Sisters’ Lessons:
The Sisters’ Lesson (Special Fellowship #3, Msg 1 with Brother Minoru Chen) will be on Saturday, March 12th at 9 am CST/10 am EST. We plan to gather in person at the meeting hall of the church in Chicago, 3915 W. Irving Park Road, Chicago to enjoy the fellowship and have some light refreshments afterward together. The government has lifted the mask mandate, but feel free to wear one if you feel to.
Zoom Options are as follows:
+13126266799,,89298405917#,,,,
2. Lengua Española – Spanish-speaking Zoom Meeting:
Meeting ID: 884 6721 9928
Passcode: 582319
One tap mobile:
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3. 中文 – Chinese-speaking Zoom Meeting:
会议链接：839 0792 2803
密码：031222
电话接入方式：
4. 한국어 – Korean-speaking Zoom Meeting:
Meeting ID: 549 812 1298
Passcode: 1004
Campus:
College Conference Follow up
Please pray for all those that attended the college conference. All the young ones experienced something of the Lord’s speaking there. May the church follow up with each one to not allow to Lord’s speaking to be in vain.
- Kaylynn B
- Alisha C
- Kara H
- Julie W
- Samuel J
- Joel P
- Mercy D
- Haneesha D
- Favour
- Christian D
- Sam N
- Alan R
- Luke S
- Alex B
One testified that the enjoyment of Christ was so real to them over the weekend that their roommate noticed it, and asked about the conference. They overflowed their enjoyment so much that their roommate asked to join and came to our bible study this week.
Baptism
Joel P. was baptized in a hotel room on Saturday evening uttering the words, “I pray I never return to the man I once was.” Lord, we pray, “Do it! May our brother have a new and living walk with Christ and the Church.”
Ukraine
March 7, 2022
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
The current conflict in Ukraine has created many grievous and painful situations, too numerous to relate. The Ukrainian saints are suffering, many traumatized by the great danger resulting from war. We provide the update below in order that we could all pray and stand together with these members of Christ’s Body who are standing for His kingdom on earth.
There are still ten saints remaining in the city of Mariupol, with whom we have lost contact for the last three days. There is no water, no electricity, and no medicine in this city. The apartment buildings where the saints live are being utterly destroyed.
Tonight as the city of Mykolaiv fell under the rain of rockets, we wept together with the saints on the phone.
Some of our brothers on the front line are able to rest only by laying under the sky on the open ground, since living under any kind of covering invites an attack. The brothers are cold, and their bodies are failing. Our brother Oleg’s kidneys are starting to give him trouble. There are no medicines.
The city of Chernigov, where we have a meeting hall which also serves as a Rhema warehouse for Russian Recovery Versions, is surrounded by opposing forces. Years of ministry translation work into the Ukrainian language is also stored there on computer hard drives.
The capital, Kyiv, is being rocked by huge explosions. There are still about 20 praying saints in the meeting hall. Many of the other Kyiv saints remain in their apartments in various districts of the city. One family and several saints are in Bucha, a suburb of Kyiv, which has seen intense fighting. They have been living in the basement of a central apartment building with 60 other people, mainly women and children. One couple, Sasha and Anya, both FTTM (Full Time Training in Moscow) graduates, preached the gospel to everyone who is with them in the basement, and everyone called upon the name of the Lord! Anya has her guitar and has been singing with the children.
This past Lord’s Day, March 6, the saints in Ukraine had a corporate Lord’s table meeting by Zoom. It was attended by over 400 saints throughout the country. As we were singing and praising, we could still hear the sound of explosions through the microphones of some of the saints in battle-torn areas. During the sharing time, a number of brothers testified about our oneness and our victory in the Lord. Although some saints are finding it difficult not to direct their blame on persons, the atmosphere was changed when one simple brother, entering into God’s view, expressed a heart to bring the gospel to young soldiers on the street, regardless of which side of the conflict they found themselves on.
May the Lord help and train us all to ascend with Him, to pray from the position of His ascension, having His view and thought related to the current situation (see Lessons on Prayer, p. 197). May the Lord be merciful to us all.
The serving ones in Ukraine
Companions
May the Lord strengthen the churches by organically raising up a strong practice of companions in the Lord.
We should look for three kinds of companions. The first kind should be those who are at our spiritual level. This kind of friend is for mutual help—we can help him, and he can help us. The second kind should be more experienced in the Lord; he can lead us. We need to listen to such a one and receive his help, be restricted by him, and even be subject to him. I believe that Paul was such a companion to Timothy and to Titus; Paul was like their father. For this reason Timothy and Titus had to learn submission, and they had to subject themselves to his authority (1 Tim. 1:1-2; Titus 1:4). We should also look for this kind of companion. The third kind of companion should be one who is younger and weaker. We should render him help and lead him like a big brother leading his younger siblings.
(Knowing and Experiencing God as Life, Chapter 12, Section 2)