Weather Becomes Favorable in Fire Fight

Phil Reddish, right, talks to California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger while standing in the rubble of Reddish's home after it was destroyed by a wildfire near Twin Pines, Calif., Sunday, Oct. 29, 2006. (AP Photo/Crystal Chatham, Pool)

"The weather has shifted in a very, very favorable way," Capt. Don Camp, a California Department of Forestry spokesman, said early Monday. "The winds are mostly gone and we're getting an onshore flow that's keeping the temperatures down."

The blaze, which authorities believe was deliberately set, still threatened wilderness plagued by drought and filled with dead trees. But fire officials said they believed they could get the blaze under control by Monday evening if the winds stay away.

The favorable conditions have helped firefighters bring containment of the fire to 85 percent. Since it started around 1 a.m. Thursday, the fire has burned 63 square miles, or 40,200 acres, northwest of Palm Springs. READ MORE

Jerry Brown is Running AGAIN ? Attorney General ??

Oakland slayings define Brown's legacy
Increasing homicides are ripe fodder for foe in attorney general race
By Jim Herron Zamora, San Francisco Chronicle
Mayor Jerry Brown helped rebuild downtown and raised the expectations of 400,000 residents that Oakland is a world-class city. But it's likely that his legacy will be tempered by how well he dealt with the city's most festering and frustrating problem -- homicide. Despite a series of innovative attempts to cut killings, Brown's final year as mayor has already seen more slayings than in any year since he took office in January 1999.

Welcome to Conservation California Election Website

Welcome to Robyn Nordell's Conservative California Election Website

For the November 7, 2006 General Election

Remember - You do not need to fill in every office or proposition
on your ballot in order for the ballot to be valid.

Our Governor, Legislators, Local Officials, and Judges
Are going to be making decisions that affect these important issues:

War on Terrorism... Illegal Immigration... Eminent Domain Abuse...
Education... Out of Control Spending... Massive Bond Debt...


The "LGBT" agenda in our public schools and communities
(Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual, Transsexual)...
Euthanasia... Cloning...Embryonic Stem-Cell Research...

Every Election is Incredibly Important!

If you find this information helpful,
Please tell others about our site!

A Very Critical Time in our State and Nation

DEAR FRIENDS, PASTORS & LEADERS,

We are in a very critical time in our state and nation -- right around the corner is the 2006 elections and much hangs in the balance.

PRAYER CAN TURN THE TIDE FROM WICKEDNESS TO RIGHTEOUSNESS!

FYI:

The Lord spoke to Irene Egan last year about having a 24/7 Prayer Vigil --- she waited on the Lord for His timing and about a month ago, the Lord said, "Now is the Time"!

DATES: STARTS THIS SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22ND AND RUNS THROUGH SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28TH.

PLACE: Central Coast 'Kingdom' House Of Prayer

197 S. 8th Street Grover Beach, CA

TIME: Begins, Sunday night at 6:00 PM and runs continuously till 6PM Saturday, October 28th

I know some of you live in other parts of the state but I am asking for you to join us, where you are -- gather your prayer groups, families,churches and let's cry out to the Lord for our cities, state, and nation.

For those of you who leave in the Central Coast area---COME DOWN and join us! We have prayer groups and individuals who have signed up for specific times but every hour is open to anyone who wants to pray. There will be prayer targets to help you / us pray in unity, with one heart and mind unto the Lord.

Just today I received several emails from well known prophetic ministers who are saying the same thing, PRAY, PRAY, PRAY!

So I know we are on the right track, we would love to have many, many intercessors praying with us during this next week, Will You Join Us?

Any Questions?

Please email or call me, 801-0746

Watching With & For You,
Sharon Webster

Pray California Fellowship
Central Coast Facilitator
PO Box 557
Grover Beach, CA 93483
805 473-2709 office
805 801-0746 cell

Conservative guide - Judges on the ballot - plus, God's election quide

After this note is a guide that many conservative voters will need - the results of doing much research on judicial candidates - something that rarely gets done in most elections. Did you know there were more than 140 judges in Southern California that were automatically "elected" - because no one ran against them? Amazingly, few voters are concerned about this - what a shame. And, here's another...

Many Christians can't cite the five qualifications for public office given in the Bible - and don't know where to find them. These are God's rules for elections - those that are picked for public office should meet four qualifications:

1. Able, knowledgeable, capable, experienced - knows well what the job is - and how to do it.
(Many are elected who don't even know Roberts Rules of Order, or how to use them.)
2. Godly men, those who fear God (and know His law.)
3. Widely known to be honest - truthful.
4. Those not covetous - of either power or wealth. Our forefathers preferred those who agreed to serve, but were disinclined to do so when first asked to serve. And that leads to who did the asking...

The fifth over-arching qualification is that such candidates are to be chosen - by the top religious leadership of the community. (By biblical example - as noted in the main verse our founders taught election guidance from - Exodus 18:21.)

A footnote: Those who picked themselves rarely, if ever, gained office in this nations more enlightened past.

Imagine the outcry that would ensue today, should major media find ministers persuading Christians to run for public office? Oh, the horror...


God bless you and yours,
Ron Culver

P.S. Tomorrow, I'll send a conservative guide on ballot propositions. There's a number of voter guides floating around that are anything but conservative. Here's the judicial guide (and one on city measures on my ballot.)

Judges on the ballot (and LA City props) - conservative voting recommendations
(From research - who appointed, associations, written material, and public statements.)

