Dear People of the Northstate Vision:

What is this season we call Epiphany? The season takes its name from an ancient Greek word that means to manifest or show forth. It begins with the day we commemorate the coming of the Wise Men and it includes their visit alongside the Baptism of Jesus and the Wedding at Cana – three events most closely identified with this time of celebration between Christmas and Lent. (Lent is the time of preparation for God’s ultimate sacrifice of Himself.) It is a time to celebrate the miracles of the Lord in our midst, and to see what He is saying to us through His interventions in our lives.

In PrayNorthState we have a lot of miracles to celebrate. We have heard from fourteen of the businesses and ministries that supported Celebrating the NorthState Family – our auction in December – and they report miraculous boosts to their enterprises. (This is not because they supported us per se, but because they had the courage to trust and obey the Lord as they – like the Magi – did what He and His Word commands albeit a Word counter-intuitive to the economy’s dictate.) We bless the Lord for Sainte Television – owners of Fox 30/Cable 2 – who have determined to keep our program on the air whatever sacrifices that may mean for them; they have made as public a commitment to the Kingdom as did the Father and the Holy Spirit when Jesus was baptized. And we celebrate the eighth anniversary of PrayNorthState and the advent of our ninth year of ministry – a ministry that would not exist if we did not serve a God who turns water into wine.

Speaking of water into wine – it is just days since the weather experts said there was no rain in the longterm forecast; as we write we are in our second day of rain. Let us bless the Lord, ask for more, and shout, “It’s Epiphany!
CURRENTPrayNorthstateEVENTS

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Praying Home the Prodigals will be offered at Word of His Grace Church in Bothell, Washington, the weekend of February 6-7. On Friday Night Jim teaches about the special anointing on this season as it is summarized in Luke 1:17. On Saturday he gives practical strategies for prayer and ministry when we take seriously God’s call to turn our hearts to His missing-in-action children – with special emphasis on the changes we might seek in our own hearts – from the privilege of repentance to the power of radical engagement – to facilitate that process. Call the church at 425-424-3801 for information or to register. The conference runs from 7-9:30 PM Friday and from 8:30-5 on Saturday.

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Building A House of Prayer: Some Assembly Required is coming to Southern California the weekend of February 20-22 as a weekend retreat. This event shows Christians how to become people of prayer – not just people who pray – in practical and easily practiced terms. (Jim says, “If it isn’t pragmatic it isn’t prophetic.”) Topics include prayer impacting the city, worship as warfare, and healing and other practical stuff. The retreat is sponsored by The Gathering in Brea. Call Pastor Richard Menees at 949-283-0286.

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Jim’s new book – The Holy Spirit and the End Times: A Season of Unusual Miracles – is out. Everything we know about revival and transformation – and a whole lot of good stories – are in its pages. The book sells for $16.00. Jim will be signing books at the Bible House Bookstore in Elk Grove on Friday, February 13, from 4-6 and 7-9 PM and – along with best-selling author Cindy Martinusen, and Kathy Elliott – at the Bibles, Books and More on Hilltop Drive in Redding on Saturday, February 14, from 11 AM to 1 PM.

PRAYNORTHSTATE RADIO and TV for FEBRUARY

KLXR, KBLF and KNTK:

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2/7-8 – Diana Wilson and Renee Lorge – Adoptive Parents
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2/14-15 – Abigail Vickery and Diane Largent – Bethany Christian Adoptions
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2/21-22 – Annie Gaudette and Peter Tchukz – Journeying with Jesus
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2/28-3/1 – Jeff Needleman and Pat Karch – The Flock Band

Fox 30:

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2/2 – David and Mamie Bronson – Apostles-at-large/Christian Impresarios

2/9 – Pastor Dave Honey and Ken White – Good News Rescue Mission
2/16 – Kimberly Berry and Sue McFadyen – The Back-to-School Project
2/23 – Kim Harmon and Raina Pendleton – Get Real Worship

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

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PrayNorthState TV remains on the air at Fox of Northern California! In our January newsletter we announced the coming cancellation of PrayNorthState TV, aired on Fox of Northern California Monday Mornings at 6:30 for the past five years. Due to the current economy, we could not generate enough sponsor revenue to offset the cost of production. But Fox execs decided that our program is important enough to the vision of their mission that they called us recently to say they were prepared to do whatever it takes to keep us on the air. We will resume production on February 12 with no break in programming. Please let Fox know how much this means to you – and bless them in Christ!

