24-7 Rewind - Life in the movement – Mission Teams – Sunday, 12
January 2013
Mission Teams Released - 24-7 Rewind
Ian Nicholson (24-7 Eurpoean Director) announces all 9 locations
that 24-7 Prayer are sending Mission Teams this year.
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Mission Teams: 9 Locations - Where will you go?
Ian Nicholson
This missionary impulse has been at the core of 24-7 ever since
the first Prayer Room. We have been sending mission teams to some of the
poorest and neediest parts of Europe for over a decade."
Ian Nicholson (24-7 European Director)
Click the banner to find out more about each Mission Team:
The team will join with local believers and 24-7 partners in
Lebanon to serve Syrian refugees and pray for spiritual awakenings in both
countries. There will be opportunities to pray for healing and miracles for
refugees, playwork with local kids, chances to share your faith and time to
practically serve the community.
Dates: 2 weeks between 14th June and 5th July (to be confirmed
later this month)
Cost: £395, plus flights and insurance (to be confirmed later
this month)
West Belfast is known worldwide as one of the hot points of
Northern Ireland's troubled history, synonymous with sectarianism, paramilitary
activity and extreme poverty. However it is also a culturally rich and vibrant
community that desperately needs God.
On this mission you would be joining a small community of people
who live, work, pray and play here, for a week, creatively seeking to advance
the Kingdom in the area.
You’ll be creating and running a pray room, taking part on
prayer walks (particularly around local hotspots), assisting with local
outreach to children and young people, hosting a worship evening and helping to
find other creative and fun ways to serve the community.
Dates: 17th - 23rd August 2014
Cost: £325 (plus travel and insurance)
There has been a 24-7 prayer community named Polylux living and
serving on the Datzeberg in Northern Germany for several years now. The area is
one of the poorest in the nation and has no active church. Finding itself at
the heart of the former East Germany, it has a very high atheistic population.
On the mission you will work alongside Polylux as they put on a
family summer camp for their friends on the estate. It is a new initiative and
will be a life changing opportunity to show God’s love in action.
This mission is for German speaking applicants only.
Dates: 14th – 20th July in Falkenberg, Germany
Cost: £145 plus travel and insurance
The Commonwealth Games is one of the largest sporting events in
the world; attracting hundreds of thousands of guests from over 50 nations.
This year, they will be descending on Glasgow. Your team will join the ‘More
Than Gold’ outreach, praying for the nations and reaching out practically to
show God’s love to the city and its guests during the Games.
Work will include serving refreshments at Games venues, leading
sports clinics and holiday clubs, working with children and young people as
part of the outreach programme in local churches, performing solo or as part of
band, dance, or drama group, entertaining kids with face painting and balloon
sculpting, taking part in the
Queen's Baton Tour and Games community festivals, plus loads of
other creative opportunities....
Worship will run across the whole event, but there will be a
particular focus in the second week. For those of you with a heart for music,
we’d really encourage you to get involved then, where our focus will be on a
continuous period of praise.
Opportunities to take part come in two packages:
One week option:
Two week option:
Dates: 19th July – 26th July Dates: 19th July
- 2nd August
Cost: £325 plus travel and insurance Cost: £550 plus travel and
insurance
For over 13 years, 24-7 has been working to see transformation
in Ibiza, the beautiful Balearic island that serves as the main attraction for
hundreds of thousands of young tourists visiting Europe's most famous club
scene. Over these years the island has changed, a permanent Christian community
has started and every summer people are touched by God’s love in the community.
There are various ways you can get involved. Or visit the 24-7
Prayer Ibiza website to find out more details or apply.
Ibiza Prayer Team:
Dates: 22nd – 27th April
Cost: £225 plus flights and insurance
Ibiza Short Term Teams:
Dates:
Team 1: 25th – 30th May
Team 2: 1st - 13th June – Open team
Team 3: 6th - 18th July – Scottish Open team
Cost: £550 plus flights and insurance
This will be the third year that a team has gone to the volcanic
Westmann Islands to share God’s love as part of Iceland’s main rock festival.
Known as the Pompeii of the North, these beautiful islands are transformed each
August as thousands arrive from around the world for the festival. The team
will pray, serve practically and share the gospel.
