Aboriginal communities in north Qld, the Sunshine Coast, Gold Coast, Brisbane, Sydney at Yabun Festival and on street corners, Redfern, Canberra, Adelaide and Perth.
Unsure of date – Norman launched his art book – Reef and Rainforest at both Courage to Care and NSW Parliament in Sydney.
May – Norman and Barbara visit Chicago for Norman to receive an IPPY award – the Multicultural Non-fiction Adult bronze medal for his book Reef and Rainforest. We attended Solel Synagogue, Highland Park, Illinois, the Illinois Holocaust Museum on the Saturday and Stone church, Orland Park on Sunday where the Azusa St revival had moved to about 100 years previously.
May – Reconciliation Week attended and organized events
July – National Aboriginal and Islander Week (NAIDOC) attended and organized events. Norman was often asked to open in prayer.
Oct – Launch of Barbara’s book The Dying Days of Segregation in Australia: Case Study Yarrabah at Yarrabah Aboriginal community on the 30th anniversary of the Deed of Grant in Trust land legislation.
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2017
May – Reconciliation Week attended and organized events
June – Barbara attended the 60th anniversary of the 1957 strike to end oppressive conditions on Palm Island.
July – National Aboriginal and Islander Week (NAIDOC) attended and organized events. Norman was often asked to open in prayer.
July – Norman and Barbara found the Indigenous Friends of Israel to counter Bob Carr’s attempt to steer the ALP in an anti-Israel direction.
Sept – Norman and Barbara as Australian leaders took a group to the Welcome the King of Glory Conference in Israel hosted by Messianic Jewish leaders in Israel and the All Pacific Prayer Assembly.
Sept-Oct – Our ministry hosted the Sons of Abraham Conference, Jerusalem. Speakers were Ps Avner Boskey, Messianic Jewish author and musician from near Be’er-Sheva, Ps Bassem Adranly, Christian Arab from Jerusalem, Director of Open Church Media Ministry, Ps Shlomy and Miriam Abramov, Awake Israel, Rishon Le Zion, Ps Oren Lev Ari, King of Glory, Jerusalem, Ps Naim Khoury Arab pastor, First Baptist Church, Bethlehem and Norman and Barbara. Worship was led by Avner and Rachel Boskey, and Ruth Webb and team, Tabernacle of David Bendigo and Colleen Burfitt, Tabernacle of David Cairns.
Sept-Oct Norman and Barbara hosted the Sons of Abraham and ANZAC Tour Israel with 50 international participants. We were in Be’er-Sheva for the centenary of the Battle of Be’er-Sheva and visited many holy sites as well as many battle sites. We prayed throughout Judea and Samaria and on the borders of Israel.
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2018
2 or 3 nights a week – Worship Ministry on the Cairns Esplanade by Norman
Weekly – bread ministry by church team
May – Reconciliation Week attended and organized events
July – National Aboriginal and Islander Week (NAIDOC) attended and organized events. Norman was often asked to open in prayer.
July – Norman and Barbara hosted and spoke at Tabernacle of David workshops in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra
July – Barbara gave a lunchtime lecture as the Sydney Jewish Museum on her memoir White Woman Black Heart book talking about her experiences working with Indigenous and Jewish people.
July – Norman and Barbara spoke at a Shalom Israel event at the Beth Weizmann Centre Melbourne on the Indigenous Friends of Israel. The event brought together the Jewish, Christian and Aboriginal communities to support Israel. Norman presented a cake with Happy 70th birthday Israel on it to John Searle, a Melbourne barrister, on behalf of the Jewish community. John was also a speaker.
Sept – Our church attended the Family Gathering in Cairns hosted by Ps Melissa and Peter Haigh. Barbara was on the intercessory team for a few weeks before the conference as well as during it. Ps David Demian was one of the speakers.
Sept – Visit to Mapoon Aboriginal community for the Paanja Festival to gift her book White Woman Black Heart: Journey Home to Old Mapoon, A Memoir. Earlier visit in 2016 to get permission to write it.
Oct – Barbara was shortlisted for the Qld Literary Awards for the Premier’s Award for a Work of State Significance, the main award and Norman and Barbara attend the award night in Brisbane.
Oct – Norman and Barbara spoke at a Tabernacle of David workshop on the Sunshine Coast hosted by Jasmine and Damien Kohlman. Barbara spoke at Ps Roy Funu’s New Life South Pacific church in the Sunshine Coast on de Quiros.
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2019
2 or 3 nights a week – Worship Ministry on the Cairns Esplanade by Norman
Weekly – bread ministry by church team
Jan – 2-day Australia Day Prayer conference, Canberra
Jan – Norman offered to present the boomerang he gave to Speaker Bronwyn Bishop to the Museum of Australian Democracy. Ms Bishop had left parliament and left the boomerang in the safe keeping of Warren Entsch MP who later gave it to the Museum. The boomerang called for removal of discrimination from the Australian constitution.
