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Greetings from Los Angeles! As reported in the last Good New Email on May 3rd, the month of May started extraordinarily for the City of Angels International Christian Church (CAICC)! On Friday night May 1st, we met together for the CAICC Basketball League Championship! Then on Sunday morning May 3rd, the congregation again met together for the glorious Manila Mission Team Send-Off Worship Service!

The 10 member Manila Mission Team is welcomed
by the 51 disciples in the Manila Remnant
Group with a “slaughtered pig!”

Since the departure of the Metro Manila Mission Team, the City of Angels Church has migrated to three Super Regions (composed of four regions each) which cover the vast five county area of Los Angeles where almost 20 million people live! So for our Tuesday, May 5th Staff Meeting, Elena & I met with the 12 Region Leader Brothers and Sisters on top of Mount Shalom (Mt. Hollywood) from which much of the Los Angeles area can be inspirationally viewed!

After a time of worshipful singing, the three new Super Region Leaders preached Jesus’ vision from Acts 1:8, “You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in JERUSALEM, and in all JUDEA AND SAMARIA; and to THE ENDS OF THE EARTH!” Since Tim Kernan will be leading the LA Church by next summer, he eloquently preached on JERUSALEM; Cory Blackwell, having deep convictions from all his years of raising funds for Missions Contributions, challenged us with the message – JUDEA AND SAMARIA; and Andrew Smellie, soon to be leading the Africa Missions Conference, delivered the inspiring close-out message – THE ENDS OF THE EARTH! Afterward, the brothers prayed in one group and the sisters in their group!

Tim preaching on Mt. Shalom!

The fired-up City of Angels Region
Leaders D-Group!

Saturday, May 16th was our May ICCM Session! In September, Dr. Tim Kernan & Lianne Kernan will become the President and Dean of Women of the ICCM – LA, respectively! As well, Evan Bartholomew has joined our ICCM Staff as a Graduate Teaching Assistant!

Dr. Tim Kernan introduces the ICCM’s newest
Graduate Teaching Assistant –
Evan Bartholomew!

On the weekend of May 23-24th, Elena & I made the five hour drive to Las Vegas to preach for the church and to participate in the wedding festivities of Udo & Sara Ibe! It truly was a magnificent celebration where God was glorified!

Congratulations to Udo & Sara Ibe!

With their colorful traditional Nigerian dresses,
Udo’s grandmother and mom add to the
inspiration of the evening wedding!

The sacred wedding vows of disciples shine
bright in a world full of divorce!

Sunday, May 31st concluded almost five months of efforts to achieve our 20X Missions Contribution! Every member was striving to personally raise at least 20X their weekly pledge from the world or by personal sacrifice. From my perspective, this particular Missions Contribution was one of our most difficult because of all the transitions in our congregation for missions, which included five Regional Leader changes and 49 disciples sent to the mission field! So with a goal of $568,000, God blessed the CAICC with $580,200! Even in the midst of all the multitudinous transitions and monumental efforts to secure our Missions Contribution, in the first 151 days of 2015 the Lord has added to our number 196 souls – 157 baptisms, 19 restorations and 20 place memberships! And to God be all the glory!

NEWS FLASH: The inspirational theme of the 2015 Global Leadership Conference (GLC) is SAVIOR OF THE WORLD! Our theme as well as all of the lessons and classes at this year’s GLC focus on the Gospel of John! All of the Conference Program (as well as all of the Pre-Conference Festivities) will be held at the beautiful Anaheim Hilton at 777 West Convention Way, Anaheim, CA 92802!

Don’t miss out on the 2015 GLC – SAVIOR OF
THE WORLD – where disciples will gather
in LA from all around the globe!

The registration fee will be the same as last year – $175. The room rate is $139 / night. We are encouraging all GLC participants to stay at the Anaheim Hilton for not only your convenience, but to help us receive a huge discount for the rental of the facilities for the GLC! Please register for the GLC at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/2015-global-leadership-conference-savior-of-the-world-tickets-16571799699. You may secure your rooms at the Anaheim Hilton at https://resweb.passkey.com/go/GlobalLeadershipConf2015. Please register today and pray for this historic event!

NEWS FLASH – Nick Bordieri: “Whoever oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors God.” (Proverbs 14:31) On June 13, almost 4,000 MERCY Ambassadors will be participating in the Seventh Annual International Day of MERCY! From North and South America to Europe to Africa to the Russian Commonwealth to India, Australia, the Pac Rim and the Hawaiian Islands, MERCY Ambassadors will be serving their communities in projects ranging from serving the elderly to caring for those with disabilities to providing for the homeless to encouraging the youth, just to name a few!

The almost 4,000 members of the SoldOut
Movement are the MERCY
Ambassadors! 

“The worst disaster is not being prepared.” (American Red Cross) One of the highlighted MERCY Projects this year is Prepare SoCal, a partnership with the American Red Cross! For LA’s MERCY Project, almost 1000 MERCY Ambassadors will be trained to prepare for natural disasters and emergency situations and thus becoming part of the solution when – not if – something occurs! After seeing San Andreas, the Hollywood blockbuster movie that depicts powerful earthquakes running along the San Andreas fault from LA to San Francisco, I began to fully realized the importance of “being prepared!” Let us all remember to devote Friday, June 12, to fasting and prayer for the poor and needy around the world. To God be the glory!

And now more detailed reports from around Los Angeles…

HEADLINE NEWS – LOS ANGELES

Krystal Legarda: Warm greetings from beautiful Orange County! It was a bittersweet time for our region as we sent-off the San Diego Supplemental Mission Team! Although many tears were shed, there was much rejoicing as we “tore ourselves away from them.” (Acts 21:1) We have full confidence that God will use them in great ways in San Diego as they are truly many of our very best!

In the midst of all the transition, God added two to our Campus Ministry! Samantha, a psychology student at Cal State Fullerton was added through baptism!

Samantha trades worldly psychology
for godly theology!

As well, Karyn Bowman shared powerfully in tears of how far her heart had drifted from God in the past year. Although still attending church, she lived a deceitful life in deep darkness. God transformed her by “removing her heart of stone and giving her a heart of flesh,” as well as an overwhelming desire to live in the light! (Ezekiel 36:26) It was incredible to see Karyn restored to God’s Kingdom!

Luke & Brandyn warmly welcome back
Karyn into God’s Family! 

One more very special addition this month to the OC Family was Lincoln Granados – the newborn son of Matt & Ana! Congratulations!

With the arrival of Lincoln, Matt & Ana
experience the miracle of birth!

Please keep Luke & Brandyn Speckman in your prayers as they are on their missionary journey to Chennai, India and Moscow, Russia!

The Chennai Disciples greet the
Speckmans at 3AM!

The Moscow Disciples also greet the Speckmans
with the SoldOut Movement Greeting –
We Love You With The Love
Of The Lord!

Chris Chloupek: “How ya do’in?” from the AMS Region! Recently, God has added to our number two young men, Carl and Anthony! Both are artists! Carl graduated from Columbia Film School and is excited to use his talents to serve God. He will work on our next short film that prayerfully will screen at the GLC! Anthony is an aspiring actor and singer!

Carl’s (above) and Anthony’s conversions
have fired-up the AMS Brothers! 

We are so grateful for our AMS Family! We are continuing to grow in our “faith, hope and love!” I am especially proud of our fulltime intern, Nick Iadonisi! He was in charge of the church last week while Sonja & I were out of town. I heard from several disciples that he preached a powerful message on Sunday! I am also so grateful for Jason & Susan Bond, our seasoned Shepherding Couple, who really supported Nick during this week!

Congratulations to our newest dating couples, Matt & Naveh and John & Genina! (Matt is from the Southland Region and Genina is from the Central Region!)

Congratulations to Matt & Naveh!

Congratulations to John & Genina!

Lastly, as members of the Johannesburg Mission Team, Sonja & I are so honored to go to the upcoming African Missions Conference – EVERY TRIBE, LANGUAGE AND NATION! As disciples, we understand the call to serve God wherever we are called! Truly, THERE IS NO BUSINESS LIKE “SOUL” BUSINESS!

Bonita Holmes: Greetings from the mighty Southland Region where in the month of May God’s Spirit has been blowing His disciples from city to city according to His purpose! Last week, our dear brother Emmanuel Gonzales (Manny) was sent-off to serve the Lord in Portland, Oregon! Manny is one of the original nine that started the Southland Ministry! He has served humbly and powerfully since its start in 2011! We will miss him dearly, however we are even more excited to witness the amazing things he will do for God in Portland as a Singles Leader and Song Leader!

Manny Gonzales will become the Lead
Songleader for the Portland Church!

On that same day we welcomed a warrior princess in the faith – Tracy Harding and her oldest son Devon! Her husband Ron and their youngest son Dillion will be joining Tracy and Devon on June 13th! The Hardings, who led the Washington DC Church powerfully, will be a welcomed addition to the Southland Family!

Ron & Tracy Harding’s coming will help to multiply
the Southland Disciples! 

God also blew our sister Dao Henderson to Southland! Dao is a graduate of Howard University and also comes to us from our sister church in Washington DC! By coming to the Southland Region, Dao is fulfilling her Kingdom dream to train for the Middle East Mission Team!

Dao moves to the Southland Region to train
for Middle East Missions!

This month, God blessed us with three baptisms! It is always amazing to see families come together as brothers and sisters in Christ! We witnessed the very heartfelt baptism of our new sister, India Smith, the mother of our beloved sister Jasmine Jennings! India has been around our fellowship for a number of years and has finally found her place in God’s Kingdom, a dream come true for Jasmine!

Jasmine’s (left) impossible prayer is answered
when her mother India (middle) is baptized!

Next, we welcomed our new sister Janae Stallworth, cousin of our sister MsChele Scorza! Janae realized quickly her need to be right with God and was baptized nearly overnight! Last but not least, we welcomed another sister, Destiny Pickett, whose incredible perseverance finally helped reconcile her heart to our Savior!

Destiny fulfills “God’s destiny” for her life!

As we reflect on the past month, we praise God that He allowed Southland to blow out our missions collecting nearly $70,000 to help save souls around the world! We truly are family to the end!

Kevin Hetrick: “Sow your seed in the morning, and at evening let your hands not be idle, for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or whether both will do equally well.” (Ecclesiastes 11:6) The Lord God has privileged the North Region this May with victories which have been sought through prayer and diligent sowing in all areas of life! Seeing that a miracle was needed to reach our 20X Missions Goal, our whole region decided to climb to the mountain top in Santa Clarita and beg God, like the prophets of old, to make our hopes a reality! God was faithful as we were able to give generously for His Kingdom, exceeding our goal! If you would like, listen to Blaise’s inspirational sermon THIS GENERATION now posted on YouTube! (https://youtu.be/qyN9E4dchrI)

Blaise gets ready to preach to the North
Region on Mt. Shalom!

Also, leaders are rising up in our newly formed Latin Ministry Bible Talk! Our brothers Frank Bedoya and Sal Mosqueda and our sister Aurora Luna started our first “Charla,” reaching out to the Latino’s in our area!

Frank Bedoya, Sal Mosqueda and Aurora
Luna (above) are spearheading the
Spanish-speaking Charla!

Another fruit was Alex Morales’ attainment of his Bachelor’s Degree from Cal State University Northridge (CSUN) in Sociology! Way to go Alex! Finally, the Lord’s grace was extended as Ruth Libsework was restored today to her “first love!” Having her back in the fellowship is such a blessing as she brings with her a great skill set, and more importantly, a newfound humility toward God’s Kingdom!

Ryan Keenan: Greetings from the Ventura Region Family! Interestingly, “Ventura” means good fortune and the month of May was no exception! Earlier in the month, Myra Hernandez, the mother of disciples Alex Hernandez and Anthony Zarate, became our newest “sister” in Christ! In her moving testimony, she shared how inspired she was by both of her sons’ godly examples!

Myra makes her good confession,
“Jesus is Lord!”

Then, yesterday, the entire church joined in worship with our sister church in Santa Barbara! We feel honored to send-out “our very best” – Dennis & Corinna Sloan – to continue the Spirit’s powerful work there as Richie & Elizabeth McDonnell move on to build the Washington DC Church!

Dennis & Corinna help each other to find
strength in the Lord for their new
ministry in Santa Barbara!

Lastly, with a 20X Missions Goal of $35,900, we tagged, tax returned, and trash-a-thon’d our way to a resounding victory of $39,109! Pray for us as we begin our Fruit Fiesta Summer Harvest Campaign! See you soon at the GLC!

Daniela Payan: Greetings from the Tribe of the Inland Empire! “You sent abundant rain, O God, to refresh the weary land.” (Psalm 68:9) The month of May has definitely been so encouraging, as the IE has been refreshed through five baptisms and one restoration!

Daniela and Jhoselyn joyfully baptize Araceli!

To kick-off our month, we witnessed a miracle as Shima, a Persian woman, was baptized into the Riverside Community College Ministry! Shima’s story is inspiring because being deeply rooted in the Muslim religion she almost stopped studying the Bible because of strong persecution from her family! But holding true to John 8:31-32 she made the decision to live out the Scriptures and allow God to set her free! Because of her strong convictions, she has been disowned by her family but holds to the precious gift of being adopted into God’s family and given spiritual parents and siblings in the faith!

Shima (center) joins the IE Sisters in their
weekly challenge, “You will be next!”

Also of special note is the graduation of one of our teen girls, Devon! She graduated with honors and was accepted to UC Irvine and will be studying Engineering! Lastly, I want to give a special thank you to Rebecca Rico for putting on the Inland Empire’s First Latin Women’s Devotional this past Saturday, entitled FEARLESS (SIN MIEDO)! We were blessed with speakers from Orange County – Sandra Zepeda and Lenny Garcia – and from Palm Springs – Patricia Velasco!

Lenny elicits a tremendous response from the
sisters as she preaches on purity!

The Latin Women’s Devotional Leaders – Rebecca,
Lenny, Daniela, Sandra, Myrna and Patricia!

It was an inspiring time and gave all of our Latin women great vision! Now we are looking forward to our next Men and Women’s Latin’s Devotional on July 11th! ¡A Dios sea la gloria!

Sal Velasco: Greetings from Palm Springs! It has been so exciting to see our God work through the amazing hearts of a young passionate and growing ministry of 34 here in the Palm Springs Region! We prayed and fasted and God blessed us as we surpassed our Special Missions Goal of $10,860 by $5,271!

The week after the special, a young college student at COD by the name of John was met by three different disciples in two very distinct occasions and locations! Our dynamic campus leader Alfredo Lopez met John on campus and invited him to church at the school! A short time later, a couple of brothers from our Marrieds Ministry, Daniel Lowe and Robert Kryler, were on the bus and they saw John reading his Bible. They shared their faith with him and later found out that he literally lives across the street from our brother Robert Kryler! God totally had John’s number, and John does actually have a number since he is the second string quarterback on the COD football team!

John had such a pure and eager heart for God that he diligently studied the Bible for a few short weeks, and then at our Tri-Regional Church Service in Riverside, John powerfully shared his convictions before getting baptized!

John cannot even imagine how awesome
Heaven is going to be!

God is truly blessing the faith and heart of the disciples out here in the desert where there is “living water!” And to God be all the glory!

Andrew Smellie: Greetings from the “Wild West” Region of the City of Angels Church! Today we had a Day of Celebration with food, fun and great fellowship in the park! Despite seemingly overwhelming challenges, our 67 disciples gave $94,517 for Missions – surpassing our goal by almost $4,000! To meet such a lofty sum, we started our First Annual “Pier to Pier” Run for Missions (from Santa Monica Pier to Venice Beach Pier) from which several disciples raised hundreds of dollars! One disciple, Ariel Hazelton, raised almost $1,200 in just three days after asking associates at her job to contribute! From taking on extra shifts to tagging, to literally praying to get money in the mail, the Lord truly multiplied our efforts!

Also of special note was the baptism of Ashley, a senior at UCLA! Ashley is a Pre-med, Physiological Studies Major who is applying for Medical School at UCLA! She just received a high-paying job for the summer working fulltime as an assistant for an Oral Surgeon in the area!

Ashley’s baptism has ignited the UCLA
Women’s Ministry!

Please join us in praying for the Harvest as we kick-off a Summer Campaign for the month of June and pray for our Father’s Day BYND Service on June 20th!

Steve Stencil: Greetings from the Mighty East Region! These past two weeks have been momentous and nothing short of miraculous as we’ve had the bittersweet privilege of sending-off the “Portland Eight” Supplemental Mission Team consisting of Cesar & Debbie Limon, Fernando & Jackie Chavez, George Castillo, Valeria Garcia-Pineda, Phillip Redmon and Monique Carrasco! We understand that God only sends out His best, which leaves the second tier of leadership the responsibility of “raising up and carrying the torch.”

The “Portland Eight” Going Away Party!

Serving as “interim Region Leaders” are Khamille Sarmiento and myself as we await the arrival of the East Region’s new Lead Ministry Couple – Lou Jack & Cathi Martinez of Honolulu!

Lou Jack & Cathi are excited to return
to the East Region of LA!

More great news are the baptisms of three campus women in just this past week! God was gracious enough to bless us with the spiritual birth of our dear sisters: Devon, Jessica and Kimberlin!

Last but not least, Sunday Service was a blast as the East Region met it’s Extended Special Missions Goal by over 100%! To God be all the glory for His ever present grace and mercy!

Mark Garrido: Good news from Central Region! This past month has been fantastic! Out of Central Region, we had the greatest privilege of seeing Kyle, Joan, Brett, Conner and little baby girl Bree Bartholomew sent out of LA to Metro Manila, Philippines to commence the evangelization of the Pacific Rim nations!

WEEK ONE: With so many sent out from Central Region, it was necessary for us to raise up new leaders! As we presented our plans to God, it became clear that the USC Campus Ministry should be led by Bryson Okuno & Jazzy Yogi, both transplants of Honolulu! The CSULA Ministry will be led by Jovanny Gochez & Sara Oros! The PCC Ministry will be led by Nathan Carr as our current leader Stefano Barbis is preparing to join Alfredo & Alejandra Anuch in the Santiago de Chile International Christian Church after the GLC where he’ll gather the Lima, Peru Mission Team! Of special note, the ELAC Campus Ministry will now be led by Jeff Martinez who is in fact an ELAC convert!

WEEK TWO: My beautiful and amazing wife Keri & I were blessed with the incredible opportunity to resume the good work that Kyle & Joan have been doing here in Central LA to prepare us for “Lord willing” the planting of the Guam International Christian Church in a year or two to come! Serving, preaching, Bible studies, vigorous discipleship, inspiring, challenging, refocusing, planning and setting goals for our region has made this month a truly delightful experience as we have been drawing close to God all together as a unified region!

The new Central Region Leaders – Mark & Keri
Garrido – are also the Guam Mission
Team Leaders!

WEEK THREE: “Work hard and pray harder” is exactly what we did and now comes the first fruits of the new Central Region Campus Ministry! The ELAC and CSULA men met a Chinese national Thomas on ELAC! Thomas had no knowledge of who Jesus is but after our combined campus efforts and patiently walking Thomas through the book of John and the First Principle Studies, it was nothing less than spectacular to see Thomas realize that he stumbled on the true Kingdom of God! Thomas simply had faith, repented and was baptized and is now your brother in Christ!

Thomas stumbles upon God’s true church! 

WEEK FOUR: 20X Special Missions was achieved! Please be praying for us as many are studying and are near baptism!

Lance Underhill: Greetings from the Sold-out South Region! We are so excited and grateful having Tim & Lianne Kernan as well as their sons – Junior and David – back in the South! The Kernans’ love, faith, hard work and vision for the “tribe” here has inspired all of us and we anticipate the “miracles” that are about to happen!

Today, we witnessed our first baptism Chatara, since the Kernans were passed the baton! However, most exciting this month to Connie & me was the arrival “home” of our youngest son Joey back after four years on the mission field in Sao Paulo, Brazil!

The South Region gives a huge “Welcome
Home” to Joey!

Because of visa challenges, Joey has not been to a GLC since the Holy Spirit sent-out “The Seven” (on the Sao Paulo Mission Team) four years ago, with only one disciple who spoke Portuguese! Encouragingly on Joey’s last Sunday there, he preached to the whole Sao Paulo Church in Portuguese which now numbers 129 disciples!

HEADLINE NEWS – USA SW QUADRANT & THE MIDDLE EAST

“Mama Sonia” Gonzalez: God has been doing incredible things in the church in Las Vegas! Last Sunday was an exciting day for us, as we witnessed the marriage of my daughter Sara to an awesome man of God – Udo Ibe!

Weddings bring friends and family from afar! Elena
is a true sister to Sonia and an aunt to
the Gonzalezes’ ten kids!

Victor escorts his daughter Sara and
then marries her to Udo!

Like “a cord of three strands” Christian
marriage is bound together by
the Holy Spirit!  

Of course ”Tio (Uncle) Kip” & “Tia (Aunt) Elena” could not miss it! So we had the great honor and privilege of hearing our brother Kip powerfully preach the Word at our Sunday Service! After a challenging message on bearing fruit that will last, at the end of the service two souls were added to the Kingdom by baptism: Naomi and Eboniee! Naomi is the teenage daughter of our sister Paula Deen! After studying the Bible, Naomi realized the cost of becoming a disciple was her life but quickly proclaimed “Jesus is Lord” and was baptized!

Karen, Naomi and Rent laugh at
the forgiven past!

That same day Eboniee, a campus student, was also baptized! After studying the Bible, her eagerness to “seek first the Kingdom” rapidly grew, leading to her good confession, “Jesus is Lord!”

