Weekly fellowship

We would like to warmly invite the working saints in Irvine to a picnic at the Turtle Rock Community Center (Multipurpose Room) on Saturday, November 23 from 4p - 7p. In the midst of busy schedules, we hope this would be a time to gather "with all those" for mutual encouragement, fellowship, and relatedness. Please feel free to also invite gospel friends and neighbors.

Where: Turtle Rock Community Center Multipurpose Room (1 Sunnyhill, Irvine, CA 92603)

When: Saturday, November 23rd, 4p - 7p

Who: Working saints and their families, but all saints are welcome to join. Feel free to also invite friends and neighbors.

In order to help us have a headcount for food, please RSVP here.

Heb. 10:24-25: And let us consider one another so as to incite one another to love and good works, Not abandoning our own assembling together, as the custom with some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more as you see the day drawing near.

Dear saints,

Beginning Thursday, October 10, we will resume the bi-weekly working saints fellowship with our brother Minoru. We have found these times to be so encouraging and supplying, and we look forward to the Lord's continued speaking for the building up of His Body and the preparation of His bride.
 
We hope that all of the working saints will endeavor to join these times of fellowship.
 
When: Every other Thursday (the next time is November 28)
Time: 8p - 8:30p
Location: Zoom 

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84029859454?pwd=TnlCdGg5R04waEZveFJtY3E4V2ljZz09
Meeting ID: 840 2985 9454
Password: amen

 
Heb. 10:25  Not abandoning our own assembling together, as the custom with some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more as you see the day drawing near.
On October 17, our dear brother Michael Stewart went to be with the Lord. He passed away peacefully, surrounded by his immediate family as well as his family from Dublin.
 
We would like to share with you some further information that will be posted on the church announcements in London and in the churches in Europe. We would like to let everyone know that Michael Stewart's smaller funeral is scheduled for 14 November and his larger memorial is scheduled for 18 November. The funeral will be by invitation on 14 November from 12:30pm to 1:30pm. There will also be an opportunity on 12 and 13 November to view Michael as he lays at rest. If you would like to view Michael on these dates, please contact Andy Dawber (+44 7944 690774; andy_dawber@yahoo.com) to arrange a time.
 
Saints will be able to watch the funeral online by using the following link which will remain available for 28 days after the funeral:
 
Username:  befo5100
Password:  494505
 
Michael's memorial on 18 November will be held from 1:00pm to 4:00pm at Woodland Camp. Although we would like to open the time to all the saints, it is possible that there will be some capacity constraints. In order to help us plan in a proper way, if you would like to attend the memorial in person, please complete the following form: https://forms.gle/M4zAm6hzk5yuLrTLA
 
Saints are invited to attend the memorial by Zoom using the following link:
 
Meeting ID:  857 9126 7623
Passcode:  1
 
We appreciate that as a fellow worker for the kingdom of God and a minister of Christ, Michael has touched and made an impact on many saints. However, we are also aware many of the saints will not have an opportunity to speak at Michael's memorial and so we would like to give an opportunity for any saints who would like to share their remembrance with the family. These remembrances may also be used for parts of the memorial meeting. If you would like to share something with the family, please use the following form: https://forms.gle/EPK8d8pJyLtuzzba6. Also, if anyone has any pictures of Michael, please send them to Becky (beckystewart@gmail.com). 
 
Much grace and thank you all for your support and prayers.
The church in Irvine will hold its next English-speaking gospel dinner on the evening of Friday, December 6th. Please save that date. May each of us be praying for the specific names of those the Lord is putting on our hearts to invite. An invitation flyer for this event may be accessed at this link:  https://www.churchinirvine.org/shepherdinggospel/. Please provide this link to your invitees. The flyer contains a link to the registration form. You can connect directly to the registration form from this page by clicking here:  https://tinyurl.com/registerDec62024.
 
We ask that all who will attend, both saints and guests, register in order to help with the planning for the gospel dinner. 
 
Finally, printed copies of the invitation flyer can be picked up at Hall 1.
 

We would like to announce that this year’s International Thanksgiving Blending Conference will
be held in Atlanta, GA, from Thursday, November 28 through Lord’s Day, December 1, 2024. 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: Thursday, November 28 ....................... 7:30 PM
  • 2nd meeting: Friday, November 29 .......................... 10:00 AM
  • 3rd meeting: Friday, November 29 ................................. 7:30 PM
  • 4th meeting: Saturday, November 30 ..................... 10:00 AM
  • 5th meeting: Saturday, November 30......................... 7:30 PM
  • 6th meeting: Lord’s Day, December 1 ........................9:30 AM

All the meetings will be held at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Atrium Ballroom, located at 265
Peachtree Center Avenue, Atlanta, GA 30303 and will be open to the public. There will be
translation into Chinese, Korean, Spanish, and Portuguese. Some additional languages may also be
included. Please see the attached information regarding the details of the conference.
Please pray that the Lord will take more crucial steps in the advancement of His purpose during
this gathering.

Further information can be found here.

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.

Praise the Lord for supplying the churches in Southern California with His rich speaking during this last weekend’s SoCal Labor Day Weekend Blending Conference!

Many of the saints has been requesting access to the recordings of this conference. You may access them here:

May the pneumatic Shepherd continue to feed the flock of God in Southern California to reproduce Himself in us organically as faithful shepherds to fulfill His purpose in and through us!

Since starting the Truth Pursuit program in March 2005, the church has covered 1,624 Life-Study messages at a relatively modest pace of 2 messages per week! Anyone following this program would have now read 81.85% of the 1,984 total messages in the Life-Studies, including both Old Testament and New Testament. At this pace, we will complete the Life-Studies in their entirety by sometime in 2026!

Reading two messages of the Life-Studies a week is very feasible. For instance, the Life-Study of Zechariah has 97 pages broken up into 15 chapters. This translates to slightly more than 2 pages of Life-Studies daily (assuming you read 6 days a week). Depending on the pace of reading, this could take roughly 5 minutes of your time each day.

Additionally, in order to assist your digestion of the Life-Study messages, the church can send you emails each week with study questions to direct your considerations for each Life-Study message. If you do not receive these emails currently, you are welcome to join the church’s email distribution list by clicking HERE and signing up to receive these emails.

Given the reasonableness of following the church’s truth pursuit schedule, we encourage all the saints to join in this corporate pursuit of the truth in the ministry together as we all seek to arrive at the oneness of the faith and of the full knowledge of the Son of God, at a full-grown man, at the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ! (Eph. 4:13)

To follow the current reading schedule, please refer to the schedule under the Truth Pursuit tab.

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)

Upcoming Events: Please see calendar here