Announcements
Week of January 18, 2026
Lord's Day - 1/18
Lord's Table and prophesying meeting at the hall, also children's and young people's meetings
Love feast
Hall cleaning by all the saints and coordination meetings for serving groups
Tuesday - 1/20
Prayer meetings by areas in person and also on Zoom
Lord's Day - 1/25
Lord's Table and prophesying meeting at the hall, also children's and young people's meetings
Hall cleaning by all the saints with last names beginning with D - J
Holy word for morning revival
January 19 - 25
HWMR: The Preparation of the Bride, Week 6, "The Bride as the
Corporate Warrior"
PursuiNG THE TRUTH
January 19 - 25
Read Life-Study of Ephesians, Message 31 - "The Church for God’s
Wisdom according to His Eternal Purpose" (3:9-13) and Message 32 - "To Be
Strengthened into the Inner Man that Christ May Make His Home
in Our Hearts" (3:14-17)
To help you develop a habit of reading the Life-studies for your
spiritual nourishment and growth in Christ, download and
use the 500 Life-Studies app on your phone by clicking this link.
To read the Life-study messages for Ephesians online at Living Stream
Ministry, use this link.
To listen to the Life-study of the Bible Radio Broadcast for Ephesians
online at Living Stream Ministry, click this link.
Reading through the Recovery Version Bible each year: Old Testament
3 chapters and New Testament 1 chapter on six days per week -
Click here for the schedule for 2026.
Or to create your own Bible reading schedule, go to this link.
January 19 - 25
Read the rest of Chapter Three and the first section of Chapter Four
of The Prayer Ministry of the Church
Conferences, Trainings, & MEETINGS
January 18
Amos 8:11 "Indeed days are coming, / Declares the Lord Jehovah, /
When I will send a hunger into the land, / Not a hunger for bread /
Nor a thirst for water, / But for hearing the words of Jehovah."
It is evident that a spiritual seeking and hunger for the truth is increasing
throughout the United States, particularly among the younger generations.
The North American coworkers are burdened for the sharing of the
gospel and the spreading of the truth in 2026.
Please join a webinar in which brother Minoru Chen and others will share
this burden and fellowship concerning how it may be carried out in North
America this year.
John 8:32 “And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.”
Topic: The Truth Sets US Free
Time: 4:00 PM Eastern Time
Join the Zoom Meeting by clicking on this link.
Meeting ID: 827 6413 6416
Passcode: 2026
January 27
Corporate prayer meeting at the hall at 7:30 PM to carry out
the prayer ministry of the church.
March 13 - 15
2026 Spring Southeast Blending Conference - Virtual
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* Upcoming Living Stream Ministry Training & Conference 2026 Dates:
1) Int’l Chinese-speaking Blending Conference: February 13-15, 2026 (Anaheim, California)
2) Int’l Training for Elders and Responsible Ones: March 20-22, 2026 (Anaheim, California)
3) Int’l Memorial Day Blending Conference: May 22-25, 2026 (Dallas, Texas)
4) June Semiannual Training: June 29—July 4, 2026 (Anaheim, California)
5) Int’l Training for Elders and Responsible Ones: September 24-26, 2026 (Amsterdam)
6) Int’l Thanksgiving Blending Conference: November 26-29, 2026 (Denver, Colorado)
7) December Semiannual Training: December 21-26, 2026 (Anaheim, California)
* In this special year end fellowship [given in 2020], brother Minoru Chen shares with us his personal experience and practice of spending a longer period of time with the Lord at the beginning of each new year. Click this link to listen to the audio-only file.
Also, on this topic are ministry excerpts at this link from a message entitled, "The Spiritual Significance of the New Year."
* Southeast Labor Day 2025 Conference audio and video messages on the subject of Revelation and Praise are available at this link. The outlines can be downloaded here.
* Ministry Propagation fellowship shared in Tampa on June 1, 2025
Session 1 - The audio recording can be listened to by clicking this link and the outline that was used as the basis for the sharing can be downloaded here.
