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An Invitation to Pray: Week 6

Lorna Johnston /Saturday, May 4, 2024

An Invitation to Pray

 

Join us in prayer from Easter Sunday to Pentecost Sunday as we unite, focusing this week on the power of the Holy Spirit to impact and lead upcoming generations. As we recognize the importance of mobilizing our youth into God's mission, let's also lift up prayers for our Youth Mobilizers, so that they may be empowered, equipped, and provided for in their vital work. 

WEEK SIX: The Calling and Empowering of the Holy Spirit

 May 5th - 11th

 Scripture Focus: 2 Timothy 1:6-14 

  •  Pray that youth in the Church in Canada would be wholehearted disciples of Jesus Christ, filled with God’s Spirit, unashamed of the gospel, living holy and blameless lives.
  • We recognize the need to mobilize our youth into God’s redemptive mission. Please pray for our Youth Mobilizers to know God’s empowering, equipping and provision for the work they have taken on.
  • May the Lord guard His work in their lives.

 

Praying through Easter Sunday to Pentecost Sunday (March 31st - May 19th)

While we are scattered across Canada, we want to pray TOGETHER. There are several ways we hope to facilitate that: 

  1. All Together Online: Mark your calendars and join us.
    • Tuesday, April 2nd - 5 pm PT / 8 pm ET: Register for this event on Course Manager and the link will be sent to you.
    • Wednesday, May 15th - 5 pm PT / 8 pm ET Register for this event on Course Manager and the link will be sent to you.
       
  2. Together in Regional or Language Group Gatherings: In person or online.
    • Check with your Coordinator to find out more.
       
  3. Together Each Day: Set your alarm and pray together:
    • 10:02 – Luke 10:2 invites us to pray that the Lord of the Harvest will thrust out workers.
    • 15:02 – John 15:2 reminds us that the Father is a master gardener who prunes what is unfruitful so that we will be more fruitful.
       
  4. Together Each Week: Using our prayer themes (posted weekly).

 

Lorna Johnston is the Diaspora Ministries Leader at Outreach Canada. She leads two national teams -- Simply Mobilizing Canada (SMC) and Loving Muslims Together (LMT). She works with teams of diverse and experienced leaders and ministries across Canada to alert and activate the church in Canada to the changing opportunities to engage God's mission right here in Canada.

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This Sunday we celebrate Easter, remembering the death, burial, and resurrection from the dead of Jesus Christ, our Saviour and Lord. On that Resurrection Day everything changed. But it wasn’t until the Day of Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit came, that the power of that change was fully realized in the early disciples’ lives.

We need that same power to be at work in our efforts as the Simply Mobilizing family in Canada to awaken the church, the ‘sleeping giant’.  Our mobilization efforts shifted online during the pandemic, and much good has come from that. But the Canadian context and the Canadian church have changed. How shall we respond to these changes?