I awaken this morning with an energy and excitement flowing through my being that I have not had for about 25 years. Over the past weekend Nanette and I attended the forth National Witnessing Summit in New Jersey led by the 2nd generation and guided by some elders of our movement. As I walked this morning about my house I can't stop the songs of brotherhood and sisterhood and the coming Kingdom of Heaven on Earth flowing through my mind.

I am writing at this moment a detailed report which I will share soon about the explosion of what all we seek and have been so frustrated not occurring. I was brought to endless tears flowing over the 3 days by the reality that the baby that we all invested our lives to birth and so many of have thought is dead, is coming back to life. At the end of the summit, in front of 200 1st and 2nd generation I voiced up to Mike Jenkins, after his extensive summary and commitment speech, "If you (this) is for real then we can do it, Are you for real, Mike??" He responded loud and strong in front of everyone, "I am for real" (about this commitment). Then I shouted back, "Then we can Do It".

Prepare yourself for the most exciting news you will ever hear since you have joined the movement!

Grandpapa

From January 11-13, my wife and I participated in a 2nd generation led, American National Witnessing Summit, guided by elder leaders of our movement. I attended out of curiosity and skepticism with a glimmer of hope that something just might be truly happening. It was not until Saturday afternoon that my skepticism began to melt and it sunk in that this was a genuine rebirth of our movement back to the early days of America where we were all caring brothers and sisters except with a maturity of hindsight wisdom to truly make it work this time.

I did not take notes but will share as best I can. In 2007, when I heard that the American Movement was now being called to witness and gain 30,000 new members by the year 2013, frankly I was very critical in my mind of the motives and did not believe in any way we could gain 30,000 let alone even 500 new core members; my critical mind of the motives have been totally turned around and now I do believe we will gain those 30,000.

To begin the entire witnessing summit was a working process of defining what witnessing was and what the new members would be doing; the conclusion first. During Mike Jenkins closing speech he did a parody, "Yes, we need 30,000 new members so they all can go on fundraising teams and we can earn #### money each day"......"Absolutely not!" he proclaimed.

The entire summit communicated in substance that witnessing meant making "new friends to be our brother and sisters who cared for each other and the new members would be precious disciples we mentored and guided to creative contributing situations they could blossom in while participating with building God's substantial kingdom. The structure of the summit communicated this and the apparent implementation of previous conference suggestions, complaints and intense dialogue output between 1st and 2nd generations.

The entire summit suggested our movement's leadership is on an "emergency change mode" to "get things right by the members". Mike insured the change would be permanent, "In the past, emergency conditions, conferences and providential events have dominate our lives, caused so many 2nd generation to not receive the love and time needed from their parents due to the 1st generation being called to sacrifice everything to ensure the Messiah's course be fulfilled, but that now we have the victory foundation established that it is self-fulfilling without our needed inputs." "That, our Ambassadors for Peace, our ACLC ministers and network, etc. can cover the new, upcoming Providential needs and our American movement can now focus 70% of our effort and even resources into producing more brothers and sisters of the love Kingdom."

The summit was centered around "World Cafe Sessions" where 10 people per each of 20 tables intensely shared their views around penetrating topics for about 15 minutes until we would get up and move to another table with a different topic question and a whole new mix of 1st and 2nd generation. The subject and wording of each discussion topic alone revealed the sincerity of the 4th World Witnessing Summit and willingness to hold back nothing to get to a core understanding of our movement's problems with membership growth, the problems of the 2nd generation and the generation gap between 1st and 2nd generation.

Each table had 3 or 4 2nd generation who were not shy at confronting issues, 1st generation or sharing their insights of what we needed to change. I counted over 80 2nd generation between 22 and 28 who were serious about reviving and getting our movement correct; many of them were 2nd generation who had "so called" left the movement but now returned. Many of the 2nd generation leaders of our summit, entertaining and empowering the atmosphere were actually not bloodline 2nd generation, but new youth members who had joined in recent years.

I also witnessed that the leadership of this revival of the American movement to help the 2nd generation "Catch the Vision and Pass on a Legacy of Love" had already implemented many suggestions made at the earlier 3 summits and even within our 4th summit make suggested changes within the summit itself.

My opinion is this witnessing summit was much more than a summit on witnessing; that actually it was more of a 3 day healing interact between the 1st generation and the 2nd generation and also could be called an attempt to reach out to the "old farts" to get us to become hip and relevant. Frankly, I am so excited, especially after learning about all of our movements problems over the years on our list serve discussions; "Our 2nd generation, are catching a powerful wind in their sails; they are learning from our mistakes and employing the best of the best to build anew a "family" of brothers and sisters.

I have come on board and will be contributing much to this 30,000 quest to find our massive extended family of love. I have left out a list of the exciting discussion questions and already initiated changes and infrastructure to empower this quest to gain 30,000 new brothers and sisters, that was shared and is perhaps the most exciting part, not knowing if it is wise to have such broad-casted across the world. The problems we have discussed many 2nd gen are having will be healed through this growing new movement to find lost and new brothers and sisters.

Grandpapa

Brother John