Dear People of the Northstate Vision:

Advent is the traditional season that precedes Christmas; it carries a heavy emphasis on the life and ministry of John the Baptist – the one who forth-told the ways of preparation for the coming of the King in the manger. He said we must make a straight highway in the desert for the King, and that this highway is paved with the fruits of repentance. Today John’s legacy – in this spectacular season of sign and wonder – and decisions for Jesus – forth-tells the ways of preparation for the return of the King in glory.

John’s ministry has three central features. First, he treats the Son as family – they are cousins, after all. That means he – and we – have a chance to spend special and intimate time with the Lord in this season – releasing the Spirit of Worship. It also means we have special opportunity to treat those the Son loves – the least of these – as though they were more important than we are. Don’t have time? This is how we prepare for His return – at a time we do not anticipate. He is the Lord of time – He has enough for His purposes.

The second feature of John’s ministry is being first to recognize Messiah and to partner with Him – to choose this day Whom we will serve. We are in a season of dramatic interventions by God – and He commands us to partner with Him regardless of previous experience. And the final feature is that John decreases while Jesus increases. Our Lord perfects His strength in our weakness, and the more we decrease the more He can increase in us as we rise, take our pallet, and walk with Him in a gospel of power and not just words. Don’t have the energy, the gifts, the spiritual firepower? Jesus says we are just the people He has been looking for. The question is: Are we looking for Him? Or are we just busy getting ready for Christmas?
CURRENTPrayNorthstateEVENTS

• PrayNorthState offers a one-day version of Praying Home the Prodigals, a preparation event for the Kingdom Harvest, at the bi-lingual Iglesia Nueva Vida in Red Bluff on Saturday, December 5. Participants learn to make warfare by honor and release bindings on themselves and others – in this special season – there has never been a better time to serve Christ. Call Pastor Fred Villasenor at 530- 209-9535 or just call us at 530-941-3470 for information.

• Jim travels to New England for the first PrayNorthState Ministry trip to that region from December 11-17. While there he will preach and teach at several services, meet with regional intercessors, and introduce the ministry of Prayer Vanguard to the region. New England is the cradle of Christianity in the United States, the birthplace of revival, and the launching pad for every political and social institution we Americans hold dear, all of which are grounded in our faith; the privilege of sowing Kingdom there is awesome.

• PrayNorthState Radio and TV has impacted our region for Christ since 2001. Our weekly radio broadcasts are heard in Redding, Red Bluff, Mt. Shasta and Yreka; and on television Monday Mornings throughout the region on Fox 20. We have enjoyed tremendous favor over the years, but right now we are in serious need of new sponsors if our programming is to continue. Business persons or anyone wishing to serve the Lord as a sponsor of Christian broadcasting in a secular venue are encouraged to call us at 530-941-3470 or e-mail praynorthstate@charter.net for information about this opportunity.

• If you would like to book or attend any of the teaching events we do – or learn more about them – call 530-941-3470 or e-mail praynorthstate@charter.net.

PRAYNORTHSTATE RADIO and TV for DECEMBER

KLXR, KBLF and KNTK/KCWH FM:
• 12/5-6 – Dr. Andre Van Mol – Family Medical Practitioner on Healthcare
• 12/12-13 – Bruce Logan & Frank Agee – Perspectives World Christianity
• 12/19-20 – Leslie Montana – Christian Business Visionary
• 12/26-7 – Annie Blouin – Author The Everlasting Doors

Fox 20:
• 12/7 – Nieldon Coloma & Henry Williams – Christian in Politics
• 12/14 – Bruce Logan & Frank Agee – Traction for Young Adults
• 12/21 – Michele Caballero and Frankie Sanchez – Campus Missionaries
• 12/28 – Gary and Debbie Schreib – Itinerant Worship Leaders

PrayNorthstate Radio is heard every Saturday Morning at 8 AM on AM 1490 KBLF, and 9 AM on FM 102.3 KCHW, Sundays at 7 AM on AM 1230 KLXR. See PrayNorthstate TV Monday Mornings at 6:30 AM on Fox Channel 20/Cable 2.
WHAT’S UP IN THE NORTHSTATE AND BEYOND

• KNTK Mount Shasta (and Yreka) is one of three radio stations carrying PrayNorthState Radio. The station has recently changed hands and will now carry the call letters KCHW, but at the same 102.3 spot on the FM dial. Our Saturday Morning program airs at 7 AM. Our congratulations and praise to God for new owner Martin Howell.

