We joined the Burnaby saints at the Lord’s Table meeting in Burnaby meeting hall. After the Lord’s Table, we were given the opportunity to share about the full-time training. A lot of saints have had questions this past week concerning why we decided to be in the training and why the full-timers decided to drop their jobs to serve the Lord in a full-time way. We were able to share a brief explanation on the history, purpose and goal of full-time training. Two trainees also shared their testimony on how the Lord brought them to the training. The main purpose for this time is to convey the burden of being trained and cultivated into useful vessels to the Lord. There were some visitations in the afternoon, and during the evening time, we got to go to Vancouver to join the annual dinner for the senior saints (67 year old +). We had a sweet time blending with them and got to hear their and the rich inheritance of the Lord’s recovery.

Feb 4th, 2019
We were invited to one of the elder’s in Burnaby for a delicious lunch. We had a wonderful fellowship time with the saints and some SFU students. We had some visitations in the evening at the homes of the saints. We will begin distributing invitations on the SFU campus from Tuesday to Thursday. We are aiming to hand out 2500 invitations for the gospel event on Thursday evening. The title of the event is: “The Acceptable Year of the Lord.”

Statistics:

• About 40 Bibles distributed on SFU campus
• 42 homes visited last week
• 6 homes visited today

Prayer Burdens:

• Continue to pray for the saints in Burnaby, that an atmosphere of sweetness and warmth would be brought in through all these visitations. Pray that this would not be merely a two-week event but visiting the saints would become our living.
• Please pray that all 2500 invitations would be handed out at SFU and given to many sons of peace.
• Pray for the follow-up of the 5 open new ones from last week’s gospel meeting on the Bread of Life, particularly the two graduate students from Iran to be open for further contact.

Prayer Burdens:

• 16 of our new contacts would be connected solidly with local students and saints
• The core students and families would be shepherded by the Lord in order to rise up in shepherding the new ones
• All 22 students that came to Meet & Greet last week would come again this Thursday and Friday

Activities:
Last week we passed out 5258 flyers and we handed out another 1861 flyers this week. We have had 10 appointments already this week. Many of our students are actively continuing in our John Bible Reading Challenge.

Highlights:

• Brother Tym Seay was with our team last week and has returned to be with us this week again.
• Contact D (male) spend a majority of his weekend with the saints and the students.
• This week has been packed with appointments.

A warm hello from the saints in Oklahoma! It has been a little chilly in central plains of America but the saints here are burning in spirit. We have been welcomed very warmly since our arrival at Will Rogers Airport and the same tender care has continued in our hospitalities in Oklahoma City and Stillwater.

Our first weekend began with a home gathering in Oklahoma City. We enjoyed the flowing Triune God in singing, and he flowed through our reading of The All-inclusive Christ.

On Saturday, the students at the University of Oklahoma took us to see some of the trademarks of Norman, including the OU campus, Braums Ice Cream, and to an ice-skating rink. It was a sweet time getting to know the students and praying with them. We joined the students at the young people’s meeting. There were about 30 young people in attendance and we read a portion in the epistle to Timothy. We were encouraged that we have a spirit of power, love, and sobermindedness (2 Tim. 1:6-7) and that this spirit allows us to become an anti-testimony to the tide of this age.

On Lord’s Day, we had a wonderful table meeting in Stillwater, OK. We enjoyed Christ as the One who blends the Body together and as the One who is our universal replacement. We saw a little bit of the reality of the Body of Christ as we entered into one another’s burdens through prayer and fellowship.

The weekend concluded with lunch with the saints and a tour of the Oklahoma State University campus. OSU has one of the largest and the “most comprehensive” student unions in the United States. The saints showed us where most of the students frequent and where we would be able to contact the most students.

Please pray that the Lord would bless the saints in Stillwater with Himself and that all of the saints would be strengthened with power through the Spirit into their inner man. As the Lord gains more ground in all of the saints, please pray that this would issue in remaining fruit off of the Oklahoma State University campus.

Saturday (February 2)
Saints from Manchester and nearby churches, along with the FTTA and FTTA-XB trainees, tabled at the Mall of New Hampshire (Manchester) and Steeplegate Mall (Concord). We met a Spanish-speaking mom and her daughter at the mall, both of whom came to the BfA seminar later that evening, along with the mom’s sister in the Lord and her children. They are hungry for the Word and very open to further contact.

Lord’s Day (February 3)
A few young families came to the Lord’s Table, one of which met with the saints a few times within the last week. Some of these families traveled quite a distance from other parts of New Hampshire and Massachusetts to visit. Also, the Lord used the children to wonderfully blend these families together.

In the afternoon, four teams of saints went out door-knocking and 1 contact prayed to receive the Lord! In addition, 3 solid contacts were made and 1 team was able to enter into a home for further fellowship.

Monday (February 4)
We handed out a total of 256 workplace seminar invitations downtown this morning as people were trickling into work, as well as during lunchtime. This marks a total of ~515 seminar invitations for 3 workplace seminars that will take place on Thursday and Friday of this week.

There was a seminar in the afternoon at Manchester Community College (MCC) with 2 students from MCC and 2 students from Concord Community College (NHTI). All 4 want to start Bible studies and appointments on their respective campuses with us.

• Statistics
• Bibles: 73
• Ministry booklets: 29

Prayer Burdens:

• Two sub-teams will be going to Dartmouth College (Hanover, VT) and the University of New Hampshire (Durham, NH). Pray that the Lord will draw seekers to the BfA tables and the local saints in these areas will be strengthened and supplied.
• There would be remaining fruit issuing from the 3 workplace seminars taking place this Thursday and Friday. There are ~10,000, predominantly young professionals, working in a ~1 mile strip of renovated mill buildings.
• Visitations will continue to encourage, supply, and blend the saints and positive contacts in Manchester and its surrounding areas.

Yesterday, we enjoyed the Lord’s Table and prophesying meeting with the saints in Fairfax and were so happy to witness a student from GMU’s baptism afterward! It was wonderful to be there with many of the other college students and young people in Fairfax.

Today, we had another Bible distribution at NOVA Manassas, distributing 58 Bibles, 20 Basic Elements of the Christian Life, and more than 75 tracts. Two students prayed with us to receive the Lord! We were also able to distribute 68 flyers inviting students to the Bible Connect event tomorrow (2-4pm). Please pray that many of these students would have their schedules free to join us.

This evening, we joined the local saints for the first prayer meeting in Manassas! This time was very organic and spontaneous, and we were touched by the saints’ exercise of the spirit and burden for this area! One prayer burden from this time was for a home meeting to be raised up in Manassas. There are saints living in Manassas, but no home meeting there yet.

Prayer Burdens:

• For students at NOVA Manassas to attend our Bible Connect event tomorrow, so the Lord may have a way to speak to them and gain them
• For the Lord to move in the saints in Manassas to raise up a home meeting