Yesterday, we had a combined children’s meeting/small group meeting at one of the local saint’s home. It was really a cherishing time! We all ate dinner together and then the children went into another room and had their meeting while we gathered and had another meeting. We sang a few songs and after singing, “God has Called us for His Purpose”, it opened a way for a few saints to take care of the new ones by sharing a little about what it means for God to be fully processed and about our spirit!

After singing, we read through Hebrew 12 and then some shared on what they enjoyed. It was really supplying to hear all of the saints sharing including the new ones. One new one in particular, R, who was contacted earlier this week through door-knocking, entered right into the sharing and spoke on what he had been enjoying in the Word. He also opened up a pretty hard situation he had been faced with earlier in the day. After he opened it up, everyone spontaneously prayed for his situation. After the meeting was over, he stayed for a long time and just talked with saints and played the guitar with a college brother. It was so encouraging and refreshing to see this new one enjoying the Lord!

For the past few days, a few of the trainees as well as local saints have been sick and have been unable to participate in GTCA activities. Please pray for the continued binding of the enemy and covering of the saints health!

Prayer Burdens:

• Continue binding the enemy and covering the saint’s health
• Pray for the follow up and shepherding of those who we contacted this week

Praise the Lord for living water in Abbotsford!

Snow to shovel through has piled up on our driveways, but “waters to swim in will meet our every need.”

On Thursday, 2/2/17, in our pursuit of truth through our corporate reading of The Exercise of the Kingdom for the Building of the Church, we had a very watering time of fellowship about the denying of the self for the building up of the Body. We say “no” to the self and “yes” to the spirit! Later, we spent the afternoon/evening at the University of the Fraser Valley, distributing free Bibles and ministry materials, and holding seminars on The Mystery of Human Life and The Mystery of God’s Full Salvation. We were especially encouraged by the openness of three new ones who came.

Today, 2/3/17, we had enjoyable experiences door-knocking. Please pray for D to come to the seminar next week! Tonight, although the weather conditions made travel extremely difficult, local saints gathered to feast on the Lord together. We spent the night singing unto Him. Meeting with the saints is truly the greatest joy on earth.

Prayer Burdens:

• The Lord would water the seeds sown in the new ones who came to our Bibles for Canada seminars, and to release many more to come to the seminars next week!
• The Lord would bless our gospel meeting tomorrow night with His presence, cover all the travels through the snow, and release our contacts’ full salvation.

On Wednesday our wonderful outing time started with rock climbing with the local saints then sightseeing around Ashland. The saints cherished us by showing us local attractions and treating us for desert.

Thursday morning we had a sister’s Bible Study at sister Ruth’s house. During this time we read John 13:1-11 and listened to the corresponding life-study radio broadcast message. In order to maintain a good fellowship with the Lord, we need to be washed by His word, life and Spirit. After the sister’s Bible study, we joined forces with the brothers at Rogue Community College (RCC) and the downtown library to continue handing out Bibles. Local saints were paired up with trainees to table and hand out Bibles around the area. The report was encouraging from the saints. Many students and locals were contacted and open to receive the Bible and some for future contact.

As usual we had another night of blending with the saints over the dinner table. From Lord’s day to Thursday we partake the food with exultation and simplicity of heart, just as it’s mentioned in Acts 2:26. The house-to-house love feast is just like family gathering to us. We spent much one-on-one time with the local saints and got to know them in a deeper way. In a span of five days, the saints are like letters inscribed on our hearts. May the Lord bless the Church in Medford! Especially bless the young people to love the Lord and the church!

Prayer Burdens:

• Please pray for the young people to have a heart to love the Lord and serve the church.
• Please pray that the Lord could increase the divine traffic in Medford through visitation of the saints.

January 31, 2017

Today, we began laboring for Bibles for America in four different locations:

• Indiana University South Bend— table set up in front of their library
• University of Notre Dame— on Eddy Street (where the off-campus housing is located)
• Farmer’s Market— we had a table set up
• Flamingos— a Mexican market with a table set up as well

The Lord really blessed our laboring with the saints on each of these locations. We got a very positive response from each location. Specifically, IUSB got about 40 contacts and 33 of those were open to give us their information and attend a BfA seminar on Friday. There were 93 tracts given out and 11 Bibles received.

UND: 7 contacts and gave our 5 Bibles and 71 tracts. Farmer’s market: gave out 2 Bibles and 25 tracts. The two contacts were two different families, whom shared their information. Flamingo’s: 20 contacts, 3 Bibles were given out and 53 tracts were received.

February 1, 2017

The team paid more attention in the Indiana University South Bend campus. The students are very open to us and many of them gave us their contact information for future contact. We set up the BfA table at the same location as yesterday, in front of the library. Today, we had a total of 29 new contacts’ information, handed out 35 Bibles and 104 tracts were distributed. We also set up the table at the Downtown area and Eddy Street common near the University of Notre Dame:

Downtown South Bend: 3 new contacts, 5 Bibles and 95 tracts distributed. Eddy Street Common: 3 new contacts, 3 Bibles and 89 tracts distributed.

At our third venue, the farmers’ market, there was one contact made that received one Bible and one gospel tract.

February 2, 2017

The team continued the BfA table at three different venues: IUSB campus, Eddy Street common, and the Farmer’s Market.

IUSB: BfA table set up in front of the library, 33 new contacts, 43 Bibles and 13 tracts distributed. Eddy Street common: 5 new contacts, 12 Bibles and 3 tracts.

Prayer Burdens:

• We feel that the IUSB campus is a rich fishpond for the gospel preaching. The local saints in South Bend and the ones from the surrounding cities are very encouraged with the positive response we have gotten from IUSB. There are open and seeking hearts on this campus! Hallelujah! We received the support and appreciation from both the students and the employees while we were on campus. May the Lord continue to bless this campus. Please pray that the local saints would be strengthened into their inner man and that the Lord would provide them with much grace in the coming weeks as they labor on the promising students and consider a campus work in IUSB.
• Please pray for the Lord’s covering tomorrow. We will be holding a Bible seminar at 6PM, near Notre Dame University. May the Lord gain the seeking ones, especially the college students.

Activities:

• On Wednesday, February 1, 2017 we had our second Bible distribution on CSU Chico; many more students came to get the Bibles!
• On Thursday, February 2, 2017, due to the weather (raining), we decided to split into two teams: one team of 2 brothers set up a Bible distribution table in front of our coordination center (meeting hall) whereas the others went to CSU Chico to distribute the Bibles despite of the rain.

Highlights:

• One of our contacts came to join us for dinner at the coordination center on Wednesday, February 1, 2017. We had a very sweet time of fellowship.
• Two patients and two nurses of the clinic beside the coordination center took the Bibles and were seen reading it while waiting to be seen by the doctor (Thursday).

Statistics (February 1-2):

• 48 Bibles distributed
• About 140 tracts/free Bible offer brochures distributed
• Total of 52 names open for further contacts listed

Prayer Burdens:

• That the Lord will be sovereign over the weather for distributing the Bibles
• Follow-up appointments with the new contacts
• That some contacts will come to the home meeting (Friday, February 3, 2017)