How can you get involved in sowing the gospel in 20-minute communities throughout Portland?
This is what we are asking and who we are looking for:
1. Daily at 10:02 a.m. and/or 10:02 p.m. PRAY! Pray to the Lord of the Harvest for the Portland/Vancouver Metro area. Pray Luke 10:2 and Luke 10:2-24
a. On your knees..... Our posture before God - humility. It will not be by OUR might, or OUR power BUT by HIS power and HIS