Cru Fellowship for Church Multiplication
In the past year Joseph has been heavily involved in the planning and
designing of Cru Fellowship for Church Multiplication. This is a
yearlong national church planting residency (internship). We were
excited to launch is this September with 42 participants from
multiple churches, denominations and networks around the U.S!
The participants were either Cru staff that desired to work with
church planters or church planters who desired to plant within the
next year.
workshop time—
working on vision and
calling!
Joseph was on the speaking team and
spoke for 2 sessions on Encouraging
Believers to Share their Faith & The
Calling and Vision of a Church Planter.
We partnered with 3 Hispanic churches for two of the three churches were church plants. For the day we had 117 spiritual conversations, 69 gospel conversations and 21 people came to know Jesus!
Joseph and a participant, Jason, shared Christ with a young man named Jessy. Jessy was a 8 year high functioning heroine addict. He had a job that made $3k a month, but would use all his income for heroine. The turning point in his life came when he went to a drive through and begged for a bag of fries because he was hungry and had spent all his money on drugs. He then decided to enter a program and rehab for help. As Joseph and Jason shared the gospel with him, he had a much better understanding of the gospel and desired to follow Jesus who spared his life and gave him a second chance.
Please pray for Cross of Grace Church as they follow-up Jessy and help him to continue to follow Jesus.
Manny (3rd person from the
left) led these 5 teenage boys
to Christ on our day of
outreach!
Gratitude….
“Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good, His love endures forever.” Psalm 107:1
Gratitude is our theme for our First ever in-person alumni event for trafficked & sexually exploited women! In a couple weeks Michelle is helping to host an event to bring these women together in person for encouragement and support!
The women are so excited (2 are flying in from other states) and we are praying it will be a time of blessing them with encouragement, support and love—that they would feel treasured and know their worth. These women have endured unspeakable evil in their lives, not lost hope, sought deep healing and persevered to begin new lives. We want to bless them and love on them deeply. If you are able to help with our wish list we would be SOOO thankful! The wish list has needs such as: Uber gift cards (Most of these ladies do not have transportation and we are in need of uber gift cards to transport them to our event), small gifts to bless them with, and Panera gift cards for coffee and pastries in the morning. Thank you so much for your generosity to love on these survivors!
Please pray for October 5th. Michelle is so excited to see the women she has been
working with for years virtually—give them big hugs and spend this time with them in
person. Pray they would feel cherished and drawn to the love of Jesus. Pray this time
would open up even more spiritual conversations as Michelle mentors and serves them
as a case manager.
Please pray for our oldest, Luke, as he undergoes
ACL surgery on October 1st. Pray for quick healing
and care for him. Thank you!
Thank you also so much for your continual prayers and
financial support for us and the ministry here in Los Angeles.
We are truly grateful for each of you and are blessed.
Cru City Los Angeles 