Facilitated
by: Dr. Sam Tillery and Harry Skandera
(Sam Tillery)
Opening prayer.
It says in Colossians 4:2, Devote
yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful. I
would like you to get into groups of three and I would
like you to hold hands, so just find three and if your
alone, please find a group. As you are holding hands,
I want you to look at each other and say, "I need
you and you need me." Remain holding hands, because
we run very quickly through life don't we, and we don't
stop to be thankful and to watch, but what you are watching
right now, is a part of your body that may have a need.
I want you to take a moment and just bless one another.
If you don't know each others name, introduce yourself
and just ask God to bless and speak to us tonight. The
prayers don't have to go into great detail, just short
prayers blessing one another. Pray a blessing for each
other as you watch, listen and give thanks.
(Prayer)
(Sam Tillery)
Ok, please begin to wrap up.
What we would like you to do now is
have one person break away from your group and find
another group, because we want to kind of mix you up
and give you a chance to be with some others that you
are not with all the time. We will have our prayers
spin off of this passage of scripture, Colossians 3:12,
Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved,
clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility,
gentleness and patience. Pray that that would happen
for one another. Clothe yourselves, like a garment,
you take off one thing and put on something else. One
of you in each group, grasp a hold of one of those characteristics
and pray it for those in your group.
(Sam Tillery)
Father, would you begin to move in
the city of Santa Rosa and throughout the cities of
Sonoma County and bring freedom from the grip of unforgiveness
and bitterness within families, churches, businesses,
friends, co-workers and schoolmates. May we be a people
that learn to bear with one another forgiving whatever
grievance we may have with one another. Help us Father
to forgive as you have forgiven us. Lord, you say in
your word here that over all of these virtues, Father,
help us to put on love which binds them all together
in perfect unity. So, Lord, may we come to realize as
a people how deep, broad, wide and how incredible your
love is, that we are anchored in your love. Nothing
can take away your love for us.
Lord, may we comprehend that in such
a way that it compels us to move into the world around
us, the sphere of influence that we each have and see
unity come about, because we are overwhelmed by your
incredible love. Father, you say to put on love. It
is a act of our will, so Father would you in power and
strengthen us to set into and make a choice to love,
just as you have loved us. Let the peace of Christ rule
in our hearts. Thank you that we are members of one
body and we are called by you to be at peace. Help us
to be a thankful people for one another. Help us to
be thankful for the diversity and differences in the
body of Christ. Let the word of Christ dwell in us richly
Lord, teaching us and counseling us with all wisdom
with songs and hymns and spiritual songs. May we burst
forth with gratitude in our hearts towards you. We give
you thanks, Amen.
Welcome to City Reach Prayer. On behalf
of the Pastors Prayer and Ministry Alliance we welcome
you. My name is Sam and this is my good buddy and friend,
Harry Skandera. We are delighted as always to be meeting.
We are in our 5th year of coming every first Friday
of the month and it has been rich. As I start thinking
about it being five years, I guess when your having
fun, time fly's, because five years is a long time to
be gathering together as a body, that's got to put a
smile on God's face, because that is where His heart
is. We are partnering together to answer His prayer,
that is to become one in our prayer, as well as in our
lives, ministries and our hearts of compassion for one
another. Tonight, Harry is going to come and share a
little bit about a particular one that we would like
to give our thanks for and express our love for.
(Harry Skandera)
Thanks Sam. It is interesting that
we are into a time where the rains are beginning. It's
a very sweet place here. You go into different congregations
around the county and the presence of the Lord manifests
Himself in a particular way, a particular flavor in
each part of the body. There is a certain intimacy here,
a feeling of family and a real blessing and very appropriate
for tonight.
Sam mentioned that we have been doing
City Reach for five years, but I think that we're pushing
into our 6th year actually. Before there was City Reach
and before there were a lot of things, that we have
now come to take for granted in the unity in the body
of Christ in Sonoma County, there were people who prayed.
Some of those people we will never know. They preceded
well before our lifetime, but we know that they were
there.
Tonight we want to recognize and honor
a particular woman who has lead the Sonoma County intercessors,
Pray Santa Rosa, for many, many years. What made me
think of Annette again as we are here tonight, was the
coming of the rain. There is a movie staring Kirk Douglas
many years ago called, Rain Maker. The point was that
there are people who have faith to reach up into the
heavens and stir the heart of God and things happen
on earth. God says that we can all do that, but Annette
was recognized, commissioned and set apart by the pastors
for the express purpose of praying and gathering others
to pray for the unity of the body of Sonoma County,
for the pastors and for their families.
