We prayed at the following locations:

1 - Venice Beach
2 - Beverly Hills - Electric Fountain
3 - West Hollywood - Radiance International
4 - Northridge - Porter Ridge Park
5 - Los Angeles - Azusa Street
6 - San Gabriel Mission
7 - El Monte -Gabrielino Tongva Tribal Council
8 - Hollywood Sign
9 - Signal Park - Hilltop Park
10 - Pasadena - Slab at Mott Auditorium
11 - Pasadena International House of Prayer
12 - Burbank - Johnny Carson Park
13 - Angelus Temple
14 - San Bernardino - Future William Seymour College
15 - Arrowhead Springs
16 - San Bernardino- Living Faith Full Gospel Church
 

Venice Beach represents Los Angeles in a raw form.  From one standpoint it is a festival of exhibitionists - from another, it is where people come earnestly showing their talents in order to be noticed and make their way in the world.  This is a real community that God has already been changing in the last ten years!  We prayed here for God to continue the transformation and for the church to learn how to cooperate.  We also prayed repentance and for the healing of the earth at this location!
 

This fountain at the corner of Santa Monica and Wilshire in Beverly Hills is a significant location.  As perhaps the first electrically powered water fountain in the world, it portrays a Gabrielino Tongva man praying for rain.  Restored in 2000 after 20 years of disuse, the fountain has many tiles that portray the early history of California from a Tongva point of view.  So both the original fountain and its restoration represent an honoring of the First Nations people.

We prayed here to set our own prayers for the LA Basin in order, praying for the original occupants of the land to experience the fullness of God's plan and purpose for them, and that they would be restored to a place of honor and prominence in the world.
 

Radiance International, led by Jonathan and Sharon Ngai, is many things to the extended Hollywood entertainment industry - a house of prayer, church, community, and now a recording studio.  It's a place of life and light.  Here we prayed together and the Ngai's prayed for our team to accomplish its purpose in the region.

Northridge is in the heart of the San Fernando valley.  This is the location of two of the larger earthquakes in the last 50 years, the 1971 Sylmar quake and the 1994 Northridge.  It's also the the place where the pornography industry has thrived.  The park where we chose to pray, Porter Ridge, was also famous as the backdrop of the bicycle scene from the movie E.T.

We prayed here for the dismantling of the demonic and human structures which support pornography and human trafficking.  Then, using the Lord's Supper, we prayed for the reconciilation and healing of the land both in the valley and in the whole LA basin.

We were gathered at the site of 312 Azusa Street, where the Pentecostal Outpouring began in 1906.  Now, it's a bricked over plaza, part of the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center in what is called the Little Tokyo section of downtown Los Angeles.  We were with our friend Tom Grode, who lives at the Rescue Mission in Skid Row in order to be at the gate of Azusa Street for the fulfillment of the 100 year prophecy of the greater outpouring.

And God had already gathered two of his friends to be their two - Mark Smith and Rudy Flowers, both saved from drugs and alcohol in Skid Row, now saving others.  They meet at this plaza to pray twice a week and only fairly recently found out about what happened here in 1906 and about the prophecy, which they now pray to see fulfilled.  And they represent the very communities we believe where God will show up - among African-Americans, Asians, and Hispanic, and all who are willing to say yes to him.
 

This mission church was founded in 1771 and became the key mission church in early California history.  It was also the pivotal place for the Gabrielino Tongva tribe to be introduced to Western life.  Here they became Christians, worked as laborers for the Spanish, and basically changed their way of life.  There is a gravesite at the mission where over 6,000 were buried.

Our experience praying in the mission church was the sense that the Tongva are still somewhat controlled by the colonial introduction to Christianity.  Our prayers were for the Tongva people to be completely free throughout the Los Angeles area.

We had the joy of being invited to a bible study conducted at the Gabrielino Tongva Tribal Council building in El Monte.  This Bible Study is conducted by Julia Bogany, who also works as the tribe's cultural affairs director.  Here she is on the right along with Chief Anthony Morales, Diana Barragan and another woman.

