Weekly fellowship

Dear parents and serving ones,

We will be having our first coordination meeting to pray and coordinate for this year's Summer Bible Camp (“SBC”) on Lord's Day, March 30 at 3pm at Hall 1. Please plan on attending this time. We will be going over the burden of SBC and introducing the different service groups for everyone to sign up.

Summer Bible Camp is a special in-person camp from June 9-14, for children in grades K-6 in the fall. Since it is mainly supported and carried out by parents, we ask that all parents sign up to help in one or more of the services. Some services can be done before the actual camp begins in preparation and some can be done the week of the camp. This is a sweet time for all the families in the church in Irvine to care and shepherd the next generation.

We look forward to our time together,

The children's meeting serving ones

There will be an English-speaking gospel dinner at Hall 1 on Friday, May 9th, starting at 6:30 pm. We need strong prayers for the Lord’s blessing on this meeting, and for His preparation of the hearts of those who will be invited. Let us also seek the Lord to show us who are the ones He is moving in at this time, so that we may cooperate with the Lord in contacting them. More details will follow in the coming weeks.

We would like to announce that this year’s International Memorial Day Blending Conference will be held in Phoenix, AZ, from Friday, May 23, through Monday, May 26, 2025. We would like to extend an invitation to all the churches and individuals to participate in this gathering.

The meeting schedule is as follows:
1st meeting: Friday, May 23........................................... 7:30 PM
2nd meeting: Saturday, May 24................................... 10:00 AM
3rd meeting: Saturday, May 24...................................... 7:30 PM
4th meeting: Lord’s Day, May 25...................................9:30 AM
5th meeting: Lord’s Day, May 25................................... 7:30 PM
6th meeting: Monday, May 26..................................... 10:00 AM

All the meetings will be held at the Sheraton Phoenix Downtown, Phoenix Grand Ballroom, located at 340 North 3rd Street, Phoenix, AZ 85004 and will be open to the public. There will be translation into Chinese, Korean, Spanish, and Portuguese. Some additional languages may also be included.

Lodging: Sheraton Phoenix Downtown

There is a special group rate of $129.00 USD per night plus tax for single and double occupancy rooms, a $20.00 USD fee per person, per night will be applied for triple and quadruple occupancy rooms. For room reservations, please call 866-837-4213 and request the Living Stream Ministry group rate. To make online reservations at the special group rate, please go to: https://book.passkey.com/e/50863439.

Reservations must be made on or before April 28, 2025, in order to get this reduced rate. Check-in is 4:00 PM or earlier if rooms are available and check-out is 11:00 AM on May 26, 2025. An early departure fee of $129.00 USD will be charged for early check-out if the hotel was not notified of the change at check-in. 

Hotel website address: https://www.marriott.com/en-us/hotels/phxgp-sheraton-phoenixdowntown/overview/
A limited number of hotel rooms at the Living Stream Ministry group rate are set aside at the Sheraton Phoenix Downtown. Saints are encouraged to make their hotel reservations as early as possible in order to get the discounted rate. We would ask the saints to reserve only those rooms that they intend to use and to cancel their reservations as soon as possible if they are unable to attend the conference. Reserved rooms that are released after the cut-off dates listed below will not be available to the saints at the discounted rate.

Childcare: 

Care for children from Kindergarten through 6th grade will be provided during the conference meetings at the Sheraton Phoenix Downtown. Please register all children attending the conference online at Conference Childcare Registration: https://form.jotform.com/243344327979165.

All childcare registration submissions will receive an email confirmation with additional instructions. Please register all children no later than May 1, 2025.

Please pray that the Lord will take more crucial steps in the advancement of His purpose during this gathering.

Both the live and archived messages of the 2025 International Memorial Day Blending Conference will be available to view at lsmwebcast.com. The LSM Webcast site, lsmwebcast.com, will not require login credentials to access the messages of the conference. The videos of the messages will be available for free for a period of 30 days after the conference.

We hope that all the churches and all the saints will prepare for this upcoming time of ministry and fellowship and will sanctify these days for the hearing of faith among us everywhere. Please pray for His blessing upon this conference. May it turn out to be a memorial among us to the shame of God’s enemy and to the glory of God’s grace!

