- Praise God for the great attendance and fellowship at the house church gathering.
- Aaron Spence who is in the Navy at Pensacola, FL will complete his job training the first of April and will be coming home for leave before going to his base at NAS Whidbey Island, WA. Please keep Aaron and all of the young men and women serving in our military in your prayers.
- 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.
- Pray for those church members that have suffered through personal and financial hardships. Pray that their faith would be strong and that they would depend on God more than ever.
- Praise God for those taking part in the Valley's Saturday Morning Mountain Top Prayer Campaign. Plan now to take part on April 7.
- Pray for our family members who don't know the Lord.
- Pray for those struggling with alcoholism.
- Please keep Larry's coworker Phil in your prayers. He is still recovering from the effects of a stroke last year . He is still on disability and has not been able to return to work.
- Praise God for the new house churches being formed in the Phoenix area.

If you have a prayer request that you would like to be sent to the Phoenix Area House Churches, please send an email to Larry.

Coming Up:

Mar. 26: 7-9PM, Training on how to plant churches among Muslim people will begin. For details call Darrell Kilcup at (623) 434-3334.

Mar. 29: 6-9PM, Neighborhood Ministries begins a Center for Transforming Mission training, The Scandal of God at The Neighborhood Center, 1929 W Fillmore St, Phoenix, AZ . See here for information.

Mar. 30-Apr. 1: House2house Regional Conference, Buena Vista, CO. See here for complete information on this and other regional conferences as well as the national conference in Dallas later this year.

Apr. 3, 17: Churches in the East Valley meet for prayer. Call 602-524-9400 or email for times and location.

Apr. 7: The Valley's Saturday Morning Mountain Top Prayer Campaign. Be sure to plan to be a part of this movement in the valley.

Apr. 8: Easter.

Apr. 13,14: Northeast Ohio House Church Seminar with Beresford Job, Kirtland, OH (Near Cleveland). Contact Gary and Sandi Cianciola: safelyhome2000@yahoo.com for more info.

April 20-22: Wholeness and Outreach - a House Church Conference, Salem, OR. See here for full information.

One of the best resources the house churches have should have arrived in your mailbox in the last couple of days. If you didn't receive Issue 10 of the House2house magazine, you are missing their best issue to date. You need to beg or borrow one from someone you know who has one. The main theme of this issue is "Transitioning", that the millions who are moving from traditional to simple/organic church do so with grace and blessing for the old as well as for the new! If you want your own copy or to get more copies you can do so via the House2House web site or by email .

A new resource has been created to give the house churches a place to share ideas and to discuss pressing issues. Its a Yahoo discussion group called Arizona Jesus Follower Gathering and is the work of Dan Clore of Kingdom Seekers house church in Gilbert. Become a member and start a discussion.

Another interesting resource is Searching Together magazine, published by John Zens. The website has many interesting articles on a variety of subjects. One such article is titled "Our Duties and Responsibilities to One Another in the Body of Christ". No place does this apply more than within small simple churches.

The House Church Blog post of March 14 titled "The Ineffectiveness of Talking Head Preaching" is a great read for everyone in the house church or considering it. But don't just stop at Roger's article, be sure to read the comments. Also take a look at an article written in response to this one, at Idle musings of a bookseller. He says that Roger didn't complete the picture.