Annette, would you come up please.
I want to hand this to you, but I am going to talk for
just a minute. It has been a real humbling experience
for my wife Carol and I to serve with Annette. We have
grown so much by being with her over these few years.
It seems though, in some ways, what would be more appropriate
is if there would be a huge throng of people here to
recognize and honor ( I know that Annette is embarrassed
by all of this), but to recognize and honor what the
Lord has done through her, as she represents so many.
The Lord just kind of reminded me,
so much of what the intercessors do is done in private
and out of sight and certainly out of the recognition
of great gatherings in public, and so, how very fitting
for us to be here at this place and at this time as
we anticipate the coming of the rains and as we give
thanks for so much that we have received, because of
Annette's labors and many who have served through her.
Annette, I would like you to say what you would like
to say.
(Annette)
Thank you. The only thing that is on
my heart is that it is so nice to be honored, but I
so want all of God. For the last 8 years, it has been
one of the sweetest journey's that I have ever taken.
As probably most of you have discovered, you can get
into a ministry and think that you are going to go forth
and pour forth in something that God has called you
to do, when in reality it is His big learning curve.
I don't know that I would be where
I am without having been put in the place that I was
put into. I was always stand offish about intercessors.
Everyone I heard that was an intercessor, I wasn't.
I didn't pray like them. I didn't have the passion sometimes
and I just didn't do what they did.
I remember Jim Argue coming to me
with the request to pray about this and my telling him
that I wasn't an intercessor. I went through about three
or four things and he kept saying, " It doesn't
matter, it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter",
and so here I am. There was a mandate from about 42
years ago, some of you are aware of this, but I have
a daughter who has Cerebral Palsy and we had prayed
fervently for her healing and we truly thought that
God was going to heal her in this one particular instance
and it didn't happen.
I cried out to God and said, "How do we pray?
How do I pray for healing?" It wasn't a vision
to me or anything, but In my minds eye, I know that
God spoke to me as a brand new Christian and He said,
"Pray for the healing of my body on earth",
and in that time frame, in my minds eye, what I saw
was a gaping wound with all of this puss oozing out.
With this picture came the awareness that the power
or help of this body is Christ, but the help was slowly
ebbing out and all of the wounds were self inflicted.
I wish that I could tell you that
I prayed or did what I was supposed to do for the next
30 years, but when Jim had come to me, that was the
first thing that I thought about, was that we need to
pray for the healing of the body and for the pastors
specifically.
There are several instances and summit's
that so touched my heart, seeing one end of the spectrum
to another denominationally, theologically, just prostrate
on the floor in worship. It's incredible. Having a pastor
come and ask four of us late at night to come and pray
for him, because he wasn't even sure if anyone was praying
for him in his church.
There was such an openness and his
posture was spread eagle, crying out for more of God!
The humility that I see in pastors and the graciousness
of wanting more and willing to admit it has been so
sweet. My own church, watching my pastor standing in
a meeting like one of these, I think I recall 10 different
pastors and about 15 different churches represented
and he cried out for forgiveness for our particular
sector and said, "We need you", our body needed
the others. I have been blessed beyond being blessed.
I have been touched by Julie being
here and I haven't seen Mildred for awhile, but there
has been such a sweet bond of unity between us. I have
only one thing that I feel that I haven't seen that
we've come into in prayer, and it's coming, and it's
the last summit that I attended where we spent an hour
repenting over where we had been lead to in Hebrews
about the desperately wicked heart of unbelief.
We broke in that for about an hour
praying and asking for God's forgiveness and then we
worshiped for an hour after that. I know that move is
going to come to the body of Christ here in Santa Rosa
and Sonoma County. Where we have got to come into that
place of repentance over our casualness, over our unbelief,
because that is what it boils down to. All of our own
agenda's and that will go on and on and on and the blessings
are going to be magnificent, beyond anything that we
have ever seen.
I know that nothing is new to all of
you in that, but I am so grateful, it has been a sheer
blessing. This past June, one of my concerns had been
that Petaluma and Santa Rosa had not gotten together
and long story short, the Petaluma group and Santa Rosa
met, and I thought, " this is just so great, this
is it".
