24-7 Rewind - Life in the movement for Friday, 21 February 2014

24-7 Rewind - Life in the movement for Friday, 21 February 2014
24-7 Prayer Rewind - Come and Work With Us
We're looking for an Admin Supremo. Find out more here <iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/73wE_U1-Mms" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>://www.24-7prayer.com/features/2199 and apply online
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Job Vacancy - Come and Work With 24-7 Prayer
Brian Heasley
Are you a brilliant communicator?
Can you handle back-admin systems and databases without losing sleep?
Do you love writing and have an eye to find the right story to inspire, or tweet to challenge?
Job Title: Admin Supremo
We are looking to recruit full-time person to be part of the office team in Guildford.  The majority of the role will be focused on the communications and organisation of all things 24-7 Prayer in GB, working closely with our GB Director, Brian Heasley. This is an amazing opportunity for someone who wants to dive right into the deep end with 24-7 Prayer.
We’re looking for a super-organised administrator and enthusiastic and effective communicator… and we’re looking for passion!
There’s lots more to it, of course, but we’ve summarised the role around four main themes;
Administrating – supporting prayer rooms and years of prayer, managing databases, organising events & team meetings, managing projects
Communicating – responding to emails, getting on the phone, managing social media
Networking – with our partner organisations, churches and volunteers
Resourcing – turning prayer room news into stories, finding & creating resources and courses
Three days of each week will be with Brian and the GB team focused around the tasks described above.
Two days of each week will be as part of the 24-7 Prayer International team supporting the work with Mission Teams around the world, our vital fund-raising plans, assisting with events and other smaller projects.
You’ll be a team player with plenty of initiative, who is very capable and comfortable with emails, social media and all office software.
How to Apply
If you’d like to apply for the role, please send an email explaining your connection with 24-7 Prayer and why you’re interested in joining with us, along with your CV and any further questions you may have to terri.roberts@24-7prayer.com
The job will be a full time position based at the 24-7 International Prayer office in Guildford, England.
Closing Date for Applications:                    February 28th 2014
Interviews:                                                       Currently scheduled for 11th March 2014
(All applicants must have an existing legal status to work and reside in the UK.)
Brian Heasley is national director of 24-7 Prayer in Great Britain after leading 24-7 Ibiza and has been part of the prayer movement since it began. Brian is a gifted communicator with passion for prayer, mission and justice. He is married to Tracy and has two teenage sons. The family live in Norfolk and are involved in a Christian community there. Brian’s other passions are Liverpool football club, tapas and photography
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Blogging
24-7 Rewind Fourteen Years Since the Red Moon Rose
Pete Greig
Fourteen years ago today, a red moon rose over a semi-derelict nightclub in Guildford England, and we formally launched the 24-7 Prayer movement.
If you'd walked into that club that night, across the sticky floor, through the crowds of young people, and told me what would happen next I would never have believed you. You'd have doubted it yourself, when you saw just how dodgy Bojanglez was that night and how terrible my haircut.
We prayed a lot and I preached from the book of Joel about God's logo for the last days: the blood red moon and the way that the Spirit will be poured out upon an entire generation, and 'all who call upon the Lord will be saved.' And then we yelled a lot and somehow the Spirit showed up and fresh vision bubbled up and forty people stuck their hands up and surrendered their lives to Jesus for the first time (although I've no idea why any self-respecting non-Christian would attend the launch of a prayer movement in the grottiest club in town).
All this took place on 20th February in the year 2000 under a blood red moon. Just as the prophet said. 
Tardis
Bojanglez nightclub is still standing (just) but it's even more derelict and no longer open for business. But the movement Bojanglez launched has impacted more than two million people in most denominations and more than half the nations on earth.
True to its name, the 24-7 Prayer meeting has continued night-and-day, non-stop from that moment, through 9/11, the war in Iraq, a few presidents, a couple of popes, the global financial crisis and the discovery of One Direction.
Countless people in many cultures have met with Jesus in Prayer Rooms, night after night, from the US Naval Academy to the slums of Delhi. We've planted nineteen Boiler Rooms in eight nations - including the one here in Guildford. New businesses and ministries have been born in Prayer Rooms including initiatives like 24-7 Ibiza and Prayer Spaces in Schools which have attracted media attention. We've reached the poorest of the poor and rulers of nations. Last year they even held a mass for 24-7 in Salzburg cathedral where Mozart lived and I kept shaking my head in amazement, gazing at the priests in their red robes and the breathtaking domed ceiling above us and thinking 'Wow, we're a long way from Bojanglez'.
