- Please continue to pray the Luke 10:2b prayer asking God to send the house churches of Phoenix into His harvest field. Pray for spiritual renewal within the house churches of Phoenix.
- Praise God for those faithfully taking part in the Valley's Saturday Morning Mountain Top Prayer Campaign each month. Plan now to take part in the next one on September 1.
- Pray for our family members who don't know the Lord.
- Continue to pray for a new believer Ken. He struggles with alcohol and has slipped a few times since he made his decision to follow Jesus.
- Pray for Darrell K. and family. They are seeking God's will for them toward the starting of another church. Pray that God will lead them to the people of peace who will be strategic in bringing this Valley into the Kingdom.
- Pray for the next house church gathering in the valley. The weather will cool off soon and the fall is always a good time to get together.

Don't miss the Evangelism In Depth Seminar with Ed Waken on September 15 at Fellowship of Grace PCA, 7825 W. Deer Valley Road Peoria, AZ 85382. EID endeavors to teach believers the truths found in Scripture that guarentee them 100% success in sharing about faith in Jesus, 100% of the time. Can you imagine many in the Church of Phoenix armed with this kind of truth. Amazing things will take place because of what we will learn together. Ed says its not too late. If you didn't get an invitation, email Ed Waken.

Also Coming Up:

August 21, Sept. 4: Churches in the East Valley meet for prayer. If you are in the east valley, consider joining with us to pray and encourage each other every other Tuesday. Call 602-524-9400 or email for times and location.

September 1: The Valley's Saturday Morning Mountain Top Prayer Campaign. Be sure to plan to be a part of this movement in the valley.

Aug. 31-Sept. 3: 2007 National House Church Conference, Dallas, TX. See their website for more information.

Sept. 3: Labor Day - Have a safe long weekend.

Sept. 9: National Grandparents Day - See this website for more information.

For other upcoming house church related events around the country, see the House2house events page.

Aaron Spence is now deployed to the USS Nimitz somewhere in the Indian Ocean. Aaron has sent a very encouraging letter describing a recent shore leave. Read his letter here. Aaron can be emailed aboard the Nimitz at robert.spence@cvw11.navy.mil. Aaron hopes to be home Christmas.

Liz De La Rosa is still in basic training in Columbia, SC. We are not sure where she will go for her job training to be a chaplain's aid. Please keep Aaron and Liz in your prayers.

Bradley Pontious, son in law of Larry and Sue Johnson, is now in his job training at Ft. Gordon, Augusta, GA. Brad is not a believer and there has been some stress in the family. Please pray for them.

To get the real unbiased reporting of the war, be sure to subscribe to Michael Yon's dispatches at http://www.michaelyon-online.com/. He is an independent correspondent funded completely by donations. He has recently reported on how things have changed in areas that were previously over run by Al Queda.

If you have family or friends serving in our military, please let us know so that we can list them with any news. Please remember them with your love and prayers.

Would you like to host a foreign student for six months? An opportunity exists to host a Christian young lady from Germany. Antonia is 17 and is looking for a Christian host family. Read her letter and contact her sponsor if you have an interest.

This is the latest news from Rich Kraemer of Sonlight Home Church in Surprise on the Ukraine mission trip:

We are planning to leave Nov. 2nd and return on the 10th. At this point there will be 4 going with a couple more who are seriously praying about it. One of the main reason we are going is for intercession for the nation.

It has been a nation raped spiritually, politically, economically and many other ways. Just a small example, the average Ukrainian woman has had 10 abortions. Imagine the spiritual implications of that on that woman as well as the nation. At this point we plan on about 4 hours per day of intercession to see some lifting of the spiritual darkness.

We will also be working with a small ministry that started about 5 years ago by an american executive that quit her job when God spoke to her about the handicapped in that nation. The Communists did not let the handicap leave their home because it was not good for their "national image" to the world. Consequently, the things that we in America take for granted like wheelchairs is nonexistant. She has started using the handicapped to produce refurbished wheelchairs from parts donated from other nations..including the U.S. The Ukraine also has one of the fastest multiplication of churches in the world. God is moving amazingly in this nation of darkness! These people are so hungry that we hope to do allot of evangelism and encouragement of the local churches.

We are blessed to personally know Paul Logan, an American man that is what we would call "Apostle to the nation". He came there some 10+ years ago and God spoke to him to stay and commit to changing a nation. He has been instumental in the church multiplication and has been a blessing to help us to connect with the local churches all over the nation as well as assist us in our efforts to support what God is doing in the corporate church in the Ukraine.

As you can imagine, we have multiple challenges and attacks as we have "stepped up to the plate" and committed to be used in this way. The bare bones basics is the financial needs. it will cost about $2000 per person. In an effort to stop us all have been having to deal with multiple financial crisis' in their personal lives. My business has never been this slow. Another persons car is about ready to die so he desperately needs a new car just to get to work...which he has very little of lately. ..and nothing in the bank...and the list goes on...

The issues are an encouragement because the enemy is actively trying to stop us..but also a concern. All prayers appreciated! If God shows you anything give us a buzz. Thanks again, for your interest! We need the corporate church to pull this off!! Rich and Becky

If you feel called to make this trip or to help financially, please contact Rich at RichardKraemer@naksoftware.com .