The church in Madrid, Spain, would like to purchase a house next door to its meeting hall for approximately $1.5 million, that would, together with the meeting hall and a second neighboring house already purchased and owned by the church, give the church possession of an entire city block. By such consolidating the ownership of the whole block, the church anticipates multiplying its capacity to host conferences and receive hospitality for the purpose of blending, since Madrid plays a central role in the Lord’s move in Europe’s Iberian Peninsula.  If you are burdened to make a donation to be applied towards the purchase of this house in Madrid, you can do so directly or through the church in Irvine’s website by designating your offering as being for the “Madrid House”. For the full letter from the church in Madrid, please click here.

Offerings to the church in Irvine can now be made via Zelle.

The church’s Zelle account is: Zelle@churchinirvine.org

The benefit of making offerings by Zelle is that there are no transaction fees charged to the church. If the offering is for a particular matter please designate that in the memo field.

If your Zelle limit is below the offering amount you would like to give, it is often possible to raise that limit by requesting that your bank increase your transaction limit.

IMPORTANT NOTE: For those already using Zelle related to other matters (e.g., paying rent for corporate housing), you should continue using the same Zelle address as before.

For any questions please email offering@churchinirvine.org. (Note: Do not Zelle funds to this email address)

Registration is now open for the 2025 July semiannual training which will be held in-person for both the Live Training at Anaheim and the Webcast of the Live stream at Irvine Hall 1 for the English, Chinese and Korean languages. Please review carefully when filling out the updated registration forms.

Locations:

• Live Training at Ministry Conference Center, 2431 W. La Palma Ave., Anaheim, CA
• Webcast/Video Training in Irvine at Hall 1, 4252 Irvine Center Drive:
  • English – Main Hall (Foyer/Courtyard side A)
  • Chinese – Main Hall (Main entrance/Culver side B)
  • Korean – Multi-Purpose Room

Dates and times: Monday, June 30—Saturday, July 5 (4:00pm and 7:30pm daily)

Registration Donation:

• Live Training in Anaheim: $210 per seat (Outline book included)
• Webcast in Irvine: $135 per seat (Outline book included)

LAST DAY to register: April 27, 2025

• No additions after due date for the Live Training in Anaheim.
• Webcast late fee of $25 may apply.

Please read and review the following important items as reminders and updates to the registration:

• There should be one account login per registration. (Couples or families should have separate logins).
• Full-time means you intend to attend all the meetings.
• Part-time (Live or Video) means you will attend the meetings which you have selected to attend based
  on your schedule. You can only be marked excused or absent from the meetings you selected. You are
  allowed to attend any of the unselected meeting(s). The registration forms will list the meetings to be
  selected when the part-time option is selected.
• Full-time shared seat: A part-time shared seat is not allowed. Any shared seat must be occupied full-
  time. Therefore, it may be a better option to register for two part-time seats for flexibility rather than
  trying to fill a full-time shared seat.
• Live Training Registration:
  • The Irvine registration form will record the shared seat name and part-time meetings, if applicable.
  • The corresponding LSM registration form will record the registration with LSM for the Live training.
  • Both forms are needed to complete the registration.
  • The leading brothers will review and approve the list of registrants attending the Live training.
• Age restriction: All those who participate in the semiannual trainings must now be 18 years old and
  over (at the time the training begins), without exception. This applies to registrants for the live trainings
  in Anaheim and for all the video trainings.

REGISTRATION INSTRUCTIONS:

Login at churchinirvine.org.

• If you need a new account, click Register new account.
• If you forgot your password click Forgot Password.
• Go to “My Account” then press “Registration” category button
• Select +Webcast or +Live registration from the drop-down menu:
• Click “Begin Registration...” to go to the appropriate registration form: Fill out the form(s) and required fields. Make sure to click “Submit” at the end of the forms to complete your registration.

Receive Email Confirmations (check spam or junk folder if not received in inbox) for confirmation on
your registration details and to ensure you are properly registered. For the Live training, you also should receive an email from LSM along with a payment link. If you did not receive an email confirmation, this maybe an indication you inputted the wrong email address in the email field. Please contact training
registration to correct the email.

Registration changes or updates: You may return to “My Account,” then “Registration” to make updates or
changes to your registration or to submit your donation at a later time. You will notice that the button
has changed to “Update” so you know you have registered properly.

For saints who are unable to login to register, problems or questions regarding registration please
email: training_registration@churchinirvine.org