“I will pour out my Spirit on all people… Your young men will see visions and your old men will dream dreams. Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit.” Acts 2:17-18

After praying over London while on the London Eye, Michael & Michele Williamson embrace the vision to lead the London Mission Team!

“Visions and Dreams” is the 2010 theme for the City of Angels Church! On May 6, 2007, the Spirit sent a 42 member mission team from Portland to Los Angeles forming the City of Angels International Christian Church. In this second full calendar year, God added locally to our number 104 baptisms and 23 restorations! Our weekly pledges now total over $11,000 per week, meaning that the 230 disciples of the congregation are giving on average $50 per person! All of this has been accomplished in the wake of the Lord sending out 37 disciples in 2008 on three mission teams – Honolulu, New York City, and Portland – and then in 2009, strengthening our daughter churches by sending out Javier Ochoa to Santiago, Mike Underhill to New York City, and Jake Ramsier and Ashley Godwin to Honolulu. Then, sent out with many prayers in December 2009 to lead the Washington DC Church, were the “DC 5” – Carlos & Lucy Mejia, Jack & Jeanne McGee, and Afa Maile. Today, the Spirit is sending out 14 more disciples on the San Diego Mission Team to plant the Mission Bay International Christian Church. Not only were more disciples sent out these past two years – 61 – than the number that initially started the congregation, but $3,500 per month was given to support Matt & Helen Sullivan for their missionary work with our dynamic sister church in Santiago, Chile. Amazingly, when the impact of the City of Angels, Honolulu, New York City, Portland and Santiago Churches are combined, the Lord blessed us in 2009 with almost 900 in attendance with over 500 disciples, over 200 baptisms and a weekly contribution of nearly $19,000! Reflecting on this past year, the most memorable events were Michael & Michele Williamson’s appointments as Evangelist and Women’s Ministry Leader, Damon & Vicky James becoming our newest congregational shepherds, Sasha & Louisa Kostenko moving from Moscow to LA to join the new movement, our Day of MERCY sponsored by MERCYworldwide, and at the 2009 Global Leadership Conference the presentation of the Crown of Thorns Project – our plan to plant discipling churches in the 12 most influential cities outside the United States!

With this year’s theme of “Visions and Dreams,” the City of Angels Church leadership has set before the Lord the following prayer goals for 2010:

1. “Win As Many As Possible” – 1 Corinthians 9:19 In 2009, over 100 were baptized through the Spirit working through all of your efforts. Since we have now been equipped and strengthened through our Winter Workshop – entitled Tears – and since our numbers have multiplied from last year, we are praying that “God adds to our number” even more disciples in 2010. (Acts 2:41, 47)