Today is my forty-ninth birthday. This is the only year I can honestly say that I am 49, and still people will smile and think I am not telling the truth when they ask me my age. Looking back I can’t remember how many birthdays or anniversaries I have celebrated by first throughout Arizona as well as expanding our WLI training to other cities in Arizona and other states in the USA. Today we will recognize our new chaplains who have spent the last two years in training for us to license them into ministry. I look at the current world struggles as a pruning time. When you prune, you prepare to have greater fruitfulness in your life. Even though our finances were cut back we have not stopped preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ.  We have expanded to reach over 26 nations, the most ever! We have not stopped preparing for the foundation for a great future; we are making it deeper and larger than ever before. All of this is preparing us for great multiplication in the next decade. God promises us a great and glorious future through Jesus Christ. I ask every member to support this vision with prayer, participation and finances as we move into our new decade together. – Pastor Greg

Dear friends and family:
Today is the day that I am going to share with all of you from my heart about God’s financial plan for us in the new decade. At the same time in response to a request by more than 40 pastors and ministry leaders throughout Arizona, Governor Jan Brewer has issued an historic proclamation for a Day of Prayer forArizona’s economy and state budget on January 17th, 2010. Gov. Brewer has joined Presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln by urging Governors, and Congress to seek God’s guidance during times of difficulty. The proclamation states: “Throughout this day of prayer, we ask for God’s favor, blessing, wisdom, and guidance to rest upon our state government, businesses, and our citizens … that God would aid and empower the citizens and businesses in our state ….” Financial health is vital to health in all other areas of life. God does not want the weights of debt to create the many problems we are currently facing. God’s plan involves us putting him first and then being able to live on the rest. As we put God’s plan for finances into action we will see true change take place in our lives. Let’s prayand obey as we see economic change start with us. – Pastor Greg

Dear Church family:

In June of 2007 the Lord gave me a vision of the map of Arizona and told me I was to prepare our state for what is about to happen in the next move of God. I did not know how it would transpire but since the fall of 2009 we launched the Skyway Home Church with Tim Pederson leading this for us. Here is the latest email I have just received from Tim…

Pastor Greg,

Happy New Year and what a great year to come. We had 20 people in our living room last night for Home Church. Gordon and Romona Hofer ministered and it was awsome. The power of God was intense and we built more relationships with more people excited with what God is doing in Home Churches. I talked to a couple who has a small Home Church in Chino Valley, AZ and they would love to come under the Sky Way covering, we will be meeting in a few weeks. I believe that by the end of April, we will have five Home Churches in operation under the Sky Way DNA!!!. Can’t wait to get to Camp Verde and Cottonwood, AZ and get those towns going as well.

My focus and vision is to plant Generals in every region of Northern AZ.

These Generals will then help Pastor and plant multiple Sky Way Home Churches in their towns. God keeps sending more and more people who are hungry for His presents and just are not finding it in the small communities of Arizona.

Thank you again for this opportunity, God is truly blessing it.

Tim Petersen

Let’s remember to keep Tim and these new church plants in our prayers this year!

Pastor Greg

Dear friends and family:
As we enter into the New Year of 2010 we are starting the second decade of the 21st century. Can you imagine how fast time is passing! Things are transpiring quicker than we would have thought possible even ten years ago. We cannot be victims of our circumstances and filled with hopelessness any longer. I heard the Spirit of the Lord say, “It is time to rebuild.” God is going to strengthen those who have been torn down, He is going to re-enforce those that are leaning because of the storms and He is going to build some of us in completely new and different ways. Today I encourage you to mix your faith with God’s promises as we start the year off right!