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Recently a friend of ours named Jill Austin gave us a word. In it she described that God is giving us a dream team similar to Walt Disney and that we were going to create one of the happiest places on Earth. I have always been inspired by Disney's creativity and ability to administrate the creative process bringing forth productivity and tangible fruit with the imagination process. I also have wondered what would have happened if Disney had applied these gifts to social justice issues, political issues, and even the mainstream educational system. Since we have received that word from Jill which had a very spiritual application that the Disney team probably has never been fully invited into, many in our team have been having dramatic dreams.
We are dreaming of our future and what God is calling us too, and it is a blast. The challenge is to dream so big that it is impossible to do what you dream without divine interaction, but at the same time to start moving towards the dreams now so that we don't just live as dreamers.
Our writing projects are ongoing and exciting. Right now Jennifer Toledo is working on workbooks for families, a Children's prayer journal, and an exciting book on Social Transformation. The first two will have summer releases through www.expression58.org . Shawn Bolz is working on a book that will be out this summer about the creative anointing and the coming renaissance that is imparting the heart to shift culture and is forerunning revival. He will be sharing a prophetic perspective of this briefly at the Call in Nashville on 7-7-07 so if you are gripped by this theme, please pray into it as he shares on the national platform for a few minutes about the modern renaissance.
Love Revolution E-Magazine
Our move and transition from all over North America was a time hog to our team. We were not able to get the May edition (issue 3) of our E-Magazine out last month, but the good news is we are very close to releasing June's issue and we have a whole new dedicated team to the project so it will be delivered every month faithfully from this point on! We have amazing articles, interviews, and art lining the pages. We are also working on multiple formats to display the E-magazine, including a text only format for those of you who do not want to print the graphically intense version.
One of the challenges of doing such a hefty project each month like a free E-magazine is that we don't yet have the resources to take it through many polishing brushes of multiple graphic designers, editors, etc. but we are enjoying the raw feel. So much of what is released in the marketplace is over produced and we don't want to make excuses for our rough form of what we are presenting, it will get better, but bare with us through our growth. In other words our Emagazine is under construction for the next season. We do have some amazing interviews and guest articles coming that you will not want to miss!
Thank God for your prayers! We have so needed them. It's not a season of warfare, but a season of settling into Los Angeles and the main prayers we need right now is that God shows us how to implement our team into all of our projects. God has given us such an amazing group of family to work with, and we need to know how to utilize each ones gifts and administrate the vision He has given us as a team. Pray for the backbone and administration to be built with a crack free foundation!
We are launching our Partnership program sometime in the month of July, we finally have a Los Angeles address, and we have been working strongly on our website resource center (ministry store) and our partnership program for our local partners and our international partners who are called to help us build. Many people have been requesting the ability to give online donations and the ability for that is going to start soon!
One of the reasons we haven't started public meetings yet is because we wanted to build our administrative and practical foundation strongly. We are already working on our church structure, our internships, our foster care family planning center, our conference base, and our resource center. These have all taken months to go forward in because of our little 20 member team, but by the grace of God we will be ready to launch all publically this year and early next year.
How to Get Involved
Conferences: We are hosting two conferences this year. Our first will be September 27-29 of 2007 called Renaissance and Revolution and will be our own team accompanied by John Mark McMillan from Morning Star Ministries, Kim Walker from Bethel in Redding California, and JoAnn McFatter who is like family to us from WhiteDove Ministries. See online brochure in your mailbox within a week from this Newsletter! Our second conference will be December 6-8 2007 where we will host Bill and Benni Johnson and their worship leaders: Brian and Jennifer Johnson from Bethel in Redding California, along with other speakers/worship leaders to be announced.
Internships
If you are between the ages of 18-27 and you have a leadership foundation but want to really identify who you are and how to do the greater works God has called you to do then we have two internships for you that begin in September. One is our Isaiah 58 internship which has a mission's focus where you will be equipped for Social Transformation in the world. The second whom runs alongside the mission's internship is called FLI or Foundational Leadership Internship. In it you will have a true mentoring experience to be able to really identify your hearts passion or go deeper in what you already know and then take deliberate steps towards your calling.
Church Meetings
Tuesday night public meetings have officially launched!Where: La Plaza United Methodist Church (Church of the City) 115 Paseo De La Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90012 The church is across from Union Station.
When: 7:00 p.m.
Parking: There is free parking at Lot #4 (off of Los Angeles St.) and Lot #5 (corner of Alameda St. and Arcadia St.)
Note:
We are going to be launching Sunday morning public meetings in mid to late October. Venue and meeting times will be posted on our website.
Expression58 Open House in July
We are putting together a night to share our vision with friends in the region who have expressed an interest to hear what we are about as a ministry. We are going to host an open house sometime in July to share our hearts and meet and greet. If you are interested please email office@expression58.org with your name, address, email address, and phone number so we can begin to make specific plans. We want to treat you to a really fun and beautiful night.
Sow Into Financially/Become a Partner
Do you ever long to feel like you are part of something bigger? Are you a creative person that wants to be a part of the coming renaissance but you don't know how to get involved? Are you someone who is gripped with Social Justice issues but you don't know where to start to build? Do you want to begin to be a part of a vision and mandate that is touching the world? Do you know that when you give financially you inherit from every Kingdom work that we venture into? Our fruit becomes your fruit! What we build in the Kingdom becomes your equity! If you have a heart to begin to sow into Expression58, you can write a check, or later this month join the online partnership program directly from our website where you can donate through debit or credit card regularly.
Resource Center
Our online bookstore/resource center goes live TODAY! It is a collection of our ministries books and teaching CD's and DVD's right now, but we will be quickly adding materials that specialize in the deeper life of intimacy with God, intercession, revelation, heavenly studies, renaissance efforts, new sound music, art, inspired clothing design, etc.
See you next month!
The Expression58 Team
The Renaissance Spirit Conference
Hosted by Expression58: REGISTER ONLINE NOW!
September 27, 2007 to September 29, 2007 Los Angeles, CA
Speaker(s) JoAnn McFatter, John Mark McMillan, Shawn Bolz, Shawn Bolz, Paula Benne,
Jonatan and Jennifer Toledo
Worship Leader JoAnn McFatter, John Mark McMillan, Kim Walker from Bethel in Redding,
Autumn and Daniel Katz
Website: www.expression58.org