Wow, the rest of this month is packed with exciting things that God has lined up for us!

This Sunday, September 12th, we will feature a number of guests who will be joining us.

Larry & Ann LeLieve will be our guest worship leaders this weekend. Larry and Ann are Pastors with Paul Lucas at Jesus Christ Hope of the Nations. Larry is an amazing electric guitar player. He has been called “one of the best” by some world-class entertainers.

Vegod and Ali Dutt from New Zealand will be ministering to the congregation. They are powerful prophetic ministers. I have asked them to share about the prophetic and if they are led to minister prophetically to our congregation. Because of this, I would like all of the children to remain in service because they might receive prophetic ministry which will be invaluable to their future and destiny. Even if they don’t prophesy to everyone, you will see the power of God in operation. Non-believers will also be impacted by the wisdom, kindness, and power of God if you would like to use this as Sunday to invite your friends.

Because of these special guests joining us, I would like to ask if you would come early at 9:00am to meet and greet our guests. Worship will start immediately afterwards.

And as I have alluded earlier, guests are welcome for this special service.

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Saturday September 18th will feature an all day “Breaking Free Weekend” with Laulima Ministries. Details can be found at www.laulimaministries.com

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Sunday September 19th we will hold a joint service at Unified.. . 1419 10th Ave. Honolulu, HI 96816.

Guest speaker Danny Silk will be sharing a key message on “Apostolic Government”.

Have a Great week!

arlen

(I know many of you will be away at the Okinawan Festival and out of town too.)

Wherever you go, and whatever you’re doing, be mindful of the Lord and who he may want you to pray for or bless. Hope you all have a great weekend and we’ll see you next week.

Having said that, for those of us who will be at CCAK…

Dress comfortably and bring a blanket, mat, or something soft to sit/relax on.

I will be sharing a secret about intimacy with God through an encounter with God I had the other week. Then we will begin to put into practice what we will learn.

Also, there’s a slight change in our worship lineup. Mr. Paulo will be leading worship along with one of his daughters, Vicky. We look forward to welcoming them as they come. Next weekend, we will have more guest worship leaders from Pastor Paul’s church.

Blessings & May the Lord be with you wherever He leads you this weekend!

arlen

Here’s some info on their new Mac Version, including a nice contest.

arlen

http://www.logos.com/mac”http://www.logos.com/” is giving away http://www.logos.com/mac#giveaway”thousands of dollars of prizes to celebrate the launch of http://www.logos.com/mac”Logos Bible Software 4 Mac on October 1. Prizes include an iMac, a MacBook Pro, an iPad, an iPod Touch, and more than 100 other prizes!

They’re also having a special limited-time sale on their Mac and PC http://www.logos.com/basepackages” and upgrades. Check it out!

This Friday and next month, there will be a couple of gatherings at Unified.. .

I encourage all our men to attend the Men’s Gooder Friday (and if the women could support your men).
Likewise, I encourage all the women to attend the Women’s Revelation Night (and men support your wifes).

Blessings!
arlen

Begin forwarded message:
From: “Dean Fujishima”
Date: August 17, 2010 11:24:05 AM HST
To: Subscriber Subject: Men’s Gooder Friday! and Women’s Revelation Night!

Dear LMIer’s, Unifier’s, and friends,
This is a reminder that the men of Gooder Fridays we will be meeting this Friday August 20 at 7 pm at Unified.. . If you have not signed up yet, please call our church office at 734-2655. We will be having dinner and we need a head count.
Next month the women of Unified.. . and our partnering church women will begin meeting on the last Friday of every month at our facility. September 24 at 7 pm will be their first meeting called, “Women’s Revelation Night.”
Men of Gooder Friday, please support your wives so that they can attend the women’s fellowship as they have supported you on our Men’s Gooder Fridays. It their turn to gather as women.
Blessings,
Dean and Kerry

My Favorite iPhone Apps:
Evernote, BibleReader, ESV Bible, DocsToGo, Dropbox, Kindle, Mint, Feedler RSS, TripIt, Skype, Wikipanion, IMDB, Flixster… See below for details.

