During the last year the Lord has been moving in amazing ways through the churches here in Los Angeles! New Believers, New Baptisms, Community Outreaches into the neighborhoods and schools,  leadership development times, discipleship of women and men, and times of prayer and encouragement to others.  One of the churches, Epiphany Fellowship Los Angeles, Joseph has been working with, had their “official” launch service of their church on Easter Sunday and now are seeing 40-50 people attend regularly.  Epiphany recently formed a partnership with a local school in South Central Los Angeles (teachers pictured above at the local school).  The principal at this elementary school is a believer and they have been able to provide mentoring through an after school program at the school!  Epiphany also partnered with The Children’s Hunger Fund to provide regular meals to families in need that they develop  relationships with through the after school program.   This past Sunday Epiphany also celebrated with their first baptisms— 4 people desired to be baptized! Seeing so many lives changed with the love of Jesus! Through equipping churches in leadership development, prayer, outreaches, and evangelism within Los Angeles we have been blessed to see these  churches reaching the communities around them with the gospel of Jesus and lives are being transformed!

As this summer is drawing near our family is celebrating the graduation of Luke from High School and entering into college!  How did the years go by so fast? He will be going to Cal Poly Pomona entering into Kinesiology and we are so very proud of him and excited for the plans the Lord has for him.

Another update we have is a need for an updated car for  Joseph.  As he travels throughout the Los Angeles area he puts a lot of miles on his car and his current one is barely hanging on.  We recently hit 200,000 miles on his current car!  Because of this we are desiring to raise $5,000 to $7,000 to replace his current car this summer.

If you are able to help, go to http://give.cru.org/0487483 and follow the instructions. If you prefer to write a check, please make it  payable to ‘Cru’ with our account number #0487483 and you can mail it to the address below.  However the Lord may lead you to  respond, we are grateful for all your prayers and support.  Thank you!  We hope you have a wonderful summer as well and cherish the days with family and friends.