• The Governor’s Prayer Team hosts prayer for governmental leaders in Room 125 of the state capitol each month on the first Friday from Noon to 1 PM. Pastors and intercessors are welcome. Contact Stephanie Steele of the Governor’s Prayer team at 530-870-6906 for information.

• Redding Transformation hosts the second quarterly gathering of community non-profit leaders from Noon to 1 PM on Tuesday, December 15. The Christian Non-Profit Brown Bag Lunch will be held in the Redding Library Community Room at the Library – 1100 Parkview Avenue in Redding. Please RSVP to Karen at 530-222-9371 or Karen@reddingtransformation.com. There is no charge but participants must bring their own lunch. Beverages are provided.

• On the freedom-of-expression/faith front a report comes in from Pacific Justice Institute and Capitol Resource Institute – both faith-based legal and advocacy groups and friends of PrayNorthState – that the San Juan Unified School District voted – in front of a meeting room packed with parents – to rescind an earlier decision to permit students to leave campus without parental notification for “confidential medical services” – code for an abortion. Although there is no legal requirement to notify parents in California, speakers warned that the district faced civil liability in the event of injury to a child through such “services.” PJI attorneys recently intervened successfully in a similar case in the Modesto School District. PJI President Brad Dacus urges us to remain in prayer as other school districts struggle with these types of policy decisions.

• California’s Legislature recently adopted (and will put before voters) a massive program to update and rebuild the state’s water storage and distribution system. Still unaddressed is the fact that eighty thousand workers are out of work in the Central Valley because of an (admitted by the judge who wrote the decision) illegal shutting down of water pumps in the Sacramento River Delta in order to protect a two-inch fish that does not qualify as endangered. Please pray (and don’t waste energy on anger) for justice and real vision to emerge.

• California remains mired in a three-year drought. We have seen the Lord break drought in this state many times in the last two decades. Please pray – as though it all depended on us and our prayers – for God to bring needed rain and snow in all of the abundance of which He alone is capable. Pray He is revealed in this breaking of the drought in unmistakable fashion.

• Traction comes to Sacramento December 27-29. This conference event is keyed to connecting young adults of the Genesis Generation with God’s passion – for them and for His Kingdom on earth as it is in Heaven. The event kicks off on Sunday Evening, 12/27, with Lincoln Brewster in concert and registration for the days following. Plenary speakers include Jeff Lewis on God’s Greatest Passion; Lance Hahn on God’s Purpose to Glorify and Make Himself Known; Jeffrey DeLeon on the Gospel of the Kingdom; Kathy Giske on Kingdom Priorities in the 21st Century; and Reid Saunders on Bringing Light to the Nations. There will be some fifty workshops presented and multiple panel discussions. Jim will be teaching a workshop titled “Breaking the Power Paradigm” and speakers range in age and perspective. The event will be held at William Jessup University in Sacramento. Contact the web site www.tractionforgod.com for more information or to register. Watch the December newsletter for details; set the days apart now!

• Perspectives on the World Christian Movement comes to Redding, Chico, and Yuba City in January 2010. This fifteen week course features fifteen teachers and a wide variety of perspectives on the common passion to see and celebrate God taking the world for His Kingdom with the participation of each of the people called by His Name. Go to www.tractionforgod.com. for this one too.

• The Redding location for Perspectives will be Valley Christian Fellowship on Rancho Road and the class will be held on Tuesdays beginning on January 12. The Chico course will be held at Matthew’s Café beginning Monday, January 11, and Yuba City is hosted at Church of Glad Tidings beginning Sunday, January 10. There is a fee of $245.00 for participation and some scholarship aid is available. Jim will be teaching one of the two cross cultural ministries units in March and we cannot recommend this program of preparation for the Great Commission too highly! Call us directly with questions you may be unable to answer on the web sites – for Perspectives or Traction – 530-941-3470.

• Listeners to PrayNorthState Radio know that we deliberately focus our programming on local people who minister outside of the box – ordinary people serving an extraordinary God, as we like to say, although we have been privileged to feature national icons such as Mike Reagan and Marcus Lutrell (former Navy Seal and author of Lone Survivor) from time to time. Our guest on the weekend of January 16-17 will be Dr. Hugh Ross, founder of the Reasons to Believe Foundation. Dr. Ross is one of the foremost spokespersons for Creationism and/or Intelligent Design in the world today. He is as entertaining as he is brilliant, and his testimony is astounding. Hearing him for the whole hour of PrayNorthState Radio will be a privilege not to be missed.

