Living Waters Ministries all began in Mareeba with Ps Adem & Fitret Xhafer and Ps Jeff and Vicky Xhafer leading the team. Ps Adem & Fitret have since moved to Cairns with Jeff and Vicky remaining in Mareeba.

Mareeba Shire covers an area of 53 457km², which stretches across the base of Cape York Peninsula. Mareeba, with a population of 8000, is the main commercial and administrative centre and lies 64km south west of Cairns. It is the largest of the four shires on the Atherton Tablelands.

The Mareeba Living Waters Church has just moved to a new location closer to the centre of town. We are now at 255 Byrnes Street so be sure to update your address books and come along to check out what God is doing on the Atherton Tablelands.

We work in close conjunction with the Cairns Living Waters church and regularly have conferences and special guests coming from all over Australia to minister at our church.

Please come along and be blessed that we can live in such a wonderful area and still worship the God we love.

A Message from Pastor Jeff...

Born Again in Lotus Glen!
Hi, my name is PJ or Cowboy Preacher,
At least this is how I am fondly known by many of the inmates. Many of the prisoners have huge problems stemming way back to their childhood. I'm sure I could shock maany of you with the testimonies I have heard of the past ten years in prison ministry.

Nobody gets up one monring and says... Right, I'll just go and take someone's life today. These crimes are mainly committed because of buried hurts - internal pain and undelt anger. As on inmate shared, two seconds of uncontrollable anger cost me 25 years of my life. This man is now a repented fully converted Christian.

On a weekly basis we see genuine conversion, and currently our church is sponsoring one ex-inmate released into the church's care. Many of these people are looking for someone to give them a second chance. We all make mistakes and if we could learn to fail-forward, then we have learned a good lesson.

Please pray for - The Chaplains, prison staff, and inmates, that together we can make a difference.

God Bless, Ps Jeff.

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Every month our staff work tirelessly to produce a newsletter to keep everyone up to date with current events. Here you can download the newsletters in PDF format (so you will need adobe acrobat reader to view them). This way you can stay informed at the touch of a button. If you have something to contribute, or need in the coming newsletter please contact the relevant church by clicking the links at the top of the page. There you will find the appropriate email address and phone numbers. We would like to encourage you to bookmark this page and come back to find out what's happening every month!

To open a newsletter simply left click on the name (e.g. Mareeba June 06 Newsletter) and the PDF document will open in a new browser window, or to download the PDF document simply right click on the name (e.g. Mareeba June 06 Newsletter) and choose “Save Target As”.

To view each of the newsletters you will need to have installed on your computer an application called the Adobe Acrobat Reader. It's a free piece of software which will allow you to open PDF documents.

You can contact the Mareeba Living Waters office at anytime during the week, from 9am-5pm. If you have trouble getting through on the telephone please contact us by email or fax, we will endeavor to reply to all enquires as soon as possible.