okay, I figured it was time to update.
so here is what is going on out here.
First of all, the weather is incredible.. I see why people want to live here. :) yeah, its nice.
so the question I hear most is: what exactly are you doing out there?
:) good question.
though its kind of hard to answer, I'll give an overview.
we have morning meetings every day, reviewing the events of the previous day, planning for today, praying over people, etc. Tuesdays and Thursday we meet at 5:30 in the morning to pray over the base here. Those times are really cool, though not many people come because it is 5:30 in the morning :).
we have 4 hours of work a week, 2 hours on both Tuesday and Thursday. The guys work in the morning, the girls in the afternoon. We pretty much do whatever needs to be done, so its different almost every day.
From 10 am to 5:30 pm there are people constantly in the prayer chapel praying over our scripture for the week (this week its Colossians 3:1-5). We are in teams of 2, each with 2 hours.
We use that time to pray for our evening sessions and ask God for the theme for that night.
All of us then meet at 6:30 in the evening to discuss what God showed us that day, and pray and seek His heart for that night. At 7:30 we start our evening worship/intercession time. We use a format called "harp and bowl" taken from Isaiah 6 and Revelation 4 . The way we set up is to have someone leading worship, usually on guitar, and whomever they have playing with them (so maybe bass guitar and drums, or piano or whatever). Then there is a prayer leader, whose job it is to read scripture and pray out the revelations that God is showing us. And then there are 3 singers, who sing in response to what the prayer leader is praying. So we normally open with a couple songs, then the worship leader just play a repeating chord pattern, and the prayer leader reads some verses or whatever, then the singers sing out.. and it goes round and round. Then we also have times where we are all praying for each other, the base, and the city of LA, and whatever God is putting on our hearts. We also then have an open mic for people to come up and pray or read scripture or share what God is speaking to them.
This sort of set up was hard at first, getting the flow and such took a little getting used to. But now we are really starting to run with it. We worship, hear and declare what God is saying, both through His Word and through Him speaking to our hearts, and then sing out or pray out in response. So what I hear from God and declare sparks someone else's heart so they sing, which sparks someone else to read a verse, and so on and so forth. It is truely amazing when we all focus in on Him and he blows our minds with 2 or 3 words from a verse. wow. God Rocks!
The evening sessions normally go to around 10 PM, but sometimes longer (last night was after midnight).
Then on the weekends we get to go and lead worship at local churches and youth group events.
Really, this is only a very small picture of what we are doing, its hard to explain a lot of it. God is changing people in ways that are unimaginable. We are learning the power of prayer, learning to move in prophecy and discernment, learning to seek God's presence. The cool part is, people are coming to us. The last 2 mornings people have come and asked our team to pray over them.. this goes along with some prophetic words that were spoken over our team months ago. That if we seek God's presence, we will not have to go searching for people to minister to, they will be
drawn to Him in us. Cool.
we also have been writing songs, which is fun. If you want to hear one that I recorded go to:
http://www.myspace.com/matthewgmusic06some of the vocals are a little sketchy, but its not bad for not spending too much time on the recording.
I hope that helps y'all understand what is going on out here, though really you would have to be here to fully understand.. Well, actually, we don't even fully understand. All I know is that we are following God's leading day-by-day and seeing where that takes us, and its crazy exciting!
Please continue to pray for direction for our team and leaders, and that He would continue to open up doors for us to walk through.
The outreach is winding down, this sunday it will be 2 weeks until I get home. No way.. so quick.
Oh, all of you can also be praying for my girlfriend, Linda. She is in China for the next 2 months! She will be teaching English at a school over there. :)
Thanks!
Matthew G.
isn't she gorgeous? 
