Joel and Leslie Smith,
Bridge Community Church, Redding, CA
Baby Zach arrived safely on 1-23-08! Pray for continued connection with unchurched people. They report a good process of training and establishing formal leadership and structure. Read more at www.joelandleslie.blogspot.com.
William and Banjie Taghap,
Church planters in San Jose CA
Praise for 3 small groups, new Christians from Christmas outreach, provision of needed equipment, and a location for worship. Pray for continuing fund-raising efforts and development of a launch team.
Aaron and Sugar Roy,
Church planters in Richmond CA
Praise for new relationships in their community and for ministry to 70 people at their Saturday breakfast and Bible study.
Pray for continuing fund-raising efforts, for expansion of the launch team and for door-to-door outreach to 1500 homes in March.
Darren Paulson
Providence Community, Vacaville CA
Praise for first worship service at Opera House January 27 supported by a core of 40 from their mother church, Parkway in Fairfield. Pray for connections in the community and for Parkway to realize the blessings of parenting as they share people and finances.
Latino Planter Evaluation Retreat
The number of Latinos in the NCBC district area will reach 4.5 million by 2010 according to California Department of Finance estimates. Many NCBC churches in communities with Latino populations are searching for ways of overcoming language and cultural barriers to reach this population.
In October the first district and national Latino Planter Evaluation Retreat was held at New Covenant Community Church in Fresno.
Through the sponsorship of NCBC/Sunergeo and other Anglo and Latino churches, five prospective planting couples participated to learn more about church planting and be evaluated for their "fit" and readiness for church planting.
All 5 candidate couples experienced incredible growth and demonstrated calling, passion and skills for planting. Please pray for these candidates as we walk together on this journey to plant much-needed Latino churches.
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