JANUARY 2009 ISSUE – VOL. 9 #1
The Rev. Jim and Diana Wilson, Coordinators

Dear People of the Northstate Vision:

More than two billion professing Christians have just celebrated the birth of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Fewer recognize the equally important event of His revelation to the world that we celebrate each January – the ancient Greek name for it is Epiphany. It is marked by commemoration of the visit of the Wise Men, the Baptism of Jesus, and His first miracle in the conversion of water to wine at the Wedding in Cana of Galilee.

But the revelation of Jesus is nothing if not practical – and that revelation continues today. Record unemployment in Shasta County – and California – is devastating evidence of a devastating season. Yet the recently concluded “Celebrating the NorthState Family” auction was as prophetic as we declared it to be. More than seventy businesses and ministries supported the event and God said that all would be blessed. We already have reports of fruit in terms of increased client loads, media attention, and the doubling of registration for an event at the Holiday Inn where our event was lavishly hosted. Can the realities of recession and renaissance exist side by side?

Reality is that they are – and God has something to say about this. We are in a rough season – God’s Word has long foretold it and He always speaks truth. Yet He has promised a time of blossoming – an Elijah generation for the turning of the fathers’ hearts to their children and the preparation of a people for righteousness – and again He speaks truth. The way out of hard times is always bold investment in the Kingdom – and the Body is being measured. Our opportunity – and our obligation – is to worship as though it were Easter, choose Whom we serve boldly and publicly, and walk in the graceful authority of His Name, doing all things that He alone can empower.
CURRENTPrayNorthstateEVENTS

• Seeding the Future: A Prophetic Approach to the Economy is a one-day retreat sponsored by Realms of Influence, a prayer group for business persons. The retreat will be conducted in the hills overlooking Redding; seating is limited to thirty participants and there are a few seats still open. Jim teaches on A Prophetic Community in the Marketplace; If It’s Prophetic It’s Got To Be Pragmatic; and Prophecies Over the City and How To Tend Them. There is no charge – offerings will be received to cover lunch and bless PrayNorthState. Call 530-941-3470 to reserve space – or e-mail praynorthstate@charter.net. The retreat is Saturday, January 10, from 9:30 to 5.

• Praying Home the Prodigals will be offered at Oasis Christian Ministries in Sacramento on Saturday, January 16 and Sunday, January 17 in four sessions including Sunday Morning. Call Pastor Joel Pappas at 916-628-7884. The teaching is preparation for the season of grace summarized in Luke 1:17. The time is now to discover God’s imprint in others while expressing it in ourselves.

• 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 copies at Chiropractic First Healing Services (1435 Market Street in Redding’s Downtown Mall) from 8:30 to 11:00 AM on Friday(s), January 23 and 30. He will also be signing books – along with best-selling author Cindy Martinusen – at the Grand Opening of Holy Family Books in the Four Corners Shopping Center on Saturday, January 24, from 11 AM to 3 PM.

PRAYNORTHSTATE RADIO and TV for DECEMBER

KLXR, KBLF and KNTK:
• 1/3-4 – Erica Grieve – The Jesus Culture
• 1/10-11 – Erica Gismegian & Kate Eifert – School of Supernatural Ministry
• 1/17-18 – Iain and Clare Bradbeer – Ministers from Australia
• 1/24-25 – Dr. Andre VanMol – Family Practice Physician and Life Advocate
• 1/31-2/1 – Ray and Maggie John – Haven Humane Society/Women’s Refuge

Fox 30:
• 1/5 – David and Mamie Bronson – Apostles-at-large/Christian Impresarios
• 1/12 – Pastor Larry Lane and Pam Wear – Outreach to the City
• 1/19 – Alec Binyon – A Christian in the News Media
• 1/25 – Shane and Jennifer Edwards – Youth Evangelists

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

• The Azusa House of Prayer completed an Advent weekend in which members were called to fast from entertainment and seek God’s face for the evangelization of the Los Angeles Basin. More than five youth groups and several churches participated – hundreds of Christians gathered by Genesis Generation leaders in an effort to influence millions of Angelenos for Christ. Organizer Theresa Babbitt believes this move is triggering focused prayer in multiple venues.

