As GTCA 2015 in Rancho Cucamonga, California came to an end today, we praise the Lord for all He has done for these past two weeks. After the Table Meeting this morning, we had our final GTCA gospel harvest meeting. There were 137 adults and 12 children who attended. Brother Anthony Madison, former NFL player, shared his testimony regarding how he found the meaning of his human life and other brothers shared concerning five priceless treasures in the Bible. After the gospel meeting we had a love feast and fellowship with the saints and gospel contacts.

This gospel trip has been a wonderful experience to both the trainees and the local saints. Our two weeks here was an encouragement to them as we prayed and labored together. This gospel trip may have ended for the trainees, but it became a new beginning, a kick-starter for the saints here as they plan to go gospel-preaching for two hours on Saturday’s in the community.

We may not be there with them physically, but we continue to be there in prayer. Praise the Lord!

Prayer burdens:

• Proper follow-up care and shepherding of all the new ones
• Twenty remaining fruit in Rancho Cucamonga
• Five English-speaking families to migrate to Rancho Cucamonga
• That the Lord may have a lampstand in Rancho Cucamonga

2/6/15: Praise the Lord that eight students from Sonoma State University (SSU) attended the college meeting tonight; four came last Friday and four for the first time. We also had one faculty from SSU joined us tonight. We had dinner together followed by singing, and then we got into three groups and fellowshipped on the precious blood of Christ. One new student was deeply touched that sin causes us to be separated from God but we can simply confess that sin to God and believe that the blood of Jesus has taken that sin away. She felt she is away from God in the past year and she is so happy she is here tonight. The family invited the students to come back Monday nights for study time and all the students also would love to come back next Friday. Some of them stay for game and made good connections with each other. Please pray for all these students that they can continue growing in life and enjoying the church life with all the saints.

It was raining during the day so we all went to door-knocking. Praise the Lord for a wonderful raining day that kept many people home. We had six teams and the saints went door to door and were rejoicing in the rain. Eleven more Bibles were given to this neighborhood and two people prayed and received the Lord. We also had two Bible studies with two students during the day. One is a student came to the college meeting last Friday and she is interested in joining the Thursday Bible study at the dorm.

2/7/15: We had a wonderful day out door knocking. We had 55 saints form 18 teams and go door to door in Santa Rosa and Rohnert Park; 46 Bibles were given out and 34 people are open for revisit/follow up. We also met some students from Santa Rosa Junior College who would be interested in Bible studies. Many saints testified that this is the most open area they had been, and the population is mostly typical Americans. We have 197 contacts in our database so far who we met in the past two weeks and are open for follow up. The field is white but workers few. Please pray for the saints in this area. May the Lord bless their labor and gain some open homes and have an organic growth in Santa Rosa and Novato. Please also pray that the Lord will send supply, that some young saints, families and serving ones would migrate and join the labor here.

Team Statistics (As of 2/7/2015):

• Tracts/Free Bible offers distributed: 3556
• Bibles/Ministry Books distributed: 417
• Contacted (>30s): 510
• Those who prayed or were saved: 46
• Number of appointments: 38
• Number visited: 47

Prayer burdens:

• SSU Campus: Please pray for current twenty core student contacts, that they would grow in life, enjoy and remain in the church life, and be normal functioning members of the Body of Christ. Please pray for the continuation of the Bible studies, study nights, and college meetings at SSU, that many student would be captured and supplied by the Word of God.
• Community: Please pray for the revisit of the warm doors we gained by door knocking. May the Lord lead the saints to the open ones for follow up and revisit; and may the Lord gain some open homes through the saints’ visits and raise up the lampstand in Santa Rosa!
• Please pray that the Lord would burden some young saints, families, and serving ones to move to this white field.

2/6/15: Praise the Lord for another day in Rancho Cucamonga! Today was our final day at Chaffey College for a Bible distribution. Even though many students were not on campus, as they didn’t have any classes today, there were a few students who came to our table to inquire and sign up for a free Bible.

At tonight’s gospel meeting there were 58 people who attended. The Spirit was really moving tonight as we sang and had fellowship. All the sharing was full of life! At the end of the sharing and testimonies, there was one person who had the desire to be baptized. Immediately, a few of us quickly drove from the community center, where the meeting was held, to a saint’s home nearby to baptize her in the name of the Triune God! What a glorious end to another day of spiritual warfare! Thank you all for your prayers and petition!

2/7/15: Matthew 22:9—“Go therefore to the crossroads, and as much as you find, call to the wedding feast.”

After being filled in spirit with prayer, we went out once more into the community to share the good news and to invite as many as we could contact to our final GTCA gospel meeting tomorrow, Lord’s Day, February 8, 2015. We went out and spoke to as many as we could wherever we could. We even managed to get in contact with someone who was exercising on a sidewalk. He was open and willing to attend the meeting tomorrow. Meanwhile, through door-knocking, we met a very open Coptic family from Egypt who just moved to Rancho Cucamonga a couple of months ago. We read through a tract with them and also invited them to the gospel meeting. As we prepare for our final meeting and our final day here in Ranch Cucamonga, we praise and thank the Lord for all He has done in these past two weeks.

1 Cor. 15:58—“…be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.”

Prayer burdens:

• Final gospel meeting on Lord’s Day, February 8, 2015—that the Lord would bring many English-speaking new ones and that they would be remaining fruits of the gospel.
• Follow-up care and shepherding of all the new ones
• Twenty remaining fruit in Rancho Cucamonga
• Five English-speaking families to migrate to Rancho Cucamonga
• That the Lord may have a lampstand in Rancho Cucamonga

We have come to the end of our gospel trip here in Lafayette, Indiana. Since yesterday and today we distributed 194 Bibles. We praise the Lord for what He did and what He is doing here.

