City Reach Prayer
Santa Rosa Christian School
Mar. 4, 2005

Harry Skandera

Welcome to City Reach Prayer tonight our host is Santa Rosa Christian School. Dr. Sam Tillery is unable to be with us tonight and he has asked me to beg your forgiveness (just kidding), for not being here. Actually he is speaking tonight in Novato at a Christian World View Business Conference, so again, Sam is continuing to build bridges in the different spheres in the County and in this area, in prayer and in service.

We have had a lot of new and exciting developments over the last three or four months in relation to the city and the county, which we believe and are certain of course that these have happened because of your prayers and God is answering these, so we are very excited about that.

We do have a clip board that is being passed around, so we want to make sure that everyone signs in. Just your name, what church your representing and your e-mail address if we don’t already have it. Once we have your e-mail, you’you'll be able to get notified of each City Reach Meeting, it’s location, and also there are a few web sights that are kept up to date on what’s happening here in the County in prayer, and while we are doing the announcements, and before we get started in prayer, there are actually some really exciting things that are going across our Nation and in the state of California and in our vicinity.

Next month we are going to be at Community Baptist Church, the first Friday in April. The first Friday in May actually falls in the middle of a very exciting time of prayer. The National Day of Prayer, which falls on May 5th, it’s a Thursday, of course that day there will be the prayer down in Court House Square as there always is, and there will be an evening prayer gathering at Bethel Baptist Church.

The next evening is our City Reach Prayer meeting and we’we'll be praying just a few blocks from here at the new West Side Christian Church, just down the street, Rod Bowman’s congregation. It will be our first time at their new facility. That is all part of a 24 hour 10 day period of prayer, between the National Day of Prayer on the 5th and the Global Day of Prayer , which is May 15th 2005. A number of you I’m sure have heard about it, if you haven’t it is a very exciting thing.

You know, prayer movements are going all across the world right now, spontaneously starting in all types of ways, some of which mirror the movement that has occurred here over the last 10 - 15 years. Some very different, but what has happened, what has led up to this Global Day of Prayer is, in Cape Town South Africa five years ago. A group of Christian businessmen got together for prayer, and they began to cry out to God for first their Nation of South Africa. Then the next year, the time of prayer spread to about 10 cities on South Africa. By the next year, there were 1000's of men, women, college age and children who began to cry out to God for their city, Nation, and for Africa. By the fourth year, there was prayer going up in every nation in Africa.

First it spread through the Sub-Sahara, then to all the Muslim nations above the Sahara and as a result, last year there were over 20 million people in Africa, crying out to God on the same day. Now, Africa has turned to the rest of the world and has invited us to join them to cry out to God for our world. So it’s really pretty exciting as you consider that God has gone to a lot of trouble to stir His people all across the globe. I’m convinced that e-mail and internet , which may or may not have all been invented by Al Gore (ha,ha,ha), but certainly inspired by the Holy Spirit. Because when God gets ready to pour something out, inventions like the printing press happen and spread. I am so thankful and aware that we now are able through the internet, receive e-mails and within moments we can know prayer requests from any where in the world and it’s serving the purpose of uniting the Body of Christ all over the world. We have been a part of that here in Sonoma County in a small way, but when we get the picture that this is happening all over the world, we know that there are tremendous and exciting things for this time which we live. Well, that is it for the announcements.

Steve and Debbie Cavalli

You know, it has just been so obvious, not just from being a part of these prayer gatherings, but my wife and I have lived in this county and carried a burden for the lost here for about 30 years now, and we tend to be evangelistic, and I have never seen such an opening in heaven in the last year to year and ½, I mean it’s incredible. You just can go anywhere with the Gospel and people are just so receptive. I haven’t seen anything like it in 30 years. I don’t know if anyone else is experiencing this, but I do believe that it is the result of all of the prayers that have been going on for this to happen and there are some changes in the atmosphere over this place. That’s been my witness here lately anyway's.

