Summary for Monthly Prayer Meeting on 7/25/24 (by Melanie)
Present: Brent, John, Steve, Victor, Melanie
Victor opened us with a video of Be Thou My Vision – started because the theme for
AACF’s recent training conference, but also to the next month about putting on a
conference but seeking after God. His desired accomplishments. Victor opened us in
prayer.
Hearing from John about the Chinese prayer conference and praise God for those
results – July 13-15, 2024. Almost 975 people registered. About 150 in person. 1000
People online. Workshop was good as people thought the message was dynamic. The
theme is “Seek the Lord of the Harvest “. Three main points – the harvest field, the
worker of the harvest, and to pray to the Lord of the harvest. Through the message
about the Muslim world, John was touched and tears dropped because of the love God
has for the Muslims. God is doing a great work in the mission field of Muslim, just like
what He did in Mainland China 10 years ago. In the prayer conference, many people
working together, 3 main speakers, delivered message, 16 workshop leaders. More
people went to hear the famous people, rather than coming for content. Still thers are
great need for work to promote prayer where people are encouraged to pray and
enhance their prayer lives. Discipleship training. Training people to learn how to pray.
John Lai is planning in three years, for another prayer conference. Invited John Piper,
Daniel Anderson, senior Pastor Jim Cymbal in Brooklyn Covenant Church. Preaching
and provide Mandarin translation. The theme will be Praise the Glory of His Grace (
Eph. 1). The theme will be addressed in three areas: Worship in truth, worship in
practice, and a worshipping church. No workshops.
Note: not just chasing after Christian celebrities. Conference attendants flooded to the
famous speaker. One worship reached 400 people. John Lai’s workshop had only 40
people, but one workshop even had only 3 people.
Tuesday, August 6 – Summer schedules are difficult. Training on Tuesday, August 6 for
those leading the God Pods training. 5 pm – 6 pm; at end of training Victor will give
instructions to prepare and how to implement in other places. Victor will update poster
and resend.
August 24 – sites and leaders
BACBC – online 9 am Steve, Stanley – Victor will be present
MVCC – Avalon, in person, one in Mandarin, one in English, 1 pm
CEFCLA – 2 pm, Ken Ly hosting, Melanie at the event – designed for college campus
ministries, not for a church but for the context of campus
September 14 – LACAC – area churches for SoCal – most tentative, Alliance churches
joining.
Prayer requests:
How to help people who have fears presented in sharing this reminder of a spiritual
authority present, navigating through the experiences, testimonies help offset the
concerns, God’s revelations that have been happening since Genesis to Revelations.
Fear should not lead us; preaching and the person says something off. Care for those
that worry about being misdirected by what people hear.
Excellent recommendation to add Pastor John’s book and Dallas WIllard’s Hearing God
as a foundation for the times together. Good read, hard to find actual copies; group
recommendation to find on Kindle.
Prayer time as a large group.
prayer points:
Home of Christ churches are gathering at Sonoma State University, 7 churches, with
700-1000, PEMA elder and pastor meeting, representative to present Godpod and how
the Spirit of God is moving.
Next meetings:
August 6 – training 5-6 pm, if you are interested, contact Victor for link
August 23 – next Friday am meeting at 7 am – Victor will send link
September meeting will be evaluation,
June 3 Prayer Retreat on God Pods ( Pastor Victor)
On Monday night, we had seven people join the call. This was fewer than we had hoped for. But
there were two lay leaders who joined who are not regular attendees on Friday mornings. Before
giving an introduction to God Pods, I shared some things about today’s younger generations. I
used the acronym EPIC which stands for Experiential, Participatory, Image-Driven and
Community-Based. This describes how Millennials and GenZ process information. This is very
much different than previous generations who would simply read a book or listen to a sermon.
This is why I believe that God Pods can be used to bring a younger generation in our churches
together for prayer.
After giving the introductory material, we did a mini God Pod which helped people to experience
what it might be like to hear God’s voice. We are still making plans for three sites in August –
two in Nor Cal and one in Alhambra. We may try to repeat the online instruction to give further
definition to the God Pods.
Prayer Meeting on May 24, 2024
By Victor Quon
Members present: Brent, Himsy, Kerry, Steve, John, Jonathan, Melanie, Victor
Meeting began with Bless The Lord, O My Soul
Victor opened meeting in prayer.
Movement in the past month; LACAC where Victor speaks, introduced the God Pods to
them. Two sessions as he is speaking there once a month, and now will do their own
group but Victor will visit. Mountain View church will host a training session, doing both
in Mandarin and English. Parallell sessions happening. At the end of August, possibly.
On the last Saturday of August, Steve can be there 2 assist. The LACAC possibly
moving along.
Potentially 3 sites to hosting the training in August.
Slide for the online session sent by Victor. June 3, 2024, introducing a God pod, and
leading through a mini-God pod.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1gmAf8piMnLuu8BfHztiLP7XGIey2c8Hp3aEshE
mR3zs/edit#slide=id.g2dac51e5739_0_50
Use of the slide to join Monday, June 3. Covers ground faster.
