Don’t delay - Join a Live School GO team in 2012 !!!

This is an URGENT call to anyone who is retired, retrenched or just have some time available to give two to four weeks of your life a year to help gather in a GREAT harvest in the Kingdom in various parts of the world including South Africa?

To prepare you for this exciting project, Willie & Lydia Crew will personally facilitate a Live School GO team course at Choose Life Church in Rubenstein Street in Pretoria.

The school will run from 6th February to 28th of March, 2012 – Monday to Friday from 08h00 to 13h00.

The course will include a visit to a daylong conference with around 100 French speaking pastors and a trip to Zimbabwe. Cost of the course is R900.00 (this excludes the cost of the trip to Zimbabwe)

For more information contact Marietjie on 012 343 1165
or Lydia at: wmcint2@worldmissioncentre.com

THE GLOBAL DAY OF PRAYER

Many have written or called to hear how the Global Day of Prayer event in Columbia went. All of us say without contradiction, Sunday was an amazing event in the history of Greater Columbia. In a de-briefing session on Monday evening after the event, I listened to a father who was deeply moved by the way his son joined in prayer at the arena. This was obviously a very personal experience for their family.
 
During the programme, the pastors from one of the largest churches in the city came to me and said “We have to work hard to capture the enthusiasm that we were experiencing in the arena today”
 
One pastor who came a few minutes late spoke about the “strong sense” of the presence of the Holy Spirit as he walked into the Arena.
 
Here are a few comments that I have heard in the last 24 hours:
 
…the times of quiet reflection and personal repentance was a “Kairos” moment for them, while others commented on the incredible praise and worship of our Lord and Saviour.
 
…I was so blessed to have met new friends while praying together in our groups of four.
 
…“through the Global Day of Prayer we are seeing a unified God-honouring togetherness in the city” – they went on to say that this was “Historic”
 
…many commented on the impact that the “Can you imagine document” will have on the city as we individually and collectively embrace the commitments made in it.
  (I have attached it to the bottom of this letter if you would like to read it)
 
…a pastor said; “when the church forgets its own agendas and choose to come together corporately to pray, God releases a special anointing”
 
…yet another pastor said, “this is the ONE DAY IN A YEAR that the church in Columbia comes together to pray”. What a powerful statement!!!
 
There is NO DOUBT that the presence of the Lord was in our midst. We are awed and deeply grateful. In His mercy and grace, our Heavenly Father answered our prayers. This was indeed a God designed and enabled event.
 
I am sure there will be many more stories and testimonies that we will hear in the next few days.
 
Once again we had an awesome team of senior pastors, business people and willing individuals that helped to make the arrangements. Some of the most senior pastors spent hours, maybe days to visit other pastors in the city to invite them to be a part of the event. Without their involvement the event would have been very different. Once again we realize that every person was an important members of a team—that understood what it takes to work together.
 
The official estimate of the number of people present is 3,243.
 
They came from a wide range of churches, races and counties, with hearts ready to meet with God on behalf of the many needs facing our city, our state, the nation and the nations of the world.
 
There were less people than last year but it was a reflection of the beginning of the summer vacations since all of the high schools and colleges have finished their graduations and many had gone away on a family break. There was also a major baseball game in the city later that afternoon, various Day of Pentecost celebrations and other events in some of the churches in the city. We certainly missed our brothers and sisters from the Southern Baptist and Methodist churches who were attending their annual conventions on the same weekend.  Nevertheless GOD was present among HIS people and Columbia will never be the same again.
 
We just received the letter that I have copied below from one of the brothers that helped as a volunteer at the event. PLEASE TAKE A FEW MINUTES TO READ IT. IT SAYS SO MUCH MORE THAN I COULD EVER PUT INTO WORDS.
 
Thank you once again for your friendship, partnership and involvement in the Kingdom of God!
 Many blessings
  
Willie & Lydia Crew

A MUST READ TESTIMONY!!!
 