We also had the incredible privilege of having our dear brother Blaise Feumba and his awesome family visiting for the wedding and doing communion for us!

Blaise & Patricia share for communion at the
Sunday Morning Las Vegas Church Service!

Veteran soldiers of the cross – Victor
and Blaise!

Elena embraces the “Feumba Sisters” – Helena,
Odelia and “Mama Patricia!”

Today was the kick-start for our Summer Campaign! Also today, we sent-out two of our best to the West Region of the City of Angels International Christian Church: Arvind and Shamika – both baptized in Las Vegas and willing to “go anywhere, do anything and give up everything” for the Kingdom of God! We are also very excited to send-out at the GLC two more incredible disciples – Dayisha and Shay – to be part of the Sacramento Mission Team! To God be all the glory!

Joy Axelson: “Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.” (John 12:24-25) It has been a bittersweet few weeks here in the Mission Bay Church in San Diego. After serving selflessly in San Diego for nearly five years, the Spirit has blown Evan & Kelly Bartholomew to meet the needs of the Orange County Region of our City of Angels Congregation! Together, with five other gallant disciples; Bobby & Kensey Merrett, Tyrone White, Amber Anderson and Alicia Amezcua they have become known as the “OC Seven!”

The OC Seven!

After a joyful but tear-filled Send-off Service in which all of the “OC Seven” played a role, the entire church went to an even more tear-filled Going Away Pizza Party! At this gathering, many shared about the spirit of family and love amongst the disciples in the Mission Bay Church that Evan & Kelly have cultivated through the Word! Pray for the OC Seven as they uproot their lives for the Kingdom and give their hearts to save souls in Orange County!

The laughter and tear-filled Going Away
Party for the “OC Seven!”

Amidst the tearing of hearts at the departure of the OC Seven, there has also been the buzz of excitement! Princeton & I have now moved down to San Diego to serve in this amazing church!

Princeton & Joy are excited that God has
given them the charge of the San
Diego Church!

Five other disciples have agreed to join us as well! So far, we have been joined by Ryan Lomeli and Jennifer Garcia of Orange County, and Sarah Chang of the Inland Empire Region! Adam Blanco of Orange County and Carver Bedeau of New York City will also be moving down in these next two months! We are so humbled to work the harvest fields God has given us in San Diego! Please be praying for us in the Bay!

Jeremy Ciaramella: “How good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in unity… There the Lord bestows His blessing, even life forevermore.” (Psalm 133:1,3) Greetings from Phoenix!

We are so grateful for our unified movement of churches! This past week we had five incredible disciples visit us from the North Region of LA – David & Ashley Caldwell, Fred & Manu Batson, and Jonathan Panossian! Fred opened our service with a great prayer; Ashley shared vulnerably about the gift of the cross for communion; and Jonathan shared a presentation for contribution – “An Attitude of Gratitude” about his trip with the Feumbas to Haiti! It was so moving many were in tears realizing the suffering of their Hatian brothers and sisters! Thanks be to God that we can have unity in our fellowship so that we can see the needs worldwide and get inspired to go after raising money for Special Missions!

We are so thankful that God has sent to us Gabrille Murillo from Santa Barbara!

Gabby is a tremendous joy to the Phoenix Family!
Of course, her boyfriend Anthony is very
fired-up that she moved there!

We are also grateful that our dear brother Dan Cooke has been restored to the fellowship after a long, hard-fought battle against addiction and lukewarmness!

Dan shares about his long journey
to be restored!

It is was with bittersweet joy that we prayed over our beloved sister Santana DeJesus who will be going to DC with Richie & Elizabeth McDonnell and working as a fulltime intern with them in the Campus Ministry there! We are also excited that Monica Wilson has been appointed as our MERCYworldwide Intern! The church in Phoenix has raised 60% of its missions and we are very excited about our next AMS sponsored fundraiser – So You Think You Have Talent – which Planet Fitness has already agreed to sponsor!

Pray for the Phoenix Church to blow out
their Missions Contribution!

We were also excited that God gave us the grace of supporting the Guam Mission Team efforts by calling Rico & Janelle Jones to LA to train with our dear friends Mark & Keri Garrido! To God be the glory that we can be a family, unified in heart and purpose, sharing all that God gives us in His people and His wealth with one another for a common vision – to evangelize the nations in this generation!

Richie McDonnell: Greetings from sunny Santa Barbara (SB)! It has been an incredible month of May! We had our first Santa Barbara wedding; the new SB Church Leaders – Dennis & Corinna Sloan of LA – placed membership; and the Spirit has sent us out to lead the incredible Washington DC Church!

Santa Barbara’s very first convert, Alex, who was baptized almost two years ago as a UCSB graduate student, married Bria, one of the original SB Mission Team Members from Chicago, on May 10th! It was such a privilege being able to reach out to Alex at UCSB, study the Bible with and baptize him, and then to perform his wedding ceremony! God really does have great plans for us when we choose to seek Him with all of our heart! (Jeremiah 29:11-14)

Alex & Bria are fired-up after
their first kiss!

Lastly, today’s church service was one to remember! The Ventura Region of the City of Angels International Christian Church joined the Santa Barbara Church for the Spirit’s sending-out of Elizabeth & me! We will be accompanied to DC by three other SB disciples! It was truly a remarkable worship service with the family! After 706 days, I preached my final sermon in Santa Barbara, titled, PERFECT GIFT FROM HEAVEN (James 1:17) where I thanked God and everybody in the Santa Barbara Church for making these past two years the best years of our lives! There’s so much to reflect on and be grateful for from our time in Santa Barbara: our son Sawyer being born, going into the full-time ministry for the first time, and being appointed an Evangelist and a Women’s Ministry Leader, just to mention a few!

Elizabeth & I believe that we both really “grew up” while we were in Santa Barbara! We are going to miss this great church so much (and meeting for Sunday service right next to the beach), but we are excited for the next great adventure that God is taking us on in Washington DC!

Elizabeth, Sawyer, Nikki and Richie on their way
to Phoenix for their first stop!

Please pray for safe travels as we make our journey across the country!

HEADLINE NEWS – USA NW QUADRANT & CANADA

Gabe Reed of Eugene: “Paul entered the synagogue and spoke boldly there for three months, arguing persuasively about the Kingdom of God. But some of them became obstinate; they refused to believe and publicly maligned the Way. So Paul left them. He took the disciples with him and had discussions daily in the lecture hall of Tyrannus. This went on for two years, so that all the Jews and Greeks who lived in the province of Asia heard the Word of the Lord.” (Acts 19:8-10)

Greetings from the Northwest and Canada World Sector!! I am writing this from our dear partners in the gospel Jason & Sarah Dimitry’s apartment after an amazing weekend with the electric San Francisco Bay International Christian Church (SFBICC)!! My wife & I are so grateful for their friendship and leadership! We have learned so much from them and hope we can imitate and bring many of the great qualities we have seen in them and in the SFBICC this weekend back to Eugene!

In month of May in Eugene, we have seen four more added through the waters of baptisms!! Two from Oregon State University (Riker & Christina) and two more from the University of Oregon (Kelli & Ezra)!

Kelli (above) and Ezra  are baptized into the
crankin’ University of Oregon
Campus Ministry!

As well, we were privileged to send-out two more disciples to the mission field: our dear Maddie Hackett to the West Region of LA and the beloved Brooke Helm to San Francisco to get ready to go back to her home town on the Sacramento Mission Team!

I just want to take the time to lift up our amazing Campus Ministry! This time last year, we had just nine people in our Campus Ministry with just three full-time students at the U of O and one at Lane Community College. Today, after a year of bold preaching and daily Bible Talks, our Campus Ministry stands at 27 strong disciples! Amazingly these original nine disciples did not just grow numerically but also expanded geographically! We now have a presence on the two top schools in the state of Oregon – the University of Oregon and Oregon State University – bitter rivals in the world!

In the world, the University of Oregon (left) and
Oregon State (right) are bitter in-state rivals!  

The UO and OSU Disciples after repenting
in D-group!

So, we have six fulltime students in Corvallis, Oregon at Oregon State University; one student at Western University in Monmouth, Oregon; one student at Lane Community College; and now seven students at University of Oregon (including myself)!

Daniel and Sierra – the Eugene
Campus Interns – have had a
tremendous impact!

This summer we will cap off the year by watching our dear sister Megan Loheed graduate with her Bachelor’s Degree in Advertising! Megan walked onto the U of O as the only student in the Campus Ministry! Now, four years later, she will leave behind 27 amazing disciples! And what does Megan want to do now that she’s has her BA Degree? She’s going to be a missionary on the Sacramento Mission Team! Thank you Kip, Tim and Jason for your call to refocus on the Campus Ministry! Pray for us as we dreaming of ways to make this next school year even more glorious than this one!

Jason Dimitry of San Francisco: Greetings from your family in the Bay! God gave us great victories in May with six additions, including Brooke Helm from Eugene who placed membership to be on the Sacramento Mission Team!

A baptism that particularly ignited the church was that of Tyre Ellison, a UC Berkley starting football player and graduate! Though nobody told his mom or ex-pastor the location of the baptism, they somehow showed up with several members of his church and other members of his family and tried to argue and physically pull him away! It was incredible to see him stand up to them about his convictions and victoriously march toward his baptism even receiving persecution all the way to the waters! When Tyre came out of the waters, the church erupted in joyful celebration as they watched him stand “strong in God’s amazing grace!” Since then, his mom came to church and apologized; his sister came to Bible Talk; and his brother is studying the Bible!

Tyre is baptized despite incredible
persecution!

Even during his playing days at UC Berkeley,
Tyre had a heart for people,
especially children!

This week it was great to have Cesar & Debbie Limon and the awesome Portland Supplemental Mission Team visiting the Bay Area! I can’t wait to see all that God is going to accomplish through them in that beloved church!

Sunday service today was incredible as we had Gabe Reed of Eugene preach and we saw Fred, a newly restored brother, baptize his 70 year old mom Margarita!

Fred is overjoyed to baptize his mom
Margarita into Christ!

Lastly, we were honored to appoint John & Laura Zamora as a Shepherding Couple for our East Bay Region! These incredible “veteran” warriors laid their lives down to help plant the church here in San Francisco and served as a great foundation. They literally housed all 15 members of the original mission team during the initial planting! Grateful for the Kingdom and to God be all the glory!

John & Laura Zimora are appointed a
Shepherding Couple for the
SF Bay Church!

Ricky Challinor of Portland: Greetings from the City of Bridges!!! This Sunday was one for the history books! We took up our Special Missions Collect and with a goal of $63,720 we raised over $75,000!!!! I am so proud of the church and all the hard work every disciple has put in to make this year’s missions a total success!

However, the real highlight was that we had the City of Angels Supplemental Mission Team place membership along with three other amazing sisters totaling 12 additions! Today Coleen & I presented Cesar & Debbie Limon – the new Portland Lead Ministry Couple – with a carved lighthouse to “pass on” this incredible congregation into their hands as they truly will be a “shining light” to this city!

Ricky presents the Limons with a carved
lighthouse to “pass on” the leadership
of the Mighty Portland Church!

I am so proud of Cesar to see the incredible man of God he has grown into and his wisdom in the ministry as he blew out his first sermon entitled, THE GREATEST FESTIVAL, which of course is Heaven!! Every single person walked away inspired by his lesson and impacted by Debbie’s vulnerable communion! We have full confidence that this incredible couple will do “even greater things” than we were able to accomplish! (John 14:12) We of course ended the service with a prayer on our knees as the Spirit sent us off!

The Portland Eight: Jorge, Emmanuel, Valeria,
Debbie, Cesar, Monique, PJ, Jackie &
Fernando Chavez!

Today was one of those hard times to say goodbye, but Coleen & I are very excited to be with the City of Angels Church Family in the South Region with Tim & Lianne Kernan!

Jen, Everardo, Frida, Ricky, Coleen, Caleb and
Liz will arrive this week in LA!

Jake Studer: “Even if your exiled people are at the farthest horizon, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen as a dwelling for my Name.” (Nehemiah 1:9) Warmest greetings from Toronto! God is certainly blessing the Northern Land of Canada richly as more families are “giving up everything” and moving back into the city to be close to the disciples! Two remnant families – the Sylvesters & the Lalois – are scheduled to move in June!

And of utmost excitement was the baptism this month of Elle Weber, the daughter of our dear original Toronto Remnant Group couple – Harvey & Nanette Weber! Truly an example of God’s love and faithfulness to a couple who continues to display their love and faithfulness in the work here!!

Harvey (second from the left) & Nanette (right) are
so encouraged that their daughter Elle has
joined them in the Toronto Church Family!

Pray for us to continue to be used by God to forcefully advance His Kingdom in Toronto, in Montreal and into all of Canada! To God be all the glory!

Jeremiah Clark: Greetings from the Mighty Denver Church! The last few weeks have been truly faith-building and inspiring as God continues to grow the church both numerically and geographically! First, God has added a new House Church (HC) as we officially planted the East HC led by the dynamic couple – Matt & Marlo Lovacheff! Last week, they had their Inaugural East HC Service and the Lord blessed the 10 disciples of the East HC with 55 in attendance! Matt preached his most powerful and inspiring lesson to date, as he encouraged everyone to give their full hearts to God and His mission!

The first service of the new East House Church!

Also, we were able to see another addition to our powerful CU Boulder Campus Ministry as Vi was baptized into Christ!

Vi embraces the joy of her salvation!

We love you all and are inspired to be part of a worldwide movement! To God be all the glory!

HEADLINE NEWS – USA SOUTH QUADRANT

Ron Harding of Washington DC: Greetings from the Capital of the United States! “So the Word of God spread. The number of disciples in Jerusalem increased rapidly, and a large number of priests became obedient to the faith!” (Acts 6:7) I am so very encouraged by the absolute focus of the church as we approach my last week here in DC before moving to LA to serve alongside in the Southland Region with my dear friend – Cory Blackwell! The DC Church has surged forward week after week, adding 12 souls in the last nine weeks!

Chad Welch converts his nephew Natthun!

 
While we’ve seen campus students and family members converted, most special to me personally was the story of Bayarmandakh “Andy” Byamba – a Mongolian “Christian” minister who knew Enkhee Ganbaatar (now in the West Region of LA) before Enkhee’s conversion two years ago! After Enkhee & Termma moved to Los Angeles last year, our valiant Northern Virginia Ministry Leader – James Haynes – continued to reach out to Andy! After months of studying, just as in Acts 6:7, Andy the Minister “became obedient to the faith” making Jesus his Lord and was baptized for his salvation! Andy’s wife is now studying, and James, along with the other two members of the over 30 year old “Veteran Club” of Jack McGee and Ben Eisenschmidt, will be having “Chariot Ride style” Bible studies with Andy’s entire church over the next several weeks!

Andy – the Mongolian Preacher – “becomes
obedient to the faith!” His wife is
studying and collectively they
say, “Our entire church
is next!”

I am personally in awe of the Lord and His miracles here in DC! To Him be all the glory, honor and praise forever!

Melanie Coyle: God blessed the Houston Church by surpassing our Special Missions Collection this past Sunday! Our faith goal was $31,660, but God blessed us with $32,255! Each Bible Talk pulled together to help one another with their goals, remembering Galatians 6:2 – “carrying each other’s burdens!” One of the highlights was our first Teen Car Wash where they raised over $350 washing giant pick-up trucks!

God also blessed us this past Friday with two baptisms, Troy and Jules! A couple weeks ago at Men’s Midweek (held at the University of Houston), John Smoot prayed in the opening prayer, “God I pray that any men who hear this prayer will come over to hear your Word preached, make a decision to study the Bible, and become a disciple!” Troy, a U of H Engineering student, heard the prayer, walked over, and joined the men for Midweek! Troy immediately began studying the Bible and was baptized on Friday!

Troy (third from the right) joins the Houston
Brothers in giving the charge,
“You will be next!”

Following Troy’s baptism, Jules, a musician and student at Houston Community College, was also baptized! Jules is a talented performer and was invited by Brittany Smoot at Starbucks! God continues to encourage the Houston disciples because of their faith, sacrifice and perseverance! Pray for us!

Matt Sullivan: “You give me your shield of victory, and your right hand sustains me; you stoop down to make me great.” (Psalm 18:35) The Lord is stooping down mightily for the incredible Orlando Church as we have had 21 additions in the first 22 weeks of 2015 – 16 baptisms and five who moved in!

Debra – a UCF Senior – celebrates her salvation!

Brianna – another UCF Student and RA in her
dorm – is baptized at Orlando’s Annual
Cocoa Beach Church Service!

Please be praying for us as June 14th is our Special Missions and to date we have raised just over $26,000 and are forging ahead for a victory for the Lord! We love you guys and are especially committed financially and in heart to the missions work internationally… We through God’s power will not let you guys down!

HEADLINE NEWS – EUROPE

Argo Arneson: The Lord appeared to us in the past saying, “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.” (Jeremiah 31:3) Greetings of love from Stockholm, Sweden! Our Mission Team is doing great because God is “teaching, rebuking, correcting and training” us so that we may all be “thoroughly equipped” and ready for our Inaugural Service on September 20, 2015!

Argo Arneson – the charasmatic
Evangelist of the
Stockholm ICC!

 We have also seen how true Jesus words are when He said, “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them.” (John 6:44) God blessed us with an incredible baptism of a great sister named Lina! Lina is single mother of two beautiful children and she was met by our brother Simon when they were studying nursing together four years ago! She even came to our Sunday Service three years ago! We all witnessed how our Father God has been drawing her “with unfailing kindness” all these years towards Jesus and felt incredible joy seeing her enter into God’s Kingdom this past week!

Our new sister Lina is totally unified with
her Stockholm Sisters!

A unique outreach of the Stockholm ICC is through music as we have several former professional musicians in our fellowship! But every now and then the brothers get together to simply entertain the disciples with a Jazz Jam!

Our “baby brother” Kenneth leads
the Stockholm Brothers Jazz Jam!

Continue to pray as we strive to gain a foothold in the city this summer so that we can officially launch the Stockholm Church in September! And to God be all the glory!

Michael Williamson: Greetings and love from London, England! God is AWE-some! With a faith goal of £65,000 (US$99,243) God blessed months of bucket shaking in tube stations (tagging) and financial sacrifice as the church raised £69,786 ($109,734) to blow out our 20X Missions Goal! God also added five souls this month to the Kingdom in baptisms!

Bucket Shaking allowed the London Church to
annhialate their Missions Goal!

We started out the month with a bang at the University Of East London (UEL) as we were not only nominated the Top Student Society on campus, but at Devo we baptized Sandra an incredible campus student who was met at the “Freshers Fair” through the outreach of our UEL Campus Society SWAG (Students Who Apply God)!

A few days later on Sunday, Berenice – a young single woman – was baptized! She was met by Michele over a year and-a-half ago and after a wild follow-up story began studying the Bible again! She then attends our incredible Women’s Day and decides to LET IT (ALL) GO and study the Bible! Berenice comes from a religious background where her father was a very famous Pentecostal Pastor in Romania, and she even went to Africa at her own expense on missionary trips to “save the lost!” After doing her timeline with the sisters, she grabbed Michele’s pen and crossed out her whole religious experience and said that means nothing now! It was incredible to see “the scales fall from her eyes” as she became a true baptized disciple and the first seed for our Bucharest Crown of Thorns planting in 2021!

Berenice is the seed for the Bucharest,
Romania Church Planting!

The following Friday night at Devo another campus student from Poland was baptized into Christ, Peter! Also, we saw “love in the air” as campus student Frank Simelane asked Ashley Mathos to be his girlfriend!!

Then on Sunday, a Portuguese family was united in Christ as Regina the wife of our brother Helio was baptized!

Regina is now united with her
husband in Christ!

The following Sunday, Doyin also made Jesus Lord after studying in less than two weeks! She was met by Maria on her way to our Women’s Midweek Service! Doyin attended with her and has been an incredible addition to the church with her infectious energy and warm heart!

The angels rejoice at Doyin’s baptism!

To capitalize on “Footy Fever” this past weekend with England’s FA Cup Final on Saturday, we had our first official 2015 “Football Service” entitled WHO DO YOU SUPPORT? The energy was electric as disciples from over 30 Nations with hands in the air shouted team names while donning matching team jerseys to play seven minute round-robin football matches! We then had a nail-biter of a final as Ashley Adjai led his team to victory over a powerful, stacked team with semi pro player Sadique – who’s counting the cost!

Ashley leads his team to victory!

The London Church has “Footy Fever” and is
“hot” to use it for evangelism!

Lastly the church is incredibly grateful to the Mighty LA Church for sending Anthony & Cassidy Olmos who will arrive in London late June! With their coming, Lord willing, we will begin regional services this year to achieve geographic expansion and even more numeric growth! To God be all the glory!

HEADLINE NEWS – RUSSIAN COMMONWEALTH

Larisa Kaminskay: Hello from Kyiv, Ukraine! May was a fruitful month for the Kyiv ICC! Three souls were added to our number through baptism, and now we are 25! God worked powerfully through Oleg & Elena Sirotkin, as they spent four weeks with us in April during their efforts to secure proper papers for their children. From their many efforts, on May 12th, we had a double baptism: two friends – Liuda and Alina – were baptized into our Campus Ministry! It’s very encouraging that Liuda was invited by Ira, who is only 15 years old and only half-a-year in Christ, and whose zeal inspires all the church! Another good news is that Liuda – while studying the Bible – invited her dorm roommate, Alina! They began studying together and were baptized the same day!

Liuda (second from the left) and her roommate
Alina (second from the right) were
baptized on the same day!

