Working for The Call California

We have been working full time for The Call California. Our official titles is "Assistant Director in Ventura County". However, the director, who is Marilyn Noorda, has delegated to us the full responsibility of mobilizing Ventura County to go to The Call. So in reality we have been the directors and I must say that we are honored to work with The Call and it has been a great experience.

We realize that this position was given to us by God and we are humbled and honored to be given such a responsibility. So Brooke and I have been working hard. We have been calling countless churches and handing out flyers to individuals and to churches who are responsive.

We got to preach in the Rio Mesa Bible Club of which I was the President of in 2003. When I was the President it was about forty people and now it is more than 100. Praise God!!! It was such a joy to be able to speak there. I invited them all to The Call and they all took tons of flyers and passed them out in their youth groups and churches. Also, we met an intern from South Coast Fellowship at the club. South Coast is doing some amazing things. They have four full time interns who go to all the Bible clubs in Ventura and Oxnard every week and help support the club financially, preaching there, buying them pizza every week, and training the leaders. It is amazing. So once Julia heard about The Call she told her church and all four of the interns started announcing it to all the Bible Clubs in Ventura and Oxnard! Amazing! And you know what's awesome. South Coast is under the covering of Larry Stockstill and they do D12 (i.e. G12). Praise God! They're rocking their city for Jesus. Pr. Pauline, the youth pastor, also just invited me to speak at their youth group once I finish working for The Call.

Another divine appointment was meeting with Pastor Danny Miller. Pastor Danny personally knows more pastors in Ventura County than any other person in the world really. God has used him to unite the churches of the county. God has also recently told him to run for Ventura County School Board. So Brooke and I have been helping him campaign and he helped us by giving us his entire email list of over 300 pastors in Ventura County. We emailed all of them about The Call and some of them have responded. We also talked with Pastor Danny about Global Gospel Movement and asked him to be one of our Advisors and an elder over us. He completely loved the vision and commited to advising us and helping us in every way he possibly can. He told us that he would do everything he can for us to have open doors to preach in the churches of Ventura County. WOW!

I also preached at the youth group in Jubilee twice, which was totally glorious. The youth were really impacted and it seemed like Andy, the youth pastor, has even been inspired to be more radical with the youth group.

Then it all culminated at the Camarillo Pre-Call Rally. Only about 90 people showed up, but it was so, so powerful that we didn't really care. We had several leaders come from all over the county. We had one strong hour of worship and then a powerful time of intercession for an hour and a half. Brooke helped lead worship and she sang a new song of hers. It was the most powerful song of the night and I'm not being bias. I had the privilege of leading the whole meeting by opening in prayer, leading the intercession, leading the offering, introducing the guest speaker, and closing the meeting. The speaker, Carlos Sarmientos, was totally awesome. I'll write more about him in another blog.

Now we are figuring out all of the carpool arrangements for people in Ventura County who are going to The Call. Brooke and I received an invitation to attend a reception with Lou and Therese Engle the day after The Call. They are inviting all the head mobilizers from around California to thank them for their efforts. That will be awesome. We're really looking forward to that.