Jim, I thought this would be worth sharing with you and the deacons.  I will confess, I volunteered out of duty for this event.  After Myra's mom's passing, we have been in NC every spare moment, cleaning out a house where her mom lived for 60 years.  It has been much more work that I ever imagined and as a result, we have not had a few hours to relax in what seems like months.  I prayed on the way to the event that God would soften my heart and that He would be glorified despite my half heartedness.  At one point in the event, I was walking up and down the aisles to make sure everyone who wanted to turn in a list of the names of people that they are trusting the Lord to be saved in the next 12 months, would have the opportunity to do so.  As a result, at that time I was not in a group of four praying.  I cannot tell you the feeling that came over me as I observed and listened to what God must hear.

It was awesome!  It was thousands of people crying out to God.  As I walked by each group, I could hear their individual prayers suddenly get louder against the backdrop of a louder, several thousand strong, roar.  Some were pleading, some were proclaiming God's promises, some were crying, some were shouting with bold expectation of what God was going to do, some were softly praying.  As I walked up the aisles, I tried to imagine what God was feeling and hearing.  I know God considers prayer a fragrant aroma.  I tried to slow down and take it in.  As I spoke with God myself, it is though I could hear Him say, " I am well pleased.  I love to hear from my children whom I love so much."
I felt God say "Well Chris, what do you think?  Pretty cool huh?" Every denomination, race, sex, and age were represented.  I could feel God smile as I, for the first time, experienced how much He values prayer.  And what made it all the sweeter was that these prayers were from  a group of believers who normally would not have been together.  The walls were down.  Everyone was in one accord worshiping His son, Jesus.

Through tears I fought the emotion that God loves us all so much.  How little I have valued prayer, especially corporate prayer.  I also was face to face with how in the last little while that I have been so consumed with this life, and it trials, that I had become complacent in my own prayer life.
 I would like to encourage all of the deacons.  Sometimes I think we sign to help because it has to be done.  We are especially drawn to volunteer when we see that others are not stepping up.

Mainly out of fear that our brothers would be stuck carrying the burden alone.  I would just like to say that I am just like many of you, reluctant to commit to as much as possible out of fear of overbooking myself.  I would also share that it seems like when I don't want to help the most, and I do anyway, is when the best blessings come.  God is awesome!

Mark 10:29-31  “Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel 30 will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age: homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields—along with persecutions—and in the age to come eternal life. 31 But many who are first will be last, and the last first.”

Your baby brother in Christ, 
Chris
 
Can We Imagine?
A dream for the city
 
Can we imaginewhat will happen if we, as a community of churches, ministries, and business people in Greater Columbia & the Midlands, commit ourselves to togetherness and unity in order to see Christ’s Kingdom expanded in our communities?
 
What will happen if we, those bound together by the redemptive work of Jesus Christ, decide to be one united, inclusive Body of all evangelical churches, ministries and business people rather than exclusive, individual groups?
 
Can we imagine what will happen if…?
 
…we seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness in all we do, maintain Holy Spirit enabled relationships, and commit to pursue His will for our communities.
 
…we seek to exalt Jesus Christ, yield to His supremacy as the Head of the Church, and strive in the power of the Holy Spirit to glorify God the Father as we walk in Christian love and unity for the advancement of His Kingdom.
 
…we commit to pray regularly for biblical unity, revival, spiritual awakening and transformation in the churches of Greater Columbia & the Midlands, so the Triune God receives the glory!
 
…we choose to walk together in a Christ honoring way in our communities to spread the Gospel of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ, regardless of what it may cost us – true to our promises and just in our dealings; faithful in keeping commitments and exemplary in conduct; and committed to righteousness and justice.

Can we imagine what will happen if…?
 
…we commit, in a spirit of humility, to communicating to each other what we hear the Holy Spirit is saying to the Church in our city and region.
 
…we commit to not using our unity and each other to further ‘our’ churches, ministries and personal agendas, but rather to lifting up the name of Jesus Christ to the glory of God as we work together across church, ministry, denominational, and racial boundaries.
 
Can we imagine if…?
 
…in view of our mutual concern for the Church of Jesus Christ, we commit to watching over each other in brotherly/sisterly love; remembering each other in prayer; giving aid and comfort in sickness and distress; and cultivating genuine Christian concern for each other in gentleness, slow to take offense, but always ready for reconciliation, mindful of our Lord’s word to secure and maintain harmony without delay, for His name’s sake.
 
Father, Son and Holy Spirit, what we can only imagine, we know to be both Your holy call to our spirits and Your holy will for our lives.  Grant us grace to joyfully and obediently walk therein.

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