{"id":112544,"date":"2025-10-07T12:29:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T19:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/?p=112544"},"modified":"2025-10-07T16:16:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T23:16:52","slug":"msia-presidency-update-october-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/archives\/112544-msia-presidency-update-october-2025","title":{"rendered":"MSIA Presidency Update — October 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vincent, Sherie, and Mark just returned from the stunning, enlightening, and Spirit-filled PTS Travelers Through the Ages Tour of Italy.\u00a0\u00a0 We hope you were able to follow our spiritual adventures on Instagram<\/a> and the NDH<\/a> with the Light bearers who were walking in the footsteps of great Travelers in Italy.\u00a0 \u00a0The Light that MSIA ministers bring on these trips surely is a blessing to the people and lands visited.<\/p>\n

With half of the PCI away on the road the past three weeks, Paul, David, and Jeffrey held the focus in Los Angeles.\u00a0Jeffrey and Paul completed the nine-week\u00a0Christ Is Now: Seeing Through the Eyes of Love\u00a0<\/strong>Monday evening class, to rave reviews.\u00a0<\/strong>The Christ theme continues with Paul beginning a new nine-week class, Heart of Christ: Shaped by Grace, Flowing with Love<\/a>, <\/strong>beginning on October 20.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jeffrey Morgan and Paul Kaye also conducted a mini-half-day retreat at Prana entitled\u00a0Mysticism of Sound: Listening to Our Inner Music<\/strong>.\u00a0 With Spirit working its magic through the various sound instruments Paul was playing, and through Jeffrey\u2019s meditations and sharing, folks reported leaving the event transformed. It was so well received that they hope to repeat the format for this event in the near future.<\/span><\/p>\n

Insight needed a last-minute venue for their children\u2019s Insight seminar last weekend and Prana West came to the rescue.\u00a0 It was a joy to have 21 Light-filled children on the property. \u00a0It was a very gratifying and immediate reward for all the work we have done on the classroom to create more space to easily host PTS classes and workshops there.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Prana continues its make-over as David Jaramillo, Paul, and Prana\u2019s head of hospitality, Patty Kan, have been deeply involved with the continuing interior improvements.\u00a0The reception area is now officially moved to the small seminar room which is now called the Concierge Room. We are excited to welcome visitors and guests to Prana in this new area. And the former reception office has been converted to what we are calling the Reading Room, where J-R and John\u2019s books will be displayed and be able to be purchased and be read there or be taken into our new comfy and inviting Large Seminar Room. The redo of the Reading Room is truly jaw-dropping, as is the Solarium where the pull to do s.e.\u2019s is irresistible in the newly refurbished space.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you were inspired by the Italy tour, there is still room to participate with the PTS Travelers Tour of Turkey in 2026<\/a> or, if you prefer, the Royal Road at Asilomar in Northern California<\/a> this December.<\/span><\/p>\n

As you know from your annual donation statement from MSIA, the church\u2019s nonprofit status in the United States makes charitable contributions potentially deductible on your annual 1040 tax form.\u00a0 There is another tax advantaged option to be aware of for your tithes, seeds, and other donations if you qualify. \u00a0MSIA students with IRA retirement accounts who are at least 70 \u00bd years old, can contribute directly from their IRA retirement accounts.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The distribution is called a Qualified Charitable Distribution (QCD) and many MSIAers already use a QCD to make their tithing contributions.\u00a0 The benefits are:<\/span><\/p>\n