So said Bishop Corletta Vaughn from Detroit USA at a ”Camp Meeting” ! It has taken several years to work through the process of how much I too must change, in order for me to stay abreast with God’s leading here in the Ministry at “Mamre”. Seven years ago together with Doreen and supported by the Rev Alan and Dorothy Langstaff (the original Founders of Vision Ministries) I handed the Leadership of Vision Ministries over to the Rev. Jeffrey and Rebecca Evans, and what seemed simple for everybody else has been a struggle for me. I guess that’s why it has been a process and not an easy “Snap” one.

The Rev Dan Armstrong recently questioned me, “How have you handled handing over the Ministry Harry?” I responded to his question “With great difficulty for a long time, but it’s easy now!” It’s amazing how one can change over a seven year period! My struggle has had nothing to do with Jeff and Rebecca, they are my family and I love them dearly, but that seven years has been all about “ME”!

I’d become very possessive of what God had done here at “Mamre”, on old Westcott land, that I’d been honoured to now own. “Land Rights” is not just an Aboriginal idea, it’s very much a “White Fella” deal too! Praise God His Holy Spirit has broken that ancestral hardness in my heart and melted and moulded me into a different person altogether. From Heaven I believe all my forebears are rejoicing that this little block of Australia has truly become “Holy Ground”.

How privileged and blessed Doreen and I have been to be the “Founders” of this amazing Missionary Base of Christian Ministry now known around the world as “Mamre Farm”. Releasing this ministry to Jeff and Bec has been a journey of complete surrender and I can’t make any other person understand the spiritual reality of those facts.

Doreen and I never came here following a “Call” from God. We simply came to escape from judgmental Christians! We were “hurt”, “broke ”, “burnt out ”, “ lonely ”, and overwhelmed with “failure”! But out here in the ol d home my mother gave me, where I grew up, Jesus c ame and appeared to me afresh and s a id: “ I’m here Harry, and I like what I see”! I replied: “You, This is Nazareth, I was born here, and you didn’t do much at Nazareth! What’ll they do to me? Jesus then said this to me and it changed my life forever; “Harry, I was never called Jesus of Jerusalem, I’m Jesus from Nazareth”! What a revelation? So like Nazareth, from Alectown (where you can’t even buy a coke) you can reach the world in Jesus Name.

This year is our 22nd”Old Fashioned Revival Camp Meeting” and fondly nicknamed by the youth over the years as “Harry’s Camp”. Well this is my last Camp! Next year I believe God will do a new thing as Jeff and Rebecca lead you into a whole new way of living in God’s wonderful presence.