On May 24th, God blessed us with one more baptism! Kostia is the husband of our sister Natasha, who was recently restored after more than a 10 years living a non-Christian life! Her persistent prayers were answered, and now Kostia & Natasha are united in Christ!

Natasha was so fired-up that her husband
was finally baptized into Christ!

Elena Sirotkina: Greetings from Moscow! In the remarkable month of May, God bless the Moscow Church with seven new brothers and sisters! We are happy to welcome our new sister Evelina, who was baptized in early May, and then our brother Alexiy, who was baptized after a long search for the “true church!”

It is truly wonderful to see how God fills our “international church” in Moscow with brothers sisters of different nationalities with a dream to return to their own nations to lead them to Christ! Vadim from Ukraine was baptized in May! He was impressed with seeing the changes in his mother after her baptism! Then on May 17th, Tatyana from Kalmykia, one of the regions of Russia, was baptized! She grew up in a Buddhist family and steadfastly observed these traditions, but she met Victoria – a disciple of Jesus! Tatiana understood that only Jesus died for her sins and was physically resurrected from the dead! And He is the only Savior! Along with her, in this day in Moscow, was baptized Stephen – our new and very grateful brother from Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo!

Moscow’s outreach has become quite
international as Tatyana comes from
a Buddhist background and
Stephen is from the Congo!

The next week, we witnessed the long-awaited restoration of Tatiana! It always touches my heart when God’s children come back to the Father and say, “I’m not worthy,” because it reminds us of just how merciful our Father really is!

Then on Saturday, the church gathered at one of the train stations of Moscow to meet with songs our sister Zoe and her little daughter from Yekaterinburg! Zoe left the church several years ago and married and went to live in France. She realized that without a relationship with God and service to Him, nothing makes sense! Zoe has met with the leader of the women of the Paris Church, Prisca Scheidecker, and shared that she is divorced and wants to return home to Russia and to be with the church. Prisca inspired Zoe immediately go to Moscow and go our church! Eventually, Zoe sold her car and went to Moscow with her young daughter. And today all of our church celebrated the restoration of Zoe to the movement of God’s Kingdom!

The Moscow Disciples welcome Zoe and
her precious daughter Tanya!

Zoe gets a little help from Tanya
during her restoration!

HEADLINE NEWS – AFRICA & THE CARIBBEAN

NEWS FLASH: Please pray for all the churches in Africa as we prepare for our First African Missions Conference in Abidjan, Ivory Coast from June 26-28, 2015! Our theme comes from Revelation 5:9, EVERY TRIBE, LANGUAGE AND NATION (TOUTE TRIBU, LANGUE ET NATION! – in French)

The historic 2015 AMC Conference
is just one month away!

It is going to be exciting to fellowship with our French-speaking brothers and sisters in the Ivory Coast, as well as to gather remnant church leaders from Cameroon, Ethiopia, Democratic Republic of Congo, South Africa, Kenya and Uganda, who represent the almost 500 remnant disciples throughout the African continent! Speakers include: Andrew & Patrique Smellie, Chris & Sonja Chloupek, Amadou & Angele Sountoura, Micky Ngungu, Lola Lof, Nick Winn, Kip McKean, and many more! Pray for this historic event!

Nick Winn of Gordon’s Bay: “It is the Lord Christ you are serving!” (Colossians 3:24) Straight forward and to the point, as long as we know who it’s all about, He will give victory upon victory!

Since returning from LA and the Winter Workshop in January, the church in Gordon’s Bay has had many ups and downs in the form of persecutions, restorations and of course the remarkable visit of Andrew & Patrique which inspired the group in an amazing way! But yesterday and today we saw two wonderful additions to the church! Amid heavy persecution from her husband, Elena Pokotylyuk and her mom Anna – both from Ukraine – studied the Bible! Elena, who speaks good English, studied with the sisters here and was baptized yesterday! And Anna, who studied via Skype in Russian with Sasha Korotova of Moscow was baptized today with the entire church in Moscow watching the baptism live via Skype!

Meet Elena (left) and her mom Anna!

After Elena is baptized, the next day she
helps her mom into the water
to baptize her!

Nick broadcasts Anna’s baptism to the
Moscow Church Service!

The Moscow Brothers and Sisters witness a
miracle of technology and the Holy Spirit
in Anna’s baptism!

Anna talks with and is encouraged by many
of the Moscow Disciples!

What a faith building day as the Spirit broke down language barriers and distance to show that truly “nothing is impossible with God!” (Luke 1:37)

Blaise Feumba – the Overseeing Evangelist of Haiti: “For we know, brothers loved by God, that He has chosen you, because our Gospel came to you not only in word, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with full conviction. You know what kind of men we proved to be among you for your sake. And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, for you received the Word in much affliction, with the joy of the Holy Spirit, so that you became an example to all the believers in Macedonia and in Achaia.” (1 Thessalonians 1:4-6) I can only imagine the overwhelming joy of Paul the Apostle when he received the news that the Thessalonian Church was still growing even though he only spent three weeks there to plant the church!

I am equally amazed by the work of the Holy Spirit in Haiti! 19 new sold-out disciples were baptized as the result of our 10 days trip in April! Marvelously in this month of May 10 more people were baptized in Port-au-Prince and Mirebalais! Our latest planting in Mirebalais, started during our trip with the proper conversion of Louisius Exilien a former Pentecostal preacher and his wife Mary, now have 16 sold-out disciples after the baptism of three more souls this month!

Anel baptizing Marie Josette In Mirebalais!

From the left – Alexis, Brunson the former Church
of Christ preacher, and the seven
converted this month!

So, the Haitian Story continues… After the conversion of Alexis at the August 2013 GLC, we now have 160 disciples in Haiti in five churches after only 21 months!

Alexis Turgeau’s baptism at the 2013 GLC!

Finally, 12 disciples in Mirebalais after undergoing the training received with the Lifestraw Water Filter provided by MERCYworldwide, are now thrilled to have “the privilege” of drinking clean water! Please keep the Haitian disciples in your prayers!

Micky Ngungu: The Kinshasa Church, blessed to be the second largest in the movement with over 300 disciples, continues to grow in number as the Lord added to our number five more souls this month!

Junior rejoicing after his baptism!

Jonathan (center) a campus student
is baptized into Christ!

Of note was the restoration of a student named Brunel who left our former fellowship seeking revival! Brunel is now ready to start a new Bible Talk at the University of Kinshasa!

Lola, my awesome fellow church leader, and I are so eager to attend the African Missions Conference in Abidjan at the end of this month! Pray for us! And to God be all the glory!

HEADLINE NEWS – CENTRAL & SOUTH AMERICA

Adriana Gomez: Greetings from the Bogota ICC! This is an example of our unity in Christ… Some months ago, a Colombian couple had fled our country threatened by evil people! They arrived to Chile and when they and their children were hungry, cold and practically naked, they contacted the church there and the disciples helped them, showing them the true love of God! The news traveled across the Andes Mountains and their families wanted know “that kind of Christian people” here in Bogota! Last month, the wife’s sister, Elena was baptized in Christ, and recently, her parents, Joaquín & Belén were baptized in Christ too! Also, Elena’s other two sisters and their husbands and children are now regularly attending church!

Elena with her parents Joaquin & Belen Gomez
who are now her brother and sister in Christ!

Also, another Colombian was recently baptized in the LA Church! He shared his faith with a very close friend here in Bogota! She called us and started to study the Bible… And Marta Lucia Rodriguez was baptized in Christ too!

Adriana Gomez (right) with Marta Lucia, our
new “baby sister” in the Lord!

Our heart was touched when Hector (my awesome husband) told us about his encounter with Milton Puentes, baptized eighteen years ago in our former movement! He lost all – marriage, family and wealth – when after the crumbling of our former movement he turned back to the world. Today, he was restored to the Lord and added to His family again!

Hector Gomez (right) with his friend Milton
who was restored today!

Now, after a year of our adhesion to the SoldOut Disciples Movement, our Remnant Group has grown to 19 brothers and sisters in Christ! And to God be the glory!!!

Raul Moreno: “And the Lord added to their number…” (Acts 2:47) The Lord was so good to us here in São Paulo as we had eight additions in the past four weeks! Jefferson and Clara were baptize from USP University; Jefferson studies Math and Clara Natural Sciences!

Jefferson (above) and Clara are welcomed
additions to the awesome USP
Campus Ministry!

Then, two incredible physical sisters were baptized in Patricia and Priscila! Then, we had two amazing restorations in Eduardo and Andreia! We also had the privilege to receive Olimpia Argueta as a missionary from LA, and to tearfully send Joey Underhill back to LA after serving the Lord here as a missionary faithfully for almost four years!

Eduardo, Olimpia and Joey!

Finally, an awesome single named “Mesias” was baptized! “Mesias” means “Messiah” so with that name I’m confident he will bring many to the ultimate Messiah – Jesus Christ! We love you with the love of the Lord!

Carlos Mejia: “After He drove the man out, He placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.” (Genesis 3:24) Greetings from Santiago! Today was an historic day in Santiago as the Lord has allowed us to “hand over” the church to our dear friends Alfredo & Alejandra Anuch, the first Chilean nationals in the history of this movement (and the ICOC) to lead the church in their home country!

Lucy & I presented Alfredo & Alejandra with a Bushido sword, or “Samurai Sword,” which is an emblem of power and spirit! The very possession of such a valuable instrument imparted to the samurai warrior a feeling and an air of dignity and responsibility! It was also a symbol of what was to be in a Samurai’s heart and mind – loyalty and honor! A Samurai would choose death over living with a false heart. As we presented Alfredo & Ale with two Samurai swords, I read from Genesis 3:24 and charged them “to guard” the church with their sword of truth, which is the Word of God!

Carlos & Lucy present Alfredo & Alejandra
with Bushido swords!

Although we were honored and glad to be a part of this significant event, it was also a bittersweet time as it was the last service here in Santiago for Lucy & I and the remaining five missionaries that are leaving for Mexico City! We were so moved and many were brought to tears by the lyrics in a song performed by the church band and written by our amazing sister Mirza entitled, Gracias which of course means “Thank You!”

Carlos & Lucy and the Santiago
Church Leadership!

Over the past few months, each Bible Talk has been working hard for Special Missions! Today we were able to see the fruit of that labor, as God blessed our 14X Contribution with $20,000 USD! It has been incredible to see the hearts of all the disciples as they sacrificed to do their part in seeing the world evangelize in our generation. To God be all the glory!

HEADLINE NEWS – PACIFIC RIM & AUSTRAL-CHINA

Kyle Bartholomew: Greetings from Manila, Philippines! We are so very grateful for all of the churches around the world who sacrificed by taking up a Special Missions Collection this year which has enabled us to be sent out to the Philippines!

It has been an amazing past three weeks since the mission team arrived! I am happy to report that all of the mission team members are settled into their new homes and have fallen in love with their new country! We have all been working hard as we prepare for our Inaugural Service on June 7th with a prayer goal of 261 in attendance since the original Manila Mission Team in 1989 had 260 at their Inaugural Service! Excitingly, 343 people have already committed to come to this historic event at the Intercontinental Hotel in Makati with just under a week to go!

Rich & Angie Tabizon have valiantly led the Metro
Manila Remnant Group and will return to
LA to lead the AV Region!

We have also been solidifying our convictions as we just finished a three week First Principles Course! Amazingly, with all the distractions of getting settled, studying for First Principles, and preparing for the Inaugural Service, God has already begun to display His power among us! We have already seen three precious souls baptized (Lou, Christialyn, and Cherry) and two restored (Rogelio and Annaliza) in the past three weeks, and there are a lot more that are close to being added! Mabuhay! (Live long! in Tagalog)

Lou is the first baptism after the Mission
Team’s arrival!

Cherry (left) and Christialyn (second from the
right) are baptized by Cathy and Gina!

Rogelio (above) and Annliza were gently
restored to God and His church!

Liz Okuno of Honolulu: “On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, ‘Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.’” (John 7:37) If there is a woman who is thirsty for God’s Word, it is Kristen! We first met Kristen about a month ago near the Art Building on the UH Manoa Campus! My boyfriend Kawika & I were sharing for Bible Talk and God planned that our paths should meet Kristen! We invited her to Bible Talk and she eagerly accepted! Kristen later shared that, at the time, she felt lost and confused! She was searching for more from life! In her Bible studies, she drank deeply from God’s Word, and I had the privilege of witnessing the “living water” refresh her soul! “The burning sand will become a pool, the thirsty ground bubbling springs…” (Isaiah 35:7)

With her soul finally fulfilled with God’s Word, Kristin was asked to give up everything for Jesus and His Kingdom, and she was baptized today in the beautiful Hawaiian waters and now she is your sister in Christ!

Kristin is overjoyed that all of her sins
are forgiven!

On a sad note, we said goodbye to Lou Jack, Cathi, Christine and Philip Martinez today and sent them off with several gifts from the Islands, and of course, a whole lot of love and ALOHA! We are so grateful for all they taught us and shared with us, and know the Honolulu Church has been both edified and solidified, and is ready now to MULTIPLY under the new leadership of Jake & Jen Ramsier and Curtis & Morgan Valdez of LA!

The Martinezes Farewell Party!

The Ramsiers will again lead the congregation and the Valdezes will lead our new West Region!!! Please keep Honolulu in your prayers!!!

Curt & Morgan Valdez will lead the new West
Region of the Honolulu Church!

Joe Willis: Greetings from Sydney! We were blessed to welcome another beautiful Aussie woman into the church this past weekend as Kate Dillon was baptized into Christ! The 20 year old, hair dresser was going through a lot at the time when Kerry reached out to her while she was getting her hair done at the salon where Kate works.

She first came out to church while Kyle & Joan Bartholomew were here on their way to Manila and was particularly moved by Joan’s communion! She started studying the Bible and realized her need for God and soon decided to get baptized! This girl has persevered through so much to get to where she is today and we couldn’t be happier or more proud of her and her decision to make Jesus Lord! Welcome to the family Kate!!

Jenna was very instrumental in
making Kate into a disciple!

HEADLINE NEWS – USA NORTH QUADRANT & INDIA

Chris Broom of New York City: The Bible says in Psalm 145:7, “They will celebrate your abundant goodness and joyfully sing of your righteousness.” Truly, May has been an incredible month with much to celebrate! First, God added six more to our number – three baptisms and three place memberships! Of special note was Bonnie, a Chinese engineering student and the first baptism in our newly formed Columbia University Bible Talk! And she was baptized during finals week! Bonnie was one of three freshmen selected to go on an all-expense-paid trip to Japan, where the student ambassadors visited prestigious universities to help “bridge the gap” between the two countries!

The NYC Sisters celebrate with Bonnie (center),
who is their first baptism at
Columbia University!

 The celebration continued as 16 of our disciples have graduated this month from various academic levels and schools including Manhattan’s prestigious New School and Seton Hall University!

Mario celebrates with his wife Kayla as she
graduates from the City College
of New York!

Shannon stops to get a “selfie” as she graduates!

Some of the NYC graduates take a moment
to smile for the camera!

In closing, I want to highlight an incredible sister in the New York City Church, Nicole Garland! May was a month to remember for Nicole as she graduated from our Chemical Recovery Ministry, led powerfully for the women by Dejaimenay Pedican! Nicole was also able to fundraise over $500 from her office for our upcoming Missions Contribution, and thanks to her boss matching all she raised from her other co-workers! Then, she was blessed by God with a pay raise! Finally, as Nicole went to sign the papers for her new apartment that she would share with her soon-to-be husband Vladimir Antoine, she saw that the realtor had lied about their income, saying they made more than they did… probably to give them a better chance of getting the apartment! Knowing they could deny her the apartment, Nicole told the truth! Amen! Not only did they give her & Vladimir the apartment, but since the realtor was fired, they saved $1,175 on the realtor’s fee that they did not have to pay!

This past Saturday, she married her best friend, Vladimir Antoine! The wedding was absolutely breathtaking and we enjoyed wonderful fellowship with disciples who were visiting from Los Angeles, Boston, Washington DC, Dallas, Syracuse and Toronto! So awesome to be a unified movement of churches!

Congratulations Vladimir & Nicole!

 
Brian Carr of Boston: Greetings from the land of many “hahvest fields!” “The wind blows wherever it pleases… So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.” Super excitingly, Sean – a grad-student from Beijing, China – started coming to church and immediately fell in love with the fellowship! So this month after a few weeks of studying the Bible, Sean was baptized into Christ in the Charles River! God continues to build the Hong Kong Mission Team!

Thomas no longer doubts that Jesus
is the resurrected Lord!

Other additions are also coming soon as Tyler Payne & Sarah Polum of the Syracuse Church will be placing membership in Boston on June 7th! Thank you so much to the Syracuse Church for sending us such an incredible couple!

Tyler & Sarah are so excited to become a part
of the dynamic Boston Church!

It has been nothing short of a faith-building time this year raising Special Missions! Our great God has blessed the efforts and hearts of the disciples by allowing us to surpass our Special Missions Goal this year!

Finally, the Spirit has decided to blow Preston & Shauna (soon to be the Inkley’s on June 6th!) across the country to be the Campus Ministry Couple in the Antelope Valley Region of LA! I originally thought the Spirit was blowing a bit too hard as it can be so challenging to say goodbye to your best friend! Preston and I have grown so close and it has been such a privilege to walk together and see him grow up spiritually over the years. I’m so proud of the man of God that he has become and I’m reminded in our friendship of Proverbs 18:24, “There is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.” God has raised him up to be an amazing peer to me and a great leader! I speak on behalf of the whole church when I say it’s hard to lose someone like Preston, but we are fired-up to be part of a sold-out movement of churches and we are willing to do what it takes to see this world evangelized in our day! We will miss them both so much, but we are excited to see the great things they are going to do in the AV!

Brian and Preston – best of brothers
and best of friends!

Jay Shelbrack: Greetings from Chicago! We have had a month filled with activity! We had 11 graduations, tagging for three Saturdays, our Latinfest, a new baby, and our send-off for the Economos to LA! The Latinfest was amazing as we had Sal & Patricia Velasco, the Palm Springs Region Leaders of LA, come to inspire our Latin Ministry as they preached powerful lessons for both a Friday Night Devo and the Sunday Service! Latinfest was indeed a fun-filled day with special entertainment, a bounce house for the kids, face painting, clowns, basketball, volleyball and of course great food!

Latinfest!

We are also fired-up to announce three new fulltime paid staff who will be helping us take the Chicago Church to another level: Stephania Brooks, who turned down an acceptance letter to Medical School to work in the West Region; Marlyn Montano who will be co-leading the Central Region and the Latin Ministry with her husband, Victor; and finally Umberto Muniz will be training to lead the West Region with its many campuses while being a student at Dominican College!

Chicago’s three new interns – Marlyn,
Umberto and Stephania!

We also had three additions for the month – two baptisms and one restoration! Joshua who is the brother of Jesse Rhobles was baptized! Marcus, who was met by Omar and who are both personal trainers, had rejected God’s plan for his life but couldn’t deny the truth and has become very bold even confronting his former minister who agreed to study the Bible!

Marcus enters God’s wonderful light!

Finally Anna DeBarras, the sister of Nikki and Maria, has rededicated her life sharing how discouraged she had become without God in her life!

Anna – the beloved sister of Nikki and Maria –
is restored to her first love!

Finally today was one of mixed emotions as we said goodbye to our dear friends Nick & Jacque Economo who have served the church as Administrators, the Web Deacon, Secretary on the church board, and the overseers of all of our printing! They have been with us for seven years and have been a very foundational couple! We are truly excited for them as they have taken on a great role as World Sector Administrators for the City of Angels Church!

The Shelbracks and the Economos prioritize the
Kingdom over valued relationships!

Please pray for us as we fight to glorify God with our lives and for next week’s Special Contribution!

Courtney Parlour: “‘I will shake all nations, and what is desired by all nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory,’ says the Lord Almighty.” (Haggai 2:7) God is shaking up the city of Syracuse, New York! These past few weeks have been exciting as we are wrapping up our fundraising for missions! Some of the amazing women in the church put on a Rummage Sale that was an astonishing HIT! We had advertisements in the newspaper, on the radio, sign holders on the streets, a bake sale, and lots to sell! Not only was it a great way to raise money, but also to empty our homes and share our faith! Hundreds of dollars were raised in just a few hours!

God is also shaking up the campuses here in Syracuse! This week it was very encouraging to watch another OCC student baptized – Tilia! She is a vibrant young woman and has already brought out many of her family members to church!

God and the angels applaud Tilia’s decision to be
a sold-out disciple of Jesus Christ!

And a couple of weeks ago, we saw another amazing thing happen! Never, to my knowledge, in the 22 years of the Syracuse Church has someone been baptized on the prestigious Le Moyne University Campus. About a month ago, God just so had it that some of the brothers would run into Andrew while hanging out near the campus. He is a pre-med student and on top of that he is in three Honor Societies, serving as the president of one of them! Amidst finals and studying for his MCAT, Andrew studied the Bible and made Jesus Lord of all!

Andrew’s baptism gives God’s movement a
foothold at the prestigious Le Moyne
University Campus!

We are very excited to now start up a Bible Talk at Le Moyne College in order to reach the amazingly gifted 3,600 students! Pray for our boldness!

Debs Rajan: Namaste! (Greetings in Hindi!) Thank you LA for sending Luke & Brandyn Speckman to Chennai! We are very grateful for the partnership to evangelize 1.7 billion souls in the Sub-continent of Asia! The disciples have been very encouraged by their Scriptural teachings!

The Speckmans and Rajans have formed an
unbreakable bond through their vision to
evangelize all of the Sub-continent
of Asia in this generation!

