What's is God's prayer?

We (the staff at Evfree) have been asked to pray through the question "How do you (God) want us to pray for this church?"

This is based off of Acts 4:24-29 when the early church lifted their voice with one accord. They prayed together for the body and for God's work to be done.

Acts 4:29 "And now, Lord, take note of their threats, and grant that your bond-servants may speak Your word with all confidence..."

This is my brainstorming session on how we should be praying for this church.

The purpose of the prayer needs to be kingdom oriented. In other words, we need to be praying what God wants for this church, not what we want or what we are comfortable with. It even seems like we will be uncomfortable with whatever God challenges us to do.

1. One of the things that I am seeing that needs to happen in the high school ministry and possibly throughout the church is that we need to shake things up in the church in an effort to increase our presence in the community. I am seeing that one of the problems with the high school ministry is that our relevance and presence in the community is in decline. Not necessarily because we are less effective as a ministry, but as new kids filter through we aren't actively doing things to keep our ministry in the front of their minds. As a church, what are we doing in the community to keep this place in people's minds as a destination for people seeking Jesus Christ? We have an add in the Acorn. We are doing our day camp. We did the Action serving day. We have people in the congregation who actively invite and share about what God is doing in their lives. Those are good things, I guess one of my prayers is to ask God to push us out into the community even further.

That being said, I don't think that would be my "one accord" prayer.

2. That we would sacrifice everything to live out our love for Jesus Christ

3. That the voice of God would be heard through us in this community...

4. That we as a church are driven by the truth of the Gospel and everything we do would flow out of that.

If you read this, I'd love to hear your thoughts on what we as a church should be lifting our united voice to God to pray for. This is still a process for me, I just thought I'd throw it up here, you know, for kicks:)

Video Scavenger Hunt

Last night was AMAZING! The kids had a great time running all over town performing a series of tasks that were hilarious. I can't wait to see the video. If you get a chance, ask your kids who they met, who they hung out with and what some of the crazy things they did. It will make for great conversation.