All past newsletters and home page articles are now being archived on the News page. You can now go to this page directly using the new shortcut news.phoenixhousechurch.org .

Join the discussion onThe Joshua Tree blog. Your comments on topics of interest to the house church community are welcome. You can now go to this page directly using the new shortcut blog.phoenixhousechurch.org .

A new Today's Verse feature has been added to the home page, with a new verse from scripture each day.

I am working on an interactive prayer room that will allow individuals to enter prayer requests or to commit to certain prayer times.

If you are not on the map, on the churches.phoenixhousechurch.org page, please email me the nearest main crossroads to where your house church meets so that we can get a marker on there. Wouldn't it be great to see the map covered with red markers showing hundreds of house churches in the Phoenix area?

Lastly, if your house church has a website, please send me the URL so that I can put a link on the website.

Here is an old photo of what was certainly a landmark in the Phoenix area until progress took over. You can get the idea of the era by the cars in the photo. I'm looking for what this is and where this was. Anyone who has grown up in this area should know this and anyone who is a transplant should easily be able to find it on the internet. If you think you can identify where this was, send me an email. Next month, I'll be sure to name the winner and/or the answer.

March 11 - Six house churches in the Phoenix area were represented in a leaders meeting held at Jeff Evilsizor's home. Everyone was updated on how groups are following through with thier plans. The next meeting will be April 8.

March 13 - The Phoenix house churches were represented in the House2house marketplace ministries conference call by Larry and Henry. The main topic of discussion was around the future of the House2House magazine. Also announced were the plans and dates for this years National House Church Conferences, in St. Louis and Denver.

March 20 - The battle is on for the Phoenix area. Join Big House as they mount a full scale prayer attack against the enemy that holds Phoenix hostage. They will be meeting every other Monday night at 7PM in the area of 7st and Greenway. Call Ralph at (602) 482-6414 or email him at Robclan@cox.net for more information.

March 21 -Mesa, Gilbert, and Tempe are also in heavy spiritual darkness. The house churches in the east valley will join their Phoenix brothers by mounting a second wave prayer attack on our enemy every other Tuesday night at 7PM. At this time, the location is to be determined but it will be a central location in the east valley. Call Larry at 602-524- 9400 or email him at ljoh3106@cox.net for information.

March 22 - An orientation to check out the Financial Peace University course will be held at New Life Church, 8155 W Thunderbird Rd, Peoria, AZ 85381. This is the Dave Ramsey course that teaches finance management including budgeting, getting out of debt, investing, insurance, etc. The material is simple, down-to- earth and Bible based. The class will be taught by Kevin and Sylvia Miller and will run April 5-June 28. Contact Kevin and Sylvia at smiller_gcu@yahoo.com for more information.

March 25 - NTRF House Church workshop. See below for full details.

April 1 - Big House is having a yard sale to raise money to help our persecuted brothers and sisters. All money raised will go to Voice of the Martyrs. If you would like to donate items call or email Darrell, 623-434-3334 or ninetytoes@i4f.net. And don't forget to go by Darrell's and buy as much as possible.

April 30 - Teen Challenge event in the east valley. Contact Henry for more information.

The workshop on the Biblical model for house church is right around the corner. If you plan to attend please contact Henry Staggs to register so that we can be sure to have enough food for everyone.

The workshop will be led by Steve Atkerson and Tim Melvin of the New Testament Restoration Foundation (NTRF) on Saturday March 25 from 8:30am to 5pm followed by a time of fellowship.

The location has been changed to Living Hope Baptist Church, 1619 S. Hardy Dr., Tempe, AZ. This is the same location as the house church gathering October 1, 2005.

Steve and Tim are arriving in Phoenix Friday afternoon and that night anyone interested in getting to know them better is welcome to join them for dinner in the Mesa or Tempe area. Contact Henry for more details.

If you like the website and newsletter, help support them by purchasing books and other Christian resources from Christianbooks.com. Since we are an affiliate, purchases have to be made from our website.

Also help support our community of house churches by supporting those that provide for their families through small or home based businesses. Goto our website to see those listed. If you have a small or home based business that you would like to list on our website, please contact Larry.

Dear Church,

Thanks for praying! I want to encourage you to be people of prayer for God's kingdom to expand. I returned home from San Diego yesterday afternoon and helped Debbie get our home ready for church that evening. We had a wonderful time as we experienced a deeper level of ministry, intimacy and the power of God. It was truly amazing. One person wrote these words to our house church this morning, "However, church last night seemed to be the closest thing I've ever experienced to what I understand about the functioning of the early church." Those are powerful words of hope, life and excitement. As great as last night was, this morning brought even more encouragement and ministry.

Hello housechurchfreaks in Arizona,

I just served around on your website Arizona housechuch- network and I felt at home. It is amazing to find out that all over the world a new time of church has began. And I feel very familiar with all the thinking and the way of churchlife you have.

My name is Richard and I life in Essen, a city in a 6 mil. area near Cologne, Düsseldorf,Dortmund, it is called the Ruhr Valley.

I`m part of a housechurch and a network of house churches their since 2002. Ì´m fulltime involved to work for the vision of house churches in my region and in Germany. ( www.taube-lebensdienst.de)

In the past years we had several seminars and housechuch days with, Wolfgang Simson, Neil Cole, Dick Scoggins and others. Next weekend we will have Keith Smith (OFI- ministries) on a house church conference.

So we got al lot of good international input. I`m glad to see how many house church networks you have in USA. In Germany we are in the beginning.

These days my team is working on a new website where you can see, what is going on in Germany, Austria and Swizzerland. ( www.hauskirchen.de) We want to build a new platform for connecting, information and communication about housechurches in the germanspeaking countries. Also we will bring, on the second level, an international view. Many greetings to your fellows from germany. God bless you.

Richard Schutty