Harry Skandera

Well, we bear witness to that and too believe that that is so. Sometimes that can be discouraging, but overall, there is no question that we are in a very different climate than we were even 5 years ago, so we appreciate that, also, there have been many people who have prayed and continue to pray who have not yet experienced that, will experience that, and we are confident in this. Well, part of the many prayers coming together here in our county, is really going to hit in a very serious way and of course we want to invite everyone to participate in any way that they can, as we head into the National Day of Prayer and then the 10 days heading up to the Global day of prayer.

There are other things going on in California, you can check it out on the web sight, Pray California . All of the 58 Counties in California have the some kind of prayer movement going on and they have and they have began to communicate under the umbrella of Pray California, so much so, that this year, 2005, every county in California is going to be prayed for and it just so happens that our county's week to be prayed for is July 17th.

That week all the other prayer networks in California will be praying for us. We will have a historical kind of a blurb, familiarizing them with who we are and what God has been doing here to our knowledge. It is a very exciting time.

I realized, providentially, that there has been one meeting that has occurred that has effected world leaders in our county. It occurs annually out at Bohemian Grove and they meet every year in the last two weeks of July, which this year begins on July 17th, so that is no accident and should be a real doozer! So, I bring all of that up to introduce our direction of prayer tonight. We want to pray through the scripture, Psalm 24 and you may want to have your Bible open to it as we will be praying for various things.

As we go through this, we want to pray in faith over our County, Sonoma County.

Psalm 24 -
The earth is the Lord's, and everything in it. 
The world, and all who live in it;
for he founded it upon the seas and established it upon the waters.
Who may ascend the hill of the Lord?
Who may stand in his holy place?
He who has clean hands and a pure heart.
Who does not lift up his soul to an idol or swear by what is false.
He will receive blessing from the Lord and vindication from God his Savior.
Such is the generation of those who seek him. 
Who seek your face.
O God of Jacob.
Lift up your heads.
O you gates; be lifted up, you ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in.
Who is this King of glory?
The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle.
Lift up your heads, O you gates; lift them up, you ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in.
Who is he, this King of glory?
The Lord Almighty - He is the King of glory. Selah

I believe that we are impressed upon by the scripture tonight, because it has to do with gates. I believe that Sonoma County is a gate. It is a place where things of influence enter into, from the spiritual into the world of the natural. If you look into and study the history of Sonoma County, you see one thing after another, some good, some not so good, things that have been initiated here. This was not a seat of government like Sacramento or like Washington D.C., but there is not question that spiritually this place has been a gate of influence.

I just want to go through a list here before we pray, of ways that our county has been a gateway in our history. First of all, I think that everybody remembers, where did the Golden Gate Bridge come from? The man who was called the father of the Golden Gate Bridge, was Frank Doyle. He was the man who initiated and pushed and saw that along with the editor of our newspaper, that the Golden Gate Bridge happened.

Now, why did they do it? It was a tremendous battle, because the money interest in the northern part of the state (timber interests) wanted to keep this as their private poaching ground. There wasn't very much opportunity here for the common every day citizen, and Frank Doyle believed that this is a land of opportunity and that there was a treasure here, not only for a select few, but for all who God would call to this place, and that's how the Golden Gate Bridge got started.

It was through the vision that came through Frank Doyle. That spirit of liberty and freedom from oppression, was something I believe that was on God's heart, His intention for this place that it would be a gate. A gate for every man and woman to have opportunity. This was also a gateway for what was known as the "Yellow Peril Bills ", as immigrants began to pour into the Country to work on the railroads, many of them Chinese.

There were three congressmen from our county that made National careers by pushing the Bills that became what they called the "Yellow Peril Bill", blocking Chinese immigration. Definitely racist. Definitely had to deal with a tremendous amount of persecution of the Chinese as well as other minority races. You've all heard the story before about how our board of supervisors voted to ban all Chinese from our County. He put a banner across Santa Rosa Ave. stating, "All Chinese must go",  and this was a terrible persecution of Chinese and that is the only race that has been not welcome here, but again, this was the gate for that influence, not just in our state, but in the Nation.

