Announcements
Week of August 9, 2026
Lord's Day - 8/16
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 serving groups' coordination and fellowship
Tuesday - 8/18
Prayer meetings by area in person and on Zoom
Lord's Day - 8/23
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 starting with A - C
Holy word for morning revival
August 10 - 16
HWMR: Noah, Daniel, and Job - Patterns of Living an Overcoming
Life on the Line of Life, Week 2 - "The Line of Life with Noah - the Life
and Work That Changed the Age", $5.50 each
Read this article entitled The Holy Word for Morning Revival: Its
Purpose and Usefulness.
PursuiNG THE TRUTH
August 10 - 16
Read Life-Study of Ephesians, Message 89 - "Growth by Feeding for the
Building" and Message 90 - "Dropping Doctrines by the Growth in Life"
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. Also, here is a very encouraging
excerpt entitled "Becoming What We Read" as an incentive to read the
Bible and the ministry that opens up the Word of God to us.
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: three chapters
in the Old Testament and one chapter in the New Testament six days
per week. Click here for the 2026 schedule. Or to create your own
personal Bible reading schedule, go to this link.
Also, here is a website about the Recovery Version Bible to read and
share with others.
August 10 - 16
Read Chapter Five in The Excelling Gift for the Building Up
of the Church, "The Patterns of Perfecting"
Conferences, Trainings, & MEETINGS
August 9
The next Truth Sets US Free webinar will be today at 5:00 pm EDT and
it can be watched at this link.
August 16
Blending and love feast with the church in Sarasota here in Tampa
September 4 - 6
2026 Southeast Labor Day Blending Conference, Atlanta, GA. The
General Subject will be "Rapture and Abiding in the Lord." See the
conference schedule and "Helpful Links and Information" by clicking
on this link.
NOTE: The deadline for requesting hospitality and registering your
children for this conference through the link above is Friday, August 21st.
November 26 - 29
2026 International Thanksgiving Blending Conference will be held
in Denver, CO. See the conference announcement by clicking on this link.
December 11 - 13
2026 Florida Young People's Conference, Lake Placid Camp
During the recent June Semiannual Training, saints gathered together for a time of special fellowship. Several brothers testified of the Lord’s blessing in their going out in one accord with prayer, the Spirit, and the Word throughout North America. Brother Minoru concluded with an encouraging word about two cases in Acts where the speaking of the Word was the spearhead of the gospel and emphasized the invaluable riches contained in the Recovery Version. Click this link to watch the video recording of that fellowship.
You can also watch the most recently recorded TSUF webinar from June 14 and all the previous ones on the Truth Sets US Free website’s video page. You can also read encouraging reports from the saints who have been spreading God’s word on the Testimonies page. You may share your own testimonies with others here. “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free.” (Galatians 5:1)
Living Stream Ministry offers two series of free eBooklets: Nuggets and Gems from the Bible and Essential Classic Booklets. All these eBooklets are free to download and share, with the hope that many will join them in spreading these riches.
A suggested eBooklet for you to read and share with someone else this week is The Ascended Christ the Head of the Church and the High Priest in the Heavens. Luke’s record of the Man-Savior ends with His ascension to heaven (24:51). In this booklet taken from Life-study of Luke, Witness Lee presents two particular aspects of the Man-Savior in His ascension: the Head of the church and the High Priest in the heavens.
Also, at the Rhema Literature Distributors website you can download the three volumes of the Basic Elements of the Christian Life, which include eleven short publications that everyone should read and then share with others.
One of the National GTCA Target Cities is in Florida-Pensacola, read the report at this link.
September 4 - 6
EXCERPTS FROM THE MINISTRY
UNIVERSAL BUILDING AND LOCAL BUILDING
Chapter 2 of Ephesians concludes with the matter of the building. In verse 21 we see the universal building, and in verse 22, the local building. Verse 21 says, “In whom all the building, being fitted together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord.” The phrase all the building denotes the universal building, the church throughout the universe. The words in whom you also in verse 22 denote the local building, the building among those in the city to which this Epistle was sent. The building, therefore, has a universal aspect and a local aspect. It is significant that this chapter of Ephesians concludes with the building of the church in these two aspects.
If we would be built up universally and locally, we must forsake all ordinances. To hold to certain ordinances is to build without a proper foundation, that is, without Christ as the unique foundation. Many Christians are not clear about Christ as the unique foundation, and they do not know God’s building. Therefore, they have spent years wandering from one denomination or Christian group to another. Such believers may be stones for God’s building, but they have not yet been built in. Some church-traveling Christians may claim that the reason for their wandering from group to group is a sense of dissatisfaction. However, the underlying reason is ordinances.
Although there are millions of Christians on earth today, very few have been built up with others. The reason for this lack of building is that so many believers still hold on to ordinances. In our experience Christ must be everything to us: our peace, our foundation, our cornerstone. We should not care for anything other than Christ. Whether the meetings are noisy or quiet makes no difference. We are not for noise or for silence—we are for Christ. By caring only for Christ, we can easily be one with others and be built up with them locally and universally on Christ as the unique foundation.
According to the truth of the Body, the Body is universally one. For this reason the local churches should not be isolated from one another. Isolation is contrary to the truth concerning the oneness of the Body. Because each local church is part of the Body universally, no local church should be isolated from the others.
It is important to see that the universal building can be accomplished only through the local building. If we are not built up with others in our own locality, we should not expect to be able to be built up in any other locality. All those who are burdened to migrate for the spread of the church life must first be built up in their own locality. If you have not yet been built up in your local church, I encourage you not to migrate. Before we can be built up universally, we must be built up in a practical way locally. Nothing tests your spiritual maturity as much as this matter of building.
Furthermore, the local building is a great help in your spiritual growth. If you are willing to be built into the church in your locality, you will have the abundance of the growth in life. The building must begin with the local aspect and then spread to the universal aspect. Some saints have not grown very much because they have not been built into the church locally. The reason for the lack of building is that they have too many reservations. Although they are in the local church, they have the tendency to withdraw or to hold back when certain situations arise in the church. It is this holding back that keeps them from being built up. Instead of withdrawing or holding back, we should be willing to be broken and even “wrecked” in order to be built up with others. What a difference this makes to our growth in life!
In conclusion, how much building we have universally as well as locally depends on how much we give up the ordinances and realize in a practical way that Christ is everything in God’s economy. Since He is the all-inclusive One, we should not hold on to anything in place of Him. If we hold to Christ as everything to us, we will experience the genuine building, first locally and then universally. This will make us useful in migration for the expansion of the church life. (Life-study of Ephesians, pp. 715-721)