Supreme Court Superior Court

Joyce L. Kennard YES Office 8 No position (neither desirable)

Carol A. Corrigan NO Office 18 Daviann L. Mitchell

Office 102 Hayden Zacky

Office 104 No position, (auto-elected, yet undesirable)

Court of Appeal Office 144 David W. Stuart

Robert M. Mallano NO

Frances Rothchild NO

Roger W. Boren YES LA City Special Measures

Victoria M. Chavez YES Proposition H NO

Patti S. Kitching YES Proposition J YES

Richard D. Aldrich YES Proposition R NO

Norman L. Epstein YES

Thomas L. Willhite YES

Nora M. Manella YES

Steven Suzukawa YES

Richard M. Mosk NO

Sandy R. Kriegler YES

Arthur Gilbert NO

Dennis M. Perluss NO

Fred Woods NO

Laurie D. Zelon NO

Candace D. Cooper NO

Madeleine Flier NO

Sent to California Christians by:
andreafranklin@netptc.net
RCroyts@aol.com

Christian Students Can Win in the Classroom

For profs and students, religious revival in academia can be a heavy cross to bear. ~ BY LUCAS KWONG

I feel as if I’m drowning in an intellectual maelstrom, a vortex from which there is no release.” Although way more emo than I’d care to admit, that journal excerpt about my first week of Directed Studies indicates my inability to cope with the baptism-by-fire I would undergo in DS with respect to my faith. When faced with the question of the Bible’s historical accuracy in Literature, I chuckled nervously; when faced with Hume’s reasonable atheism, I scratched my head and doodled in my notebook. Even texts sympathetic to my belief seemed to verify that Christianity was a quaint historical artifact rather than a living, breathing, intellectually plausible system of belief. READ MORE

TRANSFORMING CULTURE FROM WITHIN

Mission America Coalition Focuses on a "Prayer-Care-Share" Strategy of Evangelism

ST LOUIS, Mo., Oct. 11--Evangelism is a futile endeavor without prayer, Paul Cedar exhorted apacked-out conference of nearly 170 church, ministry, and lay leaders gathered in St. Louis for the second day of the Mission America Coalition annual meeting today. The topic for the day was the "prayer, care, share" strategy for evangelism--involving first praying for, by name, those who do not know Christ, then caring for them with tangible acts of kindness and love, and finally looking for opportunities to share the gospel. This approach is the basis of the "Loving Our Communities to Christ" evangelism model started in nine Mission America Coalition pilot cities across the country.

Cedar encouraged the leaders present not only to teach the prayer-care-share strategy in their churches and ministries, but to personally live it out. "If we are to lead this evangelism movement, then God must begin with us," he said.

He credited his wife Jeannie for her faithful and persistent prayer for their neighbors. "I am a learner like all of you," he acknowledged, "and all I can tell you is that in the last few years a number of our neighbors have come to Christ."

God must transform church and ministry leaders first, Cedar says, then churches will be transformed. Only then does the community have the possibility of being transformed, he said.

"Loving Our Communities to Christ indeed begins with us," he encouraged the gathering, which represented about 107 churches and ministries across the country. Read the Whole Story ( and get your own City blog - FREE! Email us at: cityreachingblogs@yahoo.com )

Youth Ministry is the Most Important Factor in Creating Change in Our Culture

Pastor Ted Haggard -- Speaks to Mission America Coalition Annual Meeting...


ST LOUIS, Mo., Oct. 11--Youth ministry is the most important factor in creating change in our culture, Ted Haggard, president of the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE), told the annual conference of the Mission America Coalition (MAC) in St. Louis today.

He cited the broad exposure young people have to the increasing secularism and humanism in our culture and said the changes we work to make in our culture will not last if a generation of youth does not know Christ. "It doesn't matter if we protect the definition of marriage in this generation if the next generation doesn't have a clue what marriage means," he said.

"The youth pastors are some of the most important leaders in the city," he told nearly 150 church, ministry, and lay leaders from across the country. He also affirmed the need for the Church to work together, not separately, to accomplish God's purposes.

We are in a generation where there are coalitions of ministries who will say, "We are not going to let this generation go to Hell," he said, "we are not going to let MTV be more dominant in this generation than the church, we are not going to turn away from this generation...we are going to do something decisive in order to make a difference."

"If we do it on our knees...we can see this generation saved," Haggard affirmed.

The Mission America Coalition and the National Association of Evangelicals have long relationship and a strategic partnership--MAC serves as the evangelism partner of NAE. Haggard has been involved in MAC since its beginning.

The conference at the St. Louis Airport Marriott continues tomorrow with speakers Daniel de Leon (Hispanic Association of Bilingual/Bicultural Ministries), Paul Cedar (Mission America Coalition), John Nichols (Lazarus Foundation), and Lon Allison (Billy Graham Center).

On Thursday, Dave Olson (American Church Research Project) will unveil new research findings about the state of the church in U.S.

The Mission America Coalition is a network of churches, ministries, denominations, and Christian leaders with a shared vision to collaborate in prayer, evangelism, and revival. Since its inception, leaders from 81 denominations, over 350 ministries and dozens of ministry networks have been involved in the Coalition. Mrs. Vonette Bright (Campus Crusade for Christ), Dr. Billy Graham (Billy Graham Evangelistic Association), and Dr. John Perkins (Christian Community Development Association) serve as honorary co-chairs.

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For more information see www.missionamerica.org or for an interview about the Mission America Coalition, contact Susan Brill at 828-279-1256 or e-mail mediaMAC@bellsouth.net.