I walked out of there so excited on
what was going on. I got into the car and God said,
" It's over", and I started a discussion,
I said, " What do you mean that it's over?"
He said, " It's finished, your time is over".
I had a sense right away that everything was about to
happen and I thought. "Well, maybe I need to stay
through the transition", and He said, " No,
the season is over", so I don't know what I did
to Harry and Carol and Sam, but I wrote that night in
a letter of recommendation that I was finished.
I've been told that they thought that
I was a little abrupt. It is a new day and there are
new people and the fervor is even more intense than
what it was and that is great. I haven't stopped praying
and I never probably will for this County and for these
pastors. The greatest revelation that came to me was
at one of the summit's and at the end they started to
pray what I call bullet prayers. One was praying for
the youth, one was praying for broken homes, one for
this and that, and the prayers shot out, and I thought,
"These are developers at the city gates.",
and where I once taught that our elders, if I were to
be sick, that I would call them to anoint me with oil,
with the whole body of Christ. That's what it is and
that's who we are, so bless you.
(Harry Skandera)
Your heart has been poured out for
God and for His purposes in our city. Your words before
His throne have been as Gold refined in the fires of
intercession for God's leaders and their families. On
behalf of Pastors Prayer, Sam and Harry. (clapping)
This is very important. It is said
that faith grows in the soil of gratitude. As we are
gathered here tonight as the body of Christ in Sonoma
County, we have people here from many different congregations
and cities, in that spirit, I would like you to come
and express your thanks to Annette.
You don't have to say anything. If
you do, you'll have to keep it short, perhaps a thank
you of a hand shake or a hug, or some other short phrase,
because there are quite a few of us here, but more importantly
I would like you to bless Annette by touching her. If
you would touch here hand or give her a high five, but
if you would come and let her receive your gratitude
and thanks from the body of Christ in Sonoma County.
(Sam Tillery)
Now, what this is tonight is what the
passage of scripture we read earlier, we are to be thankful.
We are to remember, not once someone is dead, so let's
remember to do this on a regular basis to one another
daily. We need it daily and this is what true community
really is.
The community of the body of Christ
laboring together. We need to come out of our closets
and into the streets with our praise and into the courts
with thanksgiving for one another and not just think
it, but express it. We thank you Annette and thank you
for being in prayer for us.
(Harry Skandera)
One thing we realized as we've been
getting together with the city of Petaluma and began
to do more with them, is that there are some things
that you kind of learn as you go.
About a year and a half ago the city
of Petaluma invested their intercessors as kind of a
formal thing and our intercessors in Santa Rosa immediately
began to say, " Where is ours", and we realized
that we are kind of learning and so tonight we want
to take a few moments to set apart a number of the intercessors
who have been serving with pray Santa Rosa for some
time and continue to do so.
We are in a very critical time and
one of the things that we have learned, sometimes we
stumble into some things in our ignorance, but they
don't remain that way. Many years ago our daughter Hannah
was running in track and she did pretty well, so we
had gone to a state-wide meet. When we got there, Hannah
went off to go to the warm up area with the other runners
in her race. Not much later, she had come back to Carol
and I with these big eyes and said, " Dad, those
girls down there are mean". I said, " well,
you've just gone into a different level of competition",
and I say that tonight, because we want to lay hands
on the intercessors that are in place, because part
of what their prayer and intercession has brought us
to is another level of need for intercession and prayer
and also the awareness that we need to protect, cover
and commission in a very specific way the people that
are asking to be set apart for this critical ministry.
So Diane, will you come please. There
are many here tonight, because of the occasion that
has stirred in the past and we certainly really appreciate
and acknowledge that we couldn't be where we are at
without what you have done. What we want to do here
tonight is set apart those who are praying right now
and have been for a while. I am going to ask Diane if
you would, call those Intercessors from Santa Rosa up
and we want to lay hands on them.
(Diane)
Calling forth of those Intercessors who are present.
(Harry Skandera)
We have asked Diane to in some ways
serve in the role that Annette has for these past 8
years and one of the things that we are beginning to
understand a little bit better is that there are different
sphere's and layers of some of the intercession that
goes on. I would like the pastors who are here tonight
to come up and let's see if we can get the intercessors
to come gather up here and we will get behind you. Now,
what we are going to do is to go down this line, one
by one, and the pastors that are here are going to bless
and to ask God's protection and covering on each of
the intercessors by name.