• The Northern Siskiyou County Ministerial Association has once again organized a food and gift distribution for Christmas – filling in the gaps left by government and other organized ministries of this type. They hosted a Christmas dinner on the afternoon of Christmas Day with help and facilities furnished by the local Grange. Some two hundred baskets were distributed in a city of only about eight thousand. Call Lily at 530-842-1105 for info on how to do your own for next year.

• Also in Siskiyou County a New Year’s Eve bash for teens is planned by Christians of many churches at the Yreka YMCA. The event is all volunteer staffed and supplied with one couple running the front desk and another donated twelve pounds of nacho chips – one third of the total required – while yet another gave a raffle prize and one more is organizing three-on-three basketball. Area businesses are offering sound equipment, plates and cups and so forth; still another is donating food and many are giving money for the purchase of food. This is the third year for this event – it requires vision and elbow grease.

• Local Redding author Pastor Ray Mossholder is publishing two books in January. The first, titled Freedom, is the story of revivalist Georgian Banov’s life from rock star in Communist Bulgaria as a teenager to escapee to the West to new life in Christ Jesus and a worldwide ministry. The second is a novel called Being Boober Goober; it details the coming of age of an awkward teen who is called to new and abundant life in a culture of revival and transformation. The author can be contacted at 530-921-1360.

• The Annual West Coach March for Life will be on Saturday, January 24, in San Francisco. Two busloads of young people will depart Sacramento for the march at 8 AM from the parking lot of St. Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church and return at 6:30 PM. There is a charge of $20.00 to ride the bus. In addition, the 35th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision will be observed with a special service of Holy Communion at the St. Rose church. Call Kelly at 916- 783-5219 or David at 916-784-0765 for info.

• 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. Go to www.perspectives.org or call Frank Agee at 530-877-1017.

• The Annual Pastors’ Prayer Summit will be offered at Springs of Living Water Conference Center, Richardson Springs, from Monday, January 26 through Wednesday, January 28. The $75.00 registration fee covers meals and two nights lodging. The program is nothing but prayer and worship in the fellowship of regional leaders in the Body of Christ. Contact Neighborhood Church of Chico at 530-343-6006 for information.

• Jesus Culture 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.

• 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 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.

• Prayer and worship are being offered regularly in multiple locations of Redding’s downtown district. Get Real Worship and PrayNorthState are partnering in this ministry based on prophetic statements about God’s plans for the Downtown. Get Real Worship brings worship in song to Library Park and to the downtown mall plaza each week. PrayNorthState is bringing prayer walking and sacramental worship to these locations and we are now joined by Get Real. This is all to fulfill the prophecies over the mall that it would become a center of service and ministry – to date approximately ninety per cent of the open concerns in the mall are service oriented – up from about sixty per cent when the prophecies were first voiced in 2004. In addition, City Church holds regular Sunday services in the Cascade Theatre and Faith Community Church maintains offices in the downtown mall.

• 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

• Praying Home the Prodigals is offered at Word of His Grace Church in Bothell, Washington, over the weekend of February 6-7. This weekend event will also be offered at St. Augustine’s Anglican Church in Chico on the weekend of March 6 and 7, and at St. Michael’s Episcopal Church in Carlsbad (CA) over the weekend of March 13 and 14. 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 Pastor Joe McIntyre at 425-4242-3801 (Bothell); Father Peter Hansen at 530-894-7409 (Chico); or Father Neil Moquin at 760-729-8901 (Carlsbad) for information or to reserve space.

• 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. The retreat is sponsored by The Gathering in Brea.

• 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

• Jim preaches Sunday, January 18 at Oasis Ministries in Sacramento. Jim and Diana resume monthly prayer visits to the State Capitol on Friday, January 16. Other Prayer Vanguard events in January include a downtown Redding business Tuesday, January 13; the JH Ranch Monday, January 19; and the Downtown Mall in Redding on Friday, January 23.

• On a sad note, PrayNorthState TV prepares to air a last broadcast on Monday, January 25. The recession has dried up funding for this dimension of our ministry and, although we continue to seek the two new sponsors needed to keep the program on the air, we leave the continuation in God’s hands. At the same time, anyone able to help is welcome to call us at 530-941-3470.
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