Last Sunday, was our monthly Evening Campus Service for which our 30 campus students had 88 in attendance! Tharas Richard, another student from the prestigious Loyola College, who came for the event studied the Bible and in just one week was baptized today!

Several games were played during the
Evening Campus Service!

The fruit from the Campus Event – Tharas –
makes Jesus his Lord!

There has been so much fruit this entire month! God is truly multiplying disciples!

Zanya, another teen, steps out on faith and
becomes a baptized disciple!

Contrary to popular opinion, “lightening does strike twice,” as my husband Raja struck again by snatching another soul from Satan’s clutches! I’m reminded of Acts 18:8, “Crispus, the Synagogue Leader, and his entire household believed in the Lord; and many of the Corinthians who heard Paul believed and were baptized!” Philip, a Pentecostal Pastor, came to Chennai from Raipur for a Pastors Conference and was rushing to catch the train when Raja invited him! Raja persevered with Philip through phone calls and emails for more than two months and convinced him to come and visit the Chennai ICC Church! Philip travelled more than 1,000 miles (32 hours by train and bus) just to visit the church! At his very first church service, Philip was touched by the love of the disciples and humbly accepted that he was not a Christian! After studying with Raja, he made Jesus the Lord of his life with tears and was baptized!

Phillip – the Pentacostal Pastor!

Phillip – the baptized disciple!

Philip’s hometown of Raipur!

Philip went back to Raipur with another disciple Suraj and they are now studying the Bible with nine others from Philip’s old congregation! Already, Dhasharath, a former soldier of the Indian Army, has been baptized!

Suraj baptizes Dashrath after he listened
to Philip’s testimony and the
Word of God!

So now in the SoldOut Movement in India, we now have churches in Chennai, New Delhi, Bangalore and Raipur! And to God be all glory!

Dear Brothers and Sisters: In closing, let us all praise God for the phenomenal 20X Missions Collection taken in the United States Churches for international missions now totaling over $1,500,000! Now let’s pray that God will multiply these “loaves and fishes!” (Matthew 14:19-21)

Please keep on praying for the Inaugural Service of the Metro Manila International Christian Church just a week away! After the Inaugural, Elena & I will travel to Sydney to once again be side-by-side in the Lord’s work with Joe & Kerry Willis! We will return to LA on Sunday, June 21st. Then, Lord willing on the 22nd, I will go to witness the miracle of the First African Missions Conference in Abidjan, Ivory Coast! If all goes as planned, I will return June 29th!

In closing, thanks for all of your gracious greetings on Facebook and in cards on my 61st Birthday on May 31st! This last picture was one of my favorite cards!

Kip’s favorite birthday card from his
youngest granddaughter – Scarlett!

“Finally Brothers, pray for [Elena & me] that the message of the Lord may spread rapidly and be honored, just as it was with you! May the Lord direct your hearts onto God’s love and Christ’s perseverance!” (2 Thessalonians 3:1, 5)
We are family… to the end,
Kip

Greetings from Los Angeles! What an incredible month it has been since our last Good News Email! Our May 3rd City of Angels Church Send-off Service for the Metro Manila Mission Team was simply in a word – sensational!

The atmosphere was electric and the singing was angelic as we were joined by our sister churches from Las Vegas, San Diego, San Francisco and Santa Barbara!

We also had as our guests, Nick & Jacque Economo of Chicago, who will moving here in June to become the World Sector Administrator Couple for Los Angeles! Highlights of this glorious day included the Kingdom Appointments of Jee Blackwell, Patricia Velasco, Mark & Kerri Garrido, and Anthony & Cassidy Olmos as Evangelists and Women’s Ministry Leaders respectively!

Also, it was so encouraging to have the “Kernan Clan” – Tim, Lianne, Junior and David – place membership with Michelle Miranda who also comes to us from Toronto! Tim & Lianne will serve the Lord in the City of Angels Church as not only the South Region Leaders, but also as one of three Associate Lead Ministry Couples alongside Cory & Jee Blackwell and Andrew & Patrique Smellie!

Lord willing, in the summer of 2016 when prayerfully the Holy Spirit will send-out the Blackwells to the Middle East and the Smellies to Africa, at that time, Tim & Lianne will become the Lead Evangelist and Women’s Ministry Leader for the City of Angels Church! This will allow Elena & me more time to be devoted to building particularly the Crown of Thorns Churches that will collectively expand into all nations!So touching was Joan Bartholomew’s sharing at communion!

As well, the contribution message was dynamically delivered by Marc & Maika Carbonell – key members of the Metro Manila Mission Team! Marc & Maika will serve as the World Sector Admin Couple for the Pacific Rim World Sector!

Of course, who will ever forget Kyle Bartholomew’s message – BE STILL AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD! His illuminating textual study of Matthew 8:23 to Matthew 9:8 challenged and inspired all of us!

Another high point of the service were the baptisms of Arnold (IE), Troy (OC), Cynthia (OC), and especially Fransisca (PS), who was baptized by her husband and daughter!

To close the service with the sending-out of the 12 gallant disciples of the Metro Manila Mission Team, we fell on our knees praying! This brought a renewed sense of awe for the powerful ways that the Lord is moving through His new movement around the world!In retrospect, the entire month of April was so inspiring for Elena & me beginning with Easter Service in the Mighty IE Region to Kwaku & Ashley Sarkodie’s Wedding to the joyful returns from their missionary journeys of the Smellies from Johannesburg and the Feumbas from Haiti!

Another faith-building event was the placing membership of one of the great heroes of the faith in the 80’s and 90’s in the ICOC – Chris McGrath! Chris was born of Irish parents and lived his younger years in England and Ireland. His passion was sports and in particular boxing! God used this as Chris was first “baptized” through the efforts of his boxing coach who was a member of the Mainline Church of Christ! Later, Chris came in contact with the Boston Movement (renamed the International Churches of Christ in 1994) in London. After studying with a non-Christian, Chris saw very quickly that he did not become a disciple before he was originally baptized! Therefore, he was baptized as a disciple on December 21, 1983!Though Chris had sparred with professional boxing champions, because of his new passion for Jesus, he gave up boxing and became a full-time preacher trained by the brothers in London! Later, he brought the discipling movement to Australia and then to different parts of the UK! Especially near to his heart was Ireland! Then after serving the Lord in Detroit and Atlanta in America, Chris in his own words wandered in a spiritual desert. Praise God, George Grima contacted him on Facebook in March… and the rest will be history as God has once again placed Chris in the fulltime ministry!

One of my favorite activities of the Spring is the CAICC Basketball League! This year every game in the regular season and the playoffs was close and highly contested… but as always with Christian demeanor! Friday night, May 1st, most of the church gathered at the Crenshaw Christian Center Gymnasium for the Three Point Contest, the Championship Game, and then the All Star Game! For the Three Point Contest, our top eight Three Point scorers from regular season play were selected. In “head-to-head competition” with single elimination, each pairing (#1 vs #8, #2 vs #7, etc…) had one minute to shoot a total of 15 balls – five from the side, five from the top of the key, and five from the other side – with the last ball at each station as the “money ball” that was worth two points!

Kyle Swann of the Lakers was victorious against the sharp-shooting Chris Anderson for this year’s crown!

In the Championship Game, the 2014 Champions – the Bulls of the Southland Region – were ever so slight favorites over the Hawks of the OC and South Regions! It was an incredibly fast paced game!

The fans – almost the entire CAICC Church – so enjoyed not just the game, but the fellowship!

In the end, the undefeated Bulls overcame the powerful Hawks 41 – 36 to claim the CAICC Basketball Championship!

Our dear brother Chris Anderson of the Bulls was selected as the MVP for the season and for the game! Congratulations to both the Hawks and the Bulls for an outstanding season!Following this exhilarating game was the entertaining All Star Game! The East was composed of the Bulls, Clippers and Lakers and coached by Cory Blackwell, while the West was the coming together of the Cavaliers, Hawks and Warriors and coached by Sal Velasco!

The West narrowly defeated the East in a remarkable game: 46 – 43! Cory Blackwell was selected the MVP for his timely scoring, rebounding and his coaching!

Even with so many exciting “goings-on” in the City of Angels Church fellowship, God has blessed us in the first 123 days of 2015 with 168 additions – 135 baptisms, 16 restorations and 17 place memberships! And to God be all the glory!NEWS FLASH – The inspirational theme of the 2015 Global Leadership Conference (GLC) is SAVIOR OF THE WORLD! For the past few years, we have progressively studied through the Old Testament at our Annual GLC’s: EXODUS (2010), THE CALLING (2011), CHOSEN – Spiritual Leadership In The Days Of The Judges (2012), PROPHETS AND KINGS (2013), and ZION’S DREAMERS (2014)! So this year, we are in the Gospels! We have selected the Book of John as the primary focus of our lessons and classes! Of course, the theme of the Beloved Disciple’s Gospel is that Jesus is the SAVIOR OF THE WORLD!

2015 GLC – SAVIOR OF THE WORLD!

All of the Conference Program (as well as all of the Pre-Conference Festivities) will be held at the beautiful Anaheim Hilton at 777 West Convention Way, Anaheim, CA 92802. We are so excited to now officially open registration for the 2015 GLC!

The registration fee will be the same as last year – $175. The room rate is $139 / night. We are encouraging all GLC participants to stay at the Anaheim Hilton for not only your convenience, but to help us receive a huge discount for the rental of the facilities for the GLC! Please register for the GLC at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/2015-global-leadership-conference-savior-of-the-world-tickets-16571799699. You may secure your rooms at the Anaheim Hilton athttps://resweb.passkey.com/go/GlobalLeadershipConf2015.And now more detailed reports from around Los Angeles…

Brandyn Speckman: Greetings from the beautiful Castaic Hilltops (located within the North Region) and the City of Angels ICC Teen Ministry! What a powerful, God awe-inspired Teen Retreat we had! Our weekend theme was entitled, HERE AM I! (Isaiah 6:8) The weekend was filled with powerful preaching (including six amazing Teen preachers), incredible fellowship, a faith-challenging high ropes course, early morning quiet times, Campfire Night, glow in the dark Capture the Flag, great food, and LOTS OF FUN!!

We are excited to see the fruit of the Teen Ministry Retreat as all the teens made defining decisions to be radically different coming down the mountain! The charge was to embrace the calling from God and realize He has “sent” each Teen EXACTLY where He wants them to be! Therefore… The call is to pick up the torch and be a shining bright light in their schools and families sharing the Word that brings true salvation to this lost world!

Our Sunday Service had an awesome 360 degree beautiful view of God’s creation! Christian Ybarra inspired us all as he preached the Word to the 73 in attendance!

Thank you to all the Teen Workers who attended and gave their hearts to all the Teens. A special thank you to Jermaine & Stefanie Peacock who truly helped make this weekend amazing for everyone!!! Also, a BIG thank you to the Phoenix ICC parents who made special efforts for their teens to attend the retreat!! And last, but not least… Thank you CAICC Teens!!!! You made this a weekend to remember!!!Krystal Legarda: Greetings from Orange County! We are so encouraged by how God has been moving and increasing our numbers, as we increase our faith! We know that it is “only God who makes things grow!” (2 Corinthians 3:7) In the past two weeks, God has grown our region by adding six through baptism – Sahar, Carlos, Sarah, Tina, Cynthia and Troy!

Sahar is a student at Cal State Fullerton, who came to the USA from Iran only four short months ago to pursue her master’s in Computer Science. She was raised in a Muslim home, but Sahar was always curious about Christianity. Although difficult and risky to obtain, Sahar got ahold of a Bible in the Middle East from one of her friends, where she faithfully read her Bible in Farsi for 10 years! However, it wasn’t until coming to CSUF and meeting a disciple, Erin Fischer, that Sahar learned the truth about Jesus Christ! Indeed, God is faithful and will gather those who are truly seeking Him with all of their hearts!

Also, we are so excited to be sending out Princeton & Joy George later this month to lead the San Diego Church! They will be joined by Adam Blanco, Ryan Lomeli, Jenny Garcia and Sarah Chang!

We are equally excited to be receiving from San Diego Evan & Kelly Bartholomew, who will lead the Fullerton Sector in the Orange County Region! They will be joined by Bobby & Kensey Merritt, Tyrone White, Amber Anderson and Alicia Amezcua!

Truly, “the wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.” (John 3:8)Cesar Limon: “Then Moses said to him, ‘If your Presence does not go with us, do not send us up from here.’” (Exodus 33:15) Grace and peace in abundance from the East Region! These past weeks have been amazing as we have nearly collected all of our Missions Contribution and God added four through the refreshing waters of baptism which brings us to be 60 strong!The first baptism of the month was Marla who was kicked out of her house and lost her job for the Kingdom, but she is fired up! Secondly was Alexandra who was a longtime friend of our dear sister Alejandra!

The last two were Anthony and Calvin which were our first two baptisms from the newly planted Azusa Pacific University Ministry! What was amazing about their story was that Calvin studied the Bible first but didn’t like the “very condemning” studies. He was complaining about the Bible Study Series to his friend Anthony, but Anthony wanted to see the studies for himself so he started studying. Anthony quickly saw that these “very condemning” studies are actually “bold and upfront” Bible studies which is just what he was searching for! Long story short, Anthony gets baptized and then a few days later baptized his friend Calvin… The message spreads even through persecution!

Lastly it was awesome to have Ricky & Coleen Challinor and the “Portland Seven” with us as they are “spying out the land” for when they come to take over the East in just a few short weeks… Pray for the transition to be smooth! We love you with the love of the Lord!Adam Zepeda: “For it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill His good purpose.” (Philippians 2:13) Greetings from the Inland Empire! God has definitely been working powerfully in the disciples here in the IE to “will and act” in order to fulfill His purpose!Just a couple weeks ago, we had the incredible opportunity of “sending-off” Ashley Godwin and Rebecca Lemperle to be with Argo & Anu in Stockholm! However, the Holy Spirit’s “breeze” doesn’t stop there; we are also very encouraged to have Sarah Chang be sent-off with Princeton & Joy George along with the supplemental mission team to San Diego!In other news, we witnessed another miracle in Arnold as he came to make Jesus Lord this past Sunday! Arnold, a neuroscience major at UCR, expressed how desperate he was to find God and shared that before he was met, he tried taking his own life with sleeping pills, but by the grace of God, Arnold quickly realized the point he had come to and immediately began to regurgitate the pills! Little did he know that three weeks later he would “coincidentally” be reached out to by a disciple, Thomas Killion, study the Bible, and in a little over a week’s time get baptized! God is so good!

Sal Velasco: Greetings from the HOT Palm Springs Region! In Mark 3:35 Jesus says, “Whoever does God’s will is my brother and my sister and mother.” Well in 2015, we have started off the year by adding three family members to our church family!Fast forward to today and we have an amazing story of perseverance and faith, as our Heavenly Father worked in our Palm Springs Family once again! Valeria was the first baptism in Palm Springs and was later asked to move to the East Region. She faithfully invited her father to church and we started studying the Bible right away! He had a great heart for God and became your brother in the faith at the end of last year and started working on his wife Fransisca. She started coming to Bible Talk and to church and studying the Bible with my wife. The amazing thing is that she had such a difficult upbringing that she never learned to read, so with great patience and persistence the Scriptures came to life to her as she would listen to audio of the Bible and studied with the sisters. After several months of studying, Fransisca became your sister in Christ today!

Mark Garrido: Good news from the faithful Central Region! In the past five weeks in this Year of Maturity, Kyle & Joan Bartholomew – formerly the Central Region Leaders – have been sent off to Metro Manila Philippines! From having only two focal Campus Ministries, God has given us an amazing opportunity and students to advance our Campus Ministries now on USC, PCC, Cal State LA and ELAC with faithful leaders strategically in place for spiritual battle! Of real joy, Avrie Blackwell was accepted into USC in April and will join us soon!

From having no shepherds, we now have two Shepherding Couples-in-Training who are definitely putting in tireless hours of selfless and vigorous service! From no dating couples to four dating couples who have shown respect toward God and to each other in purity!With Curt & Morgan Valdez being sent off to Honolulu, Stefano Barbis preparing to move to Santiago where he’ll train to lead the Lima Peru Mission Team, the absence of Kyle & Joan, we have had to pray faithfully and work accordingly to fill some large ministry voids which God has already blessed through prayers, as we now have three new Bible Talk Leaders!

Last but certainly not least was undoubtedly a miracle from God – Joshua Brooks a LACC student was baptized! Pray for my wife Keri & me to “go in the strength [we] have” and lead this tremendous region of God’s great people! (Judges 6:14)Lance Underhill: “In the midst of a very severe trial, their overflowing joy and their extreme poverty welled up in rich generosity.” (2 Corinthians 8:2) So much is happening in the South Region that we are overflowing with joy! First we witnessed two baptisms: Martha Jagueri and Karina Wilson! Karina is our dear sister Capil Estep’s physical sister, originally from Nepal. She came to Joe & Capil’s wedding in December and just had to return from Michigan to LA to learn more about “this church!” Karina lives with her husband and children in Ann Arbor and is sustained spiritually by the Chicago disciples!

We are super excited as we welcome back from Toronto our beloved brother and sister, Tim & Lianne Kernan, who will now lead the region! Also placing membership is David Jefferson returning from Hilo to serve here in the Singles Ministry, and our dear sister Michelle Miranda, returning from Toronto where she served wholeheartedly!At our All Congregational Service this Sunday, Anthony & Cassidy Olmos were appointed Evangelist and Women’s Ministry Leader and the whole region rejoiced with them!

Also, the South is honored as the Holy Spirit sends our dear brother Johnny Cortez to serve on the Metro Manila Mission Team. Finally, with the send-off of Manila today and Stockholm on the horizon, the South is inspired to bring in an “overflowing” Special Missions Contribution!Cory Blackwell of the Southland Region: The month of April had many peaks and valleys! God has shown Himself to be the God of Heaven and earth like no other! We have battled Satan with strong faith and resolve to be sold-out and “family to the end!” Our victories this month are many! First we saw an incredible couple come together in one of the most beautiful weddings I have ever shared in – Brandon & Mechele Scorza!

Love continues to be in the air as Jermaine Simmons is now engaged to Ebony Ruffin and Micheal Peterson & Jasmin Jennings are now dating! There is a God!

God greatly enhanced our leadership team as dear friends to Jee & me, Rob & Burgandie Onekea placed membership! They will join our “Shepherds Team” with Pat & Pam Boea!

Johnny & Veronica Sanchez were the first and second baptisms of the Southland Region! Unfortunately due to a lack of faith and trust in God, Johnny fell away. Veronica and their five children held on with just a mustard seed of faith, but God is faithful and now so is Johnny! He was restored to the Lord and His church at our last Midweek Service. The joy in the room was incredible as Johnny, Veronica and their five beautiful kids are so loved!

The same evening the Mighty Teen Ministry baptized an awesome young man named Nash Montano! His parents watched with great joy snapping picture after picture! I asked them how they felt and with a big smile said, “We now have so much joy!”

Campus also baptized a great young man Jasuan, who has been fired-up since he first started coming out to church! I want to lift up our single women who have showed great perseverance studying the Bible with two awesome women who had to fight through many obstacles to become Christians! Leti and Stephane became baptized disciples after many months of studying the Bible! The world is not a kind place and I am so glad that they held on to God’s grace and mercy!

God blessed the Southland Bulls with our second undefeated basketball season! Congratulations to Chris Anderson our MVP! The CAICC League was the best we have had! I want lift up all teams for the great sportsmanship, fellowship and great competition done with great hearts!Finally, the highlight of the year for me personally was watching my wife Jeraldine be appointed a Woman’s Ministry Leader! I am so honored that God gave me this courageous, loyal and faithful woman to be my wife and partner in the gospel! Thank you Jee for loving God, the Kingdom, my children and me with all your heart!

Andrew Smellie: “Then I saw another angel flying in midair, and he had the eternal gospel to proclaim to those who live on the earth – TO EVERY NATION, TRIBE, LANGUAGE AND PEOPLE!” (Revelation 14:6) Greetings from West Los Angeles! April’s highlights included rejoicing at the beautiful wedding of Kwaku & Ashley Sarkodie!

Congratulations to Kwaku & Ashley Sarkodie!

As well today, we witnessed our dear friends Marc & Maika Carbonell be sent by the Spirit to help plant the Metro Manila International Christian Church! It is particularly exciting for Patrique & I that the next scheduled Crown of Thorns Planting will be Johannesburg, South Africa in August 2016! We have the honor of leading this first “official” planting on the great African continent of over 1.1 billion souls!NEWS FLASH – In April of this year, Patrique & I had the privilege of traveling to South Africa and meeting with valiant disciples in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Pretoria and even in the Kingdom of Swaziland! After hearing their stories of resilience through the painful disintegration of our former fellowship, it is clear that the time to gather the remnant and evangelize the great continent of Africa is NOW! In order to strengthen and unify the efforts of the more than 500 disciples in remnant groups throughout Africa, we will be hosting our movement’sFirst African Missions Conference from June 26th to June 28th of this year – less than two months away!!! Our visionary theme is: EVERY NATION, TRIBE, LANGUAGE AND PEOPLE. Our Keynote Speaker will be our dearly loved brother and leader of the SoldOut Movement, Dr. Kip McKean!

It’s not too late to come to the First
African Missions Conference!

Please spread the word for this historic event as the festivities will be hosted by the Abidjan International Christian Church led by Amadou & Angele Sountoura! There is NO registration cost associated with this event! However, please check out our website (www.icc-amc.org) for details regarding hotel, flights into Abidjan, and immunizations necessary for your visa, as well as the latest updates! À bientôt! (French for “See you soon!”)

