Located in Northern California, Placer County serves over 300,000 residents from its border with Sacramento County to the Nevada state line. County communities include Roseville, Lincoln, Rocklin, Loomis, Auburn, Foresthill, Colfax, Tahoe City, and Kings Beach. Placer County is a county located in California's Sierra Nevada, in the Gold Country. It stretches from the suburbs of Sacramento to Lake Tahoe and the Nevada border. Because of the expansion of the Sacramento metropolitan area, Placer County is one of the fastest growing counties in the state. As of 2000, the population is 248,399. The county seat is Auburn.

Review of Concerns & Needs:

First, here is input from Pastor Carmichael, specifically for Roseville, who is the designated forerunner for Placer County:

I think my concern for Roseville is the distraction of "busy-ness". It seems that people are so busy with the "visual now" that we tend to miss the "urgent invisible". Maybe there is still some "gold fever" here. We pray, but still lack the ability to connect together. I am also concerned about abortion and our supreme court nomination. We have Planned Parenthood here in Roseville which services Placer County and we need much prayer to stand against this stronghold. The flow of innocent blood feeds the demonic which in turn empowers the deception of the gay agenda and much more. If we cannot see what's under our own noses how will we ever affect things on a national level? Excerpt from Pastor Carmichael

Concerns for Placer County as a whole: Submitted By Pam: Please pray for the Grace of God to cover our county and for an outpouring of His Anointing and Spirit. Now more than ever Placer Co. is experiencing an extremely strong battle for our youth.

There is heavy witchcraft, which is headed by a wiccan that lives and runs a business in our local town of Loomis. She is extremely influencial and conducts rituals and gatherings with up to 300 or more wiccans each year here in Placer Co. and in Nevada Co. History has opened a window for this spirit in Placer Co., which began in the late 1800's and early 1900's with the mistreatment of the local Native Americans by the early Finnish and European settlers and then with the Chinese and Japanese people who worked here. There were many sins on the land and rituals of witchcraft by those who lived here, most of which happened on the main roadways (Taylor Rd.), running throughout the towns of Rocklin, Penryn, Loomis, Newcastle, Colfax, and Auburn. Today, just along this stretch of road from Rocklin and Newcastle, there are six taverns, the wiccan's business, and at least three palm readers. Since my moving here 14 years ago, there has been a major increase in youth deaths on this road from drug and alcohol use, and there has been tragic deaths and accidents of our police officers and young children because of substance abuse. Today, at least 85% of the high school students have tried or are using drugs and alcohol. The internet is a major tool for these students to arrange for parties involving sexual conduct, drugs, and alcohol use. More importantly, many of these kids are from good Christian families and many parents, Christian and non-Christian, do not even know that their kids are involved in these practices. Many of these youth are rebelling, leaving home, and are going from home to home; and there are many who are making illegal drugs right under their parents' noses.

This is just a brief history and update as to the emergence of what is taking place here in Placer Co. The spirit of witchcraft is attempting to steal and destroy our youth, and it is so much more prevalent today than ever. Your prayers for our county is a divine appointment from God as many of us are praying and warring for our county and for our youth.

Now, speaking from the victorious side of the battlefield: There are churches throughout this county that are uniting together in prayer each month. Please pray for wisdom and the annointing of God to be poured out upon them. There are prayer walkers who are lighthouses for their neighborhoods, praying weekly for their areas. There are prayer warriors and intercessors crying out for God's Grace, love and forgiveness upon those who are lost and for the many other "religions" of this spirit that prevail in this area, such as the wiccans, buddhists, mormons, and muslims. The Lord has spoken over this area that we, His Children, are to love these who are lost by not coming against them, but by blessing them with the Knowledge and changing Power of His Holy Spirit. The Lord has called this county, "a Place of Healing...a Hospital for those who are sick." He has spoken that people will be healed, not by the spring waters of this natural land as the Native Indians thought, but by His Living Water that springs forth from His Spirit. The Lord has spoken that we are to call out His original purposes for the cities within this county, which are called by His Name: Rocklin (the Rock of Jesus Christ); Loomis (the Fruit of His Spirit); Penryn (the Wells of Living Water); Auburn (the Glory of His Presence and the Purity of Gold); Lincoln (the Clay from which He molds us in His Image); Roseville (the rose that represents His Son); Newcastle (the Gateway to God's Holiness); and Tahoe (the Mountain of God from which flows pure living water).

Prayer Focus (not listed by order of priority as they are all priorities):

Our youth: Taking back what the enemy has stolen; standing against the spirit of witchcraft over our youth; God's protection and Grace for the youth; the return of the prodigal sons and daughters; salvation for those youth who are lost; annointing to be poured out over our youth; a passion, a mindset, and a desire for the things of Christ in our youth; for the youth in Placer Co. to turn to God and take their place in God's Perfect Plan and Will for their lives; and a cry for Mercy over the youth who are bound by the deceit of the enemy and who are in bondage with drugs, alcohol, and sexual activities.