This was a the gate for agriculture, the agricultural treasure of the state, even before Luther Burbank, it was called, "The garden of Eden of the State". It was the leading agricultural area, of course that shifted once the California water project went in and the valley opened up, that emphasis shifted from here, but this is where it started. This was the father of the vineyard industry. They had their first vines here in Sonoma County. This was the gate for the whole wine industry.

The first revival, the first Gospel revival, west of the Rocky Mountains happened in a field just outside the city of Sonoma. So, it was the gateway of the Gospel West of the Rocky's. If you look around at the different religions who have headquarters in Sonoma County, you'll know that this place represents some kind of spiritual gateway. This is where the Tibetan Monks decided to set up shop, out at Cazadero. The place where they pray and make their sand designs, pray over them, then put them into the rivers as a way of putting their spirit onto this whole region.

This is a place where ever summer, in Petaluma, the gateway for the Church of Religious Science out off of Adobe road, over 10,000 people come from all over the world to worship in that place every summer. We already mentioned Bohemian Grove. It is also a gateway for Fijian evangelists.

This is something very few people know about, that there are many Fijians in our community cleaning the homes of the rich. Many of them have been sent here as an outworking of the revival that has occurred over the last 10 years on the island of Fiji, and out of all the places that they could have been sent, they didn't go to L. A., they didn't go to San Francisco, they believed that God told them to come and start here in Santa Rosa.

That is a little kind of a thing, but it is one of those things that catches your attention, because you realize that spiritually this place is hot wired in some kind of a very serious way. There has always been, from the inception of what became the United States, spiritual conflict here.

The first Catholic missionaries that came here, remember how Santa Rosa got it's name. They baptized an Indian maiden in the creek and then had to run out and flee for their lives, because the local Native Americans realized that when this girl got baptized, something changed spiritually. They listened to the sons and were content to let them preach, but once this girl stepped forward to be baptized, literally all hell broke loose, so that began another chapter in the spiritual conflict over this place. As I looked over the history of this place, some of these events that have occurred, I don't know, it just didn't fall into place, but of course there is conflict.

Why were there 6 Nations' flags over this county? How many counties in the U.S., have had six different Nations' flags? Maybe a few, but very few.

Why was there the drive to stick a flag here for these nations? Because this is a gateway, a spiritual gate. I want to say all of that, because I think that it's important for us to recognize the ground on which we stand and how important it is as we pray to be bold in our prayers. This is a time of releasing other things of the Spirit of God into this place. It's time to lift up your heads O ye gates.

It's time to begin to usher in a new era of the King of glory coming in. So, I want us to pray with that in mind. If you have a Bible and turn over to Psalm 24 which is where we read, you may want to use that scripture as a guide as we pray into different specific areas of the release of God's spirit in our county.

Tonight don't think about this as an event, think about this as, in the timing of God, lighting a fuse that will be in God's hands when the bomb goes off. That kind of fuse that needs to be lit again and again and again in the hearts of God's people. So, I want to just talk to you for a minute about what you would want to begin to ask God to release in our county. Just think of that. Think about the things that we just said, all the different gates that this is representing. Things that shifted the state, things that shifted the Nation. The things that have been world shifting. So, let's just take a minute to be quiet and ask God, what is it that we should release here tonight, see what it is that you hear.

Time of silence and prayer

Harry Skandera

I know that if every person spoke tonight, we'd run out of time before we pray, but I'm sure that if we hear from some people what God has laid on their heart, that it will resound in all of our hearts as well, so, what are some of the things that were impressed upon you to want to pray for to release in our county?

