EXCITING NEW PARTNERSHIPS

Planning, praying and partnering together to help end sex trafficking. Joseph has been friends with these 2 for years and it is such a blessing to now bring them together in partnership to fight against sex trafficking.

Jason and Joseph have been friends for over 2 decades. Jason was a student at Moorpark College when we began ministry and Joseph helped him start ministries at Moorpark College and Cal-State Northridge. Jason is now the community engagement director for SoCal with Thrivent Financial.  Thrivent is a Christian financial organization that provides financial advice, investments, insurance and generosity programs for others. https://www.thrivent.com/                                                 

Joseph has known Katelyn for the last 5 years serving together on the leadership for FIAT (Faith Initiative to Abolish Trafficking) in Los Angeles. She is now the national director for church mobilization for IJM (International Justice Mission).

Joseph, Jason and Katelyn are partnering together to help churches be involved in ending sex trafficking. Thrivent members are given $250 twice a year to form a team of friends (Action Teams) to reach out and live generously. We are partnering together to help these action teams start Freedom    Sunday campaigns through IJM.  https://www.ijm.org/freedom-sunday  A Freedom Sunday campaign is a a Sunday committed to providing an opportunity for a church to deepen it’s understanding of God’s heart for justice, discover the realities of modern slavery and join the fight to end it.

This summer Joseph finished his 11th seminary class required for Institute of Biblical Studies as a Cru staff and to be a licensed minister with Cru. 

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Joseph absolutely loved his class this summer. It was focused on the Doctrine of Humanity, Doctrine of Sin, Doctrine of Christ, Doctrine of the Work of Christ and the Doctrine of Salvation.  These truths have continued to humble him, bring him such joy and peace, convict him, cause him to repent, treat humanity with more dignity and led him to worship the Lord even greater! In the midst of Covid, it was an online class taught by a professor from Western Seminary in Oregon.

Praying over our Children Daily…

Joshua 1:9 – Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous! Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.

Philippians 1:6 – For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.

Matthew 22:37-39 – And He said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the great and foremost commandment. The second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

Micah 6:8 – He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

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Welcome to the Fall…

We never would have imagined life looking the way it does right now, but God is faithful. We have  begun online college at Cal Poly Pomona for Luke, online high school for Jessica, homeschooling 3rd grade for Aleeya and moved Daniel  into the dorms for his Freshman year of College at CBU.  Change is so hard but we know the Lord has us in the palms of His hands. In the midst of so much change we are committing to cling to His promises and truths and pray for our children daily—because the greatest thing in this life is to know God, love Him deeply and follow Him daily.