Feb – Launch of If I Survive Nazi Germany and the Jews, 100-Year-Old Lena Goldstein’s Miracle Story book at Sydney Jewish Museum and Jewish Holocaust Centre Melbourne
Tabernacle of David congregation set up in Canberra under our covering of Tabernacle of David Cairns. Co-leaders are Glen Sebasio and Ps Irwin Ross
May – Barbara spoke at the Great Synagogue in Sydney for a Nations Bless Israel event hosted by the Hon Rev Fred Nile and the Jewish community. As it was Mothers’ Day, there were two Jewish women and two Christian women speakers and Barbara spoke on Ruth.
May – Reconciliation Week attended and organized events
July – National Aboriginal and Islander Week (NAIDOC) attended and organized events. Norman was often asked to open in prayer.
August – Shirley, Deborah and Barbara Miller attended Robert Henderson’s Courts of Heaven conference in Brisbane
Dec – Barbara had speaking engagements in Melbourne re the Kristallnacht and William Cooper march anniversaries – the Richmond Football Club gala dinner and the Lamm Library. Norman and Barbara attended commemorations at Monash University and Barbara was asked to share a scripture at Temple Beth Israel, St Kilda where the world premiere of the Kristallnacht Cantata – A Voice of Courage was performed. It was a is a collaboration between South African-born artistic director and lyricist, Ron Jontof-Hutter, and Israeli-born composer, Alon Trigger and was an exchange in song between William Cooper and Ron’s grandfather who was captured at Kristallnacht and sent to Dachau concentration camp.
All year – Norman and Barbara set up the Gathering Apostolic and Prophetic (GAP) prayer network praying daily at home and in fortnightly zoom meetings for the government of our nation with various intercessors taking on the role of federal government portfolios as shadow ministers to research and hear from the Lord. Based on Ezek 22:30.
All year – Celebrating all Biblical/Jewish feasts
2020
2 or 3 nights a week – Worship Ministry on the Cairns Esplanade by Norman
Weekly – bread ministry by church team
Jan – 3-day Australia Day Prayer conference, Canberra hosted by CFIRP
Jan – Barbara spoke at the launch of her 2 William Cooper books at the Sydney Jewish Museum – White Australia Has A Black History: William Cooper And First Nations Peoples’ Political Activism and Shattered Lives Broken Dreams: William Cooper and Australian Aborigines Protest Holocaust. Norman presented a canvas painting of the cover of Barbara’s 2012 book William Cooper Gentle Warrior.
Feb – Norman and Barbara attended the National Day of Prayer and Fasting in Canberra and led some worship and prayer. Barbara prayed for youth to arise. She had previously written on how to pray for Indigenous youth for a youth ministry. Norman and Barbara attended a youth ministry dinner.
Feb – Norman presented the giant Religious Freedom boomerang he made to Senator Concetta Fierravanti-wells at Parliament House Canberra because of her work in this area.
Feb – Norman and Barbara attended the Jerusalem prayer breakfast at Old Parliament House Canberra and they had an opportunity to share.
May – Reconciliation Week attended and organized events
July – National Aboriginal and Islander Week (NAIDOC) attended and organized events. Norman was often asked to open in prayer.
First half of year – Barbara wrote a chapter re our ministry journey in opening the door for the Canberra Declaration in a book edited by Kurt Mahlburg and Warwick Marsh called The Blessing of Almighty God.
First half of year – Barbara wrote a chapter re the Bethany Gate All Pacific Prayer Assembly in Cairns in 2006 for a book called Success Code. She also turned If I Survive into an audio book.
First half of year – Barbara wrote three Christian journals – My Prayer Journal: Pressing into the Heart of the Father, My Sermon Notes: Capturing the Peals of Wisdom and Making Them Mine, and My Bible Study Journal: Unearth Riches, Discover God’s Promises and Enjoy Guidance for Your Life.
Sept – Norman and Barbara were asked to share and lead prayer with many other Indigenous and non-Indigenous leaders for the National Solemn Prayer Assembly with a focus on Indigenous leaders. It was hosted by the Canberra Declaration.
Sept – Yom Kippur, zoom service hosted by our ministry with speaker Ps Avner Boskey, Messianic Jewish author and musician who lives near Be’er-Sheva in Israel with his wife Rachel. They are the founders of Final Frontier Ministries and they led worship for us. Barbara also spoke.
Oct – Sukkot zoom service hosted by Ps Jack Yeo, Emmanuel Blessings. Speakers – Dr George Annadorai, Singapore, Norman & Barbara Miller, Australia & Messianic music by Israel Roytman
Nov – podcast with Barbara Miller and Radio Host Marina Maria, Ambassador of USGWCCCE Native American National Director.
