Today we had our first Bible distribution at Old Dominion University. Three local saints also joined us. We can all testify that this campus is open! Many were open to hearing us show them how to use the Recovery Version Bible and left us their contact information. We passed out 140 Bibles and got follow up information for 59 people.

Prayer burdens:

• Our follow-up with these 59 people. We are inviting them to a Bible study time for this Saturday. We want to bridge the most open and willing ones with the local saints.
• We will be going to Dunn Loring tomorrow (Tuesday 1/27) and will have a blending time with the young people and college students that night. Many of us will be sharing our testimonies and experience of the FTTA with them.

Praise the Lord, we had a great beginning in Sonoma State University (SSU) today! Fifteen local saints and serving ones from North California joined us, and we split and sent the team to both the SSU campus and the nearby community. The campus team set up two tables right in front of the SSU cafeteria for three hours at noon. It is a very good location on campus for contacting students. We distributed 31 Bibles on campus; fourteen of the students are willing to be contacted and nine of them are interested in having Bible studies with us. We started following up with them this evening to set up some appointments during this week. The community team went to the neighborhood around the SSU campus, the residence of many students as well. We met eight positive contacts from the community who are willing to have us come back to deliver the Bible to them and four of them prayed to receive the Lord.

This evening we met again with the sister’s friend who is currently a freshmen at SSU; she is one of the two students we met on 1/25. She already has a very good connection with the family that lives close to campus and she is currently considering to move in to live with the saints. She is comfortable to attend the home meetings and Bible studies as long as her schedule allows and she enjoyed spending time with the sisters. May the Lord continue building up the companionship of these two sisters and bless their college years in the church life.

Prayer burdens:

• Continue praying for the gospel outreach on the SSU campus. In the next two weeks we will continue to have the table on campus for three hours a day and continue door knocking in the community. Please pray that the Lord will bind the strong man, release the captives, and recover the sight of the blind; that many students would have a taste of the truth, touch their spirit, and be well connected with the saints. Please also pray for our follow-up appointments with the open ones.
• Please pray for the neighborhood around the SSU campus, that many doors will be open and many seeking ones will appreciate the truth. May the Lord gain more households in this neighborhood to love Him, enjoy Him, and serve Him. We are still waiting for the room request from the school for the Bible study. Please pray that the Lord would release the best location for us this week to conduct the Bible studies.

It is He who will build a house. On the Lord’s Day, we had our Lord’s Table at the aforementioned house-turned-meeting-hall. There were 43 attendees, including seven FTTA trainees, seven saints from Lyman, Wyoming, and two from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Blending, blending, hallelujah! After a superabundant love feast, we formed 10 groups of 3-4 saints and went out door-knocking in Sugarhouse, a key community that neighbors the University of Utah. We knocked on 184 doors, out of which there were 22 positive contacts and one phone number exchanged, and passed out 27 Bibles and 24 Basic Elements of the Christian Life, vol. 1. In the evening, we gathered for a physical and spiritual dinner at the Herpin’s.

Today, we began the day with coordination, where we came together to touch the Lord as a team and practiced sharing to feed and nourish one another with Christ. Then we departed for campus where some of us were at the table while others dispersed throughout the university, contacting students and distributing invitations for this Thursday’s Bible study. We passed out a total of 183 invitations and made one follow-up appointment. In the afternoon, some of us toured the area while others had an appointment with a freshman student. In the evening, again we gathered for another physical and spiritual dinner at the Aviles’.

Activity highlights:

• Just the fact that the Wyoming saints came out to blend and even distribute Bibles with us was so encouraging. Some even stayed to contact students on campus with us this week. Door-knocking was not just a time of feeding others, but a sweet time of blending.
• Also, a freshman named Sarah who we had been having regular Bible reading appointments with, testified that she looks forward to these times of reading the Word with us.
• Lastly, our evening dinners going from house to house have been so simple and sweet. No sermons, messages, or laid-out agendas; simply singing hymn after hymn and psalm after psalm. Not only are we fed, but the saints are so supplied that Christ is brought into their homes.

Prayer burdens:

• TABLE: This is Christians on Campus’ first table, located in the entrance of one of the freshman dorms. Pray that more of our own students would be available to man the table. Also, University policy stipulates that we cannot be in front of our table recruiting students, i.e. we must stay behind our table and the students must approach us. No one came to our table today. Please pray that the Lord would release a way for students to come to our table! Also, that the Lord would go with our invitations and bring seeking ones to the Bible Study.
• CONTACT: Pray that in our contacting people on campus, we would meet students who would be open and available for further contact, who we can contact again and again while we are here.
• MIGRATION: This is a big one, but the saints keep asking for it. Pray that more saints would migrate here, because otherwise, there is no way for the new ones to be taken care of.

Today we distributed Bibles on two local campuses in Salem. There were many open and seeking students who received Bibles and were open to further contact.

While the response from the Bible distributions undoubtedly has been encouraging to us, the effect on the local saints has truly been the highlight of our trip. It has been so enjoyable to coordinate and labor with the saints here who recently took the ground again in Salem after many years and have a genuine desire to bear fruit. Not only are they actively entering into the labor during the Bible distributions but they themselves are being strengthened and encouraged.

One of the local brothers, who recently started meeting with the saints, is actively participating in the Bible distribution. Through interaction and fellowship with him we learned that he had not been baptized. Through fellowship and shepherding this brother decided to be baptized today! This was an answer to many prayers and an encouragement to all the saints in Salem. Praise the Lord for what He is doing in Salem!

Prayer burdens:

• Pray for the follow up of the new contacts by the local saints and that the Lord would manifest the seeking ones.
• Pray that the local saints would continue to be encouraged and built up with one another as they continue to coordinate and serve together.

In addition to going out on gospel outreach within the community, today we had a BfA table at Chaffey College. Students were interested in the New Testament Recovery Version and its features. Some even signed up to receive a free copy.

At lunch time, while ordering food at a restaurant counter we spoke to one of the workers who was very open and seeking. In the process of finishing our lunch he approached our table and we spoke some more with him. We gave him our contact information and invited him to our upcoming gospel meetings. Many of those invited expressed interest in attending. May the Lord bring many sons of peace! This evening we spent some time contacting the new ones and revisiting. The sisters also had the opportunity to have an enjoyable Bible reading phone appointment with a sister who is in the process of being recovered. She seems very happy to be meeting with us and says that she is looking forward to attending tomorrow night’s gospel meeting. May the Lord continue His recovery work in Rancho Cucamonga!

Prayer burdens:

• First gospel meeting on Tuesday, January 27, 2015—that many would come and that the Lord would richly bless this meeting
• Twenty remaining fruit in Rancho Cucamonga
• Five English-speaking families to migrate to Rancho Cucamonga