Uprising

Uprising 2018 starts tonight at the CASC Worship and Prayer Center.  You can still register by clicking here.

 Your prayer and support will encourage us greatly as we contend for our next generation – that we will leave them the greatest of all inheritances – a stronger Body, a more beautiful Bride.

We will look honestly at our challenges of unity by pressing into how the apostles, prophets, evangelist, pastors and teachers can overcome offenses that hinders our teamwork.  We will look inwardly to ourselves and come to understand how we can find support in Spirit filled Christian counseling.  We will look courageously at our weaknesses as leaders – as followers – and everywhere in between, to seek God’s strength for granting the same grace, mercy, and reconciliation that He has granted to us.  We will look joyfully to the future through the Spirit led “life coaching” that our mentors will offer to our young people – for their careers, families, and Kingdom destiny.

 In continuation of our invitation from Uprising 2017, we invite you again to stand with us in this Uprising platform, to strengthen the church for our Millennial Generation through the command of John 13:34-35, through the power of “agape love.“

Please click here to join us.  Please also feel free to contact me if you would like to contribute to the Uprising call.

Uprising 2018 will be held on July 5th – 7th.  This gathering is dedicated to connecting the generations of the church body, so we welcome young people, as well as parents and grandparents.

As parents of three girls ages 21, 16, and 10, the priority that demands the most time and energy from my wife and I is to provide our children with the best possible opportunities and education, in hopes that they can achieve financial success and become people of influence.  God has created us with the innate drive to advance our next generation, to impart to them everything that is better than what we had.  Many parents are quite successful in advancing their children beyond what they had in the world’s educational and economic systems, but what about in the universe’s most important organization, the church body?  Twenty years from now, will our next generation inherit a stronger and more influential church than what we have today?

Uprising 2018 will be a gathering where the generations come together and reach for God’s heart on the question, “how do we pass on to our next generation a stronger church than what we see today?”

In my numerous dialogs with young people on this topic, I am encouraged to see many awakening to the desire of receiving and passing on a church of strengthening unity, of increasing glory.  The Millennial Generation is hungering for a church that “works” – a church that rises above offenses and chooses reconciliation over splits, a church that influences heaven from earth because it demonstrates mercy that holds the body together in agreement, a church that nurtures the world’s most influential leaders and talents because it generously walks with its people through the refining and often offensive road of the cross.   Our young people today are moving forward to the pier, straining their gaze on the hope and possibilities represented by the ocean expanse, longing after a more beautiful Bride.  We have a responsibility to deliver.

In continuation of our invitation from Uprising 2017, we invite you again to stand with us in this Uprising platform, to strengthen the church through the command of John 13:34-35, through the power of “agape love.“

Please click here to join us.  Please also feel free to contact me if you would like to contribute to the Uprising call.

The “Encountering God” gathering with Pastor Donald Lee, to be held at Christian Assembly of Suburban Chicago’s Worship and Prayer Center, is coming up the on weekend of October 6th – 8th.

Isaiah 6 reveals a place of God’s presence, the epicenter of all resource, power, and wisdom.  In this wellspring where all knowledge and understanding flow, God actually poses a question, “Whom shall I send?  And who will go for us?” – no one answers…except for a man…

This is why we long to encounter God – so we can hear His heavenly question and answer from earth, “Here we are, send us – to build your Body.”

Christian Assembly of Suburban Chicago (CASC) will be hosting Pastor Donald Lee for a weekend of corporate revival over October 6th – 8th.

Pastor Donald is a man immersed in the Holy Spirit’s fire and has been a powerful instrument of God in igniting flames all over the world.  Many of these “flames,” throughout his decades of ministry, have contributed greatly to major spiritual movements in North America and Asia.  As such, we stand in anticipation for an immersion in the Spirit’s flame.

We anticipate that God’s season has come where the Church will flow in the power afforded by unity built upon our agape commitment to each other.  We anticipate that our encounter with God will ignite that flame of agape, and launch us to the next major movement of the Spirit.

During my time in business school, I was initially astounded by the way of some of the students showed over-the-top generosity in taking their classmates out eat and drink.  Then I came to learn that many of these students were given very generous monthly budgets by their sponsoring companies for food and entertainment.   I, being freshly immersed into the business world as a pragmatic thinking engineer, can only conclude that, “wow, these students’ companies must really like them a lot.”
 
It was only years later did I come to understand why these generously funded students seemed not so concerned about GPAs as they were interested in connecting with people.  Such priority on building relationships reflected their companies’ belief that networking with people of talents and capabilities is foundational to their market influence and business success.
 
