Tilling The Soil: Prayer
August 15 - September 11
Prayer Coordinator Tasks
For the pastor and the prayer
coordinator
Pastor, enlist a prayer
coordinator for your church.
Seek out someone who already prays consistently to be your church
coordinator and organize this effort. The prayer coordinator should
be able to complete the following tasks:
1. Coordinate a church-wide
prayer walk. Across Montana
2010
involves four weeks of targeted and intensive
prayer, called “Tilling the Soil.” Among other prayer activities,
the coordinator will organize and involve church members in prayer
walking. (Resources available online at www.AcrossMontana.org.)
2. Let God direct the prayer
effort. How is
God leading the church to involve every person in praying
particularly for individuals and families who need a relationship
with Jesus? The coordinator will spend time seeking specific
direction from the Lord.
Be
diligent about involving everyone in the church in
Across Montana 2010!
Ask
yourselves: What can the preschool children do? elementary-age
children? youth? collegians and young adults? median adults? senior
adults? Take care to shape an age- appropriate prayer experience for each generation represented in the
congregation.
3. Enlist helpers to assist
in the prayer initiative.
Other ideas for
church-wide involvement include nightly prayer meetings in homes of
church members, noon prayer meetings in places of business, prayer
meetings at the church building, and regular posts on the church
prayer chain. (Resources available online at www.AcrossMontana.org.)
The coordinator may enlist others to facilitate these and similar
activities.
Also, the prayer coordinator will participate in
the Harvest Sunday planning.
4.
Begin in March to plan
for the August initiative.
March 4-6, 2010 at
MPact Montana in Helena, the MTSBC will offer training for prayer
coordinators and helpers. Your church’s prayer coordinator and
helpers are encouraged to attend.
In early April, the coordinator will organize the prayer helpers. They will use the four months between April and the kick-off in August (August 15) to prepare church members for their involvement in the prayer initiative of Across Montana 2010.
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