Elizabeth McDonnell: Warm greetings! This has been such an encouraging time here in the Santa Barbara Church even while we prepare for the transition of Dennis & Corinna Sloan coming to lead the church here, while we move to lead the DC Church! During these last few weeks, a great purification process has happened. A great deal of secret sin was exposed throughout the church, but instead of getting discouraged or self-focused, the disciples became broken, repented and then had three awesome women baptisms, all of which were baptized in the same weekend!

While all of the women have incredible testimonies, the story of Laura Lewis becoming a disciple really warms my heart because it shows the unity between churches in our movement! Laura was reached out to by Ashley Dunn of the LA Church while she was having coffee all alone. But because of her imminent graduation from FIDM, as well as a weekly commute between LA and Santa Barbara (90 miles each way), she was only able to visit Ashley’s Bible Talk once. After graduation, she moved permanently up to Santa Barbara. That’s when Ashley made sure that I had Laura’s contact info so that she could be reached out to up here! Sure enough, after one meeting with Laura, I just knew that she was going to make an awesome disciple! Then after three months of wrestling with demons from the past, Laura repented and was baptized into Christ! And she has been an incredible addition to our Single’s Ministry!

Lastly, we’ve already collected all of our 20X Special Missions Goal and are now working on our faith goal of a 25X Contribution!! We love you all and please pray for the transition of leadership in the DC and Santa Barbara Churches!Amy Ciaramella of Phoenix: Greetings from the Valley of the “Son!” Today was a day full of refreshment as we were able to witness a miracle at the end of an energetic, inspiring service led by my hard-working hubby, Jeremy! How serendipitous that the Manila Mission Team was being sent off in LA while the LIFE Campus Ministry Women were able to baptize Arian, who is of Filipino descent!

Previous to her arrival in Phoenix, Arian was leery to enter her freshman year at ASU (one of the top party colleges) as she was afraid of what that meant for her relationship with God! Ranking as one of the top female high school wrestlers in Washington State (at 134 wins, 2 losses), she is now here by God’s plan to begin her training for the National Wrestling Team! She has longed to use the success in her wrestling career to influence and inspire others about God! Little did she know the difference that Women’s Day would make in her life! At 18 years of age, she studied the Bible and is now the youngest sister in our Campus Ministry – so full of zeal and equipped with the proper knowledge to now make the impact that she has yearned to make for God!

Jeremiah Clark: “The mountains will bring prosperity to the people, the hills the fruit of righteousness.” (Psalm 72:3) Greetings from the Mighty Denver Church! The past few weeks have been so encouraging as God has showered down His blessings from the great Rocky Mountains! First, I am so proud of our amazing Women’s Ministry as just a couple of weeks ago they put on one of the most incredible Women’s Days that I have ever seen entitled, FEARLESS! The banquet room was completely full of women as they had 72 in attendance and I have to say that my beautiful wife Julie preached one of her best lessons ever!

Encouragingly, we also welcomed the amazing Ugorji Family today as they placed membership from the powerful Sydney, Australia Church!

Lastly, we were able to see Mel and Zach baptized into Christ – two amazing baptisms from both our CU Boulder and Metropolitan State Campus Ministries! To God be all the glory!

Stephanie Reed: Greetings from the Mighty Eugene Church! The month of April was amazing as we had our Annual Women’s Day! This year’s theme was LET IT GO! It was a very memorable day as we had a total attendance of 73 – 37 visitors and 35 disciples!

We had great testimonies from Sierra McClelland our intern who shared about LETTING GO OF INSECURITIES, Brooke Helm our administrator shared about LETTING GO OF CONTROL, Reina Smith our Corvallis House Church Women’s Leader spoke about LETTING GO OF GUILT,and Lynee Pengra share about LETTING GO OF ANXIETY! We had Alex Reitman and Naarah Hansen sing Let It Go from the movie FROZEN. Then we had an amazing modern dance called I’m Not A Robot by a young disciple named Courtney, who was baptized in our U of O Ministry but now is up in Corvallis!

Last but not least, Sarah Dimitry – the Women’s Leader of the San Francisco Bay Church – was our guest speaker! She did an amazing lesson on the bleeding woman and Jarius’ daughter in Mark 5!

I want to thank Steph Hackett our Shepherdess who made sure we had yummy food, Renee Loheed who did beautiful decorations, Carey Jensen and Christy Rios! I am so grateful for these women as they really helped me out so much for my first Women’s Day that I have ever planned! Please pray for us as we reap a harvest of women who are ready to “let go!”Speaking of the harvest, God has blessed the OSU Campus Ministry again with their first guy baptism Riker! At first Riker didn’t believe Jesus was the Son of God, but after going through the studies he came to “a knowledge of the truth” and on Sunday he became our brother in Christ!

Ricky Challinor of Portland: Good news from the City of Bridges!!! God has worked in great ways here in Portland over the last month! To start was the restoration of Justin & Angelina Moore! They were converted in Bakersfield, but sadly fell away and moved to the desert (literally) in Nevada both physically and spiritually! But everyone has their limit and they hit theirs!The Moores came to Portland with a glimpse of hope and God pulled them through!!! That very day they locked down a job and home!!! If that weren’t enough, their repentance caught the eye of their 16 year old daughter Jade, and she began to study the Bible! The Moores were restored and they then were able to baptize their daughter into Christ! The spiritual family was able to unite this wonderful physical family!

We were also able to send-off Andre Astanin and Cynthia Maldonado to San Jose to prepare for the Sacramento Mission Team! We are so proud of them and are grateful for all they have done for His Kingdom!Lastly was a miracle of miracles: Everardo Esparza & Jennifer Wagner started dating!!!!! There certainly is a God and He surely is good!

Co & I are so happy that they will be coming with us to the East Region of the City of Angels Church in June!Sarah Dimitry: “You are the God who performs miracles; you display your power among the peoples.” (Psalm 77:14) Greetings from San Francisco! I’m writing this on my drive back from LA having witnessed many miracles, including the Holy Spirit sending off the Manila Mission Team! My husband Jason sends his greetings from Santiago, Chile as he also witnessed a miracle with the wedding of Emilio & Tatiana Bonilla!

We can’t wait to have them serve in the San Jose House Church after their honeymoon, replacing Jacob & Courtney Beas, as they go on to plant the Sacramento International Christian Church!The Sacramento Mission Team is slowing trickling into San Jose this month! We also had an incredible brother named Gary Swee restored to the Lord! And since we’re talking about miracles, here’s another one for ya – Aaron Turner & Sheila Bell, our ICCM students, are now dating!

Please continue to pray for the Bay!

Mike Patterson: “In those days when the number of disciples was increasing…” (Acts 6:1) In the first 18 weeks of 2015, our God has blessed us with 19 amazing baptisms and one awesome restoration!Recently God moved in a mighty way as we decided to have a Bring Your Neighbor Day on April 19th right before the end of the University of Florida semester. God still gave us our highest attendance ever (outside of the Campus Conference) of 120 at service! Two of the visitors were Jason on the University of Florida  Baseball Team and his girlfriend of four years Josslyn, who is a telecommunications major focused on sports media! They were so broken by the sin God exposed in their lives that they broke-up and surrendered to God their future! In tears, they both shared how grateful they are to be in God’s Kingdom! Jason already has a dream to lead in the church!

Please pray for these influential students to use their talents for God and to reach many others!Matt Sullivan of Orlando: What an exciting couple of weeks since the last Good News Email! God has blessed the amazing Orlando Church with many who are studying the Bible and as of this week five remarkable people have become disciples in the last four weeks!

Of special note was Carrie Green, who is married to Joe Green the son of our Shepherding Couple – Ted & Kathy Green! The Green Family is now complete… With four sons, three of whom are married, they are all faithful and now with Carrie’s baptism, all the wives are as well! What a modern day miracle to see this entire family united in Christ!

In addition, the Lord truly has received glory for Himself in our weekly contribution! A few months ago, the Orlando Church was still feeling the effects of sending out two mission teams early in 2014, as 33% of our membership had been sent out… And this made our finances a bit rocky! We rallied together in November, looked at the facts and realized the facts meant nothing with faith!So we decided that we had to change the situation for the glory of God and well… to pay the bills! Our average giving at that time was under $1,900/week. After seeking the Lord, much preaching, and deciding to live by faith in obedience to God’s Word, our contribution in under two months grew to $3,200/week by mid-January! And we have maintained that! We are praying for an abundant harvest for our Special Missions Contribution coming up on June 14th! Please pray for us as we pray for all of you!Tyler Sears: Greetings and “Howdy Y’all” from Dallas-Fort Worth! The last four weeks have been very encouraging for the DFW disciples as the Lord has added three through baptism!

Shay & I were encouraged and challenged by having Kip & Elena in town, as well as Matt Sullivan and Mike Patterson, who got with us and the church in order to help us out! Not only did we see three baptized, but God has blessed us with much fruit on the vine as our International Sunday brought in 79 for church – the highest attendance since our Inaugural Service! Please continue to pray for us as we have so much more work to do!Ron Harding of Washington DC: Greetings from the Capital of the United States! Tracy & I are so very encouraged by the vigor and commitment of the DC disciples! In the midst of raising money for Special Missions and the transition of leadership, we have seen eight people baptized in the last five weeks!So special was the last baptism, as Chris Bradley – a personal trainer – who made Jesus Lord after attending for nearly six months! Chris had “prayed Jesus into his heart” and had gone through the ritual of baptism. However, he did not repent of his sins and never had a clear conscience. (1 Peter 3:18-21) His family was so impacted and I was so proud of our young brother Brian (also a fitness trainer) who was just baptized three weeks ago who sat in most of the studies with Chris! Now both of our new physical fitness trainers are also spiritually fit!

Argo Arneson: “Make your praises heard, and say, ‘Lord, save your people, the remnant of Israel.’ See, I will bring them from the land of the north and gather them from the ends of the earth.” (Jeremiah 31:7-8) Greetings of love from Stockholm, Sweden! We are tremendously thankful to our Lord because His movement has reached“the land of the north” to gather the remnant and to bring His salvation to all the nations in Northern Europe!

The month of April has been a very exciting month for us! We saw Stockholm Mission Team members arriving one after another literally“from the ends of the earth.”  Our team includes seven Swedish Citizens, seven Estonian Citizens, one Finnish, one Lithuanian and one British Citizen and three of our team members are also Citizens of the United States!

Five of our team members already started their language studies in an Intensive Swedish Language Program to be ready for our Inaugural Service on September 20, 2015! Lord willing, we will have a very dynamic student outreach so as to find the leaders to reach all of Northern Europe!

Of course, the highlight in April for us was the birth of our new “baby brother” Kenneth Arnström, who was baptized last week! Kenneth is a 67 years “young” professional jazz musician with an incredible heart for God! Welcome to the family, Kenneth!

We are also extremely happy to announce that our dear brother and sister, Erik af Klint & Michelle Pettit, are now engaged! God is truly awesome!

Please keep praying for our efforts in Stockholm “and say, ‘Lord, save your people, the remnant of Israel!’”Philippe Scheidecker of Paris: Greetings from the City of Love! We have our first engaged couple in Paris! Last Monday, the handsome Knight Kevin Toto asked the beautiful Princess Sandra, in front of the Eiffel Tower, if she wanted to become his Queen. She said Yes!!!! It was the very day of her physical birthday! Best gift ever!!!

This Sunday, we enjoyed the visit of our dear brothers and sister from Amsterdam, Menno and Yuklin Zoutendijk and their daughter Sue Line, and Arni Sicam! Menno preached a sermon ‘Je Suis Le Fils Prodigue’ (I Am The Prodigal Son); Yuklin shared at communion; and Arni, our Filipino brother, led us in a great contribution! Later, we were all fired up to watch the Livestream LA Church Service with our beloved Anthony & Cassidy appointed Evangelist and Women’s Ministry Leader! To God be the glory!Michael Williamson: Warmest greetings to our dear family from London, England! “By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going. By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents… For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.” (Hebrews 11:8-10)It is a blessing to be a part of God’s Kingdom worldwide and see the fulfilment of this Scripture being lived out by so many in the radical call of true Christianity! One of the highlights of this past month has definitely been the place membership of Rene & Anita Vermaat who took a huge leap of faith moving their family from Amsterdam to be with the London Church!

Both of these incredible disciples are in their 50’s and gave up jobs, caring for aging parents, a wonderful school for their precious son Rean, and their beloved home to be with sold-out disciples and to be used powerfully again for God!Another highlight of April in London was the visit of our dear friends, Argo & Anu Arneson! Argo did a phenomenal job in preaching to the church and Anu was equally inspiring at our incredible Women’s Day!

Zhenya Sobolev: Privet from Moscow! The Spirit took our dear leaders – Oleg & Elena Sirotkin – to strengthen the church in Kiev, but in spite of this God added three precious souls to our number by the waters of baptism in April!On April 5th, we saw the baptism of Bolat – a single from Caucasus! Incredible story: He was invited first in Kiev two years ago, studied the Bible in Ukraine, then moved to Moscow, and finally got baptized!

On April 26th, God blessed us with baptism of Tatiana! She made a true victory over all her sins to become a true disciple of Jesus!

And finally, on Sunday, May 3rd, we witnessed the baptism of Evelina – a mother of five children who studied the Bible for two years! Interestingly, her mother is a professional singer in the Orthodox Temple so Evelina was raised in the Orthodox tradition. But she totally “forgot all her past” and became a true Christian!

Blaise Feumba – the Overseeing Evangelist for French-speaking Africa: “The Word of God kept on spreading; and the number of the disciples continued to increase greatly in Jerusalem…” (Acts 6:7) April has been another fruitful month in our sister church in Kinshasa as nine more souls were added to the Kingdom of God!

One of the amazing miracles among these new converts is Dax Makadi, the 23 year old Congolese and African Welterweight Boxing Champion! Dax “knocked the devil out” by being baptized into Christ and His church! Amazingly, he has not lost a single fight since the beginning of his professional career in 2010!

Of note, in the SoldOut Movement, Kinshasa is our second largest congregation (after the City of Angels International Christian Church) with now 317 sold-out disciples – 239 in Micky’s South Region and 78 in Lola’s Region, the North! To God be all the glory!

Jonathan Panossian: “But God will never forget the needy; the hope of the afflicted will never perish.” (Psalm 9:18) While on a ten day mission trip to Haiti with Blaise & Patricia Feumba, I personally witnessed the true depths of poverty that would shock the conscience of any disciple! After traveling to the cities of Port-au-Prince, Duclair, Jacmel and Mirebalais, I saw a devastated and broken country whose people are desperate for hope and a future.

Disease and famine are rampant throughout the country; people resort to drinking polluted water to avoid extreme dehydration from living in a tropical climate; and the basic needs of food and shelter are beyond the reach of the vast majority of the Haitian people due to the very high cost of living.

I came back to the United States of America with a heavy heart after listening to the stories of three disciples: Anel Magoffy, Brunson Saint-Vil and Cylene. Anel lost his business and home after the 2010 earthquake. He now lives with his wife and three children inside of a tent unable to recover from the chaos after the destruction caused by the earthquake. They walk seven miles one way to attend church!

Brunson Saint-Vil, a former Mainline Church of Christ Preacher, and his wife also lost their home and two children when the house collapsed on them during the earthquake.

Lastly, Cylene was lying on the floor of her home in extreme pain as she was dying from cancer with no possibility of receiving any medical attention. She finally passed away last week as the Lord decided to take her into glory and shortened her extreme pain! These are just a few stories of the pain and suffering the disciples of Haiti are going through.

But among all the hardship and ruin, God’s glory is shining and healing so many hearts and lives as the gospel of Christ is being powerfully preached! 19 souls have been added to the Lord’s Kingdom during this trip, and among them two more preachers! After the baptism of Louisius Exilien, a pastor of a Pentecostal church in Mirebalais, ten members of his church including his incredible opinionated wife Mary became disciples after only two long days of Bible Studies!The following day, Blaise, Patricia and Alexis Turgeau studied with another amazing preacher, who like Apollos was well versed in the Scriptures but needed to be taught more accurately the way of the Lord! Brunson Saint-Vil’s and his wife Mary Acefie were baptized and with him seven other members of his congregation who are now with us in Port-au-Prince!

Amazingly, only 20 months after the baptism of the former Mainline Church of Christ Preacher, Alexis Turgeau, at the 2013 GLC where he was baptized as a disciple, we now have 149 sold-out disciples in five churches in five cities in Haiti! Pray as 17 of them are former preachers who like Apollos have been taught “the way of God more adequately.”(Acts 18:26) The disciples of Haiti are keeping hope alive!NEWS FLASH – Nick Bordieri, the President of MERCYWORLDWIDE: Cholera, a bacterial disease that can cause diarrhea and dehydration, is most often spread through the ingestion of contaminated food or drinking water. Since the beginning of the Haiti cholera epidemic in October 2010, there have been over 750,000 cases treated and over 8,700 deaths! Cholera remains a deadly threat to the general populace of Haiti.

During Blaise Feumba’s third missionary journey to Haiti, he & Patricia launched MERCYWORLDWIDE’s Water Filter Program!MERCYWORLDWIDE purchased innovative water filters from a Swiss corporation, Vestergaard, for delivery of filters to thirteen disciples’ families.

Another 67 families of disciples await delivery! Please pray that MERCYcan impact more and more families by “converting” contaminated water into clean, safe drinking water thus “converting” all of Haiti through our love and outreach to the poor! To God be all the glory!

Jared McGee: Greetings from the sold-out disciples in México City! Since the last Good News Email, God has continued to work powerfully as seven souls have been added to His Kingdom in the last five weeks! Thus, in the first 18 weeks of 2015, God has grown our number by 19 without a single fall away this year to date!

On a very special note, today at service, Jose & Daniela Otero placed membership to strengthen the church! Recently appointed Evangelist and Women’s Ministry Leader at the 2015 CSA in February, this amazing couple is sure to make a huge impact in México!

As Jose delivered a powerful sermon, and his wife shared vulnerably about the cross, I was deeply encouraged in my soul to be reunited with such close friends and partners in the gospel! Please pray that we can continue to bring in the Spring harvest and “peace be on Israel.”(Psalm 125:5)Carlos Mejia: Song of Songs 3:4… “I found the one my heart loves!” Greetings from Santiago! God is so good!Today we were able to witness “two become one” at the wedding of Emilio & Tatiana Bonilla! It was amazing to host Emilio’s father in the faith, our dear brother and leader of the Mighty San Francisco Church, Jason Dimitry, as well as Emilio’s dear sisters, Erica and Mercedes, and Emilio’s friend Ryan Casarez! It was a very heartwarming wedding as we saw the power of God moving through world evangelism. Tatiana’s mother, Paulina was converted in Santiago as a single mom when Tatiana was only four years old! Later she married Miguel, who was one of the missionaries who planted the church in Chile from Argentina back in the ICOC days! Tatiana grew up as a “Kingdom Kid” and became a disciple in the Teen Ministry!

Emilio was reached out to by his sisters and was baptized in LA and then served as a missionary in the Las Vegas and San Francisco Churches! These two awesome disciples met briefly at the 2012 GLC and built a friendship and later dated long distance and the rest is history! We are super grateful for a worldwide movement of churches where we have real life examples like the Bonillas of a “match made in Heaven!”

On the forceful advancement side, we are happy to report the conversions of two amazing young men! Sebastian Lineros was  baptized last Sunday! He is the teen son of two amazing disciples, Delia & Giovanni! Also, another campus student from Universidad Catolica, Jose, was baptized! We look forward to saving more souls and finding the “ones His heart loves” in the weeks to come! To God be all the glory!Raul Moreno: “Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!” (Philippians 4:4) Greetings dear family around the world! The São Paulo Church is rejoicing over the five additions the Lord gave us in the last four weeks! Three campus girls were baptized! Viviane who is a publicity student as well as Mari who studies nursing and Lin who studies education at USP were all added to God’s Kingdom!

Then, a great hearted single named Fabio was restored from our former fellowship!

Finally, Ismael was baptized! Ismael is a “Kingdom Kid” whose faithful mother, Dilma, waited over 20 years as a disciple to see this great dream come true!

Dilma suffered a lot during those years wanting her son to be saved, yet her joy in seeing her son saved far outweighs any suffering she went through! May all our kids be saved one day! God is awesome!

Rich Tabizon: As the now 51 disciples of the Metro Manila Remnant Group prepares to welcome the Mission Team, it is important to note that we have been about our purpose! During the month of April, God has allowed us to set new weekly attendance highs and add more than we have ever added in a single month! Our Easter Sunday Service had 122 in attendance with one baptism and two restorations! However, God was not done, for in the following weeks, we witnessed two more come to be restored and one additional baptism for a total of six April additions!

In just a few short hours, the Metro Manila Mission Team – led by our closest friends Kyle & Joan Bartholomew – will set foot on Filipino soil and we will be waiting to welcome them with our latest additions to the body of Christ! Pray for the Inaugural Service of the Metro Manila International Christian Church on June 7, 2015!

Joe Willis: Greeting from Sydney, Australia! Our Annual International Day was a lot of fun with food, national costumes, and this year with Dean “The Machine” Lam from China preaching alongside Kavindu, who is from Sri Lanka, as well as Mason from American Samoa! Dean’s first service was only last year at our very first International Day! Little did he know then that despite not believing in God, he would be preaching about how to believe in God at the next one! This was all on the back of seeing Chidera being baptized the previous week, who is Australian from Nigerian descent!