We were treated with great hospitality by the bible study group and the tribe, given Indian Bibles, bead necklaces, and baskets of shells, acorns, and fragrant sage.  In turn, our teammate Jim Spaloss gave the Tongva glass jewelry he had made in the form of an acord, a shell, and a tortoise, which were each meaningful.

We were also able to deliver a prophetic vision for Chief Anthony and another one for Julia.

The picture is of Jim Spaloss praying in front of the Hollywood Sign in the Hollywood Hills.  We prayed here for the complete transformation of the entertainment industry, as well as offering repentance for the poor values that are consistently transmitted from here around the world.  We also prayed for the healing of the earth through the reconciilation of all men to God through Jesus.

We prayed at Signal Hill, a community surrounded by Long Beach.  From this hill there is a great view of the southern areas of Los Angeles County.  We prayed in every direction.

This is a significant gathering place.  One of our team arriving early met two men who both came there to pray on their lunch hour.  Then, while we were praying, we heard girls singing, and met 6 girls from Ethiopia who were singing praise songs.

The Long Beach area is a birthing place within Los Angeles.  One of the things being birthed is prayer.  Tammy Dao leads the Love House of Prayer, and is shown in the photo ministering to the Ethiopian girls.

Pastor Louis Barragan anointed the hill with oil.  The hill itself is signficant in yet another way.  It sits on top of a city reservoir, and it also is dotted with oil wells.  There is a sculpture at the top depicting a rising column of oil and water, which we felt signified spiritual renewal.

Angelus Temple was built by Aimee Semple McPherson in the 1920s as an outgrowth of the Pentecotal Outpouring.  She was the most famous person in America for 20 years, as she carried the Gospel around the nation.  This church, which also housed a Bible School and seated 5,000 people, has since been renovated and is connected with the LA Dream Center, a ministry led by Matthew Barnett.

We prayed here that Christian leaders would fulfill great dreams, and that women leaders would be raised up in today's church.

Our friend Julia has a friend Candace who is friends with the great grand-daughter of William Seymour.  Candace also has a vision to build a 4-year college for Christians to be prepared to spread the Pentecostal Gospel like William Seymour.

Here we are laying our hands on a building in downtown San Bernardino where Bishop Candace felt the Lord had led her for the school.  We are believing that the Lord will release this property for the Lord's use.

We were parked outside the gate of the Arrowhead Springs resort, a property owned by Campus Crusade for Christ.  This picture shows the formation on the mountain that gives it the name.  There is also a hot springs, and the hotels have grown around the spa.  Three previous hotels were built at this location but each burned down.  Campus Crusade is now trying to sell the property, and the city of San Bernardino would like to purchase it.

As we prayed outside the property, we wondered what the root of the curse was.  A local man drove by and suggested that it may have been an Indian curse.  In 1866, Indian raiders killed a few settlers in the area, and then the army systematically wiped out the local Serrano tribe that lived in the mountains.  It seems likely that a curse was placed on the land by the Indians.

Because we had a First Nations person with our team, we enacted a repentance and forgiveness.  On behalf of the Indian people, our friend Julia removed the curse.  After that we were able to pray for an open heaven over San Bernardino and for the Campus Crusade property.  We also celebrated communion and prayed for the healing of the earth using Psalm 60.

Pastor Rachell asked our team to come back and pray at her church, which we did.  We believe that she and her church will be restored to glory as in the former years.

On our final night in LA, we met with Helen Kuehl, Louis and Diana Barragan, and our New Jersey team for dinner and debriefing.  We declared our prayer initiative a success.  Pastor Louis and his wife Diana gave us gifts to recognize our service.  In turn,we recognize with all of the Southern California intercessors the great service they performed for us and for the Lord - especially Helen Kuehl, Louis and Diana Barragan, Tom Grode, Vern and Cheryl Matheson, Jonathan and Sharon Ngai, Tammy Dao, and Bonnie Shaffer.  We will always be grateful.