If you have already received this note, pardon my repetition.
We arrived back in Los Angeles a little ahead of schedule Sunday, January 17, 2010. I came home with a head cold that started our last evening in Israel, so I was not in church Sunday morning. I felt enough better by the evening to enjoy that service. For me, the best way I’ve found to beat jet-lag is to immediately adjust to the local time zone. I slept some on the plane but did not go to bed at home until Sunday evening. That made for a very long day. I want to express again to you my gratefulness for your prayer for us as we traveled. Thank you.
Thank You, to the Lord, for His goodness and protection in our travels to Israel this past month. Thank you, to the church, for allowing us the time to return to the Holy Land with the students at Talbot. Thank you, to Byron and Robyn Siemsen, for presenting a first hard report of your ministry in inner-city Los Angeles last Sunday evening. Thank you, to Armon and Elona Siemsen, for their admirable leadership, preaching, instrumentation, singing, and all around loving our church fellowship during our time of absence.
We are a small congregation with services provided in English and Spanish. We meet in Bell Gardens, a city southeast of downtown Los Angeles. Our desire is to please God in all that we do, especially in telling what the Bible says about who Jesus Christ is and what He has done for our benefit. We honor Jesus by following and responding to Him as the Holy Spirit guides us, in loving (becoming intensely satisfied in) Christ and loving (seeking the best for) one another. We would like to extend an invitation to you to be His guest, with us, this week. 