Prayer Requests, April 22, 2012
Los Angeles
The entire church in Los Angeles will have a joint meeting Lord's Day, May 6, starting at 10 am. We will have the Lord's Table together, ministry of the word, and testimonies of some things the Lord is doing among us. We will also have the annual business meeting of the church.
This meeting will NOT be at our Haskell hall. We have rented a larger facility at Los Angeles Mission College in Sylmar. There will also be rooms for children's meetings and a room for mothers with babies. We will have translation via FM radio. The room has handicapped access. Parking is free. Detailed directions with a map will be distributed by Wednesday of this week.
Ask the Lord to blend us more into the reality of His one Body, to impart more of His living word into each one of us, and to supply us to pursue Him in vitalization, companionization, and gospelizing.
Korean-Speaking Gospel
The Korean-speaking saints in Los Angeles will have a gospel feast Saturday, April 28, 6:30 pm in hall 1. We have 80 new ones invited to this feast. They are almost all our friends, relatives, work colleagues, and lost lambs. We will invite them to dinner followed by a gospel meeting. Please pray for 1) release of these 80 contacts to come to gospel feast, 2) for the atmosphere of Father's love and joy in dinner and meeting, 3) for salvation of new ones, 4) for continuing contact with them for feeding. Lord, gain one remaining fruit per two saints in this year.
South Africa
This week Dick Taylor is caring for the first week of a two-week perfecting training in South Africa. He is assisted by four local brothers. He will return to L.A. on April 30. James Lee, who came back to the U.S. from Ethiopia April 17, leaves again April 27 to return to Africa to take care of the second week, which will conclude May 5. (He will then go to Boston for a while, then Israel, back to Boston, then come back to Southern California).
Many saints have taken off from work to attend this 2 week perfecting training. Please pray that the Lord will enlighten and constitute them all.
Please pray for the Lord's strengthening to Dick, James, and the other traveling brothers.
East Africa
A number of coworkers are traveling in East Africa from mid-April to early May. In addition to the conferences last week in Kenya and Uganda, there will be a visitation to Tanzania (a nation in which the Lord has yet to establish His testimony) in order to meet with a positive contact. Please pray that:
- The Lord would raise up a lampstand in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo (on the border of Congo and Rwanda). Pray for the brothers as they visit the saints in Goma.
- The Lord would use this visit to Tanzania, (April 27th to May 1st) to open a door for the ministry, and His testimony. Lord, begin moving toward the church in Dar es Salaam (capital city of Tanzania).
Ethiopia
A young married brother is open to serve the Lord full-time. Pray that the Lord would work out everything for him to serve and for many others to follow him to serve the Lord full-time to meet the need there in Ethiopia. There are 1000's of Christians who are open to the Lord's recovery but there are not enough workers to take care of this need.
San Marcos, California
It is very encouraging what the Lord is doing with college students who have been contacted at Cal State San Marcos and Mira Costa College. There are meetings on campus and in homes (small numbers Mondays and Wednesdays, larger on Fridays) and one-on-one appointments. We have encouraged the students themselves to pick up more responsibility for the Friday meeting. This seems to have really fostered some growth in the 10 to 20 that attend this meeting. A small number of students have also been involved helping cook food.
Last week eleven attended the college conference in Anaheim on the Priesthood and two students were baptized, one at the conference and the other after the prayer meeting in Vista with about twelve students attending and praying for their college classmate and sister. A parent and brother of one of the new students from Cal State attended the baptism and enjoyed the time very much, this being their first contact with the church.
At the current time, the community gospel in San Marcos is continuing through a monthly time of door knocking which involves saints from San Diego, Irvine and Vista.
Please pray for:
- Additional positive couples who would move to San Marcos to support and strengthen the campus and community work so the Lord's testimony can be more solidly established.
- That the Lord's table can be established in San Marcos this year.
- More homes in San Marcos to be opened and families to be gained as a basis for the church life.
Poland
The national conference in Poland is 28 April — May 1. Please pray for the gathering of the saints in Poland and for the advance of the Lord's move in that country through the rich ministry in His recovery. Please pray also for the co-workers' visitation to different cities in Poland following the conference.
Announcements
- The deadline to register for the July 2-7 summer training in Anaheim is April 24. Also, register now for video trainings.
- Morning revival: REPEAT Psalms, week 22. The following week (April 30-May 6) we will use Psalms, week 24.
- The Memorial Day Conference will be Friday night, May 25 through Monday noon, May 28, in Bellevue, Washington. Information is posted at https://churchinlosangeles.org/prayer/. If you will take children, register them with your district by April 27.
Prayer Requests, April 15, 2012
"The Bountiful Supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ"
Philippians 1:19 contains the secret to experiencing Christ— the bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ….Paul and Silas lived in this Spirit and received the supply from the Spirit. Therefore...even in suffering and in prison (Acts 16), they magnified Christ. To preach the gospel is to magnify Christ. As we have seen, it is a matter of the Body, but it also depends on the magnifying of the Lord in our life. Wherever we are, in school or at the store, among neighbors or among relatives, there must be the magnifying of Christ in our life. We cannot preach the gospel only by our word. We have to preach the gospel by magnifying Christ. We need to experience Christ within and learn the secret of how to experience Christ; then we will have an overflow of Christ. This overflowing is the real preaching. (from Preaching the Gospel in the Way of Life, by Witness Lee, ch. 8; it is available online; select the book in the alphabetical list, then select the chapter in the upper right)
Santa Monica
Lord, thrust out some couples or families to Santa Monica soon to begin an English-speaking group there (while also having fellowship with the Spanish-speaking groups).
Santa Barbara
Please pray for 1) migration of young couples or families who have experience with college students and 2) gaining of local families with homes open to church life.
