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25 Aug 2006
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Here are some extra ideas...
Hi, Doug!
About 8 years ago I heard an OMF missionary speak about the importance of starting a prayer team. I decided to do it & call them “prayer advocates.”
In a newsletter originally & later when I speak, I ask people to sign up, mostly via email. I won’t add anyone to the prayer advocates list unless they ask. Some Sunday School teachers forward to their whole class. Lots of pastors use the list in their Wed. night prayer meetings. Some will even run it on their church weekly newsletters.
I send a monthly list of 10 – 12 specific prayer requests with an “Answered Prayer” list at the end. Sometimes I send out one or two emergency requests also during a month. “Specific” is the key, I think. Then it’s easy to see when a prayer is answered & praise the Lord for it.
From seeing 26,000 pray to receive Jesus when we began, we have now jumped to over 102,000 -- & haven’t really added more staff. Only the power of God released thru prayer can account for this! We have seen so many miracles as our prayer advocates prayed!
Some people only take time to pray right at their computers when the list comes out. Some print it & pray daily for one or two of the requests.
I hope this is helpful! Feel free to ask questions…….
Judy
The best ways I have seen for people to take on a commitment to pray
for missions, missionaries
and the lost people their church is seeking to reach are:
1) start with existing prayer groups in the church. See if they'd be
willing to adopt a part of the world your church is focused to reach.
Ask them to make prayer for this country/missionaries and people group
a regular part of their prayer focus when they meet
2) Give this group the option (in the future and with training) to be
a part of the actual ministry to this county. Once they have been
there, they will pray with more information and more heart
3) Also, you can make a focus on Prayer for part of the Missions Fair,
Some ideas that can be effective:
a) Have a Speaker focus on Prayer (say during a lunch, dinner or
dessert):
—form attendees into small groups to pray for the missionaries and
mission targets that your church supports on the spot
—Have the Speaker or Missions Chairman challenge people to find a
way to continue to pray through their existing fellowship groups, Bible
Study groups or Prayer groups
b) Have an event in which each target country/people group is
represented by a table with a Person representing the ministry,
(oreferably a supporter of the ministry) and a letter or email and
photos from the missionary on the field.
—Prepare the Representative at the table to become a prayer group
leader for that country.
—Make prayer the immediate focus (modeling!) that will happen when
others visit that table.
—Have the Rep. invite those who visit the table and pray for the
mission of focus to join a prayer group and become
prayer supporters/prayer warriors for those missionaries.
—Start with whomever says yes and build, promote, support, inform and
train this beginning group. If prayer is fostered and the results of
prayer are promoted to the congregation, more people will want to
become part of the ministry through prayer.
c) It usually takes one or two people committed to the missionaries on
the field to invite others. So another dea is to find out from the
missionaries whom in the church they have already as part of their
support network and whom particularly are their prayer warriors. These
people are your best bet to help expand the prayer network for your
missionaries.
d) One last idea, get a few people praying for you in your role as
Missions Chairman, praying for you, the Missions Committee and the
Missions Fair and for the Missions Prayer Groups you want to form.
I hope these ideas help foster more creative thinking on how to
motivate prayer...
Blessings,
Susan
Have people make a limited time commitment to a definable goal in
groups of three or more (this prevents a couple from being a "group"
all by themselves and losing some of the accountability factor).
Say, they will pray for one hour every month for one year for (fill
in the blank).
If there is someone in your church who could compile mission prayer
requests on a monthly (quarterly, etc.) basis, this is an excellent
resource, and helps people start to pray. Of course, as you know
there are also generic suggestions for missions prayer on the web and
other places.
You could also compile the prayer requests at your missions
conference that will be used all year (six-months, whatever).
Just a thought. Our mission team started some of these groups for
our work years ago and they are still going strong. We compile the
requests monthly and send them out.
God bless you,
Linda Karner
in Japan with Mission to the World (PCA)
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