(those who responded in the gathering)

1. A yearning for the Creator.
2. A shifting of people's mind sets.
3. Release from the darkness among us.
4. Boldness of faith.
5. Openness to the Gospel in this generation and that the body of Christ would be ready and available to love on these people seeking truth and truly and boldly share God's heart and truth.
6. A hunger for God.
7. A release of repentance.
8. A longing for the truth.
9. A understanding of the role of prayer, the power of prayer. That the believers would unleash this direct access to God.
10. A release of God's original intent in both spiritual and business.
11. God would touch the Christian World View, different spheres of life.
12. A release of the body to be abiding in God, for people not to compartmentalize their faith, but abide in all areas.
13. A release of people to see spiritually more.
14. A natural fruit of abiding in Christ.

Harry Skandera
Ok, as we prepare our hearts to come before the throne of God, let us open our Bible's to Psalm 24 and I would like us to read it together again, then break up into groups of 4 or 5 and pray either what you heard someone speak or maybe something that God has put on your heart to speak release of God in this place, ok, let's read Psalm 24 together..

(groups in prayer)
(let's open those gates!)

Harry Skandera
Your prayers were making the sound of rushing waters was flowing through the room, so thank you. For the next half, we want to focus on our host school and I want to defer this representing of the school to it's principal, Dr. Kimberly and President of our Board, Mark.

I just want to say a couple things as to why this is a good place to be pray. We have a thing that we talk about in intercession it's called earned virtue, it's kind of like integrity or authenticity, but I always use this example when I tell my students what earned virtue is all about. I can talk about what it is like to have a baby, but I'm only talking about something that I've watched, I'm never going to have a baby, but my wife has had four, she is an authority as can any woman who has had a baby. I can't touch that, they have an authority in that area, because of the experience that God has led them through.

It's like an expert testimony or someone's testimony that holds a little more weight that another because of their experience and what they have been led through. The students at this school corporately pray 6 hours a week which is a little known fact, but in each of our Christian world view classes, which there are 6, one hour every week is prayer day and that is all we do is pray.

I hadn't really thought about it much until a few weeks ago. I got some feed back from some students last week on what they loved about Santa Rosa Christian about a school, and the top thing on their list was that they spend an hour a week in prayer together. It struck me how I know God is pleased when young people are crying out to Him. So, this is a place that hosting a prayer ministry feels comfortable and we love having all of you here to pray for our school and with us, so I'm going to ask Dr. Kimberly Moore to come up now and share about the vision of Santa Rosa Christian.

Dr. Kimberly Moore
I'm actually going to have our board President come and share first. I have a some things too that I would like to share, but as board President our board is the key group that steers the vision of this school. Lawrence Lehr is going to share a little bit about the vision that God was giving this school about the same time He was giving a vision to the community to begin banning together in city reach prayer, so there is another timing interest that Lawrence actually brought to my attention and I'm going to let him speak first.

Lawrence Lehr
It is great to see many old friends here. I wanted to point out Steve who is also on the board and is here tonight and has been a tremendous blessing and voice and heart on the board. This school has been here for about 35 years and it has been a great witness for Christ. We have many long time staff members, some of them are here tonight and there has been a great testimony that has come out of this school in the past years, but about 5 years ago, God started to really speak to the board and the community here at the school that things were going to change.

That He wanted us to move from where we were to somewhere else and that is an on going process for us. We are going to be looking to see and implement what God really wants from us. We have some really unique opportunities here, because we are not a church sponsored school, we are completely independent. In fact, we have students that represent over 70 churches in Sonoma County at this school, not to mention staff from many churches and backgrounds, but we have a heart that God has given us over the last few years to be a resource to the entire body of Christ in Sonoma County. We believe that God has a place for us here where we will really be a resource to the Kingdom of God in the community of believers in Sonoma County.