Young People
Please pray for all the high school seniors to be one with the Lord in choosing where to go to college.
Africa - This Week
The past weekend through Tuesday Dick Taylor is in Ethiopia. Dick reports that they are having a wonderful time. Mid-week Dick and Paul Cooke from London are in Kenya for much fellowship packed around a short conference. Thursday through Saturday Dick and Paul will be in Uganda for more fellowship packed around another short conference. Dick will then go to South Africa.
- Pray for more vision of Christ Himself and much enjoyment of Him in the conferences and afterwards.
- Pray for much life imparted into the mortal bodies of the traveling brothers, and for a bountiful supply of life and light in all their times of fellowship with African saints.
- Pray that everything during these weeks turn out to salvation so that the Lord can gain Zion in Africa.
Africa - Last Week (a report from Dick Taylor and James Lee)
Since West Africa does not have any video trainings, the conferences in Ghana (James and others) and Nigeria (Dick and others) were on Psalms. The revelation of Christ in Psalms was very encouraging and uplifting to the saints and their response with the exercise of their spirit was the best ever - thank you saints for your prayers! On the Lord's day there were over 440 saints in the conference meeting in Ghana.
About 70 saints under 45 years of age met together with Paul Nii-Aryee (long ago was in church in L.A. as a young boy with his parents; migrated from U.S. to Ghana this month), hungry to be constituted with the ministry. They want to set up some kind of network to encourage one another to go on. Pray for these young adults to continue to rise up for the Lord's moving in West Africa, for life to flow freely.
The ITERO last week with the West African brothers was so rich and encouraging; we all felt we were just under the Lord's shepherding. Even in matters difficult to fellowship, the Lord paved the way. At the conclusion, we sensed the real oneness in the burden to build up His Body and sensed such joy in being with one another—it was truly "How good and How pleasant" because of the Lord's commanded blessing on the oneness. Please tell the saints that their prayers are being answered.
The saints and the people are quite open. However, it is not easy for them to go anywhere to blend—airfare is so expensive and roads are dangerous. Two brothers who tried to come to the conference from Central African Republic had to turn back because they were robbed of all and beaten. Pray for all the saints there to be comforted.
Internet
Ask the Lord to raise up a small internet team in Los Angeles to participate in propagating the ministry and shepherding seeking saints.
Idaho
The churches in Salt Lake City and Lyman, Wyoming invite you to Pocatello, Idaho on the weekend of April 20-22. Our burden this year is different—we encourage the saints to come together to be blended and built up through serving together, to give a weekend to serve the Lord together for His interest and for His move among us. We will go door-to-door in some neighborhoods, have BFA distributions, and distribute gospel tracts. Saturday evening we will have a Bible seminar and/or gospel meeting, depending upon the need. We will also try to have a table on the Idaho State University campus every day the week prior to this weekend for any who could come for all or part of that. Please pray for the manifestation of the Lord's victory here!
BfA Spanish-speaking Perfecting
On Saturday, April 21, over 100 saints from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York will participate in the next section of their Spanish-speaking perfecting training. This will focus on the importance, purpose, and content of the home meetings as a crucial component for the practice of the God-ordained way.
These saints will also begin contacting Spanish-speaking BfA recipients. Because many of these recipients have already expressed an interest in being contacted by BfA volunteers, this is an excellent opportunity for the saints to practice cherishing and nourishing the new ones in the home meetings.
Please pray that:
- The saints participating in the training be ushered into the practicality of the God-ordained way.
- Many new meetings be established in the homes of local Bible and book recipients so that they would be shepherded into the practical church life.
France
The annual conference in Paris will be April 21-22.
Announcements
- The deadline to register for the July 2-7 summer training in Anaheim is April 24. Also, register now for video trainings.
- Morning revival: Psalms, week 23. After Psalms, weeks 23-24, we will use The Focus of the Lord's Recovery (Thanksgiving conference).
- The Memorial Day Conference will be Friday night, May 25 through Monday noon, May 28, in Bellevue, Washington. Information is posted at https://churchinlosangeles.org/prayer/. If you will take children, register them with your district by April 27.
Prayer Requests, April 8, 2012
"Christ Will Be Magnified...to Me, to Live is Christ"
Paul and Silas were put into prison in Philippi (Acts 16:23-25). The magistrates charged the jailer to keep them securely, so he put them into the inner prison and secured their feet in the stocks. At that time Paul and Silas did not preach. They were simply filled with Christ and filled with the Spirit, and at midnight they sang hymns of praise to the Lord. That was not merely preaching in word; that was the expression of Christ, the outward expression of the inner life. That was a strong example of the genuine preaching of the gospel, and the jailer, the keeper of the prison, was saved....The proper preaching of the gospel is the very expression of Christ. (from Preaching the Gospel in the Way of Life, by Witness Lee, chap. 8; it is available online; select the book in the alphabetical list, then select the chapter in the upper right)
College Conference
This weekend college students from across southern California will gather in Anaheim for a conference on the priesthood. Please pray that the Lord would gather many students to receive this word, that their time of taking hospitality in the homes of nearby saints would be blessed, and that through this conference the Lord would gain more of the reality of the New Testament priesthood among His believers.
Junior High Conferences
The junior high brothers' and sisters' conferences are this weekend. Please pray that the junior high brothers and sisters would receive a visitation from the Lord during these conferences. Pray that their hearts would be soft, that the spoken word would be clear and that the atmosphere would allow the Lord to speak to His people's heart.
Sixth Grade Conference Parents and Serving Ones' Training
The sixth grade conference is very important for our young people (many of which have perhaps just recently received the Lord, or will receive the Lord at this conference). Hence, there is an important need for those serving at this conference to come to a special training and preparation fellowship that will be held on Saturday, April 28, 9:30AM to 12:00PM at 1916 W. Ball Rd, Anaheim, 92804.