(Prayer)
Father God, as we are surrounded by
such a great cloud of witnesses, we stand before you
now, in this place in our city and we lift these ones
before you Lord. As we commission them by name, Lord
we pray that your mantel for this place, your heart
for this city and the cities in which they live will
fall upon them in a greater way. We speak a release
from their individual congregation Lord, we know that
they will remain in those congregations, but in how
ever much is fitting Father, we pray that they would
be released unto the Church of Sonoma County. Lord,
that you would give them a vision and a heart for the
cities and this place.
(Prayer for Intercessors)
(Harry Skandera)
We really appreciate all of you who
are here and how important it is to bear witness to
this and be a part of it. Sometimes something's just
must be done. California is now at what we believe to
be the eleventh hour. It is significant that we would
be investing our intercessors and taking the time that
is needed to do what must be done.
Ezekiel 9:4, I the Lord said to him,
" Go through the midst of the city, even through
the midst of Jerusalem and put a mark on the foreheads
of all of those who sigh and groan over all of the abominations
that are being committed in it's midst.
Joel 2:12-14, " Even now, Declares
the Lord, Return to me with all your heart, with
fasting and weeping and mourning." Rend your heart
and not your garments. Return to the Lord your God,
for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger
and abounding in love, and he relents from sending calamity.
Who knows? He may turn and have pity and leave behind
a blessing - grain offerings and drink offerings for
the Lord your God.
It is interesting tonight, this Friday night all over
this nation there are night watches. They are beginning
to spring up every Friday night here, throughout the
state and throughout our country. We made reference
in our prayer to the cloud of witnesses, there is something
a-foot, even in America. There is more prayer right
now than what I have been aware of than in at least
the last 40 years. It is an exciting time. It is so
fitting that we be at Hope Chapel West, because everybody's
eyes are on California.
Because everybody knows that the way we go is the
way that the United States will go. That is a scary
thought which drives us to our knees. When you think
of it, give thanks to Him for those who have been set
apart to intercede, but pray for them as well and join
them in prayers for our city.
( Sam Tillery)
In just a moment we are going to transition
and pray for Hope Chapel West and hear their vision
and some of their challenges and pray into that. Before
we shift though, Our heart has been as we've prayed
as pastors and churches, that God would bring us together.
Not just to be praying together, but in functional ministry
and we are seeing that happen.
Something happens not just when you
pray together, but when you begin to do ministry together,
let me give you one example. For a number of years,
Rob Thomerson and I as pastors prayed together with
the rest of the pastors and a few years back we were
kind of launched out from here and we partnered together.
Each of us had a country we were laboring in, in regards
to missions.
Rob was supporting some missions work
in Russia and myself in Latvia, both are adjacent countries,
and so we decided to travel together from two different
churches and minister in the country in which each one
of us had been ministering in. I have to say what an
incredible blessing that was for me and an incredible
testimony to those in the countries that they saw two
pastors from two different churches serving together
and spoke about what God was doing here. As we spoke
about City Reach Prayer and uniting the body together.
As I was reflecting on Rob and his
wife Donna who believe that the Lord is calling them
to the mission field in Russia and they leave and are
appointed on the 15th of this month and will be leaving
us. I would like us to pray for Rob tonight. I want
to put it in the context that for me, it hit me that
I am excited for what God is calling them to, but I
feel a loss, so I get this dual thing going on. That
loss comes from a relationship in prayer and a relationship
in physically laboring in various ministry projects
together and then traveling to countries from which
we both individually.
Independent of one another, began to
love and have a heart for. I would love to tell you
some about those countries, but the point for right
now is that they are about relationship. I am only just
illustrating personally what is happening in this county
that started way back with intercessors praying for
healing for pastors and against the independence that
we had lived in and that we would see that we are inter-dependent.
Our desire is to continue to labor
together in the future together, even though you may
be a thousand miles east of Moscow and we will see each
other on missions. We are planning to be a part of what
he is doing there, not only in our prayers, but physically
going. I am going to ask Rob to come on up and I want
us to pray for him as he moves forth as one of us. It's
not like he is leaving us, he is just now our Sonoma
County missionary to Russia. Do you want to say something
before we pray?
