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Aug 04, 2008 at 12:26 PM
Red moon Rising on the Road! Do you have one of the 12 copies currently circulating the UK and beyond? If you do, we want to hear from you, email
with it's current location and where it's heading next. Remember the idea is that the story of 24-7 prayer gets passed around to as many people as possible to read it, graffiti it, scribble on it, write notes in the margins!!!! And that the front pages get filled with all the names/locations where the book has travelled! Then whoever has it when it comes to the end of August 2008 needs to post it back to us so we can see which copy has travelled the furthest and been the most read!!!! so if you have it make sure it's doing its travelling thing. Happy Reading!!!!
Stories of Salvation in London Prayer room!!!! Just go an email from Jill McLachlan from London's City Temple church, they're praying 24-7 this week!!! Jill tells an amazing story from their last prayer room where 'within the first two hours of starting it, two guys walked in off the street and gave their lives to the Lord. They had spent the night before in prison, arrested for assault and drunkenness.' How cool is that?!
Conspiring Radical Goodness Phil Anderson, from the Corringham Boiler Room, writes; "Did you know that the British Government has a ‘Counter Ideology Team’? Until last week neither did I, until I spent a fascinating half day working with them as part of my ‘professional’ job as a consultant advising the Foreign Office on change management."
Prayer room in secondary school!!! Just heard from Tim Abbott about Sanctum which is a prayer room for students which is being run this week in a state secondary school in Colchester! They've just launched today! Check out Tim's blog for more info and to track his updates. http://timabbott.typepad.com/
Answers to Prayer!!!! We just received an email from Ben Askew from St Thomas' Church, Philadelphia Campus in Sheffield about their prayer room back in May. He writes: It was great. We had a number of people who really encountered God powerfully in the week and I know of at least one person whose foot was healed while praying.....
This month's comes from the lovely Tom Gillum who leads the Community of St Jude in west London: 'It is 7.30 in the morning. We are in a flat in Earl’s Court, bibles at the ready. Instead of each of us doing our own thing over the cornflakes, we are doing it together. It is all quite impromptu – whoever is around....
24-7 Colchester We've just been chatting to Rich Smith from the Colchester boiler room. They had a prayer room last month; 'Excitingly, many passersbys left prayer requests on the church railings, that could then be taken into the prayer room and offered to God in prayer!' you can read more reflections from their prayer week on the colchester boiler room blog!!!
Lunch with the legendary Jim Wallis A few days ago, a handful of 24-7-ers had the amazing opportunity to share lunch with Jim Wallis, author of 'God's Politics', and all-round Good Guy. He challenged us and inspired us... and Phil Anderson gathered some of our thoughts into the following 'report'...
Salvation Stories from Bradford "My name's Kate Kelly and I work for an amazing organisation called Christians Against Poverty."
Kate's a good friend of 24-7prayer... and she's a debt-counsellor, living in Bradford... and she's a 'missionary'. You'll see what I mean when you read her story.
24-7 'Banquet' in Southampton We're a few days late in getting this story posted up - sorry about that. And it's a bit long. But I think you'll agree that it's worth the read.
Remember that parable Jesus told about the banquet and the guests who didn't come and the "invite everyone!" that followed? Well... that happened last week...
Stories of Mission It's time for the next installment of 24-7 stories of mission! This month features the 'Club and Pray' community in London! These guys have been friends of 24-7 prayer for a number of years, so sit back and enjoy their story.... "Calling all clubbers and dancers who live in the London area! If you like your dance music and you like clubbing then read on and find out more about Club and Pray!
Transformation... in N.Ireland I came to the prayer room and thought: "They are long hours to pray. It will be difficult. What should I pray?", but I started to pray and God made it happen. I didn't have as much time for all things that needed to be prayed about as I thought! Carla Teixeira writes about the amazing responses of some young people at the Morph project's 24-7 week in Northern Ireland...
Prayer room so popular they're turning people away!!! Just been chatting to Alison Gardner from the Salvation Army in Keighley, Yorkshire. They are praying right now, they've had so many people turning up to their prayer room they've had to turn people away.
Keeping the Flame Burning Churches in Bredbury and Woodley are about to pray 24-7 again. They sent us some of the feedback from people who visited their last prayer room; "I found the experience wonderful. Being in the presence of the Holy Spirit. All on my own. Praying, singing quietly. I felt really uplifted..."
Street Prayer Stories Tom Jamieson traveled down from Ryton to join the Pentecost Festival street prayer teams. Here's his report; "I've never before prayed with complete strangers on the street! But the experience of being one of the pray-ers on the street teams on Saturday leaves me just so excited about this way of expressing the kindness and abundant generosity of God." Write Comment (0 Comments)
Post-Pentecost Ponderings On Pentecost Sunday, many thousands gathered in Millwall FC’s stadium for the Global Day of Prayer event. Similar (and many much larger) events were taking place in more than 200 nations around the globe. I wonder if Heaven has ever before heard such a noise?