I have added the following online season of prayer resources to the website:
1. 10 day Season of prayer resource booklet given to all participants: Download file
2. More online description at my own personal website (www.emergentkiwi.org.nz) here
3. Prayer advertising. Download file
You're welcome to use or modify any of this stuff. If you do, why not exercise the gift of encouragement by dropping us an email to let us know what happened and/or how you changed anything.
A wider word of explanation:
A number have people have asked for more info on what happened with the Opawa season of prayer.
While at Graceway Baptist Church, we had run a season of prayer three times, keen to get the community praying together, in different ways, and keen to expand people's ideas on what prayer was.
Moving to a new ministry at Opawa, it seemed to me that there were many links between Opawa as a church facing a new future, and the Acts narrative, with the disciples facing a new future as Jesus ascends. They gathered, waited and prayed. Why could we not gather, wait and pray? Why could we not pause before God, create some space in our lives, to wait and listen?
I wanted us as a community at Opawa (and Graceway) to live in the Biblical story, to let it shape our lives and our dreams. So I divided the Acts chapters 1, 2 into "bits"; and isolated a theme;
Day ::: Biblical Text ::: Theme ::: Focus of prayer
Thu ::: Acts 1:1-5 ::: Fresh excitement ::: Mission
Fri ::: Acts 1:6-11 ::: Repentance ::: Confession
Sat ::: Luke 4:16-21 ::: Mission ::: Ministries, missionaries of church
Sun ::: Prayer in worship services.
Mon ::: Acts 1:15-26 ::: Leader ::: Leaders and new leaders
Tues ::: Acts 2:1-4 ::: Ministry for all ::: Everyone in church
Wed ::: Genesis 2:2-4 ::: Day of rest
Thu ::: Acts 2:5-12 ::: Many voices ::: Our community
Fri ::: Acts 2:14-37 ::: Preaching ::: Preaching, teaching, people saved
Sat ::: Acts 2:43-47 ::: Healthy community ::: Small groups, community building occasions, radical lifestyle discipleship.