Restoration News

LIVING IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD APRIL 2, 2026

Greetings and Blessings to the Saints around the world,

The Center Place started the month of April by getting those “April showers”, but it was a much needed rainfall blessing from God. March 29-April 3 has also been the annual Conference of Restoration Elders. Information regarding the conference will be forthcoming in future issues of “Tidings of Zion.” Many of the activities were zoomed.

I’m sure all the Saints and followers of Jesus Christ around the world know what this particular week is. Right? But if not, it is “Holy Week” the last week in the earthly life of Our Savior and goes from Palm Sunday, March 29, 2026 through April 5, 2026, what I prefer to call RESURRECTION SUNDAY! It is felt, by many Restorationists, that Jesus was also resurrected on April 6. The actual date is not as important to us as the great sacrifice that Jesus made for each of us. Truly a day to remember! Take time to review the events during the last week in the life of Jesus. Ask yourself if you believe the answers Jesus gave to all those who wanted to get rid of him. If you believe them, why? You know the events are recorded in the last chapters of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. As you review those events, ask yourself what implications they have in your own life today, as we are to be building up the kingdom of God and establishing His righteousness.

We all should be keenly aware that the Church of Jesus Christ was organized on April 6, 1830 and Reorganized on April 6, 1860. All of these events were designed by God, in the Beginning, to assist in bringing forth His Kingdom on the earth.

Many Saints as well as other people have sought the Kingdom of God on earth as it is in Heaven for many years. The time seems to be drawing very close to the return of our Lord which, in turn, would establish the Kingdom. Our task, as it has always been, is to prepare ourselves for the return of Jesus so that we may have a place in that Kingdom. The task of being “in the world, but not of it” is most challenging to each of us because we all have different perspectives of what that phrase means to us.

Jesus made it very clear in so many, if not all of His parables. In the parable of the Sower, those who received the seed (Word of God) not only heard the word, but took action to nourish the seed or in other words, did what Jesus said to do. In the parable of the building a house on rock or sand is the same. Hear and obey God’s word and your house is on the Rock. Hear and do not obey, your house is on the sand.

The parable of the Ten Virgins is unique. They all knew what they were going to. They all knew how things transpired in a Jewish wedding. That is that only the father (God) determines when the bridegroom goes to get his bride. This could be a very long time, and thus all Ten went to sleep.

All the parables of Jesus have a spiritual aspect to them as well as a physical aspect. The oil, in this parable is spiritual oil, which is described in Doctrine and Covenants 45:10 b-d. The five wise ones could not give the five foolish of their spiritual oil because we each one must obtain our own oil so when the message comes, at midnight, “Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet Him,” we will be prepared.

As we continue our efforts of “living in the Kingdom of God” may we so live that we will be ready to enter into the wedding feast with the Bridegroom (JESUS). The Lord bless and keep you.

Paul Gage

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Australian Restoration April 2026 Newsletter

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

Please find linked the April 2026 edition of the Australian Restoration Newsletter.

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God bless,

Sister Charise Morris

Editor

Australian Restoration News

ZIONWORKS NEWS for MARCH 30^TH, 2026

There will not be a Zionworks meeting this coming Sunday, April 5. Next meeting and activities to be announced. MAY YOU BE BLESSED THIS RESURRECTION SEASON

HOLDING ON TO CHRIST AND HIS LOVING GOSPEL

IN TIMES OF WORLD WEAKNESS AND CONFUSION.

HOLD ON, FRIEND, WE’LL GET THROUGH THIS TOGETHER.

In today’s media and influences, even the gospel is questioned. Sound morals are considered outdated while hate and violence are promoted as valid tools in our politics. Our souls long for rest. Of course, we know that rest is found in eternal, stable, reliable love, the love of Jesus Christ. We grasp the gospel of Jesus Christ and the Rod of Iron because they don’t change and won’t change, even in eternity. The gospel of Christ embraces us in its sure and reliable permanence while tutoring us in giving and receiving love. It establishes us in an interdependent and responsible relationship with others, often in a group or community. This community, if dedicated to each other’s spiritual and physical wholeness can be called Zion because it fulfills the condition Jesus said to pray for: “Thy kingdom come; thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” Author David R. Zimmerman states God’s context of Zion as “a people living in a state of righteousness with no poor among them.”

The scriptural terms “gather” and “assemble” are used interchangeably. Sometimes, we are called to gather and sometimes we are called to assemble. It seems that to gather would mean for all to come together at the same time at the same place, while to assemble would mean for all to gather to the same area with each team member or specialist ready for action in his or her capacity to interact for a desired result. The term “team”, to quote from google “is an interdependent group of individuals working together toward a common goal or mission, often defined by shared accountability.”

The following sequence of team development is clearly and perfectly true:

Forming: Members are introduced and goals are set.
Storming: Conflict occurs as interpersonal issues and differing working styles emerge.
Norming: The team develops cohesion, agrees on norms, and begins working together.
Performing: The team works effectively towards its goal.