It really goes along with what has been going on with Pastors Prayer and what you as intercessors has been hearing from the body. God has done the same thing in us here, He has given us the same vision, refining it and we know that He is going to bring it to pass. We really believe that God wants to use us to train up a generation of people who will have a heart to really lead in this county, lead in a righteous way. Carrying a Christian world view, carrying the Gospel in very practical ways into the market place, realms of government, ministry and wherever God calls, that is what our vision is. It is wonderful, it is a blessing every time I walk on this campus to see the spirit that God is producing. He has brought us people in the last 5 years, staff members and leaders to the school that were absolutely sent from God, we don't even know how they ended up here.

We've got people working here that there is no reason that they should be here, but they are, like Harry and Kimberly, but we know from this that has been putting His seal of approval on the vision that we are carrying. The board just very recently has come up with some desired vision that is going to be a real challenge. We are going to relocate this campus. We believe He wants to give us a new place that will be a sign of new and bigger vision that He is birthing and Kimberly will be talking about that a little further, so that is really where we are at. We are looking to be what God wants us to be to serve the body and to serve His purposed here in Sonoma County in ways we don't even know yet.

Kimberly Moore
Thank you. Harry, maybe you could pass these out. I put a bulleted list of items on this hand out that I thought may be helpful in directing the prayers this evening, I also want you to have it so that you could pray beyond this evening. In fact these items are appearing in our news letter that will be going out in a week or two so that even a broader community of people can be praying for us.

When Lawrence talked about the vision, it is a wonderful and exciting vision and I what I would like to see prayed for with that is clarification. We continue to struggle helping people understand something that they have never seen. We are the only independent, inter-denominational school in this area, and we had a vision for being a school of excellence. We bock at the idea that one must sacrifice academics to be spiritually mature, or the other way around, and so we are looking for excellence and we want people to understand the concept that we believe God has given us that. We are to reflect Christ and that means that we are going to be excellent, because He is excellent and so we would ask that there would be clarification about that and then, also this dove-tails into what does excellent mean for us?

We have an excellent staff. We get Harry five days a week and we have fantastic teachers in our elementary, our secondary, in every sphere we have excellence there. We have excellence in our board of directors and integrity, but we are lacking in excellence in other ways,in other areas.

God has given us a vision of striving to reflect Him, but our facilities often do not reflect Him. We are looking for the Lord to bless our facilities. We know that they need a lot of work, we know that they inhibit us from building up the generation that we believe He is calling us to. He is calling us to have a comprehensive program that we should be able to train the next group of technicians, politicians, scientists and artists and the whole gambit, yet we lack so many things to accomplish that goal, and so we do not want anyone to feel that they are going to have to go to a secular school, because Santa Rosa Christian School doesn't have this program or that program. Or we don't have these facilities to do this kind of a thing, and so relocating the school will allow us to be on a property that would enhance our programs and we also are asking that the Lord gives us greater visibility.

We have an awesome mission here, but so many times I run into people who say, "are you located out near Rincon Valley?", and I say no, or they say, "are you that school that is over here?", and I say that that is not us, and so, being unique as we are, I want people to understand who we are, and so moving to an area that will hopefully be more visible, so that people will get to know us too, because we want to influence our community, that's what we want to do.

Do we want to change this community? Yes, we do. We want to have an influence anywhere the Lord would allow us to have an influence, because we have a heart for Christ and we want that reflected in every sphere. So, we are asking the lord to build up our place in this community, so that we will have the influence, not for our glory, but that the Lord would be glorified.

So that the next generation will understand all of the knowledge that there is for us to understand and that is spiritual knowledge as well as academic knowledge, because they go hand in hand. And so, we also want to increase our enrollment, we have about 300 students, and so we want to see 600, and so then we will ask the Lord for more after that, but that means that we're making progress, that we are being a positive influence in our community.

So, we are asking that the Lord would increase our enrollment, that He'll double it, at least for a start. One of the things that the Lord has also done for us is to bring to our attention that we can sometimes be small minded. I think about our community and working in our community and that's great and the Lord has provided some wonderful opportunities. I think that we may be the only non-church member of Pastors Prayer Fellowship, that is a very important part where we like to connect with the community, to say we want to work in partnership with other Christian organizations who have a heart for this community, that is one of our unique things.