We ask at least one parent of each 6th grader going to the conference to attend this important time. Also, all the saints planning to go to the conference as serving ones for the 6th graders, as well as any college age saints who are burdened for the 6th graders should attend. To register for this time please go to http://scyp.com and click on "Event Registration."
Africa
Monday through Wednesday Dick Taylor, James Lee, and other traveling brothers will be in Ghana to repeat the eight messages from the recent ITERO in Anaheim. Thursday through next week Monday Dick Taylor and another brother will be in Ethiopia for a conference on Enjoying Christ as Revealed in the Book of Psalms followed by a condensed version of ITERO. Please pray
- for more vision of Christ Himself and much enjoyment of Him in the conferences and afterwards;
- that through the trainings many brothers get deeper into the first love for the Lord and living and working one with Him that they may be patterns for all in the churches to follow;
- for much life imparted into the mortal bodies of the traveling brothers, and for a rich supply of life and light in all their times of fellowship with African saints;
- that everything during these weeks of travel turn out to salvation so that the Lord can gain Zion in Africa.
Training Registration
The summer training in Anaheim will be July 2-7. The registration deadline is Tuesday, April 24. There will also be video trainings in L.A. Pray for more brothers and sisters, especially those who are younger or who have never been to a training, to be released from other things and stirred to register for Anaheim or video.
Portugal
Please pray for:
- the word spoken in the March conference to become constituted into the saints for the Lord's expression in Portugal and in the Iberian Peninsula;
- the gaining of the households that are being contacted in Lisbon and the beginning of a children's meeting so that the next generation can be gained;
- the Lord to open up a flat for the couple in Lisbon near where they live now, in view of their continuing to have daily contact with the neighboring households.
A one page report from Portugal is at https://churchinlosangeles.org/prayer/.
Announcements
- The deadline to register for the July 2-7 summer training in Anaheim is April 24. Also, register now for video trainings.
- Morning revival: Psalms, week 22. After Psalms, weeks 22-24, we will use The Focus of the Lord's Recovery (Thanksgiving conference).
- The Memorial Day Conference will be Friday night, May 25 through Monday noon, May 28, in Bellevue, Washington. Information is posted at https://churchinlosangeles.org/prayer/. If you will take children, register them with your district by April 27.
- Since 2004 LSM has sent five large containers of used books to Africa and India. These books have been a great blessing to seekers there. LSM continues to collect used ministry books in English for further distributions. They suggest that you remove any personal information before donating the books. Bring books to your meeting hall any time throughout this year.
Prayer Requests, April 1, 2012
"Christ Will Be Magnified...to Live is Christ"
"For I know that for me this will turn out to salvation through your petition and the bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, according to my earnest expectation and hope that in nothing I will be put to shame, but with all boldness, as always, even now Christ will be magnified in my body, whether through life or through death. For to me, to live is Christ…" (Phil. 1:19-21)
The book of Philippians is the unique book that tells us how to experience Christ. The experience of Christ is for the preaching of the gospel, and the preaching of the gospel is the very experience of Christ….When we express Christ, when we live out Christ, and when Christ is expressed through us, there is the preaching of the gospel….When the branches experience the life of the tree, the bearing of fruit eventually comes out. Bearing fruit is the outworking of the inner experience of life….The more the branches properly experience the life of the tree, the more fruit they will bear. In the same way, the preaching of the gospel is the outworking of Christ experienced by us. If we experience Christ, there is the outworking of this life, that is, the preaching of the gospel. (from Preaching the Gospel in the Way of Life, by Witness Lee, ch. 8; it is available online; select the book in the alphabetical list, then select the chapter in the upper right)
Training Registration
The summer training in Anaheim will be July 2-7. The registration deadline is Tuesday, April 24. There will also be several video trainings in L.A. Pray for more brothers and sisters, especially those who are younger and those who have never been to a training, to be released from other things and stirred to register for Anaheim or video.
Santa Monica
The church in L.A. has an on-going work at Santa Monica College, several saints from L.A. work in Santa Monica, and a few who live in Santa Monica meet in hall 5. Three groups of Spanish-speaking saints also meet in Santa Monica. Lord, raise up some English-speaking couples to continue the church life in Santa Monica with the Spanish-speakers and their English-speaking young people and children who are there.
Africa
Please pray for the Lord's move in Africa. From now through May 5 there will be conferences, trainings, and perfecting fellowship in many parts of Africa. The coming weekend Dick Taylor and Tim Knoppe from Michigan will be in Nigeria for a conference; James Lee and Paul Nii-Aryee will be in Ghana for a conference. Next week Monday through Wednesday all four brothers will be in Ghana to repeat the eight messages from last weekend's ITERO in Anaheim. Specific directions for prayer:
- The conferences will be on Enjoying Christ as Revealed in the Book of Psalms; pray for more vision of Christ Himself and much enjoyment of Him in the conferences and afterwards.
- Pray that through the trainings many brothers get deeper into the first love for the Lord and living and working one with Him that they may be patterns for all in the churches to follow.
- Paul and Pamela Nii-Aryee and their three children are migrating from the U.S. to Accra, Ghana for the campus work and to strengthen the church life there.
- Pray for much life imparted into the mortal bodies of the traveling brothers, and for a rich supply of life and light in all their times of fellowship with African saints.
- Pray that everything during these five weeks turn out to salvation so that the Lord can gain Zion in Africa.
Malaysia
The annual English-speaking conference in Kuching, East Malaysia is April 6-8. The subject is "The Will of God" as presented by Ron Kangas at the Southeast Blending Conference in Jacksonville, Florida.