Session 2 - The video recording can be watched using this link.
* To setup a recurring monthly gift through Zelle with your bank for the purpose of supporting the saints sent from the Southeast who are serving in Europe, use this address: southeastchurches@gmail.com.
Also, the following link is intended to facilitate the giving of the saints in the Southeast churches to meet this need: https://southeastchurches.us/.
* At the Living Stream Ministry website - lsm.org - click on Free Resources and then on "Quick Links for our Daily Life" at the bottom of the list or go there directly using this link. The option for free "eBooklets to Download and Share with Friends" is in the bottom left hand corner.
A recommended eBooklet to read yourself and then share with someone else this week is The Bible- a Romance of a Universal Couple. "Many today view the Bible in various ways, but few have ever considered the Bible as a romance. In this eBooklet taken from Life-study of Romans, Witness Lee shows from both the Old and New Testaments that the Bible is a romance in the purest and holiest sense. It presents the love relationship between a universal couple—God in Christ as the Bridegroom and His redeemed people as His Bride.”
* Books that everyone should read at https://www.rhemabooks.org/en/free-christian-books/
Basic Elements of the Christian Life - Volume One:
1) The Mystery of Human Life
2) The Assurance, Security, and Joy of Salvation
3) The Precious Blood of Christ
4) Calling on the Name of the Lord
5) The Key to Experiencing Christ
Basic Elements of the Christian Life - Volume Two:
6) A Time With the Lord
7) A Simple Way to Touch the Lord
8) Deep Calls Unto Deep
Basic Elements of the Christian Life - Volume Three:
9) Two Principles of Living
10) The Way to Build Up the Church
11) Pray-reading the Word
Upcoming Events
* Here in the Southeast & beyond - See the Calendar at this link.
EXCERPTS FROM THE MINISTRY
“Many Christians have the mistaken concept that the apostles in the universal church and the elders in the local churches are high officials, far above the so-called laymen or common believers…The Apostle Paul, realizing that such was a wrong concept, purposely indicated that the apostles and prophets were not extraordinary. On the contrary, they should be regarded simply as leading ones among the saints in the churches. They take the lead to receive the revelation concerning Christ for the church, to live Christ, to experience Christ, to enjoy Christ, and to minister the riches of Christ to others. If the enjoyment of the riches of Christ were available only for certain exceptional persons of high rank, then the rest of us would have no share in it. But in 3:8 Paul said that he was less than the least of all saints; yet he could preach the unsearchable riches of Christ as the gospel. The fact that Paul could do this indicates that we can do it also. Because he was less than we are, what was available to him is available also to us.
In order to be apostles, prophets, stewards, ministers, and even prisoners in Christ, we need to know the unsearchable riches of Christ.
The riches of Christ [are seen] 1) in types, 2) in shadows, 3) in figures, 4) in prophecies, 5) in fulfillment, 6) as plants, 7) as animals, 8) as minerals, 9) as persons, 10) as all the positive things in the universe, and 11) as human virtues and divine attributes.
The church is produced not by teaching, nor by organizing, but by the dispensation of Christ. The more Christ is dispensed into us, the more life we have, the stronger life we have, the richer life we have, and the more uplifted the church life becomes.
The riches of Christ produce the church through the believers’ experience and enjoyment of Christ…When we experience and enjoy the very Christ who is dispensed into us, we become part of the proper church life.
The riches of Christ also express God’s multifarious wisdom (3:10). God’s wisdom is manifold; it has many aspects in many directions. This wisdom is expressed before the rulers and authorities in the heavenlies, mainly before the evil powers of Satan.
All the aspects of the riches of Christ do not become the fullness of Christ until they are eaten, enjoyed, digested, and assimilated by us. By absorbing these riches in such a way, we become the Body of Christ as His fullness to express Him. Thus, the Body of Christ is constituted of the riches of Christ that have been enjoyed and assimilated by us.” (Life-study of Ephesians, pp. 259-266)