Note taking App- Evernote
Sign up for a free account at www.evernote.com. Then you can you use the Evernote App to sync your notes between your iPhone, iPad, Mac, or PC. Evernote is also a good tool because it backs up your notes so you never lose or forget your notes. Evernote will also sync notes from other Apps like Bible Reader.

Bible App- Olive Tree Bible Reader
High quality often comes are a price. The Bible Reader App is free, but you will need to pay for the Bibles, Commentaries, Dictionaries, etc. That you put add to the app. That said, you can carry a substantial digital library on your iPhone and iPad. Tap a verse to write and note, then sync and backup your notes with a free Evernote account. This app is fast replacing my regular Bible as a great portable study alternative.

Free Bible App- ESV Bible
The ESV is great, accurate translation of the Bible. Now it’s available free on your iPhone or iPad. Neat features include “tweeting” your notes and favorite passages.

Office Suite- Docs to Go
Create and Edit all your office doccuments. Word, Excel, Powerpoint can all be managed with this App. If you want productivity to go, this is my favorite app.

File Mangement- Dropbox
If you’re tired of forgetting a critical file on your computer at home, or tired of plugging and unplugging those USB flash drives, try an online alternative. www.dropbox.com will give you a free account to store up to 2 GB’s of files. Then access those files on the go with the Free iPhone/iPad App.

E-Book Reader- Kindle
Read, Highlight, and Annotate your favorite ebooks with this mature and proven App. Shop the vast library of ebooks on amazon.com and start reading today.

Financial Management- Mint
Manage all your financial accounts in one place. Check your credit card balances, bank account, and plan & watch your budget. Mint was recently acquired by Intuit/Quicken so you know the security and usability of the app is first-class.

RSS feed management- Feedler RSS
If you compile all your favorite RSS feeds in a Google Reader account, use this great App to read through the articles in style.

Travel Organizer- Trip it
Trip it makes is simple to manage your busy travel schedule. Simply email your flight, hotel, rental car, etc. Confirmations to tripit and your whole itinerary will be compiled for you. Find local weather and information about your destination too. Simple and organized.

Phone Alternative- Skype
If you regularly use Skype to make international or local calls, why not call from your iPhone at those same low rates? Install the app and start calling.

For Fun-
Wikipanion- A great app to access Wikipedia information.
IMDB- Get all your TV and Movie info here.
Flixster- Watch trailers, add DVD’s to Netflix and a whole lot more.

I want to write a few articles to express what I believe the Lord is doing in our midst. If possible I would suggest you keep these articles together, possibly in your CCAK Journal.

Today, I want to chat with you about Transition.

Have you ever said to yourself, “I can’t believe how fast time flies? Things are changing so fast.”

Yes, things do change rapidly in the world we live in today. But I also believe we are in an age of transition. Normally when we think about transition, we are looking forward to the end result of the change. But I want to suggest to you that life is a journey. And I believe from now until the end of time, we will be in a constant state of transitions and changes.

Don’t look back at the past. Don’t long for change to stop. Both are spiritually unhealthy for us in this age.

If we have our hearts and eyes fixed on Jesus and following His leading we will always be right where we need to be no matter what is changing around us.

While we will always be in a state of transition, some transitions are bigger than others. I believe we have made a significant transition by being aligned with Laulima Ministries in the journey of “Advancing the Kingdom.” Read Joshua 3-5.

Just as Israel crossed over the Jordan river and into the promised land, we believe we have crossed over into a new season of church life. Please note the journey of crossing over, setting up an alter of stones to remember what God has done in our midst, consecration and circumcision, and the shift of manna ceasing, and being in the presence of the Commander of the Lord’s Army. These are all significant events which parallel our own journey.

Consider where you are on the journey?