So, if you were to jump in your personal tardis and travel back to Bojanglez on this day foruteen years ago just to mess with my head by telling me even half of what I've just told you, I would have freaked out. Wouldn’t have believed you. The biggest thing we were imagining that night was the impossible idea of filling the year two thousand with continual prayer...
A fistful of dollars
When I came out of the venue the moon had returned to its normal colour, and a Venezuelan American came up to me in the street with a whole fistful of US dollars. Said he wanted to 'sow into the vision'. To be honest it felt like some kind of shady drug deal. That was the first money anyone ever gave us, and I hope he feels like he's got a good return on his investment because, by the grace of God, we've never failed to pay a single bill in fourteen years and 115 nations.
We often cry out to God for provision and we've never yet gone without. Prayer has always worked. Miracles of provision again and again.
As we enter our fifteenth year of non-stop prayer since Bojanglez, let's recommit our lives afresh to Joel's vision and the army of young people filled with God's Spirit, and the harvest of a generation who 'call upon the name of the Lord'. If you've been blessed in any way by this accidental movement please join me in giving thanks to God for the countless prayers he has answered. And if you have a fistful of dollars you'd like to invest in the next chapter… well you know what to do!
All images are used by permission in accordance with commons copyright license terms: Feature image is a derivative of the image 'Blood Moon' by Hanzlers Warped Visions, 'Crimson Moon' by Alexander Boden and Bojanglez Images from Photobucket and Derelict Places
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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24-7 Rewind URGENT: #prayforVenezuela
Sheena Littlehale
The people of Venezuela urgently need our prayers.
 a nation politically divided, discontent has been brewing over restricted liberties and lack of basic necessities meant to be supplied by the Venezuelan government. Restricted access to internet sites such as twitter and facebook, along with the closure of any non-government media, has further fuelled frustration. Venezuelans around the world are showing solidarity with the opposition using the social media 
Responding to a new ban on protesting, the opposition has come together in mass protests this week in major cities throughout Venezuela, with thousands of university students rallying on Venezuelan National Youth 
Four students have died, three of them shot in military action against the protesters. Many others have been injured, detained and allegedly tortured while under 
It can be challenging to know how to pray when there is limited information and media coverage available, but we can all pray that God will bring about His Kingdom and His purposes in Venezuela. Beyond that, here are a few points as we #
Please pray with us 
God will give comfort, protection and a desire for peaceful resolution to everyone involved with the protests and conflict.
Pastors, Christian leaders and the Body of Christ in Venezuela will be strengthened and empowered to promote peace and release the love of the Father in their land.
Politicians and leaders will humble themselves and put peace and the needs of the people first.
Peacemakers will rise up and violence will end.
All images are used by permission in accordance with commons copyright license terms: Feature image is a derivative of the images 'Venezuela' by openDemocracy and Caracas Protest by andresAZP
Sheena Littlehale is from Portland, Oregon and came to England in 2009 to work with 24-7 Prayer. God, art, travel, photography, music, prayer, justice, reading, writing, coffee and dark chocolate with a high cocoa content are all things Sheena is passionate about. You can keep up with Sheena's adventures in England through her blog.
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24-7 Rewind Today is World Day of Social Justice. Tomorrow isn't
Nick Beasley
As we seek to build the world we want, let us intensify our efforts to achieve a more inclusive, equitable and sustainable development path built on dialogue, transparency and social justice
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
 to the UN’s official statement… 
justice is an underlying principle for peaceful and prosperous coexistence within and among nations...                           We advance social justice when we remove barriers that people face because of gender, age, race, ethnicity, religion, culture or disability.”
Equality and justice; if Valentines Day was a day to remind us to love as we should be doing everyday, World Day of Social Justice is a day to care about things we should be caring about everyday and to pray for things we should be praying for everyday.
Syria, Ukraine, The CAR, Venezuela. These injustices have the headlines and deserve our prayers, but the injustice runs far deeper – its been so engrained into our social sub conscious that it practically sustains our lifestyle. Food, clothes, jewellery, travel. Social inequality can be found rife at the heart of these global industries and is sustained and empowered by our ambivalence. 
When we read the inequality stats, we all want to see change - but we need to start working for change.
So whether you spend today flying out to Manenberg, signing a petition or buying fair-trade tea bags*, use it as a day to shake up your personal conscious and, in turn, the wider conscious around you.
Today is World Day of Social Justice. We need to try and make it everyday.
*that link has some awesome video clips in it
All images are used by permission in accordance with commons copyright license terms: Feature image is a derivative of the image 'learning to work in a sweat shop' by stacey bogart, 'Peace to the world' by Thomas Rousing and 'Peace and love from A-Z' by McKay Savage
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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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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