Thank and praise God for blessing the ESBC ‘09 registration through 1,000 times of prayers from all over the world. We heard that God allowed more than 1,000 people to register, including more than 200 in our North American journey team, who have already registered by June 1, the closing date of our first registration.

However, there are still several members who would like to register for the ESBC as well as the ESBC tour program. Therefore, we will reopen both the website for ESBC online registration as well as the ESBC tour payment site this coming Monday, June 8th.

If you wish to register, please go to ubf.org and register for ESBC (now with a 20% late fee between June 8-13 for new registering members). Those who have already paid partially, however, may pay their remaining fee without having to pay the additional 20% charge.

For the late ESBC tour payment, click ubf.org and then go to “ESBC Tour Payment” (lower left-hand column), between June 8-13. There may be a very slight amount charged, due to the changed currency exchange rate.

*Additional France visiting and Greece visiting will not be allowed, since they have more than one bus tour fully occupied by members already. We will discuss with the ESBC tour coordinators the possibility of accepting more members, and we will know the outcome around June 8. If they still can accommodate you, we will reopen the payment site. If it is not possible, you will see that the program is closed.

** For the North American journey team’s travels, Pastor Kevin Albright will now be in charge. He will talk with the 7 journey team leaders about how to serve the European house-churches we are visiting. The 7 journey team leaders will contact with each of 7 journey team members to share these guidelines.

*** The final ESBC messengers’ camp will be held in Bonn, Germany in June 22-27.