But the Lord has also said, "What about beyond your community"? We weren't even looking for things beyond our community and the Lord brought to us an international program. We have currently about 15 Korean students that just almost showed up, there is no more to it than that, but the Lord really did bring it to us and say, "think beyond your boarders. If you want to have influence, there is so much out there that I can give you an opportunity to influence, and our job is just to say yes, and I love to say yes. I am an opportunist.

We are sending kids to Latvia over the summer. We are always looking for ways in which the Lord can give us an opportunity in His name to influence for His name. And so, we're asking that the Lord would increase our opportunities internationally. We would love to have a ministry where we bring students in from Central and South America, as well as Korea and possibly also Latvia. We want whatever God would send us, because we believe that He will give us as many opportunities as we are willing to say yes to, so we are praying for that also. And then in terms of things locally, I have always had a heart for families that cannot afford a Christian education. I remember before I was ever married saying, "Lord, if you give me children someday, it's really important that they have a Christian education", and I believed that fervently even as a twenty year old. I grieve the fact that there are many families who cannot possibly afford Christian education.

We are fortunate that we have gotten some donations and continue to get some donations for scholarship program. Right now it's pretty small and limited, but we have had some donations to start a scholarship program for incoming high school students. They need to be students who are good in school, because we don't have the knowledge of the programs for students who struggle in school, they need to be from families who want a Christian education, because we want people who want to be here, and we're looking for families who can't afford it, and so, for me this has been a personal exciting thing, because I have always had a heart for those who want a Christian education, but can't afford it. So we're looking for God to bring us ten 9th and 10th grade students who want a high school education in a Christian environment and who can't afford it. We're trying to work on getting the word out. I have made about 150 phone calls over that last couple of weeks to area pastors, home schooling coordinators, because sometimes in the home-school arena, people choose it because they can't afford a Christian school and some people choose it because it's the right choice for them, but sometimes they feel like they can't afford a private education, so I'll do this, and so we want people to know if you are interested in this, we have a possible opportunity for you.

In fact, I brought some information here if you know anyone and would like to take this information to them, please do so. We are excited about giving away money. So, looking at the other bullet points here, there are other programs that we would like to start; technology programs, foreign language in the elementary school, and some other things that we really would like to do as well, so that is what I would like you to pray for for our school as we strive to fulfill what we believe God's mission is, which is developing the whole child to a level of excellence and reflecting Him, because shouldn't the top people be Christian? Yeah, that's what we think too.

Harry Skandera
Ok, what I would like us to do now, is to pray through each one of these bullet points, so let's go into our groups. Read through bullet #1 and as you pray into that, I want you to listen to the prayer of a local pastor, his name is Adam Peacock. He would have normally been here tonight, but he is at the same conference that Sam Tillery is at tonight, so I wasn't going to let them both off the hook that easily, so I said to Adam, " you know, one of the things about the vision at our school, Santa Rosa Christian, we know very well, it's called Christian world-view.

In fact, what used to be our Biblical studies classes are now called the Christian world view classes, because we want our kids to understand that Christ is King in every sphere of society. So, as we pray into this first bullet, I'd like you to listen to this tape of Pastor Peacock's prayer, it's about 3 minutes, so let's hear this prayer and then you can add yours to it.

Harry Skandera
I know that we joined in with that prayer, but I also know that your faith has been stirred as you listened to that prayer, so let's take the next couple minutes to pray.

That they would not sacrifice a strong Christian world view. To somewhat summarize this point to me, is about the articulation of what God has made us to be and how it effects every sphere of life, that we would have the courage to speak it and the wisdom to know when. I thought of a recent example of this which occurred in the last few months, I don't know if this had ever happened before, but I know that our Principal Dr. Moore invited all the other Christian schools in the County to a Principals Prayer meeting, and you know what? They came! The Lutherans, Catholics, Baptists and the nondenominational came and that is a testimony, but it is something that number one, some do not appreciate anymore or because of their particular denomination, they do not feel the liberty to do that and, because of our being inter-denominational, it is very comfortable for us to do and we feel that it is part of the ministry, the message, and calling for Santa Rosa Christian.

