Category: LA Story

Three weeks ago in Paris, the World Sector Leaders and World Sectors Administrators finalized the Six Year Plan. This is the plan to plant a church by the year 2000 in every nation under heaven that has a city of at least 100,000 people.

Since we began the Los Angeless Bulletin, I have been looking forward to this issue in particular honour to Kip McKean on his fortieth Birthday. Keeping with our theme of movie titles, “A Man for all Seasons” immediately came to mind to describe him.

In only eight weeks, the Los Angeles Church of Christ will be taking our special Missions Contribution totalling almost $1.5 Million. Since many of you have become disciples in the past year, this is your first time to sacrifice for world missions.

Future Shock, a book by Alvin Toffer, speculates on our future society as it is shaped by the rapid changes that we all face. Change is unavoidable fact; How we adapt to change is our decision.

Everywhere I looked there were new faces! That was the feeling I had at the 1994 Women’s Day on March 5 in the South Central region where 130 sisters brought 307 of their friends.

Gloria and I were shaken from sound sleep in the wee hours of Monday, January 17, and we knew immediately that we had just experienced our first earthquake. No one needed an alaram clock that morning.

We are saved to save others, not just a few others but a world of others. We have the authority in Matthew 28:18-20. We have the power from God. We have the message of the resurected Christ.

Monday our nation celebrated the birthday (January 15, 1929) of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He was a man who devoted his life to the establishment of full citizenship rights of the poor, racially oppressed and disadvantaged in the Umited States.

Welcome to the inaugural issue of the L.A. Church of Christ Bulletin. I am honoured to be the editor of this new endeavour, and have some exciting and “cutting edge” plans for these pages.