By A Brief Report on SoCal Inland Area Churches Blending on 2/25
On February 25, 2024, nine churches in the Inland Empire area of Southern California were gathered at Colony High school in Ontario for a blending, overflowing the riches from the saints who had recently visited Taiwan for International Chinese Speaking Blending Conference (ICSC) and the following church visits.
Many serving saints from all localities came around 8:30am to set up the meeting venue. Singing and praising started at 9:45 while the table meeting officially started at 10am. Following the table meeting, five young brothers gave the reviewing of the five messages of ICSC, each taking 5 minutes. After that, five groups of saints gave testimonies on what they have been touched and learned from the trip to Taiwan, focusing on aspects of truth pursuit, God-man living, gospel/shepherding, perfecting young ones, and hospitality in love. Towards the end, three co-working brothers gave their concluding words of encouragement. Then all the saints enjoyed catered lunch together with more sweet fellowship.
- Encouraging Attendance
A total of 561 saints attended the blending, including 116 children, which is unprecedented. Particularly on the children’s side, we expected to have 60 children and 15 serving ones; actually we had 116 children and 30 serving ones, nearly doubled.
- Functioning of many members in strong and sweat coordination
Over the weeks before and during the blending time, more than 10 serving groups, such as children, food setting/dispensing, chairs setting/ushering etc, were formed with point brothers as the lead and participating saints from various localities. Among the saints and across the groups, much prayers, fellowship and practical coordination took place in a strong and sweet way, via communication platforms like WhatsAPP, google doc sharing and group texting etc. We can testify that this is of the move of the inner operating and energizing God within the pure and willing hearts of the saints. This is especially seen with the children service group.
- Young Saints Rising Up to Serve
A generation of young saints, particularly the young working saints, are rising up to function in all aspects of the service, whether reviewing the message, giving of the testimonies, children service, meeting venue setting up, food and other practical services. We can see that within the young generation the Lord is stirring up their heart to rise up and serve with proper aggressiveness.
