Announcements for November 2, 2025

REMEMBER: Daylight savings occurs tonight, please remember to roll back your clocks 1 hour.

Lord’s Day Meeting – 9:30 AM

  • In-Person at the Bellevue meeting hall: 1835 Bellevue Way NE, Bellevue, WA 98004
  • Zoom

Announcements

  • The parents of the children will have a time of prayer and fellowship on November 2nd; lunch will be provided.
  • A care package will be sent down to the FTTA trainees on November 2nd for Peter Zheng, Daniel Lee, Jerome Shih, and Daniel Chen. Please sign cards and bring items for the trainees no later than that date.
  • The December training will be held December 22-27, 2025. Registration is due by November 1st. Here is the link to sign up: https://www.cognitoforms.com/Churchinbellevue1/_2025DecemberSemiannualTrainingRegistrationAndPaymentLink
  • Reminder: no parking in the Presbyterian parking lot or illegal turns into the parking lot
  • The Puget Sound Conference will be held November 14-16.
  • The Thanksgiving Conference will be held in Indianapolis, Indiana from November 27-30. More information can be found at: https://www.lsm.org/pdfs/2025-Thanksgiving-conf/2025ThanksgivingConferenceInformation_en.pdf 
  • Families with children going to the Thanksgiving conference should register for child care at: https://form.jotform.com/251444161206144 
  • We will continue with week 30 in Volume 5 from the Holy Word for Morning Revival from the July training on “Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (3)”. Copies are available in the bookroom. 
  • Please refer to the prayer meeting schedule below:
DATEPRAYER MEETING LOCATION (7:30 PM)Prayer Burdens, Zoom
November 4Bellevue Meeting Hall (all languages)
November 11Bellevue Meeting Hall (all languages)Redmond/Sammamish/Issaquah (English), TBD
November 18Bellevue Meeting Hall (all languages)

CLEANING SCHEDULE

TIME PERIODCLEANING GROUP (Zip Codes/Cities)
November 2CHANGE: 98004
November 998006
November 16Puget Sound Conference
November 2398007
USHERING SERVICE SCHEDULELORD’S TABLE SERVICE SCHEDULE
DateTeamDateTeam
November 2BNovember 21
November 9CNovember 92
November 16PS ConferenceNovember 16PS Conference
November 23ANovember 234

Schedule

  • Puget Sound Conference, November 14-16
  • Thanksgiving Conference, November 27-30

Prayer Meeting Reading (Prayer Ministry of the Church)

Matt. 18:19 Again, truly I say to you that if two of you are in harmony on earth concerning any matter for which they ask, it will be done for them from My Father who is in the heavens.

Brothers and sisters, when we truly stand on the ground of the church and take up the responsibility of such a ministry of prayer before God, we will see God’s will carried out in the church where we are. Otherwise, everything will be in vain. There can be many prayers or few prayers, but the main thing is to have strong prayers. What God does today is measured by the amount of prayer that the church offers. God’s power cannot exceed the prayer of the church. The power of God today can at most be as great as the prayer of the church. This does not mean that God’s power is limited in heaven. In heaven, God’s power is unlimited. But on earth, God’s power is manifested to the degree that the church prays. The amount that the church prays will be the measure of the amount that God’s power is manifested. Consequently, the church has to learn to pray big prayers and make big requests. The prayer of the church is often very small; it prays only for ordinary problems.  This is not enough. The church needs to have big prayers and make big requests. Since the church is coming to such a rich God, there must not be small prayers and small requests. Since the church is coming to such a rich God, there must be great things happening. If the capacity of the church before God is small, it will restrict the power of God from being manifested. We know that the question of the overcomers is not quite resolved, and Satan is not yet thrown into the abyss. God must gain a vessel for His testimony before He can accomplish what He has set out to accomplish. The church must have big prayers to manifest our God. This is the ministry of the church. Brothers and sisters, I do not know whether God can say to us that this church has a ministry of prayer when He passes by our prayer meeting. It is not a question of how often we pray. It is a question of the weight of our prayer. If we see the church’s responsibility of prayer, we will see that our prayers are not big enough; we are limiting God and frustrating His work. The church has forsaken its duty! What a sad situation this is!

The issue at stake is this: Can God gain a church that is faithful to its ministry? This depends on whether we are those destined to be disqualified, or whether we are the real vessels of God who will fulfill God’s goal. Brothers and sisters, we have to cry out loudly that God is watching to see whether the church is faithful to its ministry. The ministry of the church is prayer—not small prayers, but prayers that pioneer the way for God. God is accomplishing His work. But the church first prays and prepares the way before God finds the way. The church must have big prayers, serious prayers, and strong prayers. Prayer cannot be small before God. If prayers are centered around ourselves, our personal difficulties, and our small losses and gains, it will be difficult to open a way for God’s eternal will. Many things should drive us to dig deep. But above all, prayer should drive us to the utmost depth.

For two to be in harmony is not an empty word; it is not a slogan. If we do not know what the Body of Christ is and have not taken this ground, it will be useless even if two hundred people are praying together. If we know the Body of Christ and stand on the proper ground of this Body to deny the flesh, if we do not ask things for ourselves but ask for God’s will to be done on earth, we will see that our prayer is in harmony. When this happens, God in heaven will fulfill our prayer on earth.

Burdens For Prayer