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The Perspectives Course on the worldwide Christian movement will again be taught in several locations this Spring. The fifteen week course covers what God is doing in mission around the world – and how to be in mission in our own communities or on foreign mission fields. The weekly course begins on Sunday, January 25, at the Covenant Community Church in Davis and on Monday, January 26 at Matthew’s Café Community Church in Chico. Each unit is taught by experts in many fields; Jim will teach cross-cultural ministry at both locations on April 12 and 13. Go to www.perspectives.org or call Frank Agee at 530-877-1017. For those who are interested it is not too late to register.

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Jesus Culture Encounter returns to Redding on February 6-7 and is this year coupled with the Campus Awake Leaders’ Training on February 8-9. These events are held concurrently at Redding’s Convention Center and at Redding’s Bethel Church campus. Keynote Speaker will be founder-of-the-Call Lou Engel. Lou is joined by Jesus Culture founder Banning Liebscher; worship is led by Kim Walker and Chris Quilala. Go to encounterjesus.org or call 530-246-6000.

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Campus Awakening is a leadership summit for young people impacted by Jesus Culture Encounter and passionate to impact their schools. It follows on the heels of Jesus Culture this month – the 8th and 9th of February – a Sunday and Monday. This event is led by Jesus Culture founder Banning Liebscher, Erica Grieve, and Michael Brodeur. It will train and empower youth for awakening their campus homes to the call of God that it should be “on earth as it is in heaven.” This event is for campus leaders only. Go to encounterjesus.org or call 530-246-6000.

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Redding Transformation teams with River City Church of Redding and a host of local leaders to offer LYNK Training on Thursday Nights from February 5 through March 19, from 7-9 PM. The course will offer training in transformational principles from many leadership perspectives including Youth for Christ’s Rick Caldwell, the Vineyard’s Pastor Mike Kerns, and Bethel Church’s Pastor Bill Johnson. There is a charge for registration; call 530-222-9371 or go to www.weR1net.net for info or to register.

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Forty Days for Life returns to Sacramento from February 25 through April 5. This extended vigil for a culture of life will span the traditional season of Lent and will include prayer and sidewalk counseling training as well as worship at the state capitol and at various sites around Sacramento. It now occurs several times each year in more than eighty American cities and more than six hundred lives were saved – not through picketing but through ministry – during the last season. Contact Wynette Sills at 916-955-1577 or e-mail her at wsills@succeed.net to participate or to learn how to establish this ministry in a new community.

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Joni and Friends is the ministry of Joni Eareksen Tada. Monica Thoma – of Rowell Family Empowerment will speak in Redding on Saturday, February 21, at Redding’s First Nazarene Church. Joni and Friends will sponsor this afternoon and evening devoted to ministering to families with autism – and becoming sensitive to this condition whether or not we are called to specific ministry in the field. The event will be held from 4-7:30 PM and will include a pizza dinner. There will be no childcare provided and there is no charge for the event. Call the church at 530-223-0454 for information or to register, or e-mail klferris@citlink.net. Most people think of autism as a serious disability. Event organizers invite you to come and find out what God thinks about it.

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Soaring Together is the title of 2009’s annual Prophetic Conference at Redding’s Bethel Church. The event will be held from February 25-27 and will feature internationally known prophets Larry Randolph, Leif Hetland, and Kris Vallotton. (Kris is also the executive pastor of Bethel Church and leads their School of Supernatural Ministry.) Worship will be led by Brian and Jenn Johnson and Kim Walker. There is a cost of $89.00 per person and $155.00 per couple. This year’s theme is right in line with what we have been teaching in Praying Home the Prodigals and we heartily recommend it. Organizers say, “Malachi…prophesied that the nature of the last days’ prophetic ministry would restore families by bridging the generation gap…(and) the synergy from this prophetic momentum would destroy the curses over our land.” Call 530-246-6000 for info.