All year – Norman and Barbara founded the Tabernacle of David Asia Pacific Prayer Network (TODAPP) with pastors and intercessors from many nations taking part in fortnightly zoom meeting with wonderful speakers sharing for the first 15mins of our 2hour sessions. There was also a focus on praying for Israel and the Isaiah 19 highway. Some of the speakers were Albert Veksler of the Jerusalem Prayer Breakfast from Israel, Ps Shlomy and Miriam Abramov from Israel, Dr Rev George Annadorai from Singapore and Ps Emmanuel Fave, Chair All Pacific Prayer Assembly and Ps Jack Yeo of Sydney.
All year – Norman and Barbara facilitated the Gathering Apostolic and Prophetic (GAP) prayer network praying daily at home and in fortnightly zoom meetings for the government of our nation with various intercessors taking on the role of federal government portfolios as shadow ministers to research and hear from the Lord. Based on Ezek 22:30.
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2021
2 or 3 nights a week – Worship Ministry on the Cairns Esplanade by Norman
Weekly – bread ministry by church team
Jan – Australia Day Prayer conference all day online. Great attendance from around Australia with video messages from Senator Eric Abetz, Senator Amanda Stoker and the Hon Rev Fred Nile. Also, prayers by Brian Pickering, the Australian Prayer Network and Ps Warwick Marsh and Ps Peter Walker, Canberra Declaration. All states were involved plus Indigenous leaders from the states and various ethnic groups were represented.
May – Reconciliation Week attended and organized events
July – National Aboriginal and Islander Week (NAIDOC) attended and organized events. Norman was often asked to open in prayer.
Part of the year – Norman and Barbara facilitated the Tabernacle of David Asia Pacific Prayer Network (TODAPP) with pastors and intercessors from many nations taking part in fortnightly zoom meeting with wonderful speakers sharing for the first 15mins of our 2hour sessions. There was also a focus on praying for Israel and the Isaiah 19 highway.
Till midyear – Norman and Barbara facilitated the Gathering Apostolic and Prophetic (GAP) prayer network praying daily at home and in fortnightly zoom meetings for the government of our nation with various intercessors taking on the role of federal government portfolios as shadow ministers to research and hear from the Lord. Based on Ezek 22:30.
Our ministry set up the Voice of First Nations People Against Euthanasia as the Qld Parliament wanted to legislate it. Norman did many interviews and wrote articles that were published.
July – Barbara wrote a chapter for Jill Curry’s upcoming book – Keys to Australia’s Destiny.
Sept – Our ministry prepared a 15 min video presentation for the Declaration on the eve of Rosh HaShanah 5782 Supporting Israel. On 2 September, the International Coalition for Israel and the European Coalition for Israel had a 6-hour live-streamed event where Christian and Jewish communities around the world contributed short pre-recorded segments which included a declaration of support for Israel. It was also a response to the 20th anniversary of the Durban conference that originated the Boycott, Divest and Sanction (BDS) movement and put out false propaganda that Israel is a racist and apartheid state responsible for crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing. It demanded the re-institution of the UN resolution equating Zionism with racism.
Sept – Yom Teruah or Feast of Trumpets Global Virtual Revival Fire Conference hosted by Emmanuel Blessings. Speakers Ps David Silver, Israel, Dr Kameel Majdali, UK and Ps Barbara Miller, Australia.
Sept – The Embassy of Israel in Australia in collaboration with the Embassy of Israel in NZ facilitated a discussion by zoom between Norman and Barbara of the Australian Indigenous Friends of Israel and the newly established Indigenous Coalition for Israel of New Zealand.
Oct – Marina Maria, a Native American leader and podcaster asked Barbara to do a message on her book Secrets and Lies: The Shocking Truth of Recent Australian Aboriginal History, A Memoir as a message to Christian First Nations people in the USA and this will air soon.
Oct – Barbara set up the Indigenous Friends of Israel website.
Oct – Our ministry organized a 25th birthday celebration in house and Barbara organized one by zoom on Nov 1 and updated our website
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Dates we can’t remember
We can’t remember all the speakers we have had at our church but these stand out as a blessing – Victor Schlatter, South Pacific Islands Ministries, Ps Vuniani from Fiji, Ps Phil Plotnek, Ps Daniel Shayesteh, Kathie Walters, Ps Jack Briscoe, Kevin Walsh, Ann Pollard, Eileen Macdonald with dance workshops, Hebrew language lessons by Ronit, the Australian Prayer Network Vietnam War healing meetings etc.
We also assisted Jewish young people who travelled to Cairns after coming out of the army. One young man was killed in a motorbike accident and another was seriously ill in hospital in a coma. We visited him and prayed for him and he pulled through. We accommodated the two young women travelling with them in our church in Clare St where they slept under an Israeli flag which was already there. The Consul General from Sydney came up to help them and we met him then. We have also had teams of YWAM people visit us and we have accommodated them in our Sheridan St church and assisted them with their ministry. We also ran Alpha courses.