- Please pray for brothers David Vinson and Ken Walker in their travel and in their care for this conference.
- Please pray for the saints to be filled with the full knowledge of His will. Also, pray that the saints would experience the fresh seeing of His will, the knowing of His will, and give themselves to the doing His will.
CSUN Spring Break
Some CSUN students are at FTTA Monday through Wednesday. Friday through Lord's Day some will visit Riverside for blending. Please pray that the students have a good taste of the FTTA and that many new ones can join them for the weekend in Riverside.
Young People
Please pray for all the high school seniors to be one with the Lord in choosing where to go to college.
Mexico
Two thousand saints will gather for the national conference in the Mexico City metro area April 6 to 8. Please pray for:
- the release of God's fresh speaking for the encouragement of the churches and the saints;
- more blending during the meetings and in the homes;
- the safety of the traveling saints.
European Training and Conference
ITERO messages from last weekend in Anaheim will be respoken in London Wednesday and Thursday of this week for responsible brothers of the churches in Europe. This will be followed by a six meeting European conference Friday through Lord's Day for everyone.
New Zealand
This week is the New Zealand National Conference in Auckland. Ask the Lord to take another step in His recovery in New Zealand.
Lyon, France
One sister from here is in FTT. Two others wish to begin FTT London this fall. How much we want to see this first generation of French young people answer the Lord's call! They will become a wonderful pattern to many other young French-speaking saints in college and high school who also have heard the Lord's call in their heart to go to the training one day. In a few years there could be a whole army of young people going forth into the French-speaking world. This is our "dream" from the Lord. We would ask you also to pray for this.
We are regularly contacting 17 native French speakers. A few have entered into the church life. Since the majority of the saints meeting regularly are not native French, there is the probability that most of this majority will one day leave France. Where then will the Lord's testimony be in France? Please join us in praying that many of these native French people will become living stones, even pillars, for His corporate expression in France.
A longer report from Lyon is at https://churchinlosangeles.org/prayer.
Announcements
- The deadline to register for the July 2-7 summer training in Anaheim is April 24.
- Morning revival: Psalms, week 21.
- Five to 10 minute video highlights of the Psalms are posted about once a week at https://churchinlosangeles.org/ministry/psalms.
- The Memorial Day Conference will be Friday night, May 25 through Monday noon, May 28, in Bellevue, Washington. Information is posted at https://churchinlosangeles.org/prayer. If you will take children, register them with your district by April 27.
- There will be a time for saints in the Lord's recovery to go to Israel for a summer tour and blending meetings with the saints. The tour begins July 15; it is in summer particularly so that college students, trainees, campus workers, and high school students could attend. Registration deadline is May 1 unless all spaces are filled earlier. Information is posted at https://churchinlosangeles.org/prayer.
Prayer Requests, March 25, 2012
ITERO
The International Training for Elders and Responsible Ones (ITERO) will be Friday to Lord's Day, March 30 to April 1. More than 1000 brothers from around the globe will participate so that the Spirit can speaking to the churches. In April ITERO messages will be respoken in other parts of the world for those who could not come to Anaheim. The burden for this time is that the Lord will make many brothers able ministers of the New Testament, effective building material for the universal building up of the Body of Christ, and good stewards and serving ones in the local churches.
"Fellowship unto the Furtherance of the Gospel" (Phil. 1:5)
In preaching the gospel, we have to learn the Body life. If we are burdened for a neighbor, we will ask some brothers to help us bring this neighbor to the Lord….We will work not just by ourselves, but we will invite the brothers to work together with us in a way of coordination. I say again, if we have the spirit of the Body life, people will sense it. If we have love among us, people around us will sense what we have, and that love and living will be a very strong factor to convince the unbelievers--our neighbors and friends--to open their spirits to the Lord. We need the Body life, and the best way to be built up together is for us to have the fellowship unto the furtherance of the gospel. (from Preaching the Gospel in the Way of Life, by Witness Lee, ch. 8; it is available online; select the book in the alphabetical list, then select the chapter in the upper right)
Santa Monica
The church in L.A. has an on-going work at Santa Monica College, several saints from L.A. work in Santa Monica, and a few who live in Santa Monica meet in hall 5. Three groups of Spanish-speaking saints also meet in Santa Monica. Lord, raise up an English-speaking nucleus to continue the church life in Santa Monica with the Spanish-speakers who are there.
High School
Please pray the Lord bring all the high school young people YP into the reality of the experiences of Isaac and knowing the God of Isaac as the God of provision for His purpose to produce them as burnt offerings who are prepared to be His bride for His satisfaction.
CSUN Spring Break Trips
The CSUN students will participate in two spring break trips next week. Some will attend the FTTA for a few days. At the end of the week, they will visit the saints in Riverside for blending and would like to invite some of their new contacts. Please pray that the students have a good experience and taste of the FTTA and that many new ones can join them for the weekend trip to Riverside.
UCLA (Hall 5) Spring Break Trips
UCLA students are in the midst of spring break trips. Twenty-six are in Florida and 24 are visiting Washington D.C., Philadelphia, and Virginia. Please pray that:
- The Lord will cover and supply all the saints on these trips.
- There would be a sweet blending and building among the students and with the saints visited.
- The new ones see the vision of the Body of Christ and taste the sweet church life.
European College-age Conference
The spring European college-age conference will be March 30 - April 2 in Wales. The subject is The Full Ministry of Christ in Three Stages.
Vienna, Austria
Please continue to pray that the Lord will bless the home meeting in the house of the sister and will gain the new ones and their contacts, for the raising up of a lampstand in this key European city.
