For a while, the paper version of
CA! has not come out. This is due to a
combination of factors. Apart from the
usual spiritual challenges, which we all know will only intensify as the Day
approaches, there have been other challenges/restraints. As many of us are now aware, CA! is essentially one man sharing his
perspectives and encouragements with fellow Christian brothers and
sisters. As we understand it, these
perspectives are to be those of a “normal” (as Watchman Nee would probably
say), regular Christian, conscious of the end times. This entails having a credible engagement in
the market place, and a regular commitment in a local church. In other words, CA!, at least for now, is not
meant to be a “full-time” engagement in the usual sense of the expression.
While this position has clearly
helped our perspectives to be broad and balanced (we preach what we experience
and practice), it also has inevitable strong implications on the time resources
available to us. Therefore when
sometimes in December last year, the Lord impressed it upon my heart to prepare
and present my professorial inaugural lecture at the University where I work
(within a five-month period), together with an ordered compilation of past
editions of CA! into three volumes, it was inevitable that the regular
production of Church Arise! would be
affected – both due to time and financial factors.
The LORD has been
most wonderful in His faithfulness. The
inaugural lecture has been successfully prepared and delivered (on April 9,
2013), and the Trilogy (Behold I come quickly) launched on the same day. However, while the paper version of CA! was
inevitably affected by these special assignments, the real kernel of CA!
continued on-line on the internet. For
instance, though we were not able to come out with a print version of the last
edition for last year (Vol 15 No 6), it is available on our website for free
download as usual. Likewise, since the
beginning of this year, though no volume has been compiled, we continue to post
relevant articles onto our blog (www.churcharise\blogspot.com). We are grateful to God for the several
thousand visitors to these on-line resources, though we are aware that several
of our high-prized readers do not really have time or inclination to go on-line
to pick their information!
Now that the special projects are
concluded, we are compiling these online articles into regular newsletter
versions, even as back issues. However, the
future of communication is Internet, and to ensure sustainability of both the
paper and on-line media - within the context of resources available to us, we
have come to the conclusion to revise the periodicity of the newsletter from bi-monthly,
to quarterly. This means the newsletter
will now be prepared only four times in a year, instead of the six times we
have prepared it yearly from 1998 to 2012.
We will however put more focus on online resources, and will increase
the frequency of updating these resources. The newsletter will be summaries of key articles
from both our website and in particular the blog.
Please note that we have been
streaming news items directly from Worthy news (http://www.worthynews.com/ ) on our site
(www.churcharise.org) for years. This,
in addition to links to hundreds of other christian sites and critical end-time
resources thus guarantee you a fruitful visit anytime you checked our sites.
Please go ahead and pay us a visit today!
To the glory of the almighty God,
newsletters for Quarters 1 and 2 of 2013 are now ready and are hereby being
served. Enjoy and be stimulated!
To download free copies of Behold I come quickly, go to www.churcharise.org
You can order print copies , directly from us for N1,500 per
book (postage included within Nigeria)
Our first book, The Time is Fulfilled is out of print, but
is also available on our website for free download.
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