We're Here Baby!!!

We are in California! It is official.



We arrived on the night of August 14th and it is now August 25. In these ten days lots of great things have happened.



First of all, we are currently staying in Meire and Kent's house in Anaheim (Meire is my mom's best friend). It has been really fun being with them. They are family to me and now to Brooke also. Their son Rafael is coming from Philadelphia to visit for one week, so that will be awesome.



The first day we were here I called Tim Fish, my former youth pastor, to see if they were going to join in prayer with The Call DC via God TV and it so happened that they were. Also, Tim just so happened to be doing business near Orange County, so he came by and picked us up. We spent the whole weekend with them.

Saturday was The Call, so Brooke, Tim, Bev Fish, and I joined in for the full 12 hours of prayer and fasting. IT was GLORIOUS!!! From 7 am to 7 pm we were completely united in fervent prayer together with The Call. God truly moved.



Furthermore, upon arriving we began hearing about several different prophecies that have been declared over California in the past couple months, by several major prophets. All of the prophecies have been of judgement on the whole state of CA, but especially San Francisco and the Bay Area. IN fact, just before we had arrived in CA 7 CALL solemn assemblies were held all throughout the state crying out for mercy and revival in CA. The moment we crossed the border of CA and drove in we felt that the Heavens were open over this place and this is exaclty where God wants us to be at this time. And now after hearing these prophecies we are even more certain.



We went to Jubilee Church that Sunday and it was totally awesome. The message given by Pastor Steve was so powerful and mature. I was truly blown away. As a youth I hadn't appreciated his sermons so much, but now as an adult I can see why. His sermons are so mature that it takes several years of following Jesus in order to be able to relate to them.



We hung out with several of my old friends from my youth group in CA and had some good time catching up with each other.



I felt like Jubilee could be the church God wanted us to be with even though I wasn't 100% sure, but Brooke didn't feel like this was the church. We felt like many people in Jubilee were our family, but that it wasn't necessarily the church God wanted us to work with for IPO



Which brings me to another point. Brooke and I have been praying and we have decided to change the name of the organization to Global Gospel Movement. We feel like Itinerant Preacher Organization is too boring and sounds to much like an organization. We don't want this to be an organization. We want this to be a Movement and thus the name change. Please give us feed back about what you think.



Moreover, I have been writing like crazy trying to complete this book, but the more I write the more I realize that this is gonna take a lot longer than I thought. I'm pretty much rewriting everything again.



Brooke has been learning a bunch of graphic design stuff, making beats on reason, and helping me with the organization's website. She's loving California.



Also, on Tuesday we went to a church called Expression 58 who's pastor is Shawn Bolz. The name comes from Isaiah 58 (read it) . The church was absolutely AMAZING!!! Brooke said that AMy would love it. The worship was amazing, the preaching was absolutely glorious, the people were super cool, and they had a woman painting during the worship who painted the most beautiful painting I've ever seen in my life right before my very eyes. I am not exaggerating. She even has a website where she sells prints of her paintings. They're amazing. Check them out at: http://www.janethyun.com/

The church is only one year old and it already has more than 200 people. It's supernatural. We were able to talk with Shawn Bolz and another church leader named Jesse. It was great.



Again, we loved the church, but this time both of didn't feel like this was the church for us. However, we are certain that we will be working together with them.



On Thursday night Meire was having a graduation for a 10 month counseling class she took at Saddleback Church and she invited us. We went and it was amazing. The graduation was more awesome and powerful than any college or high school graduation that I've ever been too. Even though this was not a regular service we again felt that this was not the church God wanted us to be at.



Saturday was our Six Month Anniversary, so we celebrated all day long. I took Brooke to Laguna Beach, which is the prettiest beach in Orange County and then we went to an spectacular Art Festival in Laguna Beach. What's really cool is that all the artists are local artists from the Laguna Beach area, but what's not so cool is that everything is so, so expensive.

In the evening, we went to the movies at The Block, the coolest mall in Orange County. But before we watched a movie Brooke had to have her shopping spree at Old Navy and then checked out Forever 21 too.



Then came Sunday (i.e. yesterday). We went to Pasadena to visit Harvest Rock Church. The moment we stepped into the Lobby of the church we immediately felt the presence of the Holy Spirit and we felt an immediate connection. Immediately, we knew that this was our church, our family. Within one minute we were already plugged into a cell group of newlywed couples and met several on fire young people. The church is definitely the most diverse church I've ever seen in my life. The Senior Pastor is Korean, the next pastor is American, the Worship leader is black, the second worship leader is Latina, the back up vocalist is Asian, and the musicians were all white. The church is a fairly even mix of whites, Asians, blacks, and hispanics. The worship was off the chain. We danced like crazy. The guest speaker was Bulgarian and he was totally awesome. If you were new they gave you a free CD of a preaching and they would pray over you and prophesy over you. It was awesome.



Harvest Rock Church is the church that Lou Engle was a pastor at and the church that helped him birth The Call. They were founded in 1994 and now have established 5,000 churches in 35 nations. They are totally on fire. The Pastor Che Ahn just recently began having a tv show on GODTV. The church has at least 1,000 members and has 400 cell groups. It's bumpin' man.



So after the service we prayed and sought God by a brook next to the church and then we went to the night service at 5:30. There we danced even crazier. Brooke and I are really sore today as a result.



So we are overjoyed that God has shown us which church to be a part of and now we are praying for God open the doors to give us a great place to live near the church. And Pasadena is a gorgeous area, so we really need a miracle to move there. Please pray for us concerning this. We know that this is the next big miracle God is going to do in our lives. So we are excited.



Please pray for God to bring around us a team of wise men and women of God to help us establish the Global Gospel Movement.



We love all of you guys very much



Your Friends,

Joshua and Brooke Carvalho