Bulgaria
Some saints are laboring to translate ministry books into Bulgarian for free distribution. Please pray:
- For grace to the translators to complete the translation in a timely way;
- For the preparation of the seeking ones in Bulgaria to receive the rich truths of God's economy;
- That some of the Lord's seekers will be gained by Him to be His testimony in Bulgaria.
Conference in Italy and First Lord's Table in Rome
We warmly extend an invitation to all the saints to participate in the upcoming weekend conference and first Lord's Table in Rome, Italy on June 15th through 17th. We thank the Lord for the prayers of so many saints and churches throughout the earth. Now, we invite you to consider coming to blend with us that together, as one Body, we might testify of the victory of Christ by taking the ground as the church in Rome. Detailed information and registration for the conference is at http://www.amanatrust.org.uk. The due date is May 15th. Please contact us at italy@amanatrust.org.uk if you have any questions about the conference. We pray the Lord will bless this gathering for His further move in Italy, Europe, and the whole earth.
Announcements
- The deadline to register for the July 2-7 summer training in Anaheim is April 24.
- Morning revival: Psalms, week 20. After Psalms, week 24, we will use The Focus of the Lord's Recovery (Thanksgiving conference).
- Five to 10 minute video highlights of the Psalms are posted about once a week at https://churchinlosangeles.org/ministry/psalms/.
- The Memorial Day Conference will be Friday night, May 25 through Monday noon, May 28, in Bellevue, Washington. Information is posted at https://churchinlosangeles.org/prayer/. If you will take children, register them with your district by April 27.
- An invitation to the spring conference in Israel is at https://churchinlosangeles.org/prayer/. Registration deadline is April 1.
- There will be a time for saints in the Lord's recovery to go to Israel for a summer tour and blending meetings with the saints. The tour begins July 15; it is in summer particularly so that college students, trainees, campus workers, and high school students could attend. Registration deadline is May 1 unless all spaces are filled earlier. Information is posted at https://churchinlosangeles.org/prayer/.
Prayer Requests, March 18, 2012
ITERO
The International Training for Elders and Responsible Ones (ITERO) will be Friday to Lord's Day, March 30 to April 1. Lord, prepare the way for rich dispensing and blending during this time.
"Fellowship unto the Furtherance of the Gospel" (Phil. 1:5)
The move of the preaching of the gospel must be a matter in fellowship, because it is a matter of the Body. If this were a matter of individuals only, there would be no need for fellowship.
In order to be prevailing and fruitful in the preaching of the gospel, we must pay our full attention to the Body life. The more we live in the Body life and have the reality of the Body life, the more we will be fruitful. Such a life will be a strong testimony to our relatives, friends, schoolmates, and neighbors. When all these people see the kind of mutual love we have among us as Christian brothers, they will be very impressed and influenced. This will pave the way and open the door for the Holy Spirit to work in their hearts. To have the real Body life helps us to be prevailing. I believe that this is the very reason why the apostle Paul uses the word fellowship in Philippians 1:5. (from Preaching the Gospel in the Way of Life, by Witness Lee, ch. 8)
Santa Monica
In the 1980s there was an English-speaking church life in Santa Monica. In the early 1990s they moved to west L.A. with a burden for UCLA. As they were moving, the Lord gained a Spanish-speaking group to continue the church life in Santa Monica. Through these decades the church met in the Santa Monica Red Cross building. Use of that building ended this month. Because the largest number among the Spanish-speaking saints now live in Inglewood, they have begun to meet as the church there.
Santa Monica is home to many young professionals. The church has an on-going work at Santa Monica College and several saints from L.A. work in Santa Monica. Let us ask the Lord, as He did in the early 1990s, to again restart the church life in Santa Monica. Lord, raise up an English-speaking nucleus to continue the church life in Santa Monica with the Spanish-speakers who are still there.
Inglewood
As a result of the transition from Santa Monica, the church in Inglewood began meeting this month.
UCLA (Hall 3) and SBCC Spring Break Trip
Over 40 saints and gospel friends, mainly from UCLA and Santa Barbara City College, have registered for our three-day trip (March 24-26) to the Bay area. Please pray for the blending in the Body and the safety on the way.
UCLA (Hall 5) Spring Break Trips
UCLA students will be going on two spring break trips March 24-31. Twenty-six will go to Florida and 24 will go to Washington D.C., Philadelphia, and Virginia. Please pray that:
- The Lord will cover and supply all the saints on these trips.
- There would be a sweet blending and building among all the students on the trips and with the saints in the localities that they will visit.
- The new ones see the vision of the Body of Christ and taste the sweet church life.
High School Conferences
The high school brothers' and sisters' conferences are this weekend. Nine high school brothers are registered but we lack one serving brother with a car. Pray for the release of this brother.
Northeast Ohio
The Lord has been moving in northeast Ohio since last year. Saints from the surrounding area are gathering in homes, and on Lord's Day mornings in a rented room in the town of Wickliffe. Among these more than 20 attended the winter training; a few in Anaheim, most by video. Pray for further development in this part of Ohio.
San Luis Obispo
The labor on Cal Poly campus is progressing steadily as we have individual and group times with the students. Thursday is our main day for one on one meetings on the campus but we also make appointments other days. Our campus meeting is Friday and our college dinner and fellowship is Saturday night. Please pray for:
- saints who are seeking jobs in San Luis Obispo;
- the upcoming open house on campus where many high school students will be checking out Cal Poly (we will have a table set up for this event);
- the students that may be going to the College Conference in Southern California.
BfA at Tucson Festival of Books
The Festival was March 10-11. Nearly 200 copies of the New Testament Recovery Version and Basic Elements of the Christian Life were distributed, along with tracts and other ministry materials. Three recipients prayed to receive the Lord and several families with young children indicated that they are seeking fellowship and a place to meet. One believer, the chief of an Indian tribe from New Mexico, came to the booth multiple times to have fellowship with the saints. Several recipients from last year's festival stopped by to share their enjoyment, and one asked to be contacted for a home meeting.