Dates: 26th July – 4th August
Cost: £395 (including event ticket) plus travel and insurance
Plans for the Istanbul Mission are still being confirmed.
Plans for the Skopje Mission are still being confirmed.
Plans for the Thessaloniki Mission are still being confirmed.
To apply for any of the mission teams, please download the
application form and email it to us mission@24-7prayer.com
Ian Nicholson lives and works in Guildford, England and is one
of the leaders of Guildford Boiler Room.
With a heart for mission and particularly Europe Ian is part of 24-7
Prayer's International Leadership Team and enjoys football, food with friends
and international travel.
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Blogging
24-7 Rewind "Without
God I would be dead" - This is Leon's story
Adam Heather
Leon is part of the 24-7 Boiler Room community in Manenberg. We
first met him at last year’s International Gathering in Dublin under amazing
circumstances and it was here that we heard his testimony of violence, loss,
arrests and ultimately, God’s unwavering protection.
Leon was raised in Cape Town by his sisters and grandparents and
spent much of his young life with his only two friends, Randall and Nathan. The
trio would spend many days playing and walking the half hour journey to the
arcade, with just a penny in their pocket to spend.
Leon and Randall’s brothers were members of a gang in Manenberg
of which Randall later became a member. Soon after joining, he was shot and
killed in a gang fight.
Nathan was then recruited by the gang and began working for
Randall’s brother. After a series of escalating incidents, Nathan stabbed a
killed Randall’s brother; he was arrested and sentenced for murder.
Leon himself was arrested for the possession of a (friend’s)
firearm but was spared any jail time. Leon never became involved in the gang
culture that had consumed so much of his friends and family.
He became a Christian at a young age and believes it was God’s
love and provision that protected him from this walk of life and the terrible
circumstances that surround it. He told
us he is sure he would be dead if it wasn’t for his relationship with God.
“All the while God was keeping me, protecting me, and reserving
me for His great purpose. I may not have seen it then, but all the while I was
set up not to embrace that kind of life, to not get sucked in because of an
inferior identity or a broken home, but Him doing a great work in me, preparing
the way for my destiny in Him. “
This is Leon’s testimony of his incredible journey of faith that
found him leaving South Africa for the first time and joining the 24-7 Prayer
family in Ireland:
I remember when I was told that 24-7 prayer would be hosting a
conference in Dublin. To begin with, we were just looking at the prospect of
someone from Fusion going, but we had no money to cover the costs of travel and
the conference fee, so it looked to be impossible. When it was suggested that I
would be the one to attend, this seemed like an even less realistic
possibility. My wife’s income was all we had to keep us afloat. We had no money
and no passport.
But we prayed that if it was God’s desire, He would make a way…
Soon after, news came that 24-7 prayer international were
willing to pay £600 for flight and accommodation on the trip. We felt that God
had given us a massive yes!
Though the amount still wasn’t enough to cover flights, we
continued forward in faith. I had three weeks left to get a passport and I had
no money for it, and was informed that even if I did, it could take up to 4
weeks to arrive. In spite of this, we, the team, decided that I should go for
it.
The next two weeks were a drag; in and out of home affairs,
calling, submitting letters of invitation and urgency, doing what was in my
capabilities with no word of the passport. The week before I was to due to
travel our flights still hadn’t been booked. Every flight was listed at £700 –
still more than we could afford.
I was due to fly on Tuesday and it was the weekend before. We
went online to check flight prices and from nowhere, one had appeared that
morning, for just £450. We booked it straight away.
There was no doubt in my mind that the passport wouldn’t arrive.
On Tuesday, the day of the flight, I arrived at home affairs
early that morning and left with it in my hand, ready to fly.
You can find out more from Leon about the work of the Manenberg
community in this interview from Dublin
In the next couple of weeks we will be releasing the location of
this year’s Eurogathering so please keep checking back.
Adam Heather helps to keep 24-7 talking to the world as part of
the communications team based in Guildford. He got connected with 24-7 after
spending a year studying with a church in California. He loves playing games and he is easily captivated by
any exciting new idea. You can catch up with Adam on twitter
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24-7 Rewind Help Us Tell
Your Stories
Nick Beasley
Did you run a Prayer Room in 2013? Or go on a mission trip? Did
you do The Prayer Course or see God at work at a Prayer Space in school?