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Eagles’ Heart is a new prayer group for business persons with an interest in the fulfilling of prophecies made over the Downtown Mall in Redding. Meetings combine prayer with strategies for blessing the mall. Call PrayNorthState at 530-941-3470 for info. Do we live in intractable times, or in times in which God calls us to walk – on our own two feet – through doors that He alone can open?

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Jim’s new book, The Holy Spirit and the End Times, is all about practical prophecy and field-tested strategies for welcoming God into your community in ways that demonstrate and celebrate His transforming power. Check it out on our web site – www.praynorthstate.org – e-mail us at praynorthstate@charter.net or just give us a call at 530-941-3470. It’s available at most bookstores as well.

UPCOMING PrayNorthState EVENTS

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Praying Home the Prodigals is offered at St. Augustine’s Anglican Church in Chico the weekend of March 6 and 7, St. Michael’s Episcopal Church in Carlsbad (CA) over the March 13 and 14 weekend and for Redding’s Single Parent Family Home Group the weekend of April 3-4. Praying Home the Prodigals is practical and hands-on teaching about sowing into the season of God’s grace underway at this moment. It is a season of unprecedented proliferation of miracles – but with a specific purpose summed up in Luke 1:17 – to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and prepare a people for righteousness. Contact Father Peter Hansen at 530-894-7409 (Chico); Father Neil Moquin at 760-729-8901 (Carlsbad); or Susie Rodriquez at 530-917-2560 (Redding) for information or to reserve space.

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Jim will join NorCal authors Cindy Martinusen-Coloma and Kathy Elliott to sign and share his books – Living As Ambassadors of Relationships and The Holy Spirit and the End Times: A Season of Unusual Miracles at Redding’s Bibles, Books and More on Hilltop Drive. The event is scheduled for February 14 – that’s a Saturday and it is Valentine’s Day – from 11 AM to 1 PM.

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

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Jim preaches Sundays, February 8, at Word of His Grace in Bothell, WA, in the morning; he leads a healing service and preaches at St. Luke’s Episcopal, Seattle, WA, that evening. He ministers God’s Word at The Gathering in Brea, CA, on Sunday, February 22 – these Sunday services follow the conference events PrayNorthState offers in the Seattle area and in Brea in February. He addresses the Single Parent Family Home Group on Saturday, February 28.

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Jim and Diana will visit the State Capitol to lead their regular prayer meeting in February, as well as taking Prayer Vanguard to area businesses as requested. We resume production of PrayNorthState TV on Thursday, February 12, after being on hiatus during the month of December – and again we urge readers and supporters of the ministry to seek opportunities to thank and bless Fox 30/Cable 2 for keeping this program on the air throughout Northern California.

Please pray for our leaders and media sponsors:
Please pray for PrayNorthstate’s Board: Jim and Diana Wilson, Dr. Andre Van Mol, Mollie Wilson, Charles Davidson, Charlie Harper, and Linda Hartman. Pray for Taylor Motors, Hue and Cry Security, Redding Custom Home Theatre, Nicolet Glass, Fox 30/Cable 2 TV, Crown Motors, Belongie Entertainment Enterprises, Curves of Redding and Anderson, Children First Foster Family Agency, Gallagher’s Heating and Air, Dr. Scott Kremer, 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, Bethany Christian Services, 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 WINTER:
THAT THE WHOLE BODY OF CHRIST WOULD AWAKEN TO
THE FULLNESS OF OUR INHERITANCE AS AMBASSADORS
OF THE KINGDOM AND OF ITS KING – AND TO THE
RESPONSIBILITIES THAT ACCOMPANY INHERITANCE – TO
BECOME PEOPLE OF PRAYER AND WORSHIP, BOLDLY AND
PUBLICLY SHAPED BY HIS WORD, AND BLESSING IN POWER