Please pray that:
- The three who prayed to receive the Lord would remain under shepherding care.
- The Lord would lead the saints as they contact the open recipients.
- The Lord would nourish the out-of-state recipients through the ministry and the Word.
Albania
Albania is a nation of about 3 million people; it is adjacent to Greece. It is one of the poorest nations in Europe. A majority of the people are Moslem; others are Albanian Orthodox. A couple from Albania, the Rikas, were in L.A. recently for their daughter Genta's wedding. Last week they were baptized into Christ and into His Body. They testified that their time here was the happiest in their life. Since returning to Albania, they continue to be happy in the Lord and continue to call on Him.
May this interaction between L.A. and Albania cause us to pray for His move there. May the Lord gather a little flock to Himself and in Himself there.
Greece
Please continue to pray that the Lord will gain more homes among the ministry readers in Athens and Thessaloniki in which regular meetings can be held to enjoy the Lord through the ministry.
Русскоязычная Kонференция (Russian-speaking Conference)
The conference will be Friday evening through Lord's Day afternoon, March 23-25, at the meeting hall in Sacramento. There will be messages on "The Line of Life in the Book of Genesis," time for saints to testify, and time outside the meetings for saints to blend. We especially hope that the saints attending this conference will be able to bring seeking friends and relatives who might benefit from the atmosphere and riches of this time.
Announcements
- Morning revival: Psalms, week 19.
- Five to 10 minute video highlights of the Psalms are posted about once a week at https://churchinlosangeles.org/ministry/psalms/.
- The Memorial Day Conference will be Friday night, May 25 through Monday noon, May 28, in Bellevue, Washington. Information is posted at https://churchinlosangeles.org/prayer/. If you will take children, register them with your district by April 27.
- An invitation to the spring conference in Israel is at https://churchinlosangeles.org/prayer/. Registration deadline is April 1.
- There will be a time for saints in the Lord's recovery to go to Israel for a summer tour and blending meetings with the saints. The tour begins July 15; it is in summer particularly so that college students, trainees, campus workers, and high school students could attend. Registration deadline is May 1 unless all spaces are filled earlier. Information is posted at https://churchinlosangeles.org/prayer/.
Prayer Requests, March 11, 2012
Father, Your Kingdom Come
In Luke 11:2 Jesus said to His disciples, "When you pray, say, Father, Your name be sanctified; Your kingdom come." Let us pray for the Father's name to be sanctified more and for the kingdom to come more:
- in us, in our daily living;
- in the U.S. election process this year;
- worldwide for the spread of the gospel and the churches;
- in its full manifestation.
Los Angeles
Ephesians 6:14-15, "Stand therefore, having girded your loins with truth and having put on the breastplate of righteousness and having shod your feet with the firm foundation of the gospel of peace." O Lord, rise up in each one in Los Angeles for the gospel. Lord, gospelize Los Angeles--schools, universities, neighborhoods, offices, markets, parks, and everywhere.
USC
Please pray for the USC spring break trip, March 10-16. Seventeen saints are visiting Boston, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. Pray for a blending atmosphere, the exercise of the spirit, the spread of the gospel, and the building up of the Body of Christ!
Young People
Please pray for all the high school seniors to be one with the Lord in choosing where to go to college.
Scotland
The first Lord's table in Edinburgh and Glasgow, Scotland will be March 18.
Turkey
We are translating the Rhema Literature Distribution website (http://www.rhemabooks.org/eng/Language) into Turkish and hopefully can finish it in this month. Please pray for this translation work.
Europe
Pray for the raising up of the Lord's testimony these key European cities: Lisbon, Portugal; Krakow, Poland; Budapest, Hungary; Vienna, Austria; Rome, Italy; Sofia, Bulgaria; Hamburg, Frankfurt, and Munich, Germany.
Announcements
- Morning revival: Psalms, week 18.
- Five to 10 minute video highlights of the Psalms are posted about once a week at https://churchinlosangeles.org/ministry/psalms/.
- There will be a time for saints in the Lord's recovery to go to Israel for a summer tour and blending meetings with the saints. The tour begins July 15; it is in summer particularly so that college students, trainees, campus workers, and high school students could attend. Registration deadline is May 1 unless all spaces are filled earlier. Information is posted at https://churchinlosangeles.org/prayer/.
- The Memorial Day Conference will be Friday night, May 25 through Monday noon, May 28, in Bellevue, Washington. Information is posted at https://churchinlosangeles.org/prayer/. If you will take children, register them with your district by April 30.
Prayer Requests, March 4, 2012
Our Church Life
In joint meetings November 2008 and December 2011, we stated "Our direction is to build up a vital, group-based, house-to-house church life around campuses and young people with a prevailing testimony of oneness across all languages, halls, and districts." Our weekly prayer should touch this focus by praying, in whatever direction the Lord leads, for colleges, young people, or homes where we are.
Spanish-English Gospel
Many Spanish speakers in and near Los Angeles have responded to the Life-study radio broadcasts. The majority of these listeners are adults in families that include children and teen-agers who prefer English. Ask the Lord of the harvest to thrust out local saints as workers into this field with good coordination among Spanish-speaking and English-speaking saints for the gaining of many families.
GTCA
The gospel trips concluded but the burden to gospelize, truthize, and churchize America continues. Saints are continuing to nourish and cherish those who received New Testaments and books by means of appointments, Bible studies, and home meetings. Do pray to afford the Lord a way to reap a harvest of remaining fruit. Pray for
- the continued openness of those who were contacted,
- rich supply to those who are shepherding,
- a few couples to migrate to each of the cities needing a nucleus as a beginning of the church life.
