Long Beach Harbor Southern Baptist Associat'n

Congratulations!  You've reached the website of the Long Beach Harbor Southern Baptist Association, with churches covering southern Los Angeles County.  Welcome!  We exist to Resource, Assist, Coach, and Equip the leadership of local churches, empowering them to make disciples and launch new churches and ministries.  We are here to empower our leaders to run their RACE--Resource, Assist, Coach, and Equip!

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We also invite you to join us in prayer at 10:02 AM each day to pray for more workers to harvest the 2.4 million lost people in our area, in accordance with Luke 10:2, and to pray also He will provide us financial and other resources out of His riches in glory.  

Great Thoughts for Thinking: (Changed Mondays & Thursdays.)

God loves with a great love the man whose heart is bursting for the impossible.  –William Booth

The end of life is not to be happy.  The end of life is not to achieve pleasure and avoid pain.  The end of life is to do the will of God, come what may.  –Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

I care not where I go, or how I live, or what I endure so that I may save souls.  When I sleep I dream of them; when I awake they are first in my thoughts.  –David Brainerd

Do you have the heart to push yourself?  If you don’t, find a way to get it because talent will only get you so far.  You’ve got to be hungry.  You’ve got to have heart.  That’s just reality.  –Tiffeny Milbrett

Sometimes a player’s greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team.  –Scottie Pippen

Motivation is what gets you started.  Habit is what keeps you going.  –Jim Ryan

Never stop.  One stops as soon as something is about to happen.  –Peter Brock

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.  –Ralph Waldo Emerson

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.  –Benjamin Disraeli

Procrastination (is) the fertilizer that makes difficulties grow.  --unknown

Procrastination is opportunity’s natural assassin.  --Victor Kiam

There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.  --John F. Kennedy

Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you have not planted.  --David Bly

Wherever you see a successful enterprise, someone once made a courageous decision.  --Peter Drucker

The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an expectation that they can make it work or make it better.  --Barbara Pletcher

“If My People . . .   40 Days of Prayer” (changed weekdaily)

A 40-Day Prayer Guide for the Pastors and Other Believers of

the Long Beach Harbor Southern Baptist Association.  See entire guide in Prayer Resources above.

Day 26 – Luke 22.32: But I have prayed for you . . . that your faith may not fail.  Hebrews 7.25: He always lives to intercede.

1. Pray that we will understand that we are in Christ, and His prayers in heaven for us enable us to pray in intercessory prayer even as He does.
2. Pray for Grace Church of Long Beach, their pastor Rev. Adam Amarith, his wife Sana and their family, their church leaders, and congregation.
3. Pray for Olive Christian Church Filipino Mission, their pastor Rev. Jose Ytom, his wife Linda and their family, their church leaders, and congregation.
4. Pray for the city of Willowbrook, their elected and appointed officials, their citizens, and for God’s will to be done in that city.
5. Pray that our focus will not be on earthly things and accomplishments but on matters of eternal significance, that we will stand firm in our faith as Christ Jesus did, and that God will mold our desires, feelings, attitudes, thoughts, steps, words, and actions to the point that they always honor Jesus Christ.