While Zion is a happy gathering, it is a serious and expedient assemblage of specialists, from moms to industrial engineers, all equal in status. And while Zion is such a large and powerful force in the universe, it has a potentially fatal element: people, who harbor greed, contempt and sin. My sin and your sin can leave us out of the party, but it is well within our ability to seek after righteousness, BECAUSE GOD SAID SO, and that’s that. Based on infallible scripture, Zion, in concept, is infallible. It cannot fail to come into existence and its purposes will be fulfilled exactly as all scripture referring to it reveals.

Dealing with the real world and facts of history, some attempts at establishing Zion have failed, with broken hearts, disillusionment, great loss of property and money, families left destitute, and death through war and murder from the enemy. These tragedies are not the fault of the faithful and innocent. So, we are aware of the risks and costs in dedicating all we have worked and loved for to make Christ’s kingdom on earth a living reality. Hundreds of thousands of our brother and sister Christians around the world today are being murdered for their dedication to Jesus Christ. They know the value of eternal life, while the place of safety and refuge for them waits for us to provide it. The stakes are truly all or nothing. The dedication that Christ has always asked of us has always been “all or nothing.”

Zion is the ultimate end goal of Jesus Christ’s church. In all of the church’s history, from the beginning as recorded in Genesis, all through time, until now and beyond - all of Christ’s principles of love and repentance find their ultimate objective in his Kingdom on the earth and the thousand year reign. The simple solution to having Zion, desperately needed and desperately timely, is based on our pursuit of perfect attitude and behavior; and our investment policy: all of our hearts, might mind and strengths. There is victory of soul in that level of dedication. This is primarily personal, between you and God. But to our benefit and joy, God has also instructed us with a plan to dedicate and work together to build his righteous city on a hill, an ensign to the nations, a refuge for his pure-in-heart, against which no weapon or enemy can prevail.

While over the years and across the earth, murder, lies and treachery have multiplied to destroy the Gospel, the pursuit of happiness, and its believers and adherents, we have apparently fallen asleep, fallen into complacency. Somehow, we are waiting for someone other than ourselves to take the first sacrificial and risky steps, perhaps forgetting our pending “life review” or “facing the bar” at death where we will awaken to a lively sense of our own guilt as well as the things in our earthly lives that have pleased The Judge.

Zionworks came into existence about four years ago with the purpose of making Zion a reality in our personal dedication and in our group actions. Our hopes were to fully understand the personal costs and risks in this endeavor, and to charge ahead regardless of the dismissal we would experience from our families, friends and church friends. But the Ultimate Goal remains unmovable, and that’s a happy thing, worth the cost. We haven’t been perfectly faithful. We deal with doubts and especially with believing whether we are capable of such a giant task. Yet we see clearly the tasks that must be done and we say “Here am I, Lord, send me.” We’ve gone too far to turn our backs now. While the tasks ahead are fearsome, God gave the message “Bear up, lean into it, uphold each other, endure, especially in these times of apathy. Open your eyes to My vision of Zion. It is a bright, though daunting life ahead.”

Zionworks may never have been meant to be the only Zionic endeavor in the city, the country or the world. Christianity in its pure form is the most powerful and happy force in the world. Look around and you will see God’s mighty arm of righteousness sweeping the world, destroying the wicked, bringing his gospel of peace and happiness. Pray to see this and rejoice to see it and to be a part of it.

So yes, absolutely, He gives us lowly sinners the ability to do all he has called us to do. He is Jesus Christ, the all-knowing. He will never lie or mis-lead. He didn’t make a mistake in giving us our duties and responsibilities. What he has given you to do, you will do, if you trust him. These may be duties and responsibilities that no one else but you could recognize or understand. We can be confident in our personal and teamwork tasks for Zion because they are our callings and we will overcome. Jesus will endure with us as we endure together because he has given us his word and his timing. His word is true, it is timely, and it must not return to him void. Jesus makes it clear in Doctrine and Covenants 28:2C -E, “and as it is written, Whatsoever ye ask in faith, being united in prayer according to my command, ye shall receive; and ye are called to bring to pass the gathering of mine elect, for mine elect hear my voice and harden not their hearts; wherefore the decree hath gone forth from the Father that they shall be gathered together unto one place, upon the face of this land, to prepare their hearts, and be prepared in all things, against the day when tribulation and desolation are sent forth upon the wicked; for the hour is nigh, and the day soon at hand when the earth is ripe, and all the proud and they that do wickedly shall be as stubble, and I will burn them up, saith the Lord of Hosts, that wickedness shall not be upon the earth,”

   Considering that many, many people are working full time raising families, doing other full-time work for the Lord or are disabled, you may not have time to contribute to Zionworks and God blesses and approves you for that. Those who sense a specific call and conviction to sacrifice to make this Kingdom on the earth ready to house and protect Christ’s pure-in-heart are sufficient at this time for this specific task. May you be blessed with bright vision and sound determination as we pray for and work together for Christ’s Kingdom on the earth.

Your questions and comments are welcome at zionworkz@protonmail.com . Your questions, comments and interaction are especially welcome at our meetings. To receive Zionworks’ newsletter, request it at this same email address.

Zionworks’ next meeting and upcoming events will be announced soon.

                   With Christ and his love as our bond,
                      Your friends at Zionworks
                      Jim Huseby, coordinator