Praise the Lord! Today we enjoyed a wonderful Lord’s table in Seaside (near Monterey) with saints from Morgan Hill, San Luis Obispo, Santa Cruz, and other various cities in the central coast region. Afterwards we had a time of blending and spent most of the day sightseeing in Monterey. Tomorrow we will begin coordinating with the saints and distributing Bibles at Cal State Monterey Bay and Monterey Peninsula College. Tuesday night there will be a dinner where we will invite open students.

Please pray:

• For open contacts at both CSUMB and MPC, that some could come to our Tuesday night dinner.
• That the Lord would cover and supply all the saints in Monterey as they participate in GTCA.

In the morning we went to the Lord’s Table meeting. Nine young brothers from Calgary joined us in Lethbridge and it was very encouraging! After the Lord’s Table meeting we had a love feast together with the saints, and then in the afternoon we went to a museum called Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, near Fort McLeod, with some of the young people from Calgary.

Highlight:
We really enjoyed spending time with some of the local saints from Calgary. We hope and pray for more blending between the saints in Calgary and the saints in Lethbridge (particularly the young people), as they are only two and a half hours away.

Prayer Burdens:

• Please pray for the Bible distribution on the University of Lethbridge campus on February 6th.
• Please continue to pray for the young people here in Lethbridge, that they would get a taste of their spirit and begin to really enjoy the Lord in their young people’s meetings.

Last week, the GTCA team distributed 210 Bibles over four university/college campuses. We had many open contacts who gladly received the free Bibles and we are making plans for follow-up this coming week. Currently we have about 1-5 contacts we are meeting for each campus this week.

Last weekend, the team drove out to southwest Ontario to meet the saints there at a community center. This group of saints recently came into the church life, coming out of Mennonite colonies and Christian denominations. On Saturday night, the trainees from the St. Catherine’s team joined us as well for some dinner, singing, and testimonies. It was amazing to hear what the Lord has done there in these saints’ lives. The Lord’s ways are certainly higher than our ways. Afterwards, the Kitchener team took hospitality in three of the families’ homes. Spending time with these saints in their homes was very sweet and intimate and we can tell how hungry and sincere they are.

The next morning, we had a singing and sharing time. It was organic and full of life. Afterwards we had a love feast together and got to know some other families. The team couldn’t stay much longer however, and left after lunch, even though the saints stayed longer for their prophesying meeting. We all left feeling fed and satisfied physically and spiritually. We are praying for them, that the Lord will continue to bless them and grow in them.

On Monday, the team went to University of Waterloo for some more Bible distribution. We made the same amount of contacts we had the first time we went to UW with a total of 23 Bibles given away via one-on-one contact (no Bibles for Canada table). One female student was saved and we are praying she will get connected to the Chinese speaking saints here.

Prayer burdens:

• Pray for the students’ responses when following up
• Pray for the establishment of the appointments
• Pray that the students will be open to be connected further after the first appointment.
• Pray for students, who were not willing to give their contact information, would contact us
• Pray the seed will grow and the local saints will pick up the burden to care for the open ones
• Pray for the saints in Southwest Ontario, for their going on in Him

We spent two days traveling to different cities throughout Southern Ontario to visit saints from the Mennonite background. The trainees were joined by many local saints from Hamilton and St. Catharines. We discovered that these saints are incredibly seeking and very hungry for the truth. Upon our arrival to the meeting place, we promptly sat down and began meeting in a very organic way. Spontaneously, saints would stand to share their testimonies after an extended time of singing. We were incredibly happy to have the privilege to hear the touching testimonies that these saints shared.

Today, we distributed 36 Bibles along with over 100 tracts at Brock University in St. Catharines. Additionally, two people prayed to receive the Lord at the table. Historically, it has been very difficult to acquire a location to distribute Bibles at Brock University. However, the Lord really prepared the way as we were able to find a seeking believer within the campus administration who arranged for us to have a very good spot for the distribution. During the distribution, it was very encouraging to see many students staring as they walked past the table, only to return and inquire about a free Bible.

Prayer Burdens:

• Pray for more blending between the Mennonite saints and the other saints of Southern Ontario and that the Lord would continue to usher these saints into their organic function in the Body.
• Pray for the proper follow up of all the students that we met in the first half of the trip in Hamilton at Mohawk College and McMaster University.
• Pray that the Lord would be able to gain a beachhead on Brock University by gaining key students through the Bible distributions.

Between yesterday and today, around 3,000 flyers have been passed out with the information of on campus Bible studies. Today, we had a Bible study at 12 PM and around 13 new ones showed up and signed up to be on the gospel of John’s reading challenge.

Prayer burdens:

• For the new ones to get connected with the church kids
• For the church kids to be burdened for the campus and the new ones
• For local saints to be able to support the church kids in their taking care of the new ones
• For the new ones to not get lost once the team departs.