A call for the original purposes of our cities to be re-established and for the land to be cleansed, forgiven, healed, and prepared for the setting up of God's Holy Throne within our cities. God bring Mercy, and forgive us for the sins of those before us and thank you for the prayers of those of have carried this county prior to us. Placer Co. lifts You up as Lord and Savior of the cities of Gold.

Strength, Unity, and Holiness among the spiritual leaders, intercessors, and pastors of the churches of Jesus Christ in this county; a mutual vision and a passion to unite as one for the purposes of God in this county; a re-newed love and passion for Christ and His Children as well as the lost; a laying down of busy-ness to become busy for God's moment of action; and to have the mindset and heart of God.

Praying for those who are within our church families as well as those who do not know Christ who are afflicted with cancer and other diseases. Pray for strength, peace, and quick recovery for those afflicted. Pray for miracles!

Crying out for the unborn children being abused and murdered in this county, as well as the children living in families who are being abused; and for the homeless children who are among our cities even now without fathers or mothers or homes. Crying out for healed families, marriages, and parent/child relationships who are in conflict and who are already separated and divided from one another.

Join in Specific Prayer Agreement for this county:

“ May the Great Grace of Christ Jesus and a host of holy angels fall upon this county. I pray for supernatural power encounters to go forth as God manifests His power and love for the lost in this part of the state. Lord, I pray that those caught up in the strongholds of witchcraft and wicca will have a revelation of your love that will break the power of witchcraft in their lives. I pray the message of the Cross which is the power of God to save (I Cor 1:18) will receive a new release in this area! I pray for the sick to be healed, the captives to go free, the broken hearted to be healed, the blind to receive their sight. Lord, we pray for the unborn children and ask you to protect the mothers and babies in this county. We pled your blood for the shedding of innocent blood upon the land. We ask you to release new destiny in the lives of pregnant women in this county. May so much grace be poured out upon those drawn to the abortion clinic that they will turn back to life. Let’s declare the favorable year of the Lord to go forth in this county. Lets declare the gold rush spirit will be replaced by a God Rush called forth by the Holy Spirit. Amen!”

History Pray for a New Wine of God’s Grace to flow from this County
 
Placer County was created from parts of Sutter and Yuba Counties in 1851."Placer" is probably a contraction of the words plaza de oro (the place of gold) and in Spanish means "a place near a river where gold is found." The county derived its name from the numerous places where the method of extracting gold from the earth, called placer mining, was practiced.

 
Agriculture has long been an important part of the develop of this county. The growing of wine grapes led the way for this farming. Placer County's wine history is among the most interesting and significant in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, and arguably the rest of California as well. The story of winemaking and grape growing in Placer County has ties to some of the most historic events in California. Winemaking began early in California at the Spanish Missions, but only became a large commercial enterprise after James Marshall's discovery of gold in 1848.

 

It was the dramatic increase in the population of California during the Gold Rush that ignited the state's fledgling wine industry. The very year gold was discovered in California, the first grape vines were planted in what was soon to become Placer County. It seems only fitting that the father of Placer County viticulture should be none other than Claude Chana, the Frenchman who discovered gold in Auburn Ravine in 1848. Earlier that same year Chana traveled down to Mission San Jose where he obtained 200 cuttings of the Mission grape, the only variety available in California at that time. The Mission vines were established at the ranch of fellow Frenchman, Theodore Sicard, who had settled along the south bank of the Bear River near Johnson's Rancho. Chana later purchased Sicard's Ranch and by 1860 had planted some 80 acres of vines. Previously Chana had manufactured only small quantities of wine, but he eventually went into the wine business on a grand scale. By 1870 he was producing 12,000 gallons of wine annually.
 
Although Chana was the first to cultivate the grape vine, he was not the first one to make wine, that honor belongs to Stephen Burdge, an Italian-trained winemaker who originally obtained cuttings from Sutter's Hock Farm, near Marysville. By 1854, Burge, who had settled 4 miles northeast of Lincoln had produced a small vintage, the first in Placer County, and perhaps the first in the Sierra Foothills.
 
In 1860, the first year for which any figures are available, Placer County produced 722 gallons of wine. At the time, wine was being produced in extremely limited quantities and was intended for home use, with very little being sold on a commercial basis. Within a very short time, however, as the easily worked gold deposits were depleted, many men who had been miners began seeking new ways of making a living. One of the most popular occupations was the planting of vineyard and orchards. By 1867 winemaking in Placer County had reached commercial levels, that year some 22,550 gallons of wine were produced. Some of the most important early wine districts were located in Applegate, Auburn, Doty's Flat, Lincoln, Rattlesnake Bar, Stewart Flat and Virginia Town.
 
Placer County also played an important part in the early distribution and cultivation of the Zinfandel grape in California. As early as 1855 two of the county's residents were growing Zinfandel. James Nickerson of Lincoln and George W. Applegate of Applegate had both obtained cuttings from New Englander Wilson Flint who was selling nursery stock in Sacramento. James Nickerson was, for many years, Placer County's leading vintner and grape grower. Beginning in 1859 his exhibit at the state fair in Sacramento contained one of the most extensive collections of grape varieties in California. By 1871 Nickerson was operating one of the largest wineries in the Placer County and his wines were receiving top awards at several agricultural fairs.
 
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