(Rob)
I just want to make it clear that we
are only being appointed on November 15th, not leaving,
so we will be here for one more City Reach Prayer. I
want you to know that, because we are going as Southern
Baptist missionaries, denominational missionaries, but
I want you to know that one of our assignments has been
to go and initiate prayer in the city. We really do
see ourselves going to cover various different levels.
One of the key levels we are going to do is to do what
God has already sown into this city of three million
people in Russia. By the way, we are going as your missionaries,
not just Southern Baptist missionaries. We are going
to continue to sow into that city what you have already
sown into it and it is the highest honor and privilege
to represent you and go there in your behalf.
(Prayer for Rob and Donna)
(Sam Tillery)
For years, part of my heart has been
to not only see that we unite locally, but we carry
it into all of the spheres of our ministries and missions
is a part of that. For about 7 years we have been taking
folks into Latvia from Sonoma County, probably about
15 different churches and ministries that participated.
The purpose in that is to bring unity
and a greater synergy in power and influence when we
unite in an area, a local area that we can come together,
so certainly the heart is that that would spread into
many other things and areas for which others have a
heart for and can be in that. I want to invite you,
not as a personal invitation from one church, but for
the purpose of unity in missions.
Many of you have expressed a desire
to go to Latvia and are not able to, well we have 6
Latvians coming on the 15th and I would like to introduce
you to them. I will pass out this little flier and it's
a dessert and we would like you to come and meet them
and hear from them. The President of Bridge Builders
International in Latvia, a former member of parliament
and director of human rights, has come to Christ and
has a strong testimony and will speak about the unity.
One of my prayers is that God will
also use that to connect with our Mayor, that this city
will adopt the city in Latvia. A partnership because
we have a spiritual partnership. Now let's draw the
city into understanding these things, so we have invited
the mayor and we'll see if she comes. I want to open
an invitation to you to catch more of the heart of what
Latvia is about.
The fact that we have been connected
in an endeavoring to unite together, so it's an evening
with a nice dessert, so if you want to kind of dress
up a little bit and bring friend that would be great.
Thomas Kincade, the famous painter of light is a supporter
of Latvia and the work there. He has painted 5 paintings
of Latvia and has given us permission and we'll be bringing
them and they will be on display at Foothills that night.
So if you want them and if you would like to purchase
them you can do that as well. One hundred thousand dollars
each, but the proceeds go to the ministry in Latvia.
We also want to invite you to the next trip to Israel
on May 2 2006.
A great relationship begins to develop
as you travel together and minister together and hear
from the Lord together and we want to open that up to
you, but there is only room for 45 people. So
we can fit into one bus, myself, Rosemary Schindler,
Miles and Catherine Weiss, and the blessing is that
Pastor Ben, a Native American from Round Valley will
be traveling with us as well. So if you are interested
go ahead and just e-mail me and I will give you the
details. Russ, would you come and share with us your
heart for this ministry. Give us some bullet points
as to how we can pray and maybe some challenges so that
we can see God break those things.
(Pastor Russ)
First off, my wife and I are very humble
that you would come to our house. This is God's house,
but He has asked us to watch over it and we are thankful
that you are here. There are some treats on the tables
out there, so stick around and enjoy fellowship with
one another.
The church is nearing it's fifth anniversary
of being planted on this side of town. It was July of
last year that God had put a burden on Terry and my
heart that we should step into pastoring this church
and it has been a roller coaster ever since. We have
seen the sweetness of serving and the bitterness of
serving.
Terry and I are committed to making
certain that the reason that God planted this church
was so that the people on the West side of town could
hear the Lord. They could hear the name of the Lord
Jesus Christ and let them know that He loves them. He's
not angry with them and that He has a home for them.
Our vision has always been and I am a former youth pastor.
I love kids which is a transition that someday I will
share with you my background, we have two grown kids.
But we look at the fact that the youth that the Lord
has allowed us to touch and bless, are our additional
kids.
Our burden in this church is that families
would be saved. We have a lot of lost kids out there,
dysfunctional homes, no homes. What you would consider
to be a normal home are lost. Society is lying to them
and this world is stealing them one by one and I am
not willing that any should parish. I believe that someone
else said that.