AACF – Do a training in August. Semester schools will be in session. Four places.
John is hosting an event in Cupertino.
Updates: Dr. Ho returned and 3 rd year, connecting and able to supplement with tele-
medicine. 10 people came to the Lord. With interpreter able to care for many people.
Good news about revival, despite the ability to see God at work.
Kerry was wondering if possible to provide a half sheet description of the June 3 event
to add and introduce a church network, and a little more description. Brent and using
China Source platform. July 13 event, August event. Victor will also provide a brief
summary of what will happen on June 3 so that we can introduce others who have not
heard about the God Pods.
Break out for groups to pray. Return and closed. Next meeting is June 28.
Summary of prayer meeting on 4/26/24
Encouragement building up
Steve Quen – says the challenge is people go into Bible Study mode
August – 2 churches who have understand and practice
SLO group – Victor tried and the students were hesitant to approach the God pod
His thought is that we start small two churches, Mtn View
The members feel that it is okay to start small
AZ churches were hesitant because one offered that Hosea might encourage people to
have an ungodly marriage
JL – suggested that familiar passages might help and hearing from God to allow the
Holy Spirit to learn; Pr, John says that in teaching the prayer ministry is very tough
SQ is good with starting small but he had to leave @ 7:30 am,
Victor feels badly that they might miss out – but shared from the Dallas Willard book but
wants people to start and enter into a conversation with God
Last piece, San Gabriel Valley church planter, discussion – 20 and people who have left
the church
Church planting focused, Christopher Spolar – he is mentored by Joel Silva.
Can a God pod be done online? Kerry suggested online session to introduce the Gof
pods.
Victor suggested doing on a Monday evening – May 6? Give one month preparation,
May 20 at 7:30 pm
Set up for August. Prayers for the two churches, and something might be done in LA.
Prayer time.
Kenneth – pastor Paul Taylor – Peninsula Bible – Faith Work and Tech summit, pray for
the planning meeting April 29, mobilizing community.
John Lai – Chinese Prayer conference, July 13, register – 200, 150 online, 50 in person
1000 online, 300 to join, in Cupertino. Handbook is already ready. People need to
respond. United prayer meeting in the Bay Area, the CEO of Prince of Peace is coming
young in his 30’s, sharing about the vision, career to be a witness, Matthew Chin is
Kenneth’s son with his wife.
Melanie – safety and journey mercies for travel to be with AACF Davis people today for
the basketball tournament.
Art – prayers for his ministry outreach to international students in a challenging season;
for his student of Hindu background who was baptized and family cut him off, Sam, for a
job soon
Victor – finalizing moving to get back to things he loves
Group stayed together to pray. Victor closed us in prayer. Guidance with spirit.
Summary of 3/22/24 prayer meeting
Hi Everyone!
Here are some of the highlights of our last prayer meeting. Sorry for the delay. We
have finally moved into our new home and its been consuming most of my waking
hours.
- highlighted opportunities that God is providing for moving forward with the God
Pods. This includes a training at the Los Angeles Chinese Alliance Church
(3/24) and at the Chinese Evangelical Free Church of Los Angeles (4/28).
Victor has also been invited to speak for the AACF groups at Cal Poly SLO
(4/12) and UC Irvine (5/23). - AACF will be holding their Leadership Training Conference at Pepperdine
University (6/17-21). God Pods will be the tool used for the morning prayer
sessions - John shared his video to introduce the Chinese Prayer Conference scheduled for
July 2024
Our next gathering will be on April 26th, 7:00 AM. See you then.
2/23 Prayer Meeting minutes
Hi Everyone!
For those of you who missed last Friday’s meeting, I took some time to discuss revival. I
sometimes fear that word because many times, we only think about the end result –
people flocking to churches, non-believers coming to know Christ in bunches and
culture being transformed. But what we fail to consider is how revival begins – with small
groups of people praying and asking for God to demonstrate his love and power. My
own denomination, the Christian and Missionary Alliance, had its beginnings with a
group of young college students praying for the nations. My current ministry, Asian
American Christian Fellowship started with a small group of students meeting for Bible
study at Cal State Los Angeles. And, certainly, Jesus’ ministry had its roots with twelve
disciples. So I invite us all to pray that the development of the God pods may have the
same type of impact. Small groups of people praying in their pods to hear God’s voice.
Reports:
- the pastors group in Arizona has declined the invitation to start God pods. They
had a concern with what might come out of people trying to hear God’s voice.
While I believe that spiritual authority should remedy this fear, we will respect
their decision to not participate. Perhaps further down the road - I have had conversations with two churches here in the LA area about starting
God pods. I met with folks at the Los Angeles Chinese Alliance Church
yesterday. It was a very positive time and they might be able to work with other
C&MA churches in the area when we get to August. I will introduce the God
pods to the Chinese Evangelical Free Church at the end of April. They have
other area churches that they often partner with. So there is great potential
there. - Steve Quen reported about the third God pod held at his church earlier this
month. He mentioned how people are becoming more aware of God’s voice
and that there is a clear softening of hearts.
Hope to see everyone for our next gathering on Friday, March 22nd.