Category Archives: Epiphany

September 2017

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Sex and Success Doubt Night Outreach!

Joseph helped plant Epiphany  LA Church and has been  helping Pastor Tommy get ready for their first Doubt Night. The vision behind this event was to create a space where members of the community could come and voice their opinions on sex and success and how the church interacts with these topics. It was encouraging to see people from the area gather at the KAOS Theatre in South LA to hear from spoken word artists, singers, and rappers expressing themselves through their art. Panel discussions also took place addressing questions on sex and success from a biblical perspective.

Please continue to pray for Epiphany LA Church as they follow up on those who came to the outreach.   Please pray for Joseph as he continues to partner with them to do evangelism and leadership training to help them reach the community around them. If you would like to hear from one of the artists click this link to see some from the outreach! Doubt Night Video

 

 

Reaching the World through Partnerships

Being in leadership with  LA Reaching LA, Joseph not only helps train pastors here but also partners with pastors who reach out overseas. Pastor Krishna, who is also on leadership with Joseph, was    given a Cru Jesus Film backpack.  He travels to Nepal multiple times a year to share the gospel, deliver mosquito nets to prevent malaria, help women who have escaped sex trafficking begin microbusinesses of chicken farms to support themselves, show the Jesus Film to the villages, and bring relief from natural disasters.

Pastor Krishna returned from 3 weeks in West Nepal and shared with us that he saw 162 people come to know the Lord and 5 churches started utilizing the Jesus Film from Cru in the area! A week after he returned a terrible Monsoon flooded the area.  Homes and churches were destroyed. 134 people died.  Please pray for them as they recover. We are grateful to be part of LA Reaching LA, a movement of  churches, pastors and church planters sharing the gospel in LA and around the world.


This is a chart Pastor Krishna showed Joseph after returning from Nepal.  This Leadership Building chart is Amazing!  It shows the regions of Nepal, the number of churches per region, number of believers and baptisms per region and internships for raising up more pastors!  6 Regions, 25 Pastors, 12 Lay Pastors, 25 Churches, 12 House Churches, 860 Believers and 529 Baptisms! And 48 Internships!  God is doing some amazing work in Nepal!

 

Thank you for all your support and prayers to us as we continue to reach out here in Los Angeles! Please pray for us as we know have a Kindergartner and a Senior, with 7th and 10th grade in between!  Life is full and we are so thankful for all the Lord is doing in our lives and through the ministry.

February Update

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Reaching the City…

Through Preventing Sex Trafficking

This month we continued our partnership with EveryOne Free, a sex trafficking ministry in Pomona.  Joseph and Shawna prepared a training time for Azusa Pacific Students on how to present the school trafficking curriculum EveryOne Free has created.  We are training volunteers to help us present this curriculum at assemblies in the 13 local middle schools  and within the classrooms of the High Schools within Pomona.  We hope to have 5-10 volunteers help us present within the schools through drama skits, videos, interactive games and a presentation.  Please pray for unity for us as we come together and prepare these presentations.  Please also pray for our “trial run” at Purpose Church Youth group – so we can make adjustments with any feedback we receive from the students there.  

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Shawna beginning our training time with APU Students

Reaching the City…

Churches Coming Together on our Knees

2016-02-01_021921461_B0123_iOSThis was the first quarterly worship and prayer night we were a part of with our partnership of the churches within Claremont!  LOVE CLAREMONT is a group of pastors and ministries from within Claremont that have come together to pray for the city of Claremont and serve the city with the love of Jesus. Here is the website we have up: Love Claremont

This past month these 6 churches united together to pray and worship with one another.  It was a beautiful sight to see people of various backgrounds, ages, and denominations pray for and with one another on behalf of the city and our nation.  Please pray for continued unity among the churches, now that not only the leaders and pastors are praying together, but now the church congregations are praying together as well.  2016-02-08_184342000_C798E_iOS

 

 

 

 

 

Family Update!

Daniel and Jessica had a wonderful opportunity to be in an Annie Performance this past month!  Jessica was an orphan and Daniel played the dog catcher and policeman.  It was a fun experience for them both. Luke is finishing up his JV season of basketball at Glendora High School and continues to love the game.  We are continuing to wait on an affidavit from India for our adoption.  We are expected to receive it this week and tDSC_0054 hen we wait for ourDSC_0059 court date.  DSC_0021Pleasahise pray with us that the process would continue
to move smoothly and would move quickly!  We are hoping to travel within April-June.

Thank you for continue to partner with us through prayers and finances and encouragement as we reach the city through these various avenues!  Please continue to pray that many people would continue to come to know the Lord Jesus!