Creative Intercession

As a YWAM (Youth With A Mission) Community we greatly value hearing Gods voice. One way we do this is spend time together as a community each week and spend time interceding for the things that God talks to us about the world.

Last week when we did this, we got out the Giant world map that we have and God started to talk to us about world Hunger, so we decided to be creative in the way we prayed and put food in different areas of the map. As we prayed and listened to God together we moved this food around as a symbolic act of what we were praying about.

This is just one of the many ways we spend time as a community praying for the world, we love it so much we do it every week, with different focuses. Christy and me are both part of the small team, which helps to lead these times and facilitate for others who also have something they want to lead us in prayer for. We really value partnering with God and hearing his heart for this world, and the intercession times often lead us to do more as a community.

Just go again

We have helped to host another Just Go event over these last couple of weeks. Just Go is a short-term mission trip for 16 and 18 year olds who have just finished GCSE or A-Level exams here in England. Last year Christy and myself helped to lead a team to Poland. This year we are not going out with a team, but we helped to run a half night of prayer focusing on the countries that the teams are going out to and also ran some morning workout sessions. We have sent four teams out for 2 weeks to 4 different countries in Eastern Europe, altogether we sent out close to 30 people this year.

Last year was very significant for a number of individuals, with several of them returning to Mission in a number of different ways. We are really looking forward to hearing what God has done in and through the teams when they return, so watch this space for more stories in a few weeks.