The world seeks influence and success by networking with people of right talents and capabilities through generous budgets.  But Jesus, in John 13:34-35, tells us that we are imparted with success in influencing the world when we network with people of the right heart through “agape love.”  It is for this reason we take out time for Uprising every year – to establish an environment for our young people to build their network, the Church, with the right people through the bond of “agape love.”  For this is the greatest asset we can pass onto our next generation in blessing their pursuit for influence and success.
 
In that, we invite you to stand with us in this effort to strengthen the Church through the command of John 13:34-35, through the power of “agape love.“
 
Please click here to join us in building the network.  Please also feel free to contact me if you would like to support Uprising through contributions .

Uprising is happening next week and your registration now will help us tremendously in preparing for this gathering.  This weblink will take you directly to the registration page.

We see Jesus transforming His church from the inside out and Uprising is moving right in that transformation flow, like a caterpillar’s rebirth into a butterfly.  Come taste and see that the Lord is good!

Everyone desires to make a mark – to contribute, to give, to invest into treasures that are worthwhile and will impact others.

In John 13:34-35, Jesus gave us just one simple formula to make a mark, to be noted.  That is – to follow His command to show “agape love” to one another.  And by that testimony of unconditional generosity in grace, mercy, and forgiveness, we will command the world’s attention and make our mark as Christians.

Uprising 2017 is a gathering of young people who seek to make their mark by pursuing the standards of “agape love” – singular, pure, focused on this one burning desire of Jesus.

The election year has certainly brought prominence to the issues surrounding “What shall we eat?  What shall we drink? What shall we wear?”.  In Matthew 6:31, Jesus asserts that the world runs after things, and more so than ever, emotions run high over the contention of who can best lead us in “running after these things”.  The U.S. political parties stand almost polar opposites on basic areas of taxes, job creation, security, immigration, health care, family values, and even the way we to go to the bathroom.    This seemingly unprecedented polarization shows a nation simmering to a boiling point in anger and confusion – and Jesus tells us… not to worry?
 
We do not worry because Jesus offers the answer to “running after these things,” and it does not lie with the leaning of Republicans or Democrats.  The answer will be embedded by the Holy Spirit into those who strive to set the standards of Christ’s Kingdom and righteousness.  They are standard setters of Kingdom value – in the way they study for tests, interview for jobs, treat their families, decide where to live, handle their debts, handle their debtors, deal with disappointments, spend their vacation, pick their roommates, pick their spouses, remain single, collaborate in business ventures, service their customers, lead their companies, remain faithful to their spouses, love their enemies, pick up from their brokenness, teach and disciple others, serve their churches, and impact their communities.
 
The Uprising gathering is a platform, a consolidation point for such standard setters.  If you feel such a call, we would be glad to connect with you and hope that you can join us.
 
To make it easier for our young people to participate, we are not charging any fees.  In addition, many local families are generously opening their homes to host our attendees.  If you would like such housing, please reply to this message or note that in the registration page.

The yearly Uprising gathering is coming up on Thursday, June 30^th through Saturday, July 2^nd.
 
Uprising is a gathering of young people who seek to set standards, as Jesus has called us to be standard setters apart from this world by “seeking first His Kingdom and righteousness”.
 
Bernie Sanders’ astonishing run for presidential nomination has shown that young people will rise to become standard setters when there is a cause, a community of like-minded people, and a platform to organize them.  Even being “out-of-style” by two generations with an “out-of-style” socialist agenda, Bernie Sanders was able to upend powerful political traditions through young adults with “Berning” passion to set a new standard.
 
The Church is already a community of like-minded people that has a cause — a Kingdom cause much greater than any political agenda.  And we believe that when our young people are enabled with the right platform, they can become standard setters that will turn the world upside down.
 
Uprising’s call is to become a platform that can organize the creative energies and convictions of our talented young people, providing them a framework of leadership, mutual collaboration, and accountability.  Through message, praise worship, and fellowship, Uprising will strive to establish an environment where these young people can connect with one another in the Holy Spirit.  And in that, they will see a clearer vision of their collective destinies as standard setters set apart from this world  – setting Kingdom standards in their pursuit of education, career, wealth, relationships, and everything that defines “success”.
 
Jesus promised us that when we strive to set the standards of His Kingdom and righteousness, we will see everything that the world runs after also be given to us.   In other words, setting and living by Kingdom standards is the only true answer that this world is “Berning” for.  So if you know of young people (including yourself) who are BURNING to set a new standard, please consider supporting them to join the Uprising gathering.
 
For more information, please visit:   uroth.org