2/6/15: Last night we had a seminar. We were so encouraged that many students from saints, and even students from Champaign and Chicago. We felt that the atmosphere of these precious students and saints helped us to stir the ones contacted here. Some of them even joined us in singing and one was filled with excitement. We gave her a Bible because she was so encouraged with our singing. Also, another contact shared his enjoyment of what he had experience that night.

2/7/15: Today, we ended up with sharing our experiences. Seeing and hearing the students was very encouraging. Also the saints serving here in Lafayette shared with us the matter of shepherding. Dear saints, there is a great need for the Lord to supply the saints here in Lafayette. The Lord has been faithfully sending His seekers. Our need today is to cooperate with Him by sending saints to meet the need here.

Prayer burdens:

• For the two couples that were in the seminar to be established in the church in Lafayette
• For the students who were contacted to be also established and that the Lord will shepherd them into the church life.
• For couples to receive a burden to migrate and co-labor with the existing saints in Lafayette
• For the strengthening of the faithful saints here in Lafayette; that the Lord will strengthen them into their inner man to go on in the Lord.

Activity highlights—2/4/15:

• While passing tracts and speaking to young people at the sports park, which is situated right across from a high school, one trainee was approached by the park ranger. After some questions and answers, the ranger was pleased to know that we are preaching Christ as salvation to the high schoolers. He said that he would not have permitted us to continue if we were to preach something else. He left shortly after he expressed the yearning that the young people in the park need salvation. Also he received a copy of Basic Elements of the Christian Life, vol. 1.
• A lot of high schoolers cross the park to the pick up spot. I was standing there passing out tracts to whoever was passing by. Most of the high schoolers would just take the tract and leave, but there was one young people who stopped to listen to me. He was very open. I shared the mystery of human life with him and he was very impressed. We talked for a long time, I even shared my testimony with him. We exchanged phone number for further contact. Just when I was about to keep passing out tracts, another young person resting at the table upstairs spoke to me. “I like what you did!”, he said. I replied, “Thank you! You are next! I’m coming right up!” That was like an open invitation for gospel. I would not miss this opportunity. I went upstairs and sat down at his table. He was hanging out with his friends. There were seven of them. Turned out that he’s with Calvary Chapel. He used to preach the gospel to people too. We had a wonderful time fellowshipping together. They were all agreed to come to our Bible study. Praise the Lord!

Activity highlights—2/5/15:

• Two sisters had two appointments with two students from MSJC. At the end of the day the Lord gave them two more divine appointments. As they waited for their first appointment they saw a student reading the Bible and they were led to speak to him. He was reading Ezekiel and the sisters read the footnotes with the student on the four living creatures. He was happy to finally understand the meaning of the four living creatures. The sisters invited the student to the Bible study that same day and he went after his class. We invited him to the in-reaping meeting after he told us he was not baptized. We are now praying that the Lord would release him to go to the meeting and be baptized.
• While we were waiting for our second appointment a women saw one of the sisters holding her ukelele and approached her to inquire about it. This then led to reading the footnotes in revelation on the church in Laodicea. This one woman was a born again Christian and was currently meeting in Calvary Chapel but was not being satisfied. After we gave her a copy of Basic Elements of the Christian Life she told us that she has read Watchman Nee books and has received a lot of light. Through the conversation the sisters had the feeling to give her a small booklet titled The Ground of the Church and exchange contact information. Even though the plan for the afternoon was to only have two appointments with two students, the Lord used our time to the maximum by setting up two other divine appointments with some seeking ones.

Activity highlights—2/7/15:

• A young man with his companion were going up the escalator and saw our banner and the Bibles on the table. He rejected his friend suggesting to go somewhere else but was jumping and running down the escalator and rushed to the table. Two sisters were there. He was so joyful to know we were giving out free Bibles. Just like the hymn said, “It is joy unspeakable and full of glory”; whoever touches and drinks the living water of life is full of joy! He was a lost sheep and just came back to the Lord nine months ago in a denomination church. With very clear salvation, he has passion for the Lord. In his wife’s cancer and many others things, he was touched by the Lord and had a subjective experience of Him. After he shared how he needs the daily nourishment of the word of God to fill his inward emptiness and thirst, we shared with him the “God-­shaped vacuum” of the third part of man, and some footnotes from the New Testament. He was so amazed and felt so blessed to receive the Bible and copies of Basic Elements of the Christian Life and The Normal Christian Life. We pray that he will be released to join tonight’s gospel ­in-­reaping meeting, to be connected to the local saints, and to be built up with the saints in the proper ground.

• We’ve been experiencing the Lord’s superabundant grace a lot during these last days of GTCA. We just prayed His burden back to Him and simply trusted in Him, and He is faithful to His work and move in Temecula. We believe this is just the start of the fire being cast on the earth of Temecula. May He gain more genuine seekers, useful vessels, and plant and ground them into the church in Temecula, in Himself, one by one. He is the living God. Praise Him.

Prayer burdens:

• Please pray for all the people who have received the gospel tracts. May the Lord keep speaking to them through the tracts.
• Please pray for all the young people to come to our Bible study meeting.
• In-reaping meeting this saturday—That the saints will invite friends or relatives to be saved and baptized.
• The proper follow-up with all the contacts we have received at MSJC
• Remaining fruits for the church in Temecula