- 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. Plan now to take part in the next one on August 4.
- Pray for our family members who don't know the Lord.
- Praise God for Ken, who accepted Jesus in his heart June 24. Ken struggles with alcohol and has been dry since that day. He has also reconciled with his wife and moved back home. Larry and John are meeting with him weekly in an accountability group. Pray for Ken and his family.
- Pray for David Croom who is piloting a new discipleship program with Prison Fellowship. He is holding workshops during July at Florence to train others to take this program nationally. This could have great impact on the prison population in the US.
- Pray for Fredrick, a new believer who is being discipled by Darrell. Fredrick is searching for a person of peace in an unchurched area. Pray that he finds one and passes on what he is learning to others.
- Pray for another new believer in dealing with a case of child abuse that threatens a new church planted by Darrell.
- Pray for our friend Ruth Abbitt who has been in the hospital for several weeks fighting a condition of the pancreas. Also pray for her husband Jerry who is also in the midst of starting a financial services business.

Coming Up:

July 24, August 7: Churches in the East Valley meet for prayer. Call 602-524-9400 or email for times and location.

August 4: 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. 15: Evangelism In Depth Seminar with Ed Waken at Fellowship of Grace PCA 7825 W. Deer Valley Road Peoria, AZ 85382. If you didn't get an invitation, email Ed Waken for more information.

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

If you have family 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.

Aaron Spence, Debbie Rowden's son, who we have been reporting on regularly, is in the Navy stationed at Whitbey Island NAS, WA and now deployed to the USS Nimitz in the Indian Ocean. Prior to getting is orders to the Nimitz, he flew down to Phoenix and became engaged to Elizabeth De La Rosa. Aaron can be emailed aboard the Nimitz at robert.spence@cvw11.navy.mil .

Liz De La Rosa departed for Army basic training July 3 and is currently at Ft. Jackson at Columbia, SC. She will be a chaplain aide. Please keep Aaron and Liz in your prayers.

Bradley Pontious, son in law of Larry and Sue Johnson, is in Army basic training at Ft. Benning, at Columbus, GA. He will be completing basic on July 18 and is expected to transfer to Ft. Gordon at Augusta, GA for his job training. His family will by traveling to Columbus to attend the graduation and to spend some time with him before transporting him to Augusta. Please pray for them.

If you want to get the true story of how we are doing in Iraq, 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 covered the fighting in Baqubah. This town was completely taken over by al Queda. Removing them and the fear that they had imposed on the population has brought this town back to life.

Each newsletter, we try to present some new resources for the house churches. If you have found a book, website, or other resource that you would like to share with others in the house church, write a short review and email to me. I'll get it in one of the next editions.

Church Planting Resource, a ministry of Chad and Trish Irving, exists to provide free resources for simple church planting. At the website, a resource packed CD can be requested free of charge. Also you can find links to Chad's podcast where he discusses his experiences in simple church planting. And now you can help support Church Planting Resource every time you search the Internet. GoodSearch.com is a new search engine that donates half its revenue, about a penny per search, to the charities its users designate. You use it just as you would any search engine, and it's powered by Yahoo!, so you get great results. Just go to http://www.goodsearch.com/?charityid=847046 and search from there. Please consider making this link a favorite.

How Many Are Coming For Dinner? is the title of an article published by NTRF. The article, written by Sandra Atkerson, is directed to the ladies who are usually responsible for putting together the Lord's Supper or fellowship meal which is typically part of a house church gathering. See the website for the article.

This came from Rich Kraemer of Sonlight Home Church in Surprise.

With this weeks heat I thought today maybe a good day to let you all know an outreach to Ukraine. We are planning it for late Oct or early Nov. It should be about 60 degrees cooler. Sounds nice right now. Becky and I went two years ago this Sep. and traveled from the northern boarder to the Black Sea in the south. We stopped at several newly planted church's to pray and minister with each of the pastors. This time we will be staying Kiev, the capital city. We will be working with an American lady who has a ministry to handicap. They were not given any help from the Communist government because they did not want them seen in public. Now that communism is gone these people have even less. This lady has a large warehouse she receives wheelchair parts, crutches and leg braces, etc. to build and repair new ones and gives them to these people. We will great opportunity for ministry to them and the workers there. We will also have other ministry opportunities in the capital. We are estimating the total cost for air fair, room and board to be about $2000 per person for the 7 to 10 days. Would you pray about joining us? Also pray about giving to some who may not be able to cover the $2,000. We would like to help the wheelchair ministry financially. If you want to know more email or call Becky or myself at 623-214-3671.

This is from Eileen Mladenoff , also of Sonlight Home Church in Surprise.

About 6 weeks ago, the Lord seemed to impress upon us to start up an outreach ministry in Surprise amongst all the Christian musicians by organizing them all to come together and perform live concerts in the green belts (grassy areas) of local home developments as well as other areas around the city, the goal being to present music to draw crowds in and give opportunities throughout the performances and within the words of the songs to receive Christ. We covet the home churches' prayers. If anyone would feel led to help us by volunteering to come out once a month to set up and tear down equipment, clean up the concert grounds afterwards, possibly serve food, help sell musical promotions, put up and dismantle tents, and mingle with the audience that would be awesome. If there are Christian musicians in bands that wish to donate some time in these once a month venues, that would be great too. We have already contacted some Christian businessmen about parking lots to play in and I have sent out letters to area churches to share the vision with them. We have also met with our vice mayor who has given us some helpful information and seems to be willing to help us in this endeavor. We hope to have our first outreach concert in October, possibly September if things move along in a timely fashion.

Anyone who may feel led to help can call Tony or me at 623-556-4649 or email us at ekm93@juno.com and we will get in touch with them.