• B & T Satellite and Redding Home Theatre has offered a $100.00 donation to PrayNorthState following each purchase of a sound system. Call 530-510-8101.

UPCOMING PrayNorthState EVENTS

• Praying Home the Prodigals will be offered in Upper Lake at (call Pastor Vic Rogers at 707-275-2888) over the weekend of January 15-16; in Orland at First Baptist Church (call Pastor Mike Gleason at 530-865-3403) the weekend of January 22-23; and at Gridley First Presbyterian Church (call Dwayne Tanabe at 530-846-0630) the weekend of January 29-30. Praying Home is the action-packed event that trains us for participating in the greatest season for God’s intervention and our decision to accept Him as Lord in all history.

• When Seasons Collide is a new PrayNorthState teaching series that includes themes like Unprecedented Favor; Breaking the Power Paradigm; A Runaway Freight Train; and Three Amigos – Elijah, John the Baptist, and Barnabas. It is designed for this special season. Also available is our series on the economy – Seeding the Future – God’s Word for this Economy. Call us at 530-941-3470 or e-mail praynorthstate@charter.net for details or to schedule.

• Everything we know about revival and transformation are in the pages of The Holy Spirit and the End Times. All we have to offer on reconciliation – the pre-requisite for transformation – is found in Living as Ambassadors of Relationships. The books sell for $16.00, but we are offering the set – in this season – for $25.00. Prices include taxes, although a $5.00 shipping charge is added to shipped orders. Jim has guested on nationally syndicated radio programs The Truth Uncovered, The Frank Pastore Show, and Bytes. Holy Spirit and the End Times has also been translated into Indonesian; these books are hot!

Anyone desiring to participate or to gain a fuller picture of any current or upcoming events should go to the PrayNorthstate web site at www.praynorthstate.org or call us at 530-941-3470.

WHAT THE COORDINATORS ARE UP TO

• Jim preaches on Sundays in December at Iglesia Nueva Vida in Red Bluff on December 6 and at New Beginnings Community Church in Darien, Connecticut, on December 13. In addition, Jim preaches and ministers at a community healing service in Darien the evening of December 13. He prays and teaches with regional intercessors from New England the evenings of December 14 and 15, and is tentatively set to conduct a healing service at a TBA location on December 16 before returning to California. He teaches on Breaking the Power Paradigm at the Traction event in Sacramento December 28-9.
• Jim signs copies of Living As Ambassadors of Relationships and the Holy Spirit and the EndTimes at Chiropractic First Healing Services – 1435 Market Street in Redding – from 8:30 to 11 AM and from 3-6 on Monday, December 7.

Please pray for our leaders and media sponsors:
Please pray for PrayNorthstate’s Board: Jim and Diana Wilson, Dr. Andre Van Mol, Dave Honey, Charles Davidson, Charlie Harper, and Linda Hartman. Pray for Taylor Motors, Perry’s Tree Service, Redding Custom Home Theatre, Nicolet Glass, Fox 30/Cable 2 TV, Crown Motors, Belongie Entertainment Enterprises, Curves of Redding and Anderson, Need2Speed, Gerboth Insurance Agency, Rivers Restaurant, Doug LaMalfa, Corning Ford, Method 3 AM, Mercy Medical Centers, and Dr. Todd Royse’s Chiropractic First Healing Services. Pray for Imago Dei Ministries, Carenet Pregnancy Centers, Spyglass, and LifeLight Pregnancy Center.

HOUSEKEEPING DEPARTMENT
Correspondence – and donations – may be addressed to PrayNorthstate, P. O. Box 493743, Redding, CA 96049-3743. Call us at 530-941-3470. Our web site is www.praynorthstate.org; our e-mail is praynorthstate@charter.net.

PRAYER FOCUS FOR AUTUMN:
THAT WE OFFER EXTRAVAGANT PRAISE TO GOD FOR
THE HARVEST HE RELEASES; THAT WE PRAY WITHOUT
CEASING FOR HIS CARE AND PROTECTION IN THIS SEASON
OF IMPENDING DARKNESS THAT CO-EXISTS BESIDE THIS
AMAZING SEASON OF LIGHT; THAT WE BECOME FAITHFUL
IN PRAYING FOR THE BASIC AND THE MUNDANE AS WELL