You might have seen the blog where Pete Greig talked about his
24-7 Prayer highlights from the year.
There’ll be a few of those going up - they should be a good way for you
to hear about some of the amazing things God was doing through 24-7 last year
that you might have missed.
But those blogs are just the experiences we know about – the
ones on our radar. And 24-7 Prayer has a much wider radar than we can keep
track of – it’s a pretty vast, international radar and try as we might, we
don’t get to hear all your stories from it.
But we’d really like to.
So if you have a story worth telling, we’d love to help you tell
it.
Please email your stories to nick.beasley@24-7prayer.com. You
can send us blogs, testimonies, pictures, videos, songs - anything you like.
We’d love to hear from you.
Nick Beasley is an English Literature graduate who spent a year
studying at the London Film Academy before joining the 24-7 Prayer
Communications team. He’s mostly interested in films and music and is a
Manchester United fan, though he has no geographical right to justify his
allegiance.
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24-7 Rewind 7 Highlights
from an Incredible Year
Pete Greig
2013 was a stunning year for the 24-7 Prayer movement.
There was a lot going on. In case you missed anything, here are
seven of my personal 24-7 highlights:
#7 Viral videos
The Prayer Course videos, which Jonny Hughes and I had such fun
filming, somehow reached churches in 46 nations in its first six weeks.
#6 10k birthday
In 2013 we celebrated our 10,000th prayer room and at HTB in
London, we prayed right the way through the whole year. It still amazes me that
in our 14th year of non-stop prayer we’re not only still going but still
growing, too. And fast!
#5 Prayer Targets
The mass in Austria was mind-bending, but it was even more
humbling to visit our first African Boiler Room in the South African township
of Manenberg, where there is 60% unemployment and rival gangs shoot the hell
out of each other. On one occasion a bullet came through their prayer room
window! These guys are heroes.
#4 ABC Road Trip
The Archbishop of Canterbury’s Journey in Prayer took us all by
surprise and mobilised 12000 people to pray in six cathedrals in 6 days.
Praying with him in Chichester cathedral was particularly emotional, because it
is so close to the humble warehouse where we started our very first prayer room
back in 1999. It had taken thirteen years of non-stop prayer in more than 100
nations to walk a mile across town.
#3 Space Race
It has been incredible to watch Prayer Spaces in Schools
exploding into more schools and more nations than ever in 2013. In spite of
criticism in the media from militant atheists, PSiS grew by 58% last year,
which means that 250,000 school children have now had the opportunity to
connect with God in a classroom prayer room.
#2 Mass in Mozart’s
cathedral
It was a great privilege to speak to 5000 Catholic young people
gathered in Salzburg cathedral and to see so many of them commit to
establishing prayer rooms with the blessing of their priests. And when they
held a mass for 24-7, I totally freaked out…
#1 Encounter Culture
Dublin… October’s Global Gathering was easily the best we have
ever done; with spine-tingling reports from around the world, powerful times of
worship and massive amounts of fun!
Thank you for being part of this wild ride.
I’m constantly surprised by the ways God answers our smallest
prayers and never stops changing lives. I only get to see part of the global
movement - who knows what else might be happening right now in any one of the
many prayer rooms around the world? Truly God does ‘immeasurably more than all
we can ask or imagine’. So let’s not stop dreaming and asking BIG in 2014. C’Mon!
Pete Greig is a founding champion of the 24-7 movement. He leads
Emmaus Rd church in Guildford, England and serves as Director of Prayer for
Alpha International . Pete's books include 'Red Moon Rising' and 'God on Mute'.
He tweets regularly @petegreig
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Going deeper
The Prayer Course
Six videos to fuel discussion and deepen the prayer life of your
church
24-7 Prayer and Alpha have teamed up to produce The Prayer
Course - six 10 minute videos, hosted by Pete Greig, to help you explore
different themes of prayer found in the bible: adoration, petition,
intercession, unanswered prayer, listening to God and spiritual warfare.
Available for free download at www.prayercourse.org
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24-7 Prayer UK
Brian Heasley
Allen House Pavilion
Eastgate Gardens
Guildford
GU1 4AZ
United Kingdom
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