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.