Middle-age Training
The spring term begins March 12. Ask the Lord 1) to add some "late overcomers" to the training, 2) to prepare all the trainees, and 3) to allow the international trainees to enter the U.S. with no hindrances.
Cal State Channel Islands (CSUCI)
The church in Thousand Oaks started to a Bible study on the CSUCI campus about seven weeks ago. We have two saints on campus. Our Bible study is on Matthew and have five or six at the study most weeks. CSUCI, with about 4000 students, is located in Oxnard about twelve miles from our meeting hall.
On March 2 we had our first Bibles for America distribution on campus. Although it was unusually cold and very gusty, we got 7 student contacts. In 45 minutes, we gave out six Bibles and one additional contact wants to be notified for the Bible study. We really praise and thank the Lord that in such weather students were willing to stand by the table and talk to us.
Please pray for the following:
- God will anoint our follow-up effort so that some of our contacts will be remaining fruits.
- Some students will attend our Bible study from 10:30 to 11:30 AM at the student union every Friday.
- The Lord to bless our Bibles for America distribution work which we are planning to hold on campus once a month (next time will be on Friday, March 30 from 9:15 to 10:15AM.
- Give us deep enjoyment and understanding of God's word through Bible study.
Bibles for America
March 10-11, Bibles for America will participate in the fourth annual Tucson Festival of Books. It expects to attract more than eighty thousand participants. Volunteers from the church in Tucson will distribute tracts, Basic Elements of the Christian Life and the Recovery Version of the Bible.
Please pray for:
- The Lord's clear move in the city of Tucson and all of Arizona.
- The prayer, oneness and blending of all the local volunteers, and that their enjoyment of the Lord could be infused into all who stop by.
- The footsteps of the hungry and prepared ones would be directed to the booth.
- Some new solid contacts could be made and those who received the ministry material last year would be stirred up to have more contact.
Portugal
There will be a conference in Portugal March 10-11.
Greece
Three readers of the ministry attended the recent conference in Athens. They all want to meet and read the ministry with the local saints. Praise the Lord! The week before, several trainees from London visited Athens, and 3 young people prayed with them to receive the Lord. The week before that, the full-timers from Athens met with 20 ministry readers in Thessaloniki, and the next day they met with 5 more readers whom they had not previously contacted face to face. Please pray that the Lord will gain more homes in Athens and Thessaloniki in which regular meetings can be held to enjoy the Lord through the ministry.
Announcements
- Morning revival: Psalms, week 17.
- Five to 10 minute video highlights of the Psalms are posted about once a week at https://churchinlosangeles.org/ministry/psalms/.
- The Memorial Day Conference will be Friday night, May 25 through Monday noon, May 28, in Bellevue, Washington. Information is posted at https://churchinlosangeles.org/prayer/. If you will take children, register them with your district by April 30.
- An invitation to the spring conference in Israel is at https://churchinlosangeles.org/prayer/. Registration deadline is April 1.
- Since 2004 LSM has sent five large containers of used books to Africa and India. These books have been a great blessing to seekers there. LSM continues to collect used ministry books in English for further distributions. They suggest that you remove any personal information before donating the books. Bring books to your meeting hall any time throughout this year.
Prayer Requests, February 26, 2012
A Flock of Men
Ezekiel 36:37, "Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Moreover for this I will be inquired of by the house of Israel to do it for them; I will increase them with men like a flock." May we inquire of the Lord for increase in Los Angeles. Our church life is centered on campuses and young people, but it is not limited to these. Let us ask the Lord for increase among young people, increase among college students, and increase among family, friends, neighbors, and business acquaintances. Let us pray for growth from our current number to 1000 by the end of this year.
United States
Revelation 1:5, "Jesus Christ...the Ruler of the kings of the earth [and the Ruler of the presidential candidates of the U.S.]." Let us declare our agreement on earth with the Lord's heavenly ruling over all the political activity this year.
Perfecting for Serving Saints and Parents of Young People
We warmly invite you to join us for a one-day perfecting training on March 10, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Irvine. This is for all the parents, serving ones, college students and burdened saints for the junior high and high school young people in the churches in Southern California. Spanish translation will be available. A letter about this time is at https://churchinlosangeles.org/prayer. Register here. Registration deadline is Saturday, March 3.
Santa Barbara
Please continue to pray for the Lord's move in Santa Barbara:
- that the students we have cared for the past year will enter more into the church life;
- that the students contacted this year will be freed to have weekly appointments;
- for further blending among the couples active in the church life;
- for the migration of a younger couple with experience in campus work.
South Africa
Dick Taylor and Michael Stewart left L.A. on Lord's Day (February 26) and arrive in South Africa Tuesday morning. They will be in Pretoria until next Monday morning (March 5) and then fly to Cape Town until Tuesday night (March 6). They return to L.A. March 7. In Pretoria they will visit the campus and small groups and also speak five messages from the winter training in a conference Friday through Lord's Day. About 250 are expected in the conference, which will make it the largest ever in South Africa.
Please pray that all the saints, including the many new ones from both campus and community, would freshly see that the book of Psalms is full of nothing but Christ, house, city, earth. Pray for all to be captured during the conference by the Lord's beauty in order to be His house (His church) for His city (His kingdom) so that the Lord could come back and take over this earth.
Bookshop in Central London
In the five weeks that the bookshop has been open, each week has seen an increase in customers, with a particular interest from people in neighboring offices and from other locals. There are regular customers. Radio listeners have been visiting most days, and some have stayed for a longer time to read the ministry and get to know the serving ones. Thank the Lord for His blessing. Please continue to pray for the radio listeners, the Rhema recipients, and the university students and people who live and work near the bookshop.
