Weekly Newsletter
8/17/25 - 8/23/25
Truth Pursuit
Topics:
Guidelines for the Lord’s Table Meeting and the Pursuit in Life (7/28 – 8/17)
The Practice of Prophesying (8/18 – 8/31)
Week 1 (7/28-8/3): Remembering the Lord and Worshipping the Father
Week 2 (8/4-8/10): Using the Hymns in the Lord’s Table Meeting
Week 3 (8/11-8/17): Praising and Thanking in the Lord’s Table Meeting
Week 4 (8/18-8/24): The Basic Knowledge and the Patterns
Week 5 (8/25-8/31): The Basic Constituents of a Prophecy and The Basic Obstacle to Prophesying
2025 International Chinese-speaking Conference
Chapters 5 through 8 of Romans—the Kernel of the Bible
Start Date: 9/1/2025
New Testament Recovery Version with Footnotes
1-Year Reading Schedule (2025)
Church in Raleigh Meetings
Prayer Meeting
- 8/20 – corporate at Raleigh meeting hall
- 8/27 – in districts
- 9/3 – in districts
Lord’s Day Meeting
- 8/24 – Church in Raleigh (all districts): Raleigh meeting hall
- Please carpool
- Parking instructions
- Service group arrangements
- 8/31 – in districts; Southeast and Mid-Atlantic Blending Conferences
- 9/7 – in districts
Upcoming Events
(visit the Upcoming Events page for detailed info)
- 8/23: English-speaking gospel meeting at 6:30 pm
- 8/29 – 8/31: 2025 Mid-Atlantic Labor Day Blending Conference; Baltimore, MD
- 8/29 – 8/31: 2025 Southeast Labor Day Conference; Jacksonville, FL
- 8/30: Chinese-speaking gospel meeting at 6 pm
- 9/20: Corporate morning revival and quarterly cleaning at 9 am
- 9/25 – 27: September International Training for Elders and Responsible Ones; Klang, Malaysia
- 11/27 – 30: International Thanksgiving Blending Conference; Indianapolis, IN
- 12/22 – 27: December Semiannual Training; Anaheim, CA
Campus Events
- Weekly college gatherings at NC State and Duke
- 8/21: Bibles for America Seminar; NC State University
- 9/6: RTP Christian Connect
- 11/14 – 11/16: Southeast College Conference
Basic Principles for Service in the Church Life
Chapter 1: The Service of the Priesthood (Jan. 19, 2025)
Recommended reading: Basic Principles for the Service in the Church Life, CWWL, 1963, vol. 3
Prayer Burdens
- English-speaking gospel meeting on 8/23
- Chinese-speaking gospel meeting on 8/30
- Entering into the holy and royal priesthood
- The saints who suffer from illnesses
- A student nucleus, a vital group, to be formed on campus
- Gospel meetings locally and in Europe
- Saints still in Ukraine and the surrounding churches helping the saints from Ukraine
- Our own young people who are in college
- Young people, their families and the Saturday YP meetings
- Raising up the next generation: young people, children, college-age