Today we participated in the Lord’s Table meeting in Everett with about 21 local saints and some visiting saints from the surrounding area. The table meeting was glorious, and we enjoyed the sweet blending with the saints regardless of difference in our locality, ethnicity, or age. Then we had the prophesying meeting from the HWMR, the Genuine Church Life, on the topic of the church life being the life of being headed up in Christ. Afterwards we had a love feast with the saints, which is something the saints in Everett do every week.

In the afternoon we did a short touring of downtown Seattle. Following we had dinner with a family in Seattle who attended the table meeting that morning. This couple also invited another family that lives in Seattle, and we had intimate fellowship in which we shared our training experiences.

Please pray for:

• Our first day of Bible distribution tomorrow (01/29) at Everett Community College:
• That the Lord would bless the trainees and the local saints with one accord.
• That we would meet many sons of peace, and that we would have at least one remaining fruit this week.
• Our appointment with a Seattle Pacific University student who meets in Everett on Tuesday, that the Lord would encourage her in her pursuit of the Lord.

This morning we joined a mini conference in Bellingham hosted at a local elementary school. There were approximately 34 saints from Everett, Bellingham, and Seattle who attended this conference and the topic was on the “Vital Groups.” The saints are very burdened for the God-ordained way and to be vitally related with one another for the increase of the church.

In the evening time we headed to the church house and had a time with some local young people and college students, for dinner, fellowship and singing. There were four high school students, three college students, and two couples attending. In total there were 16 people, with two of the high school students being new. Both of the new ones were friends brought by a local high school brother and sister, with one being an unbeliever.

Some of the trainees got to speak to this high schooler concerning the eternity in man’s heart and God being the only One who could fill this void. Although he didn’t receive the Lord right away, we gave his friend, our high school brother, the free study Bible to give to him on the way home. May the Lord gain this one!

Statistics:

• 1 Bible handed out.

Please pray:

• That our high school brother would be able to give the Recovery Version Bible to his friend, and that his friend would receive the Bible, receive the Lord, and be gained as a remaining fruit.
• That we would see these young people and college students again next Saturday for another time of gathering.
• That we would be able to see these college students again sometime this week.
• That the Lord would work out the practice of the vital groups among the saints in Everett and Bellingham.

Today we handed out 3,000 flyers inviting UTEP students to our Bible study tomorrow. Out of those 3,000, 50 students signed up giving us their contact information. Our prayer burden is for all these new ones contacted to attend to the Bible study.

Today was our first day on campus. Before our arrival at Clemson, the saints had been praying for official club status, which they obtained merely 36 hours before our distribution; hallelujah! As we went out on campus, the weather cleared up just in time for gospel preaching. Some saints started out in groups of two, while a few others remained at the table; both groups met quite a number of promising students. Two girls in particular told us how they had just been discussing that they would like to spend more time with the Lord, so they were happy to receive the timely Word. We met another contact in the cafeteria who didn’t have a free hand at the time to take a Bible, so she later came to the table to receive one. There was a steady flow of students coming to the table, so there is a definite hunger on this campus.

Pray burdens:

• Pray for at least one or two solid contacts from this distribution.
• Pray for six to come to our ice cream social on Thursday.

Yesterday, we arrived in Lawrence, Kansas and attended a home meeting with several college students and gospel contacts. Today, we read a chapter of A Blessed Human Life and had a time of prayer, fellowship, and coordination for our gospel outing in the afternoon in Downtown Lawrence. We distributed a total of 101 tracts and four Bibles, and we contacted 25 new people. Then, in the evening, we had dinner with two regular contacts.

One of our highlights was the home meeting last night. We were so encouraged to see and meet so many different kinds of people. There were local saints, college students from the campus club, working saints, two Christian Brazilians, a Jewish student, a Christian from India, and an atheist. We were amazed at how the Lord brought us all together in the same place that night to fellowship with one another.

Prayer burdens:

• A job for one of our regular contacts before the expiration of his visa at the end of March.
• The atheist, who was formerly a believer but now doubts. Continued contact with the two Brazilians for the rest of their time in Kansas (four weeks).