Hi all,
If you are considering attending our New England Conference October 8-11, now is the time to register. Registration will close September 6, which is less than 3 weeks away. AND if you are coming and are planning on staying over with us Monday and Tuesday to visit friends in Stowe and then visit the Maine coast, PLEASE email us at cwowi@aol.com. Expenses for motels and food will be yours, but if you email we can help suggest lodging Sunday-Tuesday nights.
We are very disappointed our conferences in the Netherlands and Latvia had to be cancelled this year – we look forward to a future time together!
Zoom meetings – see above
When we travel it is impossible for us to have time for Zoom online meetings, but when our travel schedule lightens we are able to schedule them again.
The next Zoom meetings as you can see above are Wednesday, 8 September at 7pm Central US time, and Saturday the 11th, 10am Central US time. No email reminders will be sent, so calculate time zone differences and set a reminder if needed so you can join us!
Projects
The pattern of house church in the New Testament is for the local house church to care for its own. In our day this may include things like car repair that is beyond someone’s need, electric bill, food, taking someone who can’t drive to the doctor or store, and so on.
But when a need arises that is larger than the local body can handle, they appeal to the network. We see this in Acts 11 when the churches of Antioch sent an offering with Paul and Barnabas to Judea who were going through a famine. We see it in II Corinthians 8 when Paul is receiving an offering from various churches to help the poor in Jerusalem. CWOWI follows the same pattern of local responsibility, but helping when needs are greater than what the local body can handle.
Some of these larger needs in the cwowi network that are not just one time, but sometimes ongoing. With cwowi being in so many nations the needs may range from someone needing financial assistance in the EU, US or Canada, to training someone in starting their own business in Liberia, emergency help in Haiti, tuition and computers for students in Kenya, the ‘pig project’ and orphans in Uganda, and so on.
We also have a huge need to provide transportation for our several African leaders to visit new house churches in other African nations. Transportation within Africa is often difficult and overland, dangerous. But it is an ongoing need for airfare and expenses to enable leaders to visit one another.
The needs are always larger than we have cash on hand, and we can’t fill our days sending out a mass email every time one of the house churches in our network has a need larger than they can handle. So we are developing a section of our web site where we can post all the ‘big’ needs in the network so that people can go there and give as they are able and want to help. Right now we have a ‘news around the network’ section and it will probably be related to that page – stay tuned – I wanted to let everyone know we are working on an efficient way for the body of Christ to care for the larger needs in body of Christ within our network.
Pigs, pigs, and more pigs – one of the ongoing projects is the ‘piggery’ project in Uganda, where we’ve been able through generous donations, buy a total of 60 pregnant sows in 3 sets of 20 each, and provide training for families in the cwowi network. The first group of pigs are giving birth, and the plans are to give some of those piglets to other families so they can have income and food, while at the same time buy more pigs for more families. There are over 200 cwowi affiliated house churches in Uganda, and we’d like to help as many people as possible.
If you would like to donate to the piggery project or any other need I mentioned above, for now, write in the message section of your donation and we will send it to the desired need.
Prophetic – reminders and some additional thoughts
From May’s e-newsletter what the Lord had told me in January and March:
“Many have contacted me asking if the Covid vaccine is the ‘mark of the beast’, and it is not. But what you will see is the start down a slippery slope of economic restrictions for those who don’t get it. You’ll hear of companies hiring only those who have been vaccinated. You’ll hear of education and school related requirements of being vaccinated. Travel restrictions for those not vaccinated and more, all involving economics which leads to tracking social media activity. We have seen this grading system already in Twitter and Facebook removing posts that differ from what those companies believe. This is the start of a social grading system that will morph to become more intrusive – ‘big brother’ examining your social media comment which will be tied into your credit report – and things like that.”
“Years ago when the Iron Curtain came down in 1991, I saw a news report about the files of the dreaded East German police known as the Stasi, being opened. Western reporters were amazed that so many neighbors had spied on their friends and secretly reported their activity to the Stasi, which bettered their standing with them.”
“After I had seen that report on TV and was thinking on it, the Lord spoke to me and said this: “There is coming a day when they won’t need a network of neighbors, for spying will be done electronically.” That was long before the Internet and I didn’t understand what He told me. Now I do.”
From June’s e-newsletter:
“One of the things I had earlier shared from my time with the Lord was how the President would have what we would call ‘cognitive’ issues. The Lord had stated at the time: “…it will become increasingly more noticeable until it becomes obvious to all, and plans will be made behind the scenes how to transition.” As far as I was told then, we are in that time now and in the next few months where this will be seen. The last quarter of this year will be especially important on several levels.”
“He said to pray about these things, because the end result (where it was headed) would be a massive stroke that ‘makes the decision for everyone’, or it could be a matter of much debate and be drawn out over months. The request to pray for his health is for the nation – for the well-being of the nation, for peace, for He too wants us to pray for all in authority that we may live quiet and honest lives in godliness.”
I am praying any severe event will not happen that the US might be at peace and we may live quiet and godly lives. When He tells me things for prayer I remember what He said in Matthew 24: 15 and 20. There He prophesied anti-Christ coming into the temple, but then asked for prayer that it not happen in winter nor on the Sabbath. Such is the power of prayer.
Prophetic update
One of the things the Lord had said at the time – January before the inauguration when He was talking about the cognitive issues we’d see – was that the next ‘birth pang’ for the world and US would start in August and especially in September. Seeing the news it is clear on all fronts that things are starting again – a birth pang is a squeezing, a contraction, and is painful. He said at the time it would go through the end of the year and into next spring. I’ll share more later as allowed and as seems prudent.
The mark of the beast
As outlined in The Revelation 13: 15-18, people are first commanded to worship the beast or be killed. Those who submit to worship the beast are given what seems to be an electronic tattoo on their forehead or wrist that will enable them to buy or sell. The mark is economic and would seem to fit in the last half of what we call the Tribulation.
One of the things the Father spoke to me about is digital currency, and how there will come a point when the government(s) will switch to digital after a time of start up digital currencies become popular enough to undermine national currencies. We aren’t there yet and I hesitate sharing something so far out in the future, but the wise will monitor developments to see where it is headed.
History will repeat itself as it pertains to private business being joined by government or broken up so that government can dominate. In the US some will remember there used to be one telephone company, “Ma Bell” which was broken up by the government into several “Baby Bells”.
In our day we see social media companies being de facto arms of liberal government and press rather than being broken up by the government. There is coming a day, maybe after the rapture – foretold in the Jewish Feast of Trumpets, that will cause the righteous dead to rise and those alive to be changed, where a federal government in Europe will go digital.
I’ve previously shared in this space how an invisible tattoo that is applied to the forehead or wrist has been invented for the purpose of tracking vaccination records of children in under developed nations. That invisible digital tattoo could easily be adapted to provide banking information from what I’ve read.
The spirit of anti-Christ is in the world, so patterns of all these things are out there – but they aren’t ‘the big one’ yet. Where so called prophets get into trouble is they see the pattern of things or recognize the wrong spirit attached to a movement or action, and then call it ‘the Mark’.
That is wrong, but the spirit at work is already in the world, as I John 4: 3-4, with vs 4 being important: “3)….spirit of anti-Christ is already in the world. 4) But you are of God little children, and have (already) overcome them; because greater is He in you than he who is in the world.”
No fear – follow the peace in your spirit. You have Christ in you, we win!
This has been a packed newsletter. Thank you for your financial support, and trust in your giving to needs in the network you’ll also remember our needs as well. Thank you for the prayer requests you write and email in, know you are so appreciated and prayed for! Blessings,
John & Barb, Brian & Amy
