Exposing Our Heart

It is hard to have your heart exposed to misery again and again. Not everyone wants to hear the Good News. We have asked God to break our hearts for the things that break His, but that breaking is not comfortable. It is out of this brokenness though that we have seen God really minister through us in this hardened and fragmented community of Los Angeles allowing glimmers of light to breakthrough. The joy that comes after the mourning is so sweet!

There is an amazing awe that comes over me every time we see another person commit to serving Jesus. Grace is one of those ladies that is really catching the vision to serve others in Jesus’ name. She came over early one morning to help pass out fliers and get the word out for a school supply ‘store’ we were holding to bless our community. She stuck around until the very end making sure that every family got just what they needed. She was very concerned about finding the correct materials and the right color backpacks, but she was also concerned – deeply concerned – about their spiritual needs and pulled them aside to pray with them. Grace and Fabiola boldly prayed for one of our neighbors that is going through a very difficult time and our neighbor had a breakthrough – a real connection with Jesus like she has never experienced before. All thanks to Grace’s newly activated faith and service.

This month we also wanted to thank you for praying with us for Family Camp. We more than doubled the amount of people attending from a year ago (nearly 80 of us). This year we integrated more of a teaching and ministry time where God really showed up and talked to us about forgiveness and walking with Him. Many from our congregation have been abandoned in one way or another and thus this time provided the needed truth and time with Jesus for breakthrough and healing.

At family camp we also had powerful church-led worship times and morning prayer and devotional times. One of the primary goals of this camp is to allow families to get away and enjoy one another and have fun – quality time that families rarely, if ever, get in the stresses and pressures of the city. We also were able to watch the children so that couples could get away. Fabiola got to know some of the ladies better in the afternoons and Chad got to bond with some of the men – several who have not yet come out regularly to the church meetings. God is so good to us to allow us these retreats with these people we love so dearly. The last evening we had a special time of sharing testimonies of what God had been doing that weekend. Please pray that the good work that has been begun will continue – even increasing and deepening.

We are longing for a deeper breakthrough in our community. Several of us from our church have been praying and fasting for more salvations and a deeper hunger for God and His Kingdom in our congregation. Please join us this month in prayer as we press in to see His Kingdom come here in Los Angeles as it is in Heaven.

May the joy of the Lord be your strength,

Chad & Fabiola Wolyn