Our prayer is that the youth and families
of Sonoma County would come to see Hope Chapel West
as their home. That would be one of the things we would
like to pray about. We have been blessed and challenged
with this beautiful building. We have been here nearly
our entire life. We came here 6 months after we planted
the church and again it has been both a blessing and
a curse, if you will forgive me for saying so. It's
a wonderful large building, it's a wonderful large rent
and we are feeling called by the Lord that we are to
leave. But we do not know where. He has not revealed
to us where we are to go. He has very specifically spoken
to us at one time that this was our home. That this
is where He wanted to grow Hope Chapel West and start
it's root. That vision has began change and we don't
know where that leaves us.
So that leads me to the second point
that we can pray into that. Yes, this is the church
that He had given us, but church as usual is not
working. Something has got to be different. We
are the third church that has been in this building
and they haven't left because they grew too big for
this building. So perhaps there is a spiritual measure
that has to be prayed out as well.
Finally, I would like to pray that
we the body would have the strength to get out of our
seat. We didn't get called to fellowship with one another
alone. We got called to fellowship with them, that it
is not this house that we get called to fellowship.
So I would just pray for the strength for us, our body
to feel led to step out those doors.
I think that there is a great deal
of fear in what is involved in going out and calling
on people and calling their name and letting them know
that Jesus loves them, so those would be the bullet
points. For Terry and I, just for strength. I am bi-vocational
and my time is as limited as you can imagine. I have
got a wonderful team, in fact most of my team is here
supporting me and holding me up and carrying me. So
I have been praying just for unity between Terry and
I and what God would have for us. We have an adult child
and one left in high school and we pray for their protection
as well.
If I could be selfish on this last
point, our son 3 years ago was diagnosed with a very
serious disease and we believe that God is healing him.
He is now only on 1/3 of the medication that he started
on two years ago, almost 3, and he has had no further
sign of symptoms and no increase of symptoms. So we
believe that the hand of God is moving on our son Nick.
This coming Thursday on Dec.10th at 8:00 a.m., he will
have a medical procedure that will reveal to the doctors
exactly what is happening to his heart. And just how
much we believe he is improving will be know by the
doctors, so on a selfish level, I pray for complete
healing. I also would love to share the joy with a Jewish
doctor who doesn't believe what I believe. I want that
day when he comes out saying, "I can't believe
what I just saw", that's what we want, so thank
you.
(Harry Skandera)
Would everyone who is here from Hope
Chapel please stand up. Ok, this might require some
math ability. We want to split each one of these folks
up into a small prayer group. Ok, so we have our four
points of prayer.
Now, make sure that you pray in such
a way that everybody gets some air time, not just one
person. I know that the Holy Spirit will help you with
that. In a city such as ours, which part of it's spiritual
DNA and diversity, one of the things that I believe
that the Lord is saying that fits in with your mission
statement, to get out there, is that your rent is out
there. We told our daughters, one is married and the
other two are still waiting, and I told that as they
keep seeking the purposes of God, that he (a husband)
will be there.
Sometimes we can get distracted by
our need, when we just need to keep pursuing the destiny
that God, because it's on the road ahead. The fact that
this church is struggling with rent and relocating is
something that has happened in so many churches and
you know, we are standing with you.
(Prayer )
I know that this ceremony went a little
long tonight, but it was so necessary. If we had to
take 5 hours, we are doing something that needs to be
done and actually there is scripture that speaks to
the fact. That if you receive a prophet as a prophet,
then you receive a prophet's reward.
When we receive the intercessors as
intercessors as we have tonight in each group, this
was a heavy intercessors night, we all receive the blessing
of that, so we are going to close with a song.
Just a couple of reminders, if you
wish to give an offering to Pastor's Prayer and Ministry
Alliance, that's who you make the check out to and Sam's
got something for you to put that check in or he'll
find something.
Sam and I are you know... We never
remember to take an offering for City Reach, so we're
always getting in a little bit of trouble (ha, ha, ha).
The other thing, this Latvia reception isn't Sam's deal,
this is something that the Lord has put on many hearts.
I work at Santa Rosa Christian School and we have two
Latvian exchange students at our school this year as
a result of our trip there. We will be going again this
next summer, but I just want to encourage you that,
you may never go to Latvia. But you ought to touch this
people and the Russians that were there as well, so
thank you for coming and make sure to check the website,
each month churchofsonomacounty.org/
to find out where the next City Reach Prayer meeting
will be held and may God richly bless you.
Special Thanks to Christelle Eddy
who transcribed this document.
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