The Good News Email Of August 22, 2010

On Sunday evenings, many of the Evangelists and Women’s Ministry Leaders in the SoldOut Movement graciously send me their “good news” for the week. On Monday mornings, I compile the most exciting of the reports and send them out to all of our leaders around the world. This keeps us connected and encouraged by the Spirit of God working in our family of churches. The following is this past week’s “Good News Email!” KM

Dear All,
Greetings from Los Angeles! This week the Lord added to our number four baptisms, one restoration, and one very special place membership – Tia Taylor, the daughter of Chris & Tiffany Taylor! Also, we sent 12 disciples from the “OC” Region and five disciples from the East Region to form a new House Church in the Inland Empire. This will be led by the newly married Coltin and Mandee Rohn. Prayerfully, by January, we will recognize it as our sixth region! Also, joining Shay Vloet, Chenelle Blair, and Ricky Challinor as our Campus/Singles interns, the Spirit chose three more to serve Him as part-time interns: Coltin Rohn, Coleen Untalan, and Brittany Bell, the current Miss Arizona – baptized in January in Phoenix! Even after sending-out the London Mission Team, God is multiplying our disciples, our Bible Talks (25 Campus Bible Talks), our regions, and our full-time staff! And to God be the glory!

The Spirit continues to use the Jubilee…

Matt Sullivan of Santiago, Chile: The church is being radically transformed! After “counting the cost” with every member, we have lost some time – but “vale la pena” (Spanish for “it’s worth it”), because we are seeing a totally new church! Each leader is different, each member is different, and the spirit of the church is absolutely distinct! Today, we did a “mini Jubilee” here in Santiago. We started the service with Rob Onekea’s EXODUS video that opened the Jubilee, and Carlitos (son of Carlos Gallardo our shepherd-in-training) made subtitles for the video. It was absolutely incredible! I was concerned that they wouldn’t “get it,” but just like at the Jubilee, our NEW church applauded, whistled and yelled and was super fired-up with the naming of each city where we have a church! It was like being in LA (only a tiny bit smaller!) They loved it and so many spoke about their dreams afterwards that had been lost and are now recovered! After all eleven disciples that went to the Jubilee shared, I then gave the same sermon Kip gave – called: La Tierra Prometida En El Segundo Intento – The Promised Land On The Second Try! The response was amazing! Several older disciples came up to me afterwards just crying with renewed dreams for God and the kingdom. In our leaders meeting right afterwards, the brothers and sisters shared their hearts like never before, and to a person, each now has their dream to either go and plant another city or make the Santiago Church the pillar church necessary to evangelize South America and Latin America! Truly, God’s movement is moving!

Chris & Theresa Broom of Chicago: What a week! On Tuesday, as our brother Carl Buckner exited the train, there was gunfire at the subway station. Carl ran and avoided being shot himself, but later this week his friend Tosin was shot and killed. Carl had shared his faith with him and hugged him just the day before, but Tosin wasn’t open and didn’t want to be preached to. Thankfully, two married men were open and did get baptized this week! First, on Tuesday night, Mario was baptized. Mario is the husband of Melania, who was baptized a couple of months ago. Then Daniel was baptized at church today and many of his family members were there to see it! Also, our web deacon Joe Chiappetta informed us today that there were 533 hits on Chicagoicc.org this week from 40 different countries!
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