This Monday through Wednesday, the students at our college are doing a concentrated outreach into the community. By engaging in servant evangelism, they hope to spread God's love in a way that breaks down barriers and meets people's needs. This was the students' idea; they thought it up last fall and have been organizing it ever since.
They have an intercession team that's been praying every week for the last, oh, I-don't-know-how-many weeks for the outreach. A couple of weeks ago, they decided to join with the 24/7 prayer group that I'm helping lead to do a concentrated week of 24-hour prayer. To do this, we've signed up three local churches to help us and decorated a room in the Missions building to use for prayer. Prayer started at 12 am Saturday morning, and is scheduled to continue until this Friday at 11:59 pm.
About 60-80% of the one-hour prayer slots are covered by students, with more being covered by local church members. I don't think we have complete 24-hour prayer, but it's pretty close, considering we only had the idea two weeks ago. The idea is that the prayer will support and undergird the outreach that the students are doing -- but also that the prayer will lead DIRECTLY to breakthrough. As I repeatedly tell people, prayer isn't just preparation for the work of the ministry, it is the work of the ministry!
Last night I took some boxes of Krispy Kreme donuts to each of the apartments in my unit. I introduced myself, offered to pray for them, and invited them to my church. The unit right below mine was opened by a young man with a red mohawk. He only cracked the door to take the donuts, then answered in monosyllables before he shut the door. A few minutes later, he came up and knocked on the door to my apartment. "My wife wanted to know what church it was that you go to again?" In short, he thinks he'll be coming the week after Easter. Keep Tim and Amanda in prayer.
YAY!
They have an intercession team that's been praying every week for the last, oh, I-don't-know-how-many weeks for the outreach. A couple of weeks ago, they decided to join with the 24/7 prayer group that I'm helping lead to do a concentrated week of 24-hour prayer. To do this, we've signed up three local churches to help us and decorated a room in the Missions building to use for prayer. Prayer started at 12 am Saturday morning, and is scheduled to continue until this Friday at 11:59 pm.
About 60-80% of the one-hour prayer slots are covered by students, with more being covered by local church members. I don't think we have complete 24-hour prayer, but it's pretty close, considering we only had the idea two weeks ago. The idea is that the prayer will support and undergird the outreach that the students are doing -- but also that the prayer will lead DIRECTLY to breakthrough. As I repeatedly tell people, prayer isn't just preparation for the work of the ministry, it is the work of the ministry!
Last night I took some boxes of Krispy Kreme donuts to each of the apartments in my unit. I introduced myself, offered to pray for them, and invited them to my church. The unit right below mine was opened by a young man with a red mohawk. He only cracked the door to take the donuts, then answered in monosyllables before he shut the door. A few minutes later, he came up and knocked on the door to my apartment. "My wife wanted to know what church it was that you go to again?" In short, he thinks he'll be coming the week after Easter. Keep Tim and Amanda in prayer.
YAY!
posted by Mark at 4/10/2006 09:20:00 PM
2 Comments:
That's really, really cool. Keep us posted on that, okay?
Doughnuts! I've never known anyone to close the door on a free doughnut. Wonder how many new faces will be in your church this Sunday. Pray that each person who made home visits will have at least one show up.
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