You and I are living in an incredible time! Let’s remain focused on Jesus through all the changes and God will one day acknowledge that we are his “good and faithful sons and daughters.”

Blessings,
Pastor Arlen

One of the biggest values in this season is family. And it’s not that “‘Ohana means family and family means no one gets left behind.” That’s only for the movies.

Family is more than flesh and blood relationships. Biblically, family in God’s kingdom is anyone who does the will of God. And it’s people who carry the same heart to hear God and obey.

Family also means we care for one another. If you want to do a fun Bible study, use a computer to search for the phrase “one another.” You will find that we are to love, be affectionate, agree, kiss, wait for, care for, serve, forgive, speak songs to, submit to, admonish, comfort, edify, exhort, confess our sins to, be hospitable to, and have fellowship with one another.

Whenever I have a chance, I brag on our church because we do many of these things. You will also find all of us contributing to the life of the church. On any given Sunday, there are not just a few people helping to setup and breakdown. Everyone puts away chairs, everyone cleans up, everyone cooks, everyone contributes. That is the mark of family. In a family, everyone contributes. It’s called chores. John Maxwell said at a conference once, “I do not give my children allowance for their chores, because they are a part of the family and everyone needs to contribute. I do give them money for reading books which I recommend.” That statement is pregnant with meaning and wisdom for us.

We experienced something last week which I didn’t mean to submit you to. For one reason or another our experts in a couple of areas were not at church and that caused others to have to scramble and “fill in”. While we want to do what we do well. We need to learn what each other does and their areas of responsibility. We need to be able to cover each other’s backs and cover each other’s areas of responsibility. There will be times when people will not be available and someone or a few people will need to step in.

This proverb comes to mind: “Blessed are the flexible for they shall not be bent out of shape.”

We are a church family that is focused on missions and we will be sent out to bless other nations and other churches. Someone once gave us a prophetic word like that which said, “You will be sent out to bless nations. This church will impact nations.” Most of the time we can plan fully for those times, but there is coming a time when the Lord will tell you in the morning to go here or there and then you and I must make a choice to obey or not.

We are a family and I am proud and pleased to be a part of our ‘Ohana.

Blessings,
Pastor Arlen

Here are some upcoming events.

Next week, I will be away at the Watchmen For The Nations Gathering “Reveal 19” I have asked some of the Worship team from Jesus Christ Hope of the Nations church to join us for worship. Please welcome them and enjoy the unique sound of worship that they bring. You will also have the priviledge of hearing from our very own Joe Gruzinsky.

Laulima Ministries International will host Mike Evans of Wholeness Ministries on August 23-25 at 7 pm at Unified.. . This will be a series on Healing Ministry.

Mike is a wonderful equipper in training people how to minister in the area of healing. He is also the author of “Learning to Do What Jesus Did?” This is a comprehensive manual on healing. There is no registration fee and no registration is required to attend. If you are a part of our Thursday Healing Ministry or desire to be in the future I would strongly encourage you to attend. Call me if you would like to carpool.

Family and Marriage Enrichment weekend with Danny and Sheri Silk from Bethel Church in Redding California will be on September 17-18 at Unified.. . .

Also, Danny will be sharing a powerful message on the Apostolic Government and how it relates to the other offices in the structure of the church on Sunday September 19 in our Celebration Sunday at Unified.. . Because of the timely message he has, we would like to make this a Joint Service. So let’s all gather that day at Unified.. . 8:00am Prayer and 9:30am Celebration.

Our first “Parent/Kids Equipping Retreat” will be held on October 7-10 at Unified.. . Our special guest ministers will be Children Pastors Deanna Warner and Laura Griffths of Bethel Church, Redding California. Registration will be required to attend. More information coming soon!

Finally, we will be going back to school in November.

Stay tuned for details on the following “schools” in November.
“The School of Worship” with Ray Hughes and Dano MacCollum “The School of the Prophets” with Kris Vallotton and Dano MacCollum.

