Wednesday, September 9, 2009

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

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