Scheduled Saturdays 10:00-12:00

Next sessions:

• January 17, 2026
• February 21, 2026
• March 14, 2026

The lessons on shepherding over the last several years have truly been a blessing to the churches, and our brother's feeling is to make a turn and even an advancement to build on those lessons in a new series in which he will cover the many aspects of the small groups. We are full of rejoicing that the Lord will continue to shepherd and perfect the saints in Northern California through these fellowship times with brother Minoru. 

The format will be similar and will be on Zoom from 10 am - 12 pm approximately once a month. 

Outlines cannot be distributed electronically. Printed copies will be available on the front porch of the meeting hall Thursdays before each session.

"The big meetings can attract the people, but only the small meetings can build people up. Our present need is to find a way to improve the small meetings so that they will become rich, strong, fresh, living, attractive, and able to uphold all the saints. The small meetings are the foundation of the building of the church; this is an unshakable law. If we do not keep this law, we will not have any building. It is easy to gather materials, but it is not easy to build them together. In Christianity we only see the gathering in of the material; we do not see the building. However, we ourselves have made the same mistake. For this reason, we all must have a change. We all need to be balanced. It does not mean that we do not need to go out and gather people in. It only means that we should not gather at the expense of sacrificing the building."

(The Living Needed for Building Up the Small Group Meetings, Ch 1, CWWL, 1985, vol. 3, pp 11-16)

Prayer burdens and recordings of past meetings may be found here:

https://www.norcalchurches.org/working-saints-perfecting-fellowship/#Recordings

We thank the Lord for leading the East Bay Churches in pursuing "the up-to-date truth" according to the ministry of the age in a definite way since February of last year. We are endeavoring to take the way of constitution by practicing Pray-Reading, Studying, Reciting and Prophesying (PSRP):

• Pray-Reading (P) is to exercise our spirit to touch the living Word in the written Word and have the divine reality, the processed Triune God as the applied word, infused into our being. 
• Studying (S) is to exercise our mind of the spirit for the truth to get into us through our mentality, our understanding.
• Reciting (R) is to retain the understanding through the shining of the truth for constant and long-term nourishment. To practice in this way, we will have an accumulation of the truth and become persons continually under constant nourishment.
• After PSR, we will then be able to prophesy (P) and know how to present the truth to others, not merely to inspire them or to stir them up but to make them solid and constituted with the truth.

We will pursue and practice together every Saturday. For this coming year, may the Lord "Teach us then to number our days/ That we may gain a heart of wisdom" to redeem our Saturday mornings to buy the truth. The Zoom link will be emailed prior to each meeting.

We would like to announce the 2026 International Chinese-speaking Blending Conference to be held Friday, February 13 through Lord’s Day, February 15, 2026. We would like to extend an invitation to all the churches and individuals to participate in this gathering.

The meeting schedule is as follows:

1st meeting: Friday, February 13 7:30 PM 2nd meeting: Saturday, February 14 9:00 AM 3rd meeting: Saturday, February 14 11:00 AM 4th meeting: Saturday, February 14 7:30 PM 5th meeting: Lord’s Day, February 15 9:30 AM

All the meetings of the conference will be held at the Living Stream Ministry, Ministry Conference Center, 2431 W. La Palma Ave. Anaheim, California, and will be open to the public. There will be translation into English, Korean, Spanish, and Portuguese. Some other languages may also be available. Please see the attached information regarding more details of the conference.

Please pray that the Lord will take more crucial steps in the advancement of His purpose during this gathering.

Brother Paul Hon is joining us for our quarterly prayer conference.  The conference begins on the evening of Tuesday, March 3rd and will continue until noon on Friday, March 6th. We will have a Love Feast each evening at 6:30. Please bring dishes to share if you are able. During each Love Feast, there will be special times of fellowship for brothers, sisters and the working saints. At 7:30 pm, following these special fellowships, everyone will meet for prayer and fellowship.