On a Journey

"There, by the Ahava Canal, I proclaimed a fast, so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask him for a safe journey for us and our children, with all our possessions. I was ashamed to ask the king for soldiers and horsemen to protect us from enemies on the road, because we had told the king, 'The gracious hand of our God is on everyone who looks to him, but his great anger is against all who forsake him.' So we fasted and petitioned out God about this, and he answered our prayer." - Ezra 8:21-23

Church may seem like a routine week after week, but when we look back to where we have been over many years, it looks much more like a journey. Hopefully people grow and mature in Christ, while those who don't know Jesus are brought in. Many new relationships are established and skills learned as we serve the Lord. There are also spiritual dangers as Satan exploits divisions and tries to bring us down, both individually and collectively. We need to pray for this journey regularly, as individuals and also joining together as a group. Pray for our upcoming mini prayer retreat as we join together to call out to the Lord. Also give thanks for a successful joint Prayer Mountain meeting of the Mandarin congregations from the various Home of Christ churches in the Bay Area.
HIGHLIGHTED PRAYER REQUEST

On October 10th, we have a tentative plan for a mini prayer retreat. This will be for adults, youth and children. Pray for the planning of this. May the Lord unite us in prayer, and also give us unity of purpose and vision.

PRAY FOR OUR CONGREGATION

We are praying about the next step in serving and building bridges with our neighborhood. Please pray that God will inspire us and lead us in the right direction(s).

Our theme this year is "Learning to Share". Pray that we will all learn to share from our material resources, our time, our abilities, and our faith.

As we begin this new ministry year, we have new leaders and some new plans. Please pray for our new group leaders: Kenneth Huang, Ben Hsu and Douglas Stillman. Pray that God will give grow them and use them this year for the building of his Kingdom.

PRAY FOR THE REST OF OUR CHURCH

Please pray for Rev Mark Cheng (Also spells like Pastor Zheng, Guo), who is very sick and very weak recently. Please remember him in your constant prayers to the Lord.

The Home of Christ united prayer meeting was held on Saturday at Prayer Mountain. Praise God that all 6 HOCs sent people to join together in seeking the Lord. May this be a start to a more united vision of how we can serve the Lord together and strengthen one another.

We are considering offer kids programs during the time when Mandarin adult Sunday School is going on from about 9:45 am to 10:45 am. Pray that we will have enough coworkers to handle this new task.

Two sisters from the Cantonese congregation, Polly and Mandy Leung were once touched by God's words. Pray that the Holy Spirit will bring them back to Him.

PRAY ABOUT HOW GOD IS LEADING YOU ON HIS MISSION

PRAY FOR THREE(3) OF YOUR UN-CHURCHED FRIENDS/FAMILY

In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Amen.

Baptism Pictures- 08/30/09

Baptism- 083009 Please click the above photo album to enjoy more pictures.

Reaching Out to the Community

"During the night Paul had a vision of a man of Macedonia standing and begging him, 'Come overr to Macedonia and help us.'" - Acts 16:9

This verse came after the Apostle Paul had been seeking many ways to advance the gospel, but the Bible says "the Spirit of Jesus would not allow them to". We have been praying for a way to reach out to our community for a long time. Did God show us something this Labor Day at our community barbeque? Whether this is the method or not that God wants us to use, we will still need to wait and pray. The encouraging thing is that we were able to see a large number of people come to our church and we had the opportunity to meet and talk with many new people. May God continue to give us opportunities to meet people, build relationships and proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ.

HIGHLIGHTED PRAYER

Pray that the Lord will continue allowing us to build relationships with our community.

PRAY FOR OUR CONGREGATION

Praise God that we were able to meet about 150 new people this weekend at our Labor Day Block Party/BBQ. And we gave away about 15 backpacks with school supplies for children in need. Please pray that as time continues, we will get to know more people in our neighborhood and vice versa. And that as we love our neighbors, they will see the love of Christ.

Our theme this year is "Learning to Share". Pray that we will all learn to share from our material resources, our time, our abilities, and our faith.

As we begin this new year, we have new leaders and some new plans. Please pray for our new group leaders: Kenneth Huang, Ben Hsu and Douglas Stillman. Pray that God will give grow them and use them this year for the building of his Kingdom.

PRAY FOR THE REST OF OUR CHURCH

Prayer ministry: Continue pray for the HOC united Prayer and training center. The first united HOC prayer meeting is to be held on Sept 26th in the fasting prayer mountain at Scotts Valley. We need seek God's guidance on various preparation tasks and arrangements. Also, pray for all the brothers and sisters from all HOC homes to have the heart to attend the 09-26 mountain prayer meeting.

Pray for the coming evangelistic meeting on 09/12 in our church, the speaker is Fan Xuede, a very famous preacher from Main land China. Pray that we will have good preparations and God will send to us truth seekers.

Pray for the non-believers who have been touched by your words in the July 11 Evangelistic meeting. Pray for Polly and Molly Leung who were brought to our congregation through this meeting.

We are considering offer kids programs during the time when Mandarin adult Sunday School is going on from about 9:45 am to 10:45 am. Pray that we will have enough coworkers to handle this new task.

PRAY ABOUT HOW GOD IS LEADING YOU ON HIS MISSION

PRAY FOR THREE(3) OF YOUR UN-CHURCHED FRIENDS/FAMILY

In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Amen.

Labor Day Pictures- 09/07/2009

Labor Day-090709

Reaching Out to the Community

"During the night Paul had a vision of a man of Macedonia standing and begging him, 'Come overr to Macedonia and help us.'" - Acts 16:9

This verse came after the Apostle Paul had been seeking many ways to advance the gospel, but the Bible says "the Spirit of Jesus would not allow them to". We have been praying for a way to reach out to our community for a long time. Did God show us something this Labor Day at our community barbeque? Whether this is the method or not that God wants us to use, we will still need to wait and pray. The encouraging thing is that we were able to see a large number of people come to our church and we had the opportunity to meet and talk with many new people. May God continue to give us opportunities to meet people, build relationships and proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Our theme this year is "Learning to Share". Pray that we will all learn to share from our material resources, our time, our abilities, and our faith.

As we begin this new year, we have new leaders and some new plans. Please pray for our new group leaders: Kenneth Huang, Ben Hsu and Douglas Stillman. Pray that God will give grow them and use them this year for the building of his Kingdom.

PRAY FOR THE REST OF OUR CHURCH

Prayer ministry: Continue pray for the HOC united Prayer and training center. The first united HOC prayer meeting is to be held on Sept 26th in the fasting prayer mountain at Scotts Valley. We need seek God's guidance on various preparation tasks and arrangements. Also, pray for all the brothers and sisters from all HOC homes to have the heart to attend the 09-26 mountain prayer meeting.

Pray for the coming evangelistic meeting on 09/12 in our church, the speaker is Fan Xuede, a very famous preacher from Main land China. Pray that we will have good preparations and God will send to us truth seekers.

Pray for the non-believers who have been touched by your words in the July 11 Evangelistic meeting. Pray for Polly and Molly Leung who were brought to our congregation through this meeting.

We are considering offer kids programs during the time when Mandarin adult Sunday School is going on from about 9:45 am to 10:45 am. Pray that we will have enough coworkers to handle this new task.

PRAY ABOUT HOW GOD IS LEADING YOU ON HIS MISSION

PRAY FOR THREE(3) OF YOUR UN-CHURCHED FRIENDS/FAMILY

In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Amen