Jesus said, “I will build my church.” And as we submit to His leading, He really will build the church.

Some of these events are special interest events for you to pray about. Others are events for our entire church family. Those events, I would encourage you to make sacrifices to be a part of because we will only move forward in unity.

See you all in a week when I return from the Watchmen conference “Reveal 19”.

Love and Blessings!
Pastor Arlen

Pastor Arlen

WHY WE NEED NEW WINE SKINS

“And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. Else the new wine will burst the wineskins and be spilled, and the wineskin will perish. But new wine must be put into new wineskins, and both are preserved together. Also no one having drunk old wine immediately desires new, for he says, The old is better.”
Luke 5:37

1. New wine needs new wineskins

2. New wine bursts old wineskins

3.New wineskins preserve wine and skin

4. Old wine is very satisfying and causes indifference to the new wine.

5 This is an either / or issue. You can’t have both new wine and old skins.

1. Thirst for new wine.

2. The wineskins no longer flex. – The form over rules what the Holy Spirit is trying to do.

2. The wineskins split and spill the wine. – Troubles arise due to structures and organizations reacting to new wine.

3. Those raised on the old are satisfied and will not make gthe choices needed to bring in the new wineskin.

Features of the New Wineskin
Here are some features of the new wineskin that is being developed

1. Organizations are changing. We are moving from “highly organized” hierarchical structures, to “highly relational” forms of church. Worldly organizational models are being rejected.

2. We are moving from highly trained experts doing all the ministry, to everyone ministering. Every Christian IS able to be a genuine, fully qualified, authentic, minister of God

3. We are recognizing that “five fold ministries” are placed by God throughout the body and are not limited to paid staff. Five fold ministries can not fully function contained in the system, because the Holy Spirit is not contained.

4. We are moving from control and accountability to an organization to mutual submission and honor of each others gifts.

5. We are shifting from a pastor led model of church to an apostolic model of church. The church NEVER advances under pastors, because they are anointed to care for the flock and focus inward. Apostles carry the vision of advancing the Kingdom and moving outward.

6. Similarly, we are shifting from “outreach” to get people into the church building and organization, to “kingdom advance” to see the Kingdom of God saturate the nation and transform the culture.

7. The result is the venue of ministry is shifting from mainly in the “Church building” to mainly in “the marketplace.” The Kingdom always advances in the world.

The Holy Spirit is telling the church again and again “be ready for my outpouring. Be flexible and responsive to me.” Frankly, the church I know is not ready. We may be willing, but we just don’t now how to break out of the system. We may want God to move, but the only way we can think of, is shuffle the time slot in the service. You see, we are trying to get the new wine to fit the shape of the old inflexible skin. It won’t fit. So it’s time to choose. Either stick with that good old wine and skin that been so satisfying, ( theres nothing wrong with it!) But, if you are thirsty for new wine, you need to set aside that old skin before it bursts, get a new skin and take a great big drink!

God bless you

Terry Somerville
www.totalchange.org

That is an interesting statement for the Lord to make on America’s Independence Day July 4, 2010.

I sought the Lord as to what He meant by “He’s judging independence.” It is actually an independent spirit which the Lord is dealing with. An independent spirit comes from an orphan spirit.

Here’s a great handout on the orphan spirit vs. a spirit of sonship.

http://www.shilohplace.org/resource_files/download/4bb6bb1c-c704-4899-a1a5-261d43e3d9b2

I’m still seeking the Lord on this one. But something tells me there is much more to being a child of God than we realize.

I also have a sense that family is an even bigger deal to God than we know. As you read your Bibles, take note of how many stories and references you find to families and relationships.

Read the Bible with fresh eyes as the Lord reveals how many key scriptures there are which deal with relationships. Highlight the words, Father, Son, Young man, etc. You’ll be shocked at how many you find.

Blessings!
Pastor Arlen