~Coming Soon! **WD Conference - Foreign Missions Service May 11th, 2010

Western District Conference - Centro Vida United Pentecostal Church, Stockton, CA 95205

Tuesday May 11th, 2010 - Foreign Missions Service

Don't miss the Foreign Missions service.  It is going to be exciting, moving, anointed and powerful. 

Exciting things will begin to happen immediately as the service gets under way; a professional video presentation highlighting the nations of our world, and a flag procession. Missionary James Corbin from Bangaldesh and Missionary Ron Brian from Haiti will be joining us live from their field of labor by the way of Skype. You don't want to miss these powerful presentations.

Also, there are two missionaries traveling in our district who will be in our conference and they will be speaking to us about their burden for missions.

The choir from Bro. Shiver's church will be providing annointed music and singing during the service.

Because we are a part of God's economy we are expecting to receive one of the best offerings ever as we give to "...a greater CAUSE worthy of greater SACRIFICE!"

Bro. Shutes will be our speaker for the evening...we are anticipating great things from God!

More information below:

From the field live by way of Skype - Bro. Ron Brian/Haiti

From the field live by way of Skype - Bro. James Corbin/Bangladesh (from the Western District)

Traveling in the Western District and attending our Conference are the following missionaries:

Bro. and Sis. Joseph Collins/Portugal

Bro. and Sis. Richard Lucas/Japan, Military District and Asia

Our evening speaker and missionary to Belarus/Baltic Republics - Bro. Mark Shutes

~Turmoil and Terror in Thailand - Pray for our missionaries

They've invaded a hospital, messed with TV signals, blocked highways, stopped public transit, frightened sick women and children, threatened arson, committed terrorism, kidnapped people, taunted police, closed shopping malls, ruined the tourism industry, poured blood on the streets,  stolen bodies, barricaded public roads, cost thousands of people their jobs, intimidated politicians, harassed citizens, fought the army. This has gone on for 2 months. The governments latest strategy? They're going to send SMS messages to all the protestors asking them to stop.


Bro. Ed Simmons, missionary to Thailand

Please keep our missionaries in your prayer!

From "Our Heritage" 1975

The following is taken from the Western District "Our Heritage" published in 1975

Azusa street ignited a flame that soon began to encircle the globe.  Dedicated hearts began to cast off material ambitions and walk a new path, that of a missionary.  Ships set sail from various western ports carrying more than ordinary cargo, for on board were the bearers of light - the light of the Holy Ghost and baptism in Jesus Name.

Leaving with nothing more than a handshake and a solemn promise of prayer, these pioneers practiced faith in its truest form.  For the most part God was their only 'Partner in Missions," but they were persuaded that what He had promised, He was also able to perform!

What Will Matter...

Ready or not, some day it will all come to an end.

There will be no more sunrises, no minutes, hours or days.

All the things you collected, whether treasured or forgotten will pass to someone else.

Your wealth, fame and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance.

It will not matter what you owned or what you were owed.

Report from Portugal by William Markham

Bro. Robert Rodenbush

It is always good to have our Regional Director, Robert Rodenbush, with us in Portugal.

Apostolic Movement in Mainland China

From Impact Asia -March 2010 by Xenn Seah

This month’s newsletter is written by Brother Samuel Wang.  He is a powerful and dynamic student and preacher of the Gospel!

In the Book of Ecclesiastes, the author talks about time. For human beings, the reason that time is so significant is because we are transient.

Special Request for Prayer from Bro. and Sis. Jerry Richardson

A special request from Brother and Sister Jerry Richardson, missionaries who oversee Africa. I will type it verbatim as I received it.

Western District Network of Prayer
Denzil Holman, Prayer Coordinator


NIGERIA Pray for law and order to return in the Moslem north where two recent attacks by Moslems against Christians left over 800 Christians dead and many homes and churches destroyed.

Pray for a newly evangelized area where many wanted to be baptized, but lack of sufficient water prevented us from holding a baptismal service. (It is near the end of the dry season and rivers and streams in this area are completely dried up.) Four were transported several miles away to be baptized.