We have 32 churches and growing in the Long Beach (California) area that are lining up to go through our Trauma Training. It is so exciting to walk pastors and ministry leaders through this material for their own emotional health, but also to empower them with great materials that can help them do a better job taking care of their congregations and communities. Please join us in prayer this month for these groups and the pastors and churches participating.
After doing nearly a year worth of dozens of trainings it is rewarding to be able to have a group of leaders that we can work with that we have trained up to lead these classes, meaning we can continue to expand and don’t have to lead every class or group. One lady came with significant trauma in her life but was touched and progressed in her healing. Later she inquired about being able to help others and now is proving to be one of our most compassionate facilitators – always willing to listen and leave room for God to do His work in the group.
We also ask for your prayers for our Evangel School of Church Planting that we launch again this month with a handful of teams who are excited to learn and grow as a team in the area of urban church planting. It has taken us some time to get all our materials online and other things translated into Spanish, but we are finally launching our first Spanish online school this month! (We launched our first online English school last October and November and worked with two churches working to relaunch their churches through challenging times with the COVID pandemic). Please pray for the Holy Spirit’s guidance, protection, and fruit for these various churches as they evangelize the lost, make disciples and train-up leaders.
Lastly, please continue to keep our family in your prayers. Rebecca (15) and Angela (15) are now in the ‘learning to drive’ phase of life; not sure if you should pray more for them or for us. 😊 Justice (13) just put his finishing touches on his high school admissions and scholarship applications. Beniah (almost 7) continues to remind us what child-like faith looks like as he believes in God being able to do anything and loves others just as they are. May we all learn to lean into the childlikeness a bit more.
Thank you for your partnership as we lift the arms of the weary and support, train and empower these amazing people doing some of the hardest work in the darkest parts of their cities.
