Words to Guide

God just moves and does what He wants….and it is always good. We are so glad to be a part of what He is doing here in the inner city – touching the nations for Jesus.

Through time in the Word and prayer our team feels that God has given us the following words to guide this next season of church planting as we minister here in the inner city: breakthrough, encouragement, empowerment, multiplication and miracles.
Please pray with us through each of those words.

Quick Updates
-We started a new weekly study on doctrine taking the church deeper into what we believe. Great questions have arisen as we have given them a safe place to be addressed.

-Our congregational leader’s meeting was great! We are planning on doing this every month. It has allowed a lot of ownership and empowerment of the congregation to really be the church and not just come to church. Immediate action items that resulted were holding a yard sale to raise more funds (quite successful) and forming a group from the church to work on creating a Christmas program.

-A group of us were able to go to another church and sit in on their worship practice. This is a part of our continued effort to inspire and train worshippers and musicians. -Our son, Justice, turned 4 years old this month.

-We have a heart for prisoners and are ministering to several families that have loved ones behind bars. Recently we attended an event with one of the new believers from our church to hear more about how our mission organization, World Impact, has teamed up with Prison Fellowship to teach, train and empower prisoners to prepare to be pastors. It was exciting to share our passion and see how she saw not only the need, but caught the heart of compassion and the desire to give and serve the modern day orphans and widows of society as well as the prisoners. She is currently studying at Cal State L.A. to be a social worker or worker in the correction field.

Please Pray With Us

-Money Seminar Sunday, Oct. 23 / 9am-4pm
This is going to be an amazing seminar – many are looking forward to it. Please pray for a great turnout, lives to be changed and grace on Fabiola and Norma as they watch, play and teach the children for the seven hours.

-Potential Building
We have recently found a building that is potentially the space we have been praying about to relieve the pressure of space limitations and restrictions on our family/living space at our home. It is an African-American church located just three blocks from our home. We connected with the pastor’s there really well and even if we don’t share that space with them we have met some like minded co-laborers and made some new friends in the community. Pray for God’s will - is it a green light? (See picture below.) Also pray for growth in numbers and a deepening of commitment to Christ and the church in our congregation regardless if we move or decide to stay. -Meeting Weekly
For the last year we have met once a month (or twice on special occasions) on Sundays. This month we begin meeting every week for our celebration services. Depending on whether we move into the other church building will determine the time and day of these meetings based on the availability. Please pray for grace and increased leadership/serving as the pace is going to pick up from once a month to once a week.

-Touch of Jesus Crusade Sunday, Oct. 30 / 2pm-4:30pm
Chad has been invited to preach as part of a joint effort to reach the South Park community of South Central Los Angeles. This area is known for heavy drug use along with homelessness, alcohol, assault, abuse and gang activity. We so love to work in unison with other churches and ministries to see Jesus lifted up. Believe with us for people to do more than hear the Gospel, but respond in faith and get a “touch from Jesus” and be healed and saved.

-Leaders
A running theme over the last months has been calling people to walk into their God-given roles to serve the body of Christ and then equipping and empowering them. Though we wish the maturity and growth could be faster we sense God’s divine touch on what is taking place in our midst. Please continue to pray for more leaders and those that are serving and leading to continue to mature and develop in God’s time and God’s way.

-Leo and Eduardo & Bianca (names were changed).
Recently Leo has returned to drinking heavily. He was doing so well, but has fallen again and you can see how it is eating deep at his wife and three kids. Let’s pray deliverance and freedom over him. Eduardo and Bianca need a lot of prayer too – years of poor choices has tangled them in a web that has been difficult for them to walk out of. They need to give themselves fully to Christ, but discouragement and life’s cares and worries have really held them back lately. Pray that they would make the correct choices (they have four children) and be faithful to God.

Thank you for believing in us and knowing that God can accomplish anything He wants through us or despite of us. It is an honor being in partnership with you.

May Christ be lifted up and be made known to all nations!

Chad & Fabiola

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