So we pray and ask that you would pray for us in that, that God would open up the doors for us to articulate that vision for the community among Christians. One thing in particularly and specifically that is on our hearts is that we would have a radio station on our campus which would be an opportunity to positively effect our local and international community.

Some of these things have begun, some are still upon our heart. We prayed before that the Lord would bring us students from the North, South, East and West and of course when we prayed that, we were thinking about Santa Rosa and Sonoma County, but the Lord I think wanted us to realize that it was reaching further than that. We are planning to take a group of kids to Latvia this summer, setting up a missions trip. We are really praying that God would perhaps open up a door to bring in some Russian Latvians to the school.

We're exploring Central America. We have an excellent language program, particularly in Spanish and would seem to fit with that. I know that for instance, that our school is going to be represented on a trip at the end of this month, the school is allowing us to go with a group of ministers and intercessors to the Nation of Israel. This is not a Holy Land casual tour, this is an invitation by the government of Israel to Christian ministers and prayer people, because they have come to the realization that it is the Christians that are their friends. They asked Mrs. Schindler, a in-law of Oscar Schindler to bring in the first group of pastors and prayer people to meet with key prayer leaders among the Christians in Israel, and so we feel it's an honor, we also feel that it is very significant for our school, for us to be included in this new opening between here and the nation of Israel and more international contacts.

Many of you here in this room participated with us in our missions trip to Latvia last summer and we're going again this year. Our hearts desire is that as part of the greater Christian community of Sonoma County, we are taking some of our kids and making relationship with public educational institutions in Latvia. That is happening and we covet your prayers, and also we know that God wants to open up something in central or South America. Would you pray for us in that? And again, in all of this that we would connect with significant Christian ministry in our County, you know, we are not interested in doing this by ourselves, but as we let in what God is doing in our county , so let's pray and seek God.

Time of prayer in the gathering

Harry Skandera
The Latvian trip has been a tremendous learning experience for some of our students. When the students became aware of what it was going to cost, they realized that there was going to be a lot of car washes, and before long they came to realize that is was going to take more than a few car washes, and so, I told them, "this is not a kids fun trip to another country, this is a missions trip, so go to your church and tell them that you want to represent Christ and that you want to represent America, and see what happens". God worked through congregations' hearts and friends, and not one student stayed home. That is an education. That thought these students more than we could ever have talked to them about. That's education in putting our trust in the Lord. Our next point to focus on for prayer is the 4th bullet point on the hand out. This is about provision and about releasing young people that are in places right now that they don't want to be. That those students who have a heart to go further with Him, that God would release them to come here. We have a phrase that we talk to our students about here, it's called having an approachable spirit and a teachable heart, and that is what we believe the Lord is looking for, so if you'll pray through this now regarding our enrollment.

prayer time

The last bullet point on the sheet that we will pray through is dealing with partnership in investing in the future of the vision of Santa Rosa Christian School. The kids were asked to submit one or two things that they would like to see people pray about tonight. I would say that about 99.9% of those requests had to do with relocation. We've made studies of course that to build a full blown school, k-12, that including high school, takes 25 - 35 weeks, we are on 9, we need a miracle and that is what we're asking you to ask God for. So, let's pray.

prayer time

Please remember to keep us in your prayers. So, before we close tonight, we need two more prayers. 1) I'd like us to gather around all of the Santa Rosa Christian School people. I'm going to ask Rob to pray a blessing over us if you would. Rob is going to be doing the talking, but you folks will be laying your hands on us all if you would.

prayer time

Adjourned.

Special Thanks to Christelle Eddy who transcribed this document.