Here it is, our first missions challenge post for all of you traveling to Greece and the Turk Islands this summer. Each week I will post your challenge (the same one that I give to you on Tuesday nights), and I may include a surprise challenge only available online. There will be incentives each week – some will be simple (like food or candy – don’t worry I will make sure that food is not just sweets like this week =). Some incentives may be cash towards your trip or something of higher equivalence. I will reveal the incentive on Tuesday nights during accountability time. Obviously, in order to qualify for the challenge, you must complete it and be in attendance for Frequency, Sunday School (or a small group), and pre-service prayer. And even though this is fun, remember that those things are required for the trip, not optional. The commitment to minister on these teams is a priviledge, and comes with responsibility. I know all of you can do it!
Here is this week’s challenge for each team:
GREECE TEAM CHALLENGE
03.17.09
Paul said this prayer for the people of Thessalonia, people in the same place where you will be going to this summer.
This week your challenge is to say this prayer out loud every day this week for the people of Greece that you will be going to meet and to minister to.
[youversion]1 Thessalonians 3:10-13[/youversion]
* 10. Night and day we pray most earnestly that we may see you again
and supply what is lacking in your faith.
* 11. Now may our God and Father himself and our Lord Jesus
clear the way for us to come to you.
* 12. May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other
and for everyone else, just as ours does for you.
* 13. May he strengthen your hearts so that you will be blameless and holy
in the presence of our God and Father when our Lord Jesus comes with all his holy ones.
Write down your initials everyday on a tracking sheet (if you didn’t pick one up, simply make one of your own), that you take time to pray for the people of Greece beginning with this prayer. Aim to memorize the scripture.
TURK ISLANDS TEAM CHALLENGE
03.17.09
Pick one of the following scriptures to memorize for next week. Even if you know the scriptures already, take time to speak at least one aloud every day and pray for the people of the Turk Islands. There is power in the Word of God. When you apply this scripture to your trip, ask God to show you specific things to pray for in power.
[youversion]Acts 1:8[/youversion] But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
[youversion]Acts 2:17[/youversion] ” ‘In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams.
Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy.
Write down your initials everyday on a tracking sheet (if you didn’t pick one up, simply make one of your own), that you take time to pray for the people of the Turk Islands beginning with quoting one of the above scriptures.
BONUS CHALLENGE
(this is for online viewers only – do not repeat to others unless they have read it for themselves):
Write down on a half sheet of paper, something that God has been putting on your heart during prayer for the country you are traveling to this summer, something that you want to focus your prayers on for that country (for example: the teens of Greece and their salvation or the poverty of children in the Turk Islands and help for them). Bring this with you and we will post it on a missions prayer board that I will bring with me next Tuesday. If you bring this with you, your name will be put in a hat to receive an incentive prize =)
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