As if this was not enough fun for one day, we had our first engagement as a church with Lennox Tweneboa setting out a treasure hunt around Sydney for his girlfriend Kiera Walker, only to end up at the steps of the Opera House to see a giant box wrapped as a present, which Lennox was hiding in! Once she opened the present, Lennox got down on one knee to propose! Then a crowd of 100 friends and family came around from behind the Opera House to surprise and congratulate the happy couple!

We are also very excited to announce the plan to plant the Auckland International Christian Church in New Zealand in January 2017 with Mason & Nathalie Fetelika leading the team!

As many of you know, we have the incredible Clague Family here in Sydney! Ian is originally from New Zealand and used to be in the fulltime ministry in the city of Christchurch in our former movement. We would like to encourage all nationals and anyone interested in being part of this mission team to contact Mason by email at semigalio42@yahoo.com as soon as possible to make plans to move to Sydney to build the team! And to God be the glory!Chris Teves of Honolulu: “As Jesus was getting into the boat, the man who had been demon-possessed begged to go with him. Jesus did not let him, but said, ‘Go home to your own people and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you.’ So the man went away and began to tell in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him. And all the people were amazed.” (Mark 5:18-19) Yahweh has done great things for the Honolulu International Christian Church! Already He has added two more baptisms to the Westside of the church this past month! Most lately, He has added Ene Faima, who comes from a past of violence and corruption.It was awesome to see the brothers Joe Santos, Phil Kelly, Daniel Dias and Chris Teves work together as a team to bring Ene to “the knowledge of the truth!” Also great was to see about TWENTY-FIVE (25) of his family members and friends there at his baptism as the sun was setting at Tracks Beach in Nanakuli! As well, he had around 12 of his closest friends at the baptism, who come from a similar background as Ene, and they witnessed a man become “dressed (clothed with Christ) and in his right (righteous) mind.” I think some of them were afraid as they witnessed the miracle of his change and are interested in studying the Bible! We can see that Ene has already “gone home” to tell his people about “how much the Lord [has] done for him!”

Please pray for us as we go through the last two weeks of Special Contribution, as well as the transition of sending Lou Jack & Cathi Martinez back to serve in the AV, and receiving Jake & Jen Ramsier and Curt & Morgan Valdez back here to Honolulu!!!

Chris Broom of New York City: “Consider Him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.” (Hebrews 12:3) Truly, our troubles pale in comparison to that of Jesus and our first century brothers and sisters! However, they do at times challenge our faith!As Easter approached and with newly printed invitations in hand, we were sharing with as many as possible! We were also rehearsing a “big presentation” for the “big stage” at our meeting location! All of a sudden, we found out that we could not use that location and had to find somewhere new to meet! Thanks to Jake Studer (Evangelist of the Toronto International Christian Church), we made new invitations, but we still had no place to meet! So we directed people to our website and once we secured a space, we had to write the address on the back of the invitations! On top of that, the new meeting spot was a lot smaller and had no stage, so we had to postpone the entertainment that we had planned… and many were tempted to lose heart and doubt!As if it couldn’t get any worse, when Easter Morning came, we were locked out and no one was picking-up the phone! Two hours passed! Then, not by chance, but by God, the building superintendent who claims to never go to the building on Sunday mornings, just “happened” to come by and see us! (THANK YOU GOD!) It took some convincing, but after we provided the receipt for proof of rental, he let us in and we rushed to get ready as it was only an hour and fifteen minutes before the first song was supposed to start! What was the outcome? Only our highest attendance ever (219), and three baptisms, all of which had attended our Campus Sunday as their first event just three weeks earlier!

This month, we saw five more campus students baptized from five different universities! Of special note, last Sunday after church, we witnessed the baptism of Jonathan Rosborough – the physical brother of Tim Rosborough of the Boston Church! Jonathan overcame incredible hurdles to be baptized, including quitting cigarettes cold-turkey and seeking the Kingdom first by traveling two hours from upstate New York to make every meeting of the body!Jonathan is a student at St. Francis College in Brooklyn and is making plans to move to Manhattan as soon as possible! We were in Regional Services that day, but through modern technology (Google Hangouts), many of us watched Jonathan’s baptism in Central Park from a Leader’s Meeting in Midtown Manhattan while his brother Tim and a group of disciples watched from Boston! It was amazing as we could all see Tim share with his physical brother Jon all the way from Boston through our phones!

Coltin Rohn of Boston: “You crown the year with your bounty, and your carts overflow with abundance.” (Psalm 65:11) Starting the year of 2015, we had 45 disciples; however, for the first three months of the year, we only had one baptism and one restoration… Repentance was needed! Thank God for His discipling movement and disciples willing to travel to help us! On March 4th, Chris Broom and Roger Parlour of New York City came to Boston and discipled our church to get focused back on the mission! (Luke 19:10)Since that time in the last two months, we have seen 12 baptisms from all around the world! We now have disciples from China, El Salvador, Japan, Korea, Nigeria and Pakistan! And we now have a presence on Boston College, Boston University, Berklee College of Music, Fisher College, Harvard University, Mass Maritime, Northeastern, Quincy College and UMass Boston! To God be all the glory!Of special note was the baptism of Gianni Difusco! After studying the Bible for the past two weeks, Gianni proved his repentance by his deeds. (Acts 26:21) After seeing his own sin, Gianni knew there was a lot of apologies that needed to be made. So Gianni wrote letters to his entire immediate family explaining his sin, feelings, how it must have made them feel, followed by a deep and sincere apology saying he’s so sorry! I was able to be there when he read his letter to his dad Sal Difusco, and it was so great to hear the apologies followed by “I forgive you” from both sides! Truly God has turned the hearts of sons to their fathers here in Boston! (Malachi 4:6)

Also of special note is the wedding and send-off of Preston & Shauna (soon to be Inkleys)! The wedding will take place on June 6th! Then Preston will preach a farewell sermon on June 7th before the Inkleys move to the Antelope Valley to serve as the Campus Ministers! I’m saddened to see Preston & Shauna leave as they have become so close to Mandee & me, but we are fired-up to see what God will do through them in LA!

God has also given us over 60% of our Special Missions for world evangelism! We are family… to the end!Courtney Parlour: In Syracuse, we have been greatly encouraged by God’s desire to save this city! Whether snow or sun, pruning or blooming, we know God is always working! On April 11th, we held an unbelievable Women’s Day at the world famous New York State Fairgrounds! We were honored to have Lianne Kernan come and share her passion, wit and deep convictions with all of the women! Amazingly, 46 disciples had 105 in attendance!

April 15th was another day to remember as a dear sister to many of us, Darlene Clark, was restored to God! Keep us in your prayers!

Jay Shelbrack: “And all the people went up after him, playing flutes and rejoicing greatly, so that the ground shook!” (2 Samuel 22:8) Greetings from Chicago! The home of the 2015 NFL Draft and God’s Kingdom! Today was amazing as we held our Annual Women’s Day, entitled CHOSEN with guest speaker Rachel McGee from our sister church in Mexico City! It was truly an honor to have her here as she was able to meet the needs of both our Spanish and English-speaking disciples! God blessed us as 91 sisters had 248 in attendance! Please pray for us to be diligent as we follow up to bring in a great harvest!

Since the last Good News Email, we have had five additions – three through baptism and two restorations! Four additions came through family members! Monica through her brother Jorge; Seline through her mother Patti; Melanie (a teen) through her parents Melania & Mario: and finally, Julia the grandmother of four sisters who were baptized in the last five months!Julia came initially to see what all the excitement was as she saw her granddaughters radically change! She had previously studied with Jehovah Witnesses for six years, but was never committed. However, after coming and seeing the “true Kingdom” and studying out the truth, Julia felt that she was, for the first time, truly loved. As a result her daughter, and the mother of our four sisters, asked if she too could study the Bible! I quickly asked if they had any other relatives we could meet!!!

Finally we have 11 graduations this month: Seven Bachelor’s Degrees, three from high school who are all going on to college, and finally one of our interns, Sausha, graduated with a Juris Doctorate to practice law! May God be glorified through our efforts as we “rejoice greatly!”Debs Rajan:  Vannakkam! (Greetings in Tamil!) “Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts.” (Acts 2:46-47) The disciples of the Chennai Church meet every day to encourage one another and to reach out to the lost! The Lord keeps adding to our number! This last month alone we had 15 baptisms, the highest ever!

Satish, who is doing his Master’s in Economics from the prestigious Loyola College and also a Professional football (soccer) player, was met by my awesome husband – Raja! The very first Sunday that Satish visited the church, he was impacted by the love of the saints and the powerful preaching of God’s Word! After studying just a short while, he praised God and was baptized!

“[They] ate together with glad and sincere hearts!” (Acts 2:46) All the disciples came together to celebrate our highest number of baptisms for the month with breakfast and fellowship “praising God and enjoying the favour of all the people!” (Acts 2:47)

The joy continued as Christopher & Maria were engaged and are getting married on May 8th!

This Sunday, another awesome couple – Prathap & Maheshwari – was engaged!

We look forward to continue “enjoying the favour of all the people”as the Speckmans of LA will be visiting us in a few weeks! And we believe that in the near future “the Lord [will] add daily to our number!” (Acts 2:47)
To God be all glory!Dearest Brothers and Sisters: Very interestingly, when the Filipino Flag is flown upside-down, it means that the Philippine nation is at war!

And so with the sending-out of the Metro Manila Mission Team “war has been declared” on Satan and his demonic minions in the 7,105 islands of the Philippines! I am so encouraged by God’s words in Isaiah 51:5,“My righteousness draws near speedily, my salvation is on the way, and my arm will bring justice to the nations. The islands will look to me and wait in hope for my arm!” Indeed, the Philippine Islands are no longer waiting… God has sent His “chosen 12″ on the Metro Manila Mission Team to assault the very gates of Hell!

The battle for “islands” actually was the spark that ignited God’s new movement in 2006! At that time in Hilo, Hawaii, Kyle & Joan Bartholomew (the young church leaders of the Hilo ICOC) took a valiant stand against lukewarmness and autonomy when they asked Elena & me to disciple them. They sought help to build the same sold-out foundation of disciples in Hilo that Kyle had seen at the 2006 Portland Jubilee! (1 Corinthians 3:11) Though they endured great persecutions from inside and outside their congregation, Kyle – supported by his two younger brothers Evan and Levi – became the “Three Mighty Men” that birthed and built the Hilo and Honolulu International Christian Churches!

I do believe in the years to come that we will hear about many more exploits from these Three Mighty Men as they are all serving the Lord fulltime! Pray for the official Inaugural Service of the Metro Manila International Christian Church, which Lord willing will be June 7, 2015! Pray as well for all the SoldOut Movement Churches and the 2015 GLC remembering the words of Winston Churchill, “Whatever happens we will fight to the end, be it bitter or be it glorious. Nay, if we fight to the end, it can only be glorious!” And to God be all the glory, honor and praise! Amen!

We are family… to the end,
Kip

Greetings from the sold-out disciples in Moscow, Santiago and Sao Paulo! Indeed February has been a historic and very busy month in God’s SoldOut Movement! On February 1st was the Inaugural Service of the Moscow International Christian Church! 17 Russian-speaking disciples were on the mission team that spent their own money to fly and train in Los Angeles! They were joined by 33 disciples in the Moscow Remnant Group, giving us exactly 50 workers for the Lord! On the day of the Moscow Inaugural Service, there was snow, freezing rain and sustained winds of 30 mph (50 km per hour)! Yet, the Spirit moved powerfully and 50 sold-out disciples had 227 in attendance!

Our Almighty God answers the prayers of SoldOut
Movement Disciples around the world by filling
up the Swissotel Conference Center with
227 for the Moscow ICC
Inaugural Service!

The noble Moscow Church Leaders – Oleg & Elena
Sirotkin and Zhenya & Julia Sobolev!

Our beloved Russian Disciples put so much time and energy into making every detail about the service amazing – from decorations to Kids Kingdom!

  
Masha and Nikita (who was restored that day) give
a warm welcome to all the visitors!

Kids Kingdom is the same in every language!

Lena Kapskaya – a talented actress and artist –
paints the faces of the workers and the
children of Kids Kingdom!

Kids Kingdom wins the hearts of the children!

At the service were scores of remnant disciples and non-Christians! Oleg preached a moving sermon entitled, The Purposes Of God!

Oleg enthusiastically preaching
the Word of God!

As well that day, God added to their number two baptisms and four restorations!

Yuriy (second from the left), Vasily (third from the
left), Nikita (sixth from the left) and Anjelica
(seventh from the left) are restored
to the Lord!

Franc from Cameroon is baptized!

Valenitna (Nikita’s mother) is baptized!

Many of those who visited began to study the Scriptures that afternoon!

Almost all the visitors stayed around for coffee, tea,
delicious cookies and the warm fellowship!

The Moscow Inaugural Service was such a
historic event that even the media
was impressed!

Remarkably, in the first 28 days of the Moscow Church planting, there have been 17 additions – six baptisms and 11 restorations!

On February 12-15th was the 2015 Central & South American Missions Conference – Por Mi Espiritu (By My Spirit)! Highlights included the Leadership Workshop, the opening sermon by Carlos Mejia – Walk By The Spirit, Raul Moreno’s lesson on Saturday morning – My Spirit Will Bring Justice To The Nations, the Campus Workshop, the Kingdom Banquet and Sunday’s keynote speech by the new leader of the Santiago Church – Alfredo Anuch – entitled, Not By Might, Nor By Power But By My Spirit!

The Santiago Disciples welcomed at the airport
almost all of the 85 disciples from outside of
Chile that participated in the CSA
Conference!

The CSA Conference was held at the beautiful Gran
Palace Hotel Convention Center!

Carlos & Lucy Mejia, the Directors of the CSA
Conference, give a firey welcome to the
Leadership Workshop!

The worship of God through prayer and singing in
three languages – Spanish, Portuguese and
English – was incredibly inspirational!

Raul Moreno inspires all to
evangelize the world!

The Campus Workshop was simply outstanding!

Elena enjoys a moment of fellowship with the Sao
Paulo Sisters after the Campus Workshop!

Another very special highlight on Saturday afternoon was the presentation, Who Wants To Be A Missionary? A moving slide show began this session and then different missionaries answered questions from the attendees!

The Presentation: Who Wants To Be A Missionary
moved many to decide to go to the mission
field to serve the Lord!

At the glorious Sunday Service attended by 322, there were two restorations and three baptisms!

To begin Sunday’s Worship Service, Guillermo
of Santiago (second from the left) and
Isaac of Mexico City were restored!

Hector Gomez shared “good news” from
Bogata! He will become the Librarian and
Publisher for the new SoldOut
Movement’s Berean Online
Library!

Ryan and Helen Sullivan of Orlando presided
over the contribution!

Alfredo Anuch delivers the keynote address!

Alfredo & Alejandra Anuch will lead the
Santiago Church when the Mejias
depart in June to strengthen
Mexico City!

Doris (Alfredo’s mom on the left) and Sonia
(Alejandra’s mom) are both
sold-out disciples!

Marcelo, Silvana and Carlos were baptized
immediately after service!

Then Elena & I traveled to Sao Paulo, Brazil for four days! On Wednesday evening, the 116 Sao Paulo disciples had 171 at service! So many remnant disciples attended!

The Sao Paulo International Christian Church!

On Thursday evening, we shared with the 12 student leaders of the dynamic Sao Paulo Campus Ministry, which is the pacesetter for our Campus Ministries around the world!

The remarkable Sao Paulo Campus
Ministry Student Leaders!

Raul & Lynda Moreno – the Sao Paulo Church
Leaders and the World Sector Leaders for
Central & South America!

Upon Elena’s and my arrival home in LA, decisions had to be prayerfully made on which couple could step-up to replace Argo & Anu Arneson as the leaders of the IE Region, as the Arnesons needed to return to Stockholm to begin preparations for the Stockholm planting in August. After counsel and prayer, Adam Zepeda & Rebecca Rico were selected by the Spirit! At the Send-Off Service, the East, Palm Springs and IE Regions of the City of Angels Church gathered!

Adam & Rebecca – the new IE Region Leaders –
preside over communion at the combined
East, Palm Springs and IE Regions
Worship Service!

Argo preached a marvelous sermon – When The Stocks Are Falling It’s Time To Buy!

The beloved Argo Arneson preaching his
farewell sermon!

 Then to close the service, Jamel Tucker (Shepherd of the IE Region) and Juan Vasquez (Shepherd of the Palm Springs Region) prayed over the six disciples heading to Stockholm early for the planting.

Jamel praying over Argo, Anu and the four other
disciples going early to prepare for
the Stockholm Planting!

To close out the service five were baptized from the IE Region! An incredible end to the Arnesons’ ministry and a extraordinary start to Adam’s & Rebecca’s!

Then it was off to the Southland Region for the afternoon wedding of RD Baker & April Diaz! Truly a Kingdom wedding!

RD appears to be a bit nervous…

Chris Chloupek and Cory Blackwell masterfully
oversaw RD & April’s wedding!

Congratulations to Mr. & Mrs. RD & April Baker!

So for the first 59 days of 2015, God has blessed the City of Angels Church with 91 additions – 75 baptisms, nine restorations and seven place memberships! And to God be all the glory!

And now more detailed reports from each of our World Sectors…

HEADLINE NEWS – LOS ANGELES

Lance Underhill: “When she and the members of her household were baptized… immediately he and all his household were baptized!” (Acts 16:15, 33) “Impossible prayers” are being answered in the South Region! My wife Connie & I flew to see my ailing mom Barbara Underhill in New Port Richey, Florida. In just one week, with Connie doing an amazing job leading the studies, my mom was baptized!

Connie helps Lance to realize years of
prayer when he baptizes his mom!

Lance’s Dad & Mom… Lance baptized his
father last year just before he went
on to glory!

The next Sunday back in the South Region, the Lord put on my heart to preached, “If my 82 year old mom with health challenges could get baptized in one week, what’s your excuse?” Then Jordan Ybarra – the last of the Ybarra Familia – responded after the message, “I have no excuses” and was baptized in less than one week! The whole Ybarra Familia is now united in Christ!

The whole Ybarra Familia baptizes Jordan so
that the entire family is united in Christ!

Bryan Santamaria also was added through baptism, and Tacara Bryant and Yunhee Choi were restored! Also, we have a new dating couple Johnny Cortez & Tori Wallace!

Johnny & Tori are ecstatic about dating
in the Kingdom!

We are extremely excited that Tim & Lianne Kernan will be coming back to lead the South Region with their two joyful boys – Junior & David! Anthony & Cassidy Olmos, who have done a phenomenal job leading the South, have been called by the Spirit to London to lead the campuses, and prayerfully after that back to Paris, France where they were on the original mission team! As well, we are so proud of Oleg & Elena Sirotkin, who spent two years in the South, and the Moscow disciples for having an incredible Inaugural Service as well as continuing to grow!

Blaise Feumba: “In the same way, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.” (Luke 15:10) Indeed, the Lord has been rejoicing these past six weeks with the baptism of eight more souls in the North Region! The most amazing miracles are the baptism of the remaining three members of the Bedoya Family starting with Lucas, then his mom and his dad: Frank & Mirna Bedoya!

Lucas is baptized…

Then his father and mother – Frank & Mirna! Also
pictured is Adam who was baptized
the same day!

In addition to that we are also thankful to God for the baptisms of Adam, Hilse, Malick, Nathanael and Kia! To God be all the glory!

The North Brothers embrace Malick as he
enters the Kingdom!

The North Sisters warmly welcome
Kia into God’s Family!

Andrew Smellie of the West Region: On Sunday, February 15th, Dom-nique Willis was baptized into Christ! “Dom,” as we affectionately call him, is a Pastry Chef for Sweet E’s Bake Shop in Los Angeles! Sweet-E’s is owned by Erica Tucker, a past winner of Cupcake Wars! Originally from Denver, Colorado, Dom rejoiced at the opportunity to overcome the shame and regret of past sins to enjoy the “new life” of salvation! To God be the glory!

Dom rejoices after becoming a
new creation in Christ!

Chris Adams: The Word of God has been boldly preached over the past few weeks in the Ventura Region! Dave & Jill Swann, our creative, fiery Shepherding Couple and owners of the Hollywood Fitness Gym, planned an Oscar-themed service two weeks ago, replete with red-velvet ropes, a special communion song performed by our amazing band, and an “After-service Oscar Party” with movie ticket door prizes! But what impacted so many was the sermon Dave preached with three Oscar Award Winning Movie titles as his main points. Thrillingly, a Ventura College student, Bree took the simple, yet challenging message of grace and repentance to heart, and she pushed the “do-over button” and was baptized!

Bree signals “Victory” in Jesus!

Today, at our Singles’ Ministry-led service, Dennis Sloan preached his first full-length sermon and laid out the truth that repentance is really a change in mind-set, perception or purpose and not the deeds themselves! (Seems the Holy Spirit has that theme picked out for us up here in Ventura!) He preached about three men who lived their lives all about God’s radical love: Moses, Paul and Jesus! It was impossible to deny the miracle of God that has turned Dennis from being a U.S. Army veteran and fighting man to the death, to now saving men from Satan and certain spiritual death!

He & Corinna are revitalizing the Campus and Teen Ministries here in Ventura County, as there are many new friends who have come out to Bible Talk, Devo and an Open Mic! Dennis cited news reports about “Christian militia units” streaming from all over the world to the Middle East to eradicate the terrorist group ISIS with guns, not love – which is NOT JESUS! Therefore, every Ventura disciple was challenged to repent and love with a fierce light that will overcome the darkness of this world. Pray for “times of refreshing” to flow-in with the tide of repentance here in Ventura County! (Acts 3:19)

Dennis & Corinna have a gift for making
even the “Trash-a-thon” a lot of fun!