London
Please pray for the Lord to gain a district in each of the 33 boroughs of London, and also for many saints to migrate both within London and to the key cities in the UK for the Lords' testimony.
India
We praise the Lord for preserving this land for His move. Since 1997, the Lord has moved here to bring many saints into the Recovery. There are now 96 churches across India, with many good testimonies testifying the Spirit's move here. However, it is our belief that the Lord can do much more in this vast country. People's hearts are still soft and simple toward God. Here we can freely preach to Hindus, Muslims, and seeking Christians. During 6 – 12 February, the co-workers based in Delhi area plus full-time trainees and some other saints gathered for one week to pray and prepare for the Lord's intensified move.
Please join us in prayer that the Spirit would continue to blow strongly across India to bring all the churches into the same flow of the Spirit, so that the Lord would gain a breakthrough in us this year. May the high and awesome wheels of Ezekiel 1 move in India to prepare for the last and greatest revival that will bring us all the way back to Jerusalem to receive the Lord's return.
Announcements
- Morning revival: Psalms, week 16.
- A Spanish language perfecting will be held one Saturday in each of July, August, September. Información en español (and English) está en https://churchinlosangeles.org/prayer.
- The 2012 Spring Russian-Speaking Conference will be in Sacramento March 23-25. The registration deadline is March 4. Details are at https://churchinlosangeles.org/prayer.
- An invitation to the spring conference in Israel is at https://churchinlosangeles.org/prayer. Registration deadline is April 1.
Prayer Requests, February 19, 2012
Zion
"Blessed is the man whose strength is in You, in whose heart are the highways to Zion. Passing through the valley of Baca, they make it a spring….Each appears before God in Zion." (Psalm 84:5-7) "Jehovah loves the gates of Zion" (Psalm 87:2a)
There is no other way to reach this high peak [Zion within the church life as Jerusalem] except by praying….In the book of Revelation what the Lord wants and what the Lord will build up is Zion, the overcomers. The overcomers are the very Zion, where God is. This is the intrinsic reality of the spiritual revelation in the holy Word of God. We have to realize what the Lord's recovery is. The Lord's recovery is to build up Zion. (W.L., Practical Points Concerning Blending, ch. 5)
Los Angeles Joint College Meeting
This Saturday the college students from all over Los Angeles will gather together for dinner and to enjoy the Lord richly in singing and fellowship on Blood & Water. Please pray that there will be a glorious exhibition of Christ in all the students and that all the invited friends will come.
When: Saturday, February 25 at 5:30 pm
Where: Northridge Center at CSUN, located in the building labeled "USU" on this map: http://www.csun.edu/maps/. It is on the 1st floor across from Subway.
Parking: Street parking is available on Zelzah Ave, on the east side of campus. Carpools are encouraged.
Go and Disciple the Nations
The Lord charged us to go and disciple the nations. Today many people are living in a new "nation" called "internet." They conduct business, chat with friends, share photos, make purchases, recommend things, watch videos, take classes, and play games here. We should go to the people in this electronic nation to present the gospel, truth, and enjoyment of Christ. "The harvest is great, but the workers few; therefore, beseech the Lord of the harvest that He would thrust out workers into His harvest [of the internet]" (Luke 10:2).
Perfecting for Serving Saints and Parents of Young People
We warmly invite you to join us for a one-day perfecting training on March 10, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in /irvine. This is for all the parents, serving ones, college students and burdened saints for the junior high and high school young people in the churches in Southern California. A letter about this time is at https://churchinlosangeles.org/prayer/. Registration deadline is Saturday, March 3. To register, use the form at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEtpT3J1OGZ2aS1ia2ZUNU9WTVh0WUE6MQ
Shepherding People Contacted During Gospel Trips
During the 2012 gospel trips thousands of free copies of the New Testament Recovery Version and Basic Elements of the Christian Life, vol. 1 were distributed. The teams and local saints also carried out seminars, follow-up appointments, and home visitations to shepherd the open ones; this labor will continue in the coming months. Do pray that:
- The local saints near the 17 cities would be bountifully supplied for the long-term care of the many new ones.
- The Lord would burden some to migrate to these cities to participate in shepherding the new ones and to strengthen His testimony in each place.
- The Father would produce many of these new ones as remaining fruit in the churches.
- The word in the distributed Bibles and ministry books would find good ground in the recipients’ hearts to grow and bear fruit.
Athens, Greece
There will be a conference in Athens February 24-25. Please pray that a good number from Thessaloniki be enabled to attend.
This week several trainees from FTTL join local serving saints to preach the gospel and distribute tracts on university campuses in Athens. A dinner and gospel fellowship will be held on Friday evening. Please pray that the Lord will release at least one or two students with whom the saints in Athens can have regular contact.
The financial crisis in Greece has produced considerable unrest in society. Please pray that many of the Greek people will turn to the Lord, especially during the next few weeks.
South Africa
A second report from the FTTA gospel trip is at https://churchinlosangeles.org/prayer/. Praise the Lord for gaining young working saints in Johannesburg. Pray for their further blending and for His blessing on the district meetings there. Pray also for WITS University, that the Lord keep the few students who are meeting and add others.
Announcements
- Morning revival: Psalms, week 15.
- A Spanish language perfecting will be held one Saturday in each of July, August, September. Información en español (and English) está en https://churchinlosangeles.org/prayer/.
- The 2012 Spring Russian-Speaking Conference will be in Sacramento March 23-25. The registration deadline is March 4. Details are at https://churchinlosangeles.org/prayer/.
- An invitation to the spring conference in Israel is at https://churchinlosangeles.org/prayer/. Registration deadline is April 1.