Cesar Limon: Grace and peace in abundance from the East Region! It was amazing to worship with the incredible Inland Empire and Palm Springs Regions this past week as we had the honor of witnessing the Holy Spirit blow Argo & Anu back to their homeland of Sweden! My wife & I are deeply appreciative for all they have done for us these past three years! God continues to show us His goodness here as we have seen seven souls be baptized in the past three weeks! God has provided amazing workers to take care of His sheep as we appointed six new Bible Talk Leaders this past Sunday which means that Cal Poly Pomona, Mt. SAC, and Citrus College have all doubled Bible Talks!

The East Region inspirationally multiplies their
Campus Ministry Bible Talk Leaders!

Wonderfully, we had the blessing of sending five disciples to the Central and South American Missions Conference who all came back inspired and with a greater global vision!! It truly is worth it to “make every effort” to send your disciples to any of the conferences as it will not only change their life but in turn impact your entire congregation!

The East Region Disciples gain a vision for Latin
America by attending the CSA
Missions Conference!

At our last week’s Campus Devotional, we witnessed Srbuhi from Cal Poly Pomona make Jesus Lord! Srbuhi was traveling every weekend to be with her family and boyfriend but she took a radical stand and broke-off the relationship and is now committed to staying on the weekends to be with the body of Christ! Very excitingly, she shared that her new dream is to go back to her birthplace of Armenia to save her people!

Srbuhi (second from the left) is the seed
of the gospel for Armenia!

Lastly, this week we were able to witness the Holy Spirit send-off Sara Oros to serve in the Central Region and also we are thankful for the Glorious Palm Springs Region for sending us PJ & Monique to train here in the East as they will be coming with us to Portland in May! Sal & Patricia Velasco and their Palm Springs Region truly understands that the goal of a church is not simply to grow, but to send out leaders! It is great to be in the Movement of God!!

Krystal Legarda: God has been moving powerfully in Orange County! In the month of February, God has added 10 to our number – seven baptisms, one restoration, and two placed memberships! Excitingly, we actually had an “eleventh” special addition with the birth of Amanda Arizmendi!

Guldana’s baptism gives joy to all the OC Sisters!

In February, the CSUF Ministry had four baptisms –
Diana (red towel), Guldana (dark green jacket),
Yomairi (back row second from the left),
and Kevin (back row tallest)!

Gabriel and Abby with their new sister Amanda!

Sunday service was electric as Luke preached a fiery sermon about going Back To The Basics! With many family members of disciples in attendance, the entire congregation was inspired to go after consistent:1) Quiet Times, 2) Evangelism, 3) Contribution, and 4) Discipling.Two of our interns, Javier & Jessica Ochoa, shared powerfully for communion and contribution about the Central and South American Missions Conference in Santiago de Chile! We are so grateful to be a part of a worldwide movement, witnessing so many modern day miracles around the globe! Please keep us in your prayers!

Ighodaro Odighizuwa of the Inland Empire: “The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.” (John 3:8) Greetings of love from the “Windy” Desert! During the month of February in the IE Region, the Spirit “blew” 16 souls into His Kingdom through the waters of baptism!

Ashely of the RCC Ministry joins the IE Sisters in
their charge, “You will be next!”

Not to be outdone, the UCR Ministry and their newest
sister Astrid issue the same challenge,
“You will be next!”

This past week, we witnessed seven souls baptized into Christ, giving us daily additions! From our Riverside Sector we saw April and Benjamin saved through the waters of baptism, and from our San Bernardino Sector, Christian, Mario, Cheyenne, Ingrid and Bre’ana all made Jesus Lord of their lives!

The IE Region celebrates seven baptisms
in seven days!

Sunday’s service was a “bitter sweet service” as the Inland Empire, the Palm Springs and the East Regions of our City of Angels Church gathered together for an incredible Worship Service to send-off of our valiant leaders – Argo & Anu Arneson! The Spirit is “blowing” them to Stockholm Sweden to prepare for the official planting of the Stockholm International Christian Church being sent out at the 2015 Global Leadership Conference coming up in August. Jesus says in Luke 12:49, “I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled!” Argo & Anu have done nothing short of a fantastic job, building a solid foundation of faith, unity and total commitment to God here in our “Windy” Desert Region!

Three years ago, when they came to our little region of 28 “somewhat” faithful disciples, they “kindled a fire” of faith that has transformed “the IE” into what we know it to be today! It was only fitting that we sent them off giving them our customary “IE Torch Trophies” in remembrance of the “fire” that has been “kindled” here in the Inland Empire while symbolizing the “fire” that will be “kindled” in Stockholm!

Martynas and Argo are getting ready to return and
conquer for the Lord the land of the
Vikings – Scandinavia!

We were privileged to watch the “torch” passed on to our awesome new Region Leaders – Adam Zepeda & Rebecca Rico! Please continue to pray for us and to God be all the glory!

HEADLINE NEWS – USA SW QUADRANT & THE MIDDLE EAST

Elizabeth McDonnell: Greetings from Santa Barbara! It has been an incredible month here in our beautiful city! First off, the whole church has been working hard at bearing fruit and we’ve had five baptisms in five weeks – three SB City College students, one UCSB student, and one single professional!

Mario (fourth from the left) and Michelle (third
from the right) are spiritual twins! 

Dominic & Nikki, a dating couple, repent from
their sins, commit to a pure dating
relationship, and are baptized
on the same day!

Even with all that hard work, there’s definitely love in the air as we had two couples get engaged and one couple start dating! Excitingly, one of the marriage proposals happened at the Central and South American Missions Conference down in Santiago!

Alex Flurry (our first convert in Santa Barbara) &
Bria Henderson (a mission team member) get
engaged in Santiago at the CSA
Missions Conference!

We’ve also collected a significant amount of our Special Missions Goal – 91%!!! Family members of the converts here are also getting baptized: one brother baptized his whole family (two brothers and his parents) out in the North Region of LA, and another baptized his uncle in the newly planted San Bernardino Sector of the City of Angels Church today!

Dale Bryant & Karyn Bowman celebrate their
engagement with SBICC!

One baptism that we want to highlight happened today, and that was Noé Garcia! A disciple here in Santa Barbara, Brian Lin (who will Lord willing join the Hong King Mission Team), was so fired-up to have five solid commitments to our International Sunday Service. But the day before service, all five of them cancelled on him.

Sad and discouraged Brian called Richie to ask what he should do. So Richie told Brian to not get discouraged and pray that God will give you someone to bring. So Brian prayed, and then texted his lab partner, Noé, from over a year ago to invite him. Little did he know that that night Noé prayed to God asking, “What is my purpose? Please show me why I’m here; there must be more to life than this.” After praying, he immediately received Brian’s text and knew immediately God was calling him! And today, he was baptized into Christ finding the true purpose for his life!

Noé (left) is baptized by his former
lab partner Brian (middle)!

Lastly, Richie & I are expecting another baby at the end of August! Love you all!!

Sawyer (the McDonnells’ son) announces
that he will be a big brother!

David Green of Las Vegas: The month of February was truly “the month of love” for the Las Vegas Church! God gave us three baptisms, one restoration and two engagements! One of the blessed couples was Jonathan Pedraza & Bree Rangel! As well, Joel Serna & Erin Fruithof had the opportunity to attend the incredible CSA Missions Conferencein Chile, where they were engaged!

Congratulations to Jonathan & Bree!

Congratulations to Joel & Erin!

Princeton George’s dad, Mark George, was restored to the Lord and the Las Vegas Church on February 14th (Valentine’s Day)! Then followed the baptisms of Anthony, Isaac and Raven that same day!

Princeton is so fired-up to have his father –
George – back with their Father in Heaven!

Perhaps the story that touched me the most was the conversion of Isaac & his wife Raven! As many of you know our evangelist, Victor Sr. & his wife Sonia Gonzalez were baptized when they had nine children, their youngest being two months old! Similarly, Isaac & Raven have nine children, their youngest daughter only being two months old! Isaac & Raven started studying the Bible with Victor & Sonia a few weeks ago, but the Friday before the Sunday of what we hoped would be their baptism, Isaac backed down from studying.

Despite Isaac’s pride, God was obviously working in his heart. He downloaded The First Principles App and went through all the studies with his wife Raven. Saturday morning February 14th at 6:00AM, Victor received a call from Isaac saying, “We get it! We’re ready to be baptized!” Their eagerness was so evident that Victor cancelled all his plans for Valentine’s Day! Instead Victor & Sonia spent their Valentine’s Day studying the Bible with Isaac & Raven and baptized them that night at 11:00PM!

There’s no better way to celebrate Valentine’s Day, than showing our love to God! Please pray for Isaac’s oldest daughter, Tianna, who may be baptized this coming Sunday! To end off this “month of love,” Jonathan Pedraza proposed to Bree Rangel and she said yes! It’s truly amazing to see the miracles in the Kingdom of God!

Jeremy Ciaramella of Phoenix: Greetings from the Valley of “The Son!” In 1 John 2:14, the Word of God says, “I write to you, fathers, because you have known Him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you are strong, and the Word of God lives in you, and you have overcome the evil one.” How powerful it was to see a young man “overcome the evil one,” “become strong” and have “the Word of God [living in him]!”

This Sunday, we saw this Scripture fulfilled as Jarod Piercey was baptized into Christ and joins our newly formed “Young & Faithful” Teen Ministry! His “big” sister, Destiny, was baptized in November of last year.

Sharil shared very vulnerably about how her son got so depressed that he was struggling with suicidal thoughts, and how God worked through our Campus/Teen Intern, Marvell Holder, to save his life spiritually and maybe even physically! Rod, Jarod’s father, shared his joy and vision for his son, and how today Jarod was “honoring his true Father… and me as well!” Jarod shared honestly, and with a sincere gratitude for all those who loved him and helped him come to this point – he was especially grateful to God! Tears streamed down many faces today, and even mine now as I write remembering this miracle!

Destiny hugs her little brother Jarod
after his baptism!

Jarod’s family and spiritual family
gather to celebrate!

God continues to answer our prayers, as we prayed for a record-breaking Bring Your Neighbor Day. God blessed us as we beat out our old record with a new one of 201! Our God moved hearts during our Pledge Drive and the church is now giving over $4,300 a week! The church has also given almost 20% for early Special Missions! How amazing it is to be in the Kingdom of God to see and share in His purposes and miracles! To God be the glory!

HEADLINE NEWS – USA NW QUADRANT & CANADA

Jeremiah Clark: The last three weeks have been truly amazing in the Denver ICC! Last week, we were able to have our First Annual Marrieds Retreat entitled, All Of Me. It was one of the most impactful and refreshing Marrieds Retreats that I have ever participated in! When we came to Denver about a year and-a-half ago, we only had five married couples, and so to have nearly 20 couples at our first retreat was simply inspiring!

Denver’s Marrieds Ministry is on fire for the Lord!

Secondly, we were able to see an amazing single brother Ryan Sturgis restored to the Lord! The changes that he has made have been so evident and impactful that his parents decided to come to our Marrieds Retreat! His father has even started studying the Bible!

Lastly, some good news that absolutely fills my heart with joy to share with each of you is that I was able to fly to Oregon and visit the Mighty Eugene Church! There I was privileged to baptize my brother Brent Clark into the Kingdom of God! I remember the words of Jesus, “With man this is impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with God.” (Mark 10:27) Baptizing my brother was truly a 17 year “impossible prayer” answered! To God be all the glory!

Jeremiah has his “impossible prayer” answered
when he baptizes his brother Brent!

Tim Kernan of Toronto: Dear Brothers and Sisters! I’m getting so excited about the 2015 Global Leadership Conference, which will be held at the Anaheim Hilton (777 W Convention Way in Anaheim) in sunny and beautiful Southern California! ‎The Pre-Conference activities such as the World Sector and Crown of Thorns Councils start on Tuesday, July 28th‎; The Church Builders Workshop is Thursday, July 30th; and the Main Conference begins Friday, July 31st! We will close out on Sunday, August 2nd with an incredible worship service as Lord willing, the Spirit will send-out the Stockholm and Sacramento Mission Teams!

Of all the encouraging news in Toronto, I am most encouraged by the recent send-off of our brand new Calgary Remnant Group to be led by our very own Narciso Family! Jun & Michelle became so close to all the disciples while they were here for six months of training and encouragement. There was not a dry eye in the house as the church sent them off to break new ground for God’s modern day movement!

After training in Toronto, Jun & Michelle have
initiated the Calgary (Canada)
Remnant Group!

Also I want to commend Kevin Smellie, who recently preached an incredible Sunday sermon, for his work in our Teen Ministry! Every month we have been having great activities for our two baptized and six unbaptized teens! This weekend the teens went paintballing!

The crankin’ Toronto Teen Ministry!

Last but not least, thank you to all the amazing brothers and sisters in the Eugene Church for your love and hospitality! Jason Dimitry and I are very grateful to have been able to spend a week with you!

Jason Dimitry: Good news from your family in San Francisco – 2015 has started off with a bang!! God has given us 14 additions since January 1st! Especially encouraging were the baptisms of two incredible opinion leaders Niquis and Omar at our SF State Campus!

Jason has a huge vision for Niquis as
he enters the Kingdom!

Omar as well is held in high esteem
by the SF Brothers!

Also we’d like to extend a warm thanks to Chicago for sending to San Francisco Dustin & Amanda Miller, who will be taking over our East Region!

The San Francisco Church Family welcomes
the Millers to the Bay Area!

Lastly, we are so grateful for Jason, our newest Teen Disciple and the fourth member of his family to surrender his life to Christ! It’s been a faith-building month and to God be the glory!

Ricky Challinor of Portland: Good news from the City of Bridges!!! The month of February has been outstanding as we have been able to maintain weekly additions in the church since October! God is working as the church has been able to expand not only numerically but geographically as we started a new Bible Talk in the Northeast led by Richard & Khanni Caoile, long time veterans in the church! Encouragingly they already had their first addition this last Sunday!

Of our four additions in this month, of special note is Sharon Crilly! Sharon has been coming out to church ever since Coleen & I moved to Portland almost three years ago. Her sharing was powerful as she quoted Mark 9:23, “‘If you can?’ said Jesus. ‘Everything is possible for him who believes!’” There have been many pains of the past that she has had to overcome, but Sharon’s life truly shows us that Jesus can fix anything! She was so excited for her baptism that she started laying herself back into the waters, anxious to have her sins wiped away and receive God’s Spirit!

Sharon before and after her incredible baptism!

Please continue to pray for Portland as this month as we have Woman’s Day! We have many close to baptism and we aim as a church to raise 45% of our Missions Contribution by the end of the month!

HEADLINE NEWS – USA SOUTH QUADRANT

Mike Patterson of Gainesville: “He will turn the hearts of the parents to their children, and the hearts of the children to their parents…” (Malachi 4:6) In the first nine weeks of 2015, God has allowed us to see 10 baptized into Christ! One of the highlights for me was seeing the baptism of Paul Wessels! God brings families together to be united in Christ! Paul is the father of our newly paid intern Jacob Wessels, who was our first University of Florida baptism last year! Jacob’s family is from the Catholic faith… his mom even teaches at a Catholic school! For months, Jacob earnestly shared his faith about the truth of the Bible and brought his family to church. His mom Gloria was baptized last year in November, and excitingly Paul was baptized at the beginning of February! Paul & Gloria have become “parents” to the GICC and are extraordinary servants!

The Wessel Family rejoices as they
are now united in Christ!

With the growing rate of new Christians, we decided to seek out more interns who could train with us to become effective workers for God! (Matthew 9:37-38) We had an informational meeting last Sunday for those that might be interested. We then requested those that were interested to become “unpaid interns” to participate in a “leadership campaign” where they shared their faith as much as they could with the goal being 50 a day! I was so moved by the passion and desire of so many newer disciples who want to lead in the Kingdom.

Future leaders in the Kingdom of God!

Today we announced officially our 16 unpaid interns and our three full-time paid interns: Jacob Wessels, Yinet Montesino and Amelia Gomez! Now as unpaid interns, these courageous disciples will have daily goals of sharing their faith with 20, while the paid interns have around 50 depending on the tasks given each week during our training night on Sundays. Everyone is so fired-up to do this! Our vision is to raise up an “army of interns” that in the future can go into the full-time ministry and help God’s movement evangelize the world.

Two of our unpaid interns, Ben & Christina – who lead one of the LIFE Groups/Bible Talks at UF recently had 16 visitors out – just started dating at our Campus/Singles Valentine’s Party!

Congratulations to Ben & Christina!

Also, pray for us as we get ready for the First Annual South Quadrant Campus Conference: The Awakening on March 20-22nd, as disciples come from Dallas, Houston, DC and Orlando here to Gainesville for a revival in campus ministry! Glory to God!

The First Annual South Quadrant
Campus Conference!

Tyler Sears: “See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?” (Isaiah 43:19) Greetings and “Howdy Y’all” from Dallas-Fort Worth! 2015 has certainly been a “new” year for the church as we are transitioning disciples from Dallas to Arlington. During this time, the sisters in Dallas reached out to a young, talented woman who studies at Southern Methodist University – Janay. Thanks be to God that after some time she “perceived” God’s will for her life and she was baptized last Friday! We believe God is going to use her to help many students at SMU become true disciples and to see a “new” beginning take place!

Janay is the first SMU student baptized!

Lastly, we would like to thank everyone for their continued prayers for the church and ask you to keep praying for us as we have our First Annual Women’s Day this coming Saturday! All of the women have been working so hard and are very excited to have Helen Sullivan come speak! We are so grateful to be in this battle together and to be able to see all the great “new” things God is doing around the entire world through His movement!

Matt Sullivan: “But let all who take refuge in you be glad; let them ever sing for joy. Spread your protection over them, that those who love your name may rejoice in you. For surely, O Lord, you bless the righteous; you surround them with your favor as with a shield.” (Psalm 5:11-12) Greetings from the fired up Orlando Church!

Although the last three weeks have been challenging due to the pruning yet loving hand of God, He has surrounded the Orlando disciples with His protection and guarded us as with a shield! Even through this pruning time, the Lord gave us weekly additions again in February! Amazingly, Lance Underhill was able to study with and baptize his mother, Barbara down in Tampa; Kacie (Comisford) Fligor was blown by the Spirit to be with us; and others were baptized!

One very special account is of Ashley Bryan who was met over a year ago by our fired-up Gainesville sister, June “the Baptist” as we call her… and then for a year Kiki Dudley of Orlando followed up with her. Once Ashley finally came on out, she was blown away by the love of the disciples and the hardline call to follow the Bible and not the “teachings of men!” She is now your fired-up sister in the Lord and already has her friends coming out to church and Bible Talk!

Ashley was met by June and then Keke followed up
with her for a year… Perseverence pays off as
Ashley is now your fired-up sister!

Lastly, our dear friends and amazing leaders of the UCF (60,000 students) Ministry, Marcel Turner & Tia Taylor are now dating! Miracles never cease to amaze!!! What a joy they are in the Lord!

Congratulations to Marcel & Tia!

Anthony Eckels: Houston continues to grow in number on Sundays, with almost 80 in attendance for several Sundays in a row! The AMS Bible Talk of five is averaging 25 in attendance and had their first AMS baptism, Rayshaurn Davis, a very talented artist! Ray Cholard prayed the day he met him that he would meet someone that was sincerely seeking God. After Ray prayed, he got out of his car to walk to Midweek Service. The first person he saw as he looked up was Rayshaurn, so he invited him to Midweek. He came to Midweek and immediately began studying the Bible! Rayshaurn was baptized the following Sunday!

Ray Cholard and Marc Pierre make Rayshaurn
(center) into a sold-out disciple!

Megan McMurrey, who works at the front desk of the hotel where we have church, was also baptized! William Davenport along with many others met her and when Chantelle Anderson asked her if she wanted to study the Bible, she said she would love to study every day! She had been praying to know God better and eagerly studied daily and was fired-up to get baptized last week! She is married and has a beautiful daughter!

Megan is a great addition to the Houston ICC!

Last, but certainly not least, on Saturday, we had our Women’s Day,Confidence Within! The sisters had three to one visitors to disciples who were very inspired by our guest speaker, Shay Sears from Dallas ICC! Shay shared how true confidence comes from God alone! With many prominent professionals and college students in attendance, people were blown away by the program! Elizabeth Eckels, Heather Schmidt and Chantelle Anderson shared their very different testimonies, which were phenomenal!

Heather, Chantelle, Shay and Elizabeth work together
to have a fabulous Women’s Day!

It was especially powerful to hear Chantelle share about the changes God has made in her life, as she just released her first e-book onamazon.com entitled, Visible Confidence. The women have many Bible studies and know that the harvest is coming soon!

Check-out Chantelle’s new e-book
on Amazon.com!

HEADLINE NEWS – EUROPE

Michael Williamson: Greetings from London, England! Paul writes,“For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile.” (Romans 1:16) The power of God moved at the end of 2014 as Jalissa a former “Kingdom Kid,” was met on the streets of London and was baptized into Christ! Despite many satanic attacks on her faith, she invited her sister Lauren, who was actively living a lesbian lifestyle, to witness her baptism. Miraculously Lauren began studying the Bible, breaks up with her girlfriend, and is baptized into Christ! Truly the Gospel has the power to break the satanic chains gripping His people!

Lauren defies the strongholds of Satan by
the power of the Spirit!

The next week, love was definitely in the air as the church erupted in excitement at the announcement that Rebecca Martinez & Simon Oxton were engaged on Valentine’s Day!

A match made in Heaven – Simon & Rebecca!

A week later, single professional Teddy was baptized! Teddy lives in West London and has been dubbed the “Eritrean Eunuch” given his willingness and urgency to be baptized! He also recognizes that his spiritual father Laurie Vaher (an original mission team member of the London Church planting, and now on the new Stockholm Mission Team) will leave him next week, but that has not stopped him from rejoicing! (Acts 8:39)

Meet Teddy – the Eritrean Eunuch!

We also are excited about the remnant! Anita & Rene from Amsterdam have secured a flat here in London and are three weeks from landing! Also top scientist Arni Sicam also from Amsterdam, has been offered a job at University College London currently ranked fourth in the World University Rankings! God’s Spirit is moving powerfully!

And finally, this past Sunday, we baptized Lithuanian campus student Richard! Richard has received heavy persecution given his atheistic background, but emphatically declared “Jesus is Lord” after an electric Campus House Church Service!

Richard, a former atheist from Lithuania, was
baptized this Sunday!

Please say a prayer for Westminster University, as we now have a Bible Talk here! This is of course where “Jihad John” went to school. God has made it clear that campus ministry is where we must focus as a movement! Sadly, it has emerged that the University’s Islamic Society ran a Facebook page up until 2012 on which students posted violent Jihadi videos. In 2007, the former president of this violent group was convicted of terrorist offense after being caught with a blueprint for a rocket! We of course will be on this campus this week sharing our faith knowing that the Gospel has the power to save the most violent enemies of the cross! God is with us! And we have no fear!

Additionally, for a limited time offer we have “Pre-sale 2015 EMC” registration ticket prices available! The title of this years conference isGLORY! Here is the registration link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2015-european-missions-conference-glory-tickets-15957481256

HEADLINE NEWS – AFRICA & THE CARIBBEAN

Nick Winn of Gordon’s Bay: Greetings from South Africa! I would like to share about a restoration. Shon Sansom was baptized in 2004 and moved cities. She went through a tough divorce and really questioned God. In 2012, we met at school where Shon is the financial manager. We studied for over a year and-a-half where Shon was always eager to help reach out to many of her friends! After counting the cost this past week, Shon was restored‎ on Thursday and overjoyed by God’s patience and forgiveness and mostly His undying love! We now are praying for Shon’s son and daughter to prayerfully become disciples soon!

Nick Winn, the Gordon’s Bay Church Leader,
will be helping the Smellies “spy out”
J’burg at the end of March!

Amadou Sountoura of Abidjan: “Don’t you have a saying, ‘It’s still four months until harvest?’ I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.” (John 4:35) The fields are indeed ripe in Abidjan with the baptism of six new disciples in the past five weeks! God added to our number Chantal, Eliane (a police officer), Eva, Denise, Fofana and Roland!

Chantal joins the Abidjan and IE Sisters in issuing
the challenge, “You will be next!”

Elaine, a police officer, has been forgiven
by Jesus and is now ready “to serve
and protect” the flock!

We are all excited to host the First Annual African Missions Conference on the last weekend of June this year! Won’t you come join us?

Blaise Feumba – the Overseeing Evangelist of Haiti: “The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in deep darkness a light has dawned.” (Isaiah 9:2) Just 18 months ago, Alexis Turgeau – a former Church of Christ Preacher – was baptized during the 2013 Global Leadership Conference! We were far to know that through him the Lord was bringing a “great light” on the entire Haitian nation! From one man, the Lord has multiplied the number of disciples to 135 and four churches in Haiti in only 18 months! Of note with the baptism of our new sister Rose Milka in Jacmel in February, the Haitian Churches have had 40 baptisms and two restorations in the six months since the 2014 Global Leadership Conference!

In the Jacmel Church, there is a
thriving Teen Ministry!

Lola Lof of Kinshasa: “‘My food,’ said Jesus, ‘is to do the will of Him who sent me and to finish His Work.’” (John 4:34) Greetings from the Democratic Republic of Congo! In spite of a severe political unrest where we witnessed over a hundred people killed in Kinshasa last month, the Kingdom of God kept growing with four more additions! Thomas – a police officer – and Pamela were restored in their walk with Christ!

After counting the cost, Thomas is ready to
give up everything and follow Christ!

Rachelle and Parfaite were baptized! Pray for peace in the Congo! (1 Timothy 2:1-4)

Rachelle is overjoyed to be in the
light after her baptism!

HEADLINE NEWS – CENTRAL & SOUTH AMERICA

Jared McGee: Saludos desde la Ciudad de México! (Mexico City!) February was an incredibly inspiring month! We had two baptisms just hours before heading-off to Chile! We were so humbled and inspired to arrive in Santiago and participate in the 2015 Central and South American Missions Conference! Our gratitude goes out to the Mejias and the Mighty Santiago Church for hosting this Spirit-led and Spirit-filled event, which served greatly to further propel the missions efforts all over Latin America! Upon our return to Mexico, we went to work straightaway and today a blow was struck to the walls of Hell as Stalin Machiavelli Velasco was baptized through the efforts of the Campus Ministry! He has an interesting name, but a heart of gold for God and wants to make many more disciples at UNAM! To God be the glory!

Stalin being “raised to a new life” in Christ!

Raul Moreno of São Paulo: “Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; His love endures forever.” (Psalm 106:1) Dearest Brothers and Sisters around the world: The CSA Missions Conference in Santiago de Chile was amazing! Carlos & Lucy Mejia did a magnificent job leading this celebration which focused on evangelizing all of Central and South America! We had over 30 disciples from São Paulo that attended this amazing event!

Equally as exciting, was the visit of the McKeans to São Paulo after the Conference to give us great inspiration and direction!

Of note, our last two baptisms were Tuler and Marcos! Tuler works for the Air Force and Marcus is an Engineering student at USP University! We love you with the love of the Lord!

Tuler is fire-up to become an “Ambassador
for Christ!”

Marcos celebrates his salvation with his
new best friends – the USP Brothers!

Carlos Mejia: “Look at the nations and watch – and be utterly amazed. For I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told.” (Habakkuk 1:5) Saludos de Santiago de Chile! Our Third Annual Central and South American Missions Conference was “utterly amazing!” God surpassed our dreams and expectations for this historic event with a total of 331 in attendance including 85 brothers and sisters from Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia and the USA! We want to thank all of the disciples for sacrificing so much to be a part of and witness what God, through His Sprit, is doing in Latin America!

Our theme, No Es Por El Poder, Ni Por La Fuerza, Sino POR MI ESPIRITU (Zechariah 4:6) was certainly the tenor of our conference! The Spirit could be felt in the fellowship and in every lesson, song and prayer that was uttered throughout the conference! I would like to share some of the highlights with you!

The 2015 CSA Missions Conference was
the best… yet!

Our opening night was simply fantastic as we were all inspired by the Audio/Visual/Live Performance presentation of “The Story of The Kingdom” which took us through the Old Testament all the way to 2015! This section culminated with a Parade of Nations as each country was represented by a disciple wearing a sash bearing the name of each country in Latin America. This brought tears to our eyes as we dreamed and visualized Jesus’ dream for all the world!

The breath-taking Parade of Nations!

Immediately following, our awesome leaders Kip & Elena shared powerfully, as only they can, about the Good News of the Kingdom All Around the World!

We had amazing preachers and teachers from many of our churches who inspired us with their convictions and their lives. Our Kingdom Banquet was one never to forget! We shared in a traditional Chilean “Parillada” which included some mouth-watering steaks and a “tres leches” cake for dessert!

Bife de lomo!

After dinner and an amazing speech by Renato Tria, we continued the sweet fellowship in a fun-filled evening at our Valentine’s Day Dance!

Renato preaches in Portuguese and Raul
translates into Spanish!

The fun PURE Dance!

At our Sunday service it was awesome to hear from our future leader of the Santiago Church and Chilean national – Alfredo Anuch – as he powerfully preached the keynote sermon, By My Spirit!

Alfredo Anuch preaches on Sunday
morning to 331 souls!

The conference ended with two restorations, three baptisms, and Jose & Daniela Otero being appointed Evangelist & Women’s Ministry Leader!

Jose, Dany and little Lorenzo Otero!

I share the sentiment that many disciples had in that I simply did not want the conference to come to an end! Because of this, we are happy to announce that in 2016, the CSA Missions Conference will be held on February 11-14, 2016 in Santiago! The title is simply: Para Dios Nada Es Impossible (Nothing Is Impossible For God). (Luke 1:37) I want to encourage every SoldOut Movement Church to send delegates to the conference… it will be life changing!

Finally, I would like to share that in the first nine weeks of the year, God has given us 12 additions! This week, Mabel – a beloved and recently restored sister – baptized her teen daughter, Sofia! Also our dear campus sister and “Kingdom Kid” Tatiana Gonzalez was engaged to an amazing brother and awesome intern from the San Francisco Church – Emilio Bonilla!

Emilio & Tatty are now engaged!

We are honored and grateful to be a part of God’s modern day movement and to work tirelessly to see His dream for mankind accomplished through the Spirit!

HEADLINE NEWS – PACIFIC RIM & AUSTRAL-CHINA

Joe Willis: Greetings from Sydney, Australia! It is great to have Jolisa with us for four months from the dynamic New York City Church! Jolisa is studying here and amazingly God arranged for her to be staying in halls just 20 yards from where our church meets! She is now leading the University of Technology Bible Talk with me! Also, we are grateful to the Mighty Eugene Church for sending us Jenna, who has made an immediate impact with her zeal!

Mason, Nathalie and Kerry welcome Jenna
to the “Land Down Under!”

Additionally, we have seen the launch of our “Extreme Sports Ministry” starting with “jet-boating” around Sydney Harbor… one way to soften hearts!

The X-treme Sports Ministry!

Their Bible Talk!

Congratulations to Sean & Teigan, who started dating on Valentine’s Day! Teigan was our very first baptism in the Sydney Church, and Sean – who came with us on the mission team – was one of the disciples who invited her along to Bible Talk on Macquarie University. Now they lead the Macquarie Campus Ministry together!

Congratulations to Sean & Teigan!

Of course, we continue to be excited about the Chinese Mission Team, set to go to Hong Kong in 2017! To celebrate Chinese New Year (2.19.15), we had our first Chinese Church Service as Dean “The Machine” Lam preached his first full sermon! Astoundingly, Dean did not even believe there was a God this time last year!

Dean “The Machine” Lam!

The day was made complete by watching the Chinese New Year celebrations in City Centre, showing just how many Chinese nationals that God has brought to Sydney for us to harvest!

We are so privileged also to have Jeremy & Ros Beck of Honolulu join us in Sydney! They have moved with their three young children to specifically go on the Hong Kong Mission Team! Jeremy gave up a very good job; they sold everything; and came on faith, as they only had a student visa for Ros! Yet in three weeks, God has blessed their faith and sacrifice, as they now have a house, furniture and Jeremy starts a new job on Monday! This takes the HK Mission Team to nine… and counting!

The Beck Family gave up everything to go to Sydney
and train with the Hong Kong Mission Team!

Scott Utter of Hilo: “And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.” (1 Corinthians 13:13) Aloha from the Big Island of Hawaii! Our God is an amazing God as there have been great things happening as we focus this year on our maturity. God allowed us to restore Jody Lally and Robert Kealoha, bringing them back to our “Hilo Ohana” and watching them flourish in their relationships with God!

The Hilo Church rejoices that Robert has
returned to his “first love!”

 
And since our last entry in the Good News Email, our sister Cheyanne Keliihoomalu – the reigning  Miss Rodeo Hawaii – competed in the Miss Rodeo USA Pageant in Las Vegas and won Miss Congeniality by showing her “faith, hope and love” and not only representing Hawaii but also God’s Kingdom!

Cheyanne wins Miss Congeniality in the
Miss Rodeo USA Pageant!

HEADLINE NEWS – USA NORTH QUADRANT & INDIA

NEWS FLASH – Ron Harding of Washington DC: Greetings from the Capital of the United States where the Holy Spirit continues to move powerfully! Since the beginning of the year we have added six precious souls, the last being Lacoya – who was joyfully baptized this last week!

Lacoya joyfully confesses, “Jesus is Lord!”

16 months ago, my son was sexually abused by his teacher, which made worldwide news. “Now I want you to know, brothers, that what has happened to me [and my son] has really served to advance the gospel.” (Philippians 1:12) Through our responses to other abuses in the community, our House of Representative Delegate, Eric Luedtke, asked me to help him develop new legislature which will prevent abuse, protect victims, and have more appropriate consequences for abusers and those who don’t report abuse as required by law.

Ron with Representative Eric Luedtke!

Through this effort the Lord provided an opportunity to speak on the news and for me to give my testimony to the House of Representatives on the first of three new bills that are being developed.

Ron testifying before the House of Representatives!

I’m grateful my son grew up in the Kingdom and is fighting for himself. I’m also encouraged that we’ve finally made some connections with the politicians here in DC! You can watch the news broadcast here:http://www.wusa9.com/story/news/local/maryland/2015/02/26/local-family-describes-sexual-abuse-of-child-by-md-teacher/24073033/ and my testimony here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bFFrLkVPD4

Ron and his son Devon are
interviewed on TV!

Proverbs 22:6 – “Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.” The Lord provided a technological miracle on Sunday! Last month, I decided to have Eric Chapman preach on March 1st. To our surprise, Eric Chapman got to “PREACH THE WORD” on Honoring The Lord, the same day that his son Terrence was restored in our New York City Church! We interrupted Eric Chapman’s sermon to allow him, Jacklin and the entire congregation watch literally thousands of prayers from hundreds of people come true through our partnership with the NYC Church. We watched his restoration through Skype by projecting this event on a 250″ screen! The Lord and the technology that He allows us to have in the 21st Century are awesome!

Eric Chapman preaching on Honoring The Lord!

We are so grateful to be a part of a worldwide movement where our churches work together to encourage and strengthen one another!

Joel Parlour: Greetings from snow covered Syracuse, New York! The record cold temperatures and the over 100 inches of snow this year have not stopped the Holy Spirit from His powerful work through these awesome disciples! Since the last Good News Email on January 28th, the Lord has kept us extremely busy! We had an amazing Bring Your Neighbor Day!

Then we combined with Boston, NYC and DC for the Northeast Quadrant Marrieds Retreat! God also added to our number four very powerful baptisms! Recently, by the grace of God, many who had fallen away in the last several years are now coming back to be restored! Our Teen Ministry of three disciples had their second Teen Devotional of the year hosting 27 – of that 19 were their friends! Please pray for the harvest of baptisms and restorations that will be added very soon!

I want to share faith-building story of love and perseverance! In the year 2000, George Mak moved to Syracuse to be close to a family member. It was here that he studied the Bible and was baptized! In 2001, he reached out to a long time “girlfriend” of his, Kathy Hanam. After many months of studying the Bible, she too was baptized! George & Kathy started dating and soon after were engaged to be married. Through a rare sequence of events, the wedding was postponed several times and truly tested the faith and patience of the couple. But they stayed faithful to God’s plan and continued to give their whole hearts to God and His Kingdom!

George & Kathy when they first
started dating!

George & Kathy hold many roles in the church and have for years including being our MERCY Coordinators, George as acting President of the Board, and Kathy has served as the church administrator for many years – doing an excellent job! Since meeting in California they have always dreamed of a “wedding at the beach!” So just two days ago on a cold snowy Saturday, we decorated the hall with a “beach theme,” and so God gave them the wedding of their dreams! And after 13 long years they became one in Christ – George & Kathy Mak!

Congratulations to Mr. & Mrs. George & Kathy Mak!

Lastly, I would like to thank everyone for their prayers as my wife Courtney was in and out of the hospital several times two weeks ago with a dangerously severe allergic reaction. It wasn’t until this week that the hives subsided and she was feeling a little better under several medications. Unfortunately the doctors still do not know what happened. Life is so precious, and we must treat it so!

Chris Broom of New York City: Some of the highlights of February included the 2015 Northeast Marriage Retreat weekend with Jay & Barb Shelbrack of the Chicago Church as our guest speakers! Back home in NYC, the “non-marrieds” had a crankin’ Valentine’s Party of their own!

The NYC Marrieds Retreat!

The following weekend, we had our first New Member Orientation of the year, and with 10 new additions so far in 2015, we had a lot to celebrate! Seven of our 10 additions were in February, so with our goal of 100 additions for this year, we have 90 more to go! Pray for us to“bear much fruit, showing ourselves to be His disciples!” (John 15:8)

The NYC New Member Orientation was hosted
by Roger & Kama Parlour!

The NYC Staff and the 10 additions of 2015!

Jhoally Vallejo: Greetings from Boston! What a historical time to be in this great city! It has been a record setting winter with some of the most snow this city has ever seen! On many occasions the city has even been shut down due to all the storms, but that hasn’t stopped the disciples from being the light of the world!

Our first piece of good news is that God has given us an outstanding new place to meet on Sundays! God brought us right into the heart of the city at the Omni Parker House. This is such a nice and historical hotel and all the major public transportation lines are within a five minute walk. It is even where John F. Kennedy proposed to his future wife!

The new “home” of the Boston ICC – the
Omni Parker House!

Speaking of proposals… On Saturday February 21st, the Lord granted me a very special “request” as many disciples gathered together to witness my engagement to an incredible godly man, Brian Carr!

Congratulations to Brian & Jhoally!

God has also blessed us with two incredible couples to serve as Shepherds over the church here in Boston! One of the shepherds, Sal DiFusco, has served as an Associate Professor at the distinguished Berklee College of Music for the last 17 years! As he has been totally devoted to the Kingdom, God has been moving powerfully in his life and he was recently promoted to a full Professor! As you can imagine, we are very blessed to have Sal oversee our Music Ministry!

We’re also fired-up to raise our Special Missions coming up in May! Already, God has allowed us to raise close to 15% of what we plan to give! Please pray for us as many are close to the waters of baptism! Much love from Boston!

Maria Franklin from Chicago: “Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit; says the Lord Almighty.“ (Zechariah 4:6). We have had an inspiring month as God added four to our number by baptism! Mike was baptized from Morton College; Meaghan from University of Chicago; as well as Ahkeem and Victor in the Teen Ministry!

Ahkeem (fourth from the right) joins the dynamic
ChicagoTeen Ministry!

Of special note, our dear brother Steve Droblas, a disciple in the DC Church, prayed for his sister Ginger Droblas for 16 years. She was a single mom of three amazing children. In 2007, Ginger was baptized! Then, in 2010, her oldest, Amana was baptized at the age of 14, who was personally fruitful with four women in the last two months! A couple of weeks ago, we all rejoiced as we witnessed Victor, the youngest of the three, also added to God’s Family through the blood of Christ! What an amazing privilege to witness the perseverance of Ginger as a single mom, and all she sacrifices for God and His Kingdom! We can all be so encouraged to see the power of perseverant prayer for our families to come to Christ no matter how long it takes!

 Victor joins his mom – Ginger – and his
sister – Amana – in the Lord!

We have had so much fun in the last month with our Annual Church Banquet/Talent Show, our assorted Valentine’s Parties, and finally today, to kick-off the month of March, we had our International Bring Your Neighbor Day and an international meal afterwards! It was so inspiring for the 178 Chicago disciples to have 431 people in attendance today! There were so many visitors and so much incredible food!

The Chicago Church has an incredible
431 at their BYND!

Pray for us as we follow-up and gather the harvest from this incredible day, as well as to prepare for our Campus Sunday this upcoming weekend! We love you all!

Debs Rajan: Chennai is the fourth-most populous metropolitan area in India! So we have a huge harvest to collect! And truly, God has blessed us in a tremendous manner as we are very focused on the campus after the Winter Workshop in LA!

Loyola is one of the best colleges in Chennai. Raja, Christopher, Prathap, Maria and Sylvester are a few to mention from this prestigious college! Amazingly, in the month of February alone, we had Joel, Sagar, Stalin, Ashok and Jason become disciples from this same college!

Simon and Parthiban rejoice shortly after Sagar
makes Jesus his Lord!

Ashok is thrilled knowing his sins have
been washed away!

Also Rohit, Sylvester’s nephew, was added to the Kingdom! Under much persecution and threats from her family, Dhanalakshmi (means goddess of wealth) made Jesus the Lord of her life!

Sylvester now has his nephew Rohit
in God’s Kingdom!

As well, Lavanya, from Vels University, was inspired by her brother Samuel to enter the waters of baptism!

The Chennai Sisters welcome Lavanya (center)
into the fellowship!

Finally, we have Monisha, who had given up going to church after seeing the hypocrisy in members’ lives. Betrayed by many, she was depressed and had secluded herself from society. She started to write a book, hoping this would set her free. After publishing her book, she still felt empty and worthless. At this point, Ujen and Shefali invited her to our congregation. She was hesitant to commit herself to God, but the love of the sisters compelled her to trust God one last time. Seeing the transformation in her life, her mom came to meet the sisters and shared her gratitude at the baptism! To God be all the glory!

The Chennai Brothers and Sisters alike delight in the
Lord after Monisha’s (center) baptism!

Dear Brothers and Sisters: As we consider the call of Jesus to evangelize the world in our generation, it is inspirational to consider that Starbucks – began in Seattle in 1971 (44 years ago) – now has more than 21,000 stores in over 65 countries! Of note for this Good News Email, there are 34 Starbucks in Santiago, 20 in Sao Paulo, and 44 in Moscow! Starbucks is evangelizing the world!

If Starbucks – without the Spirit – can have this vision and impact, how much more can God’s people accomplish by faith because they all have His Spirit? The SoldOut Movement is in 27 nations in less than eight years… So let’s all continue to pray that God will use us to take His message in THIS generation to the “ends of the earth!” (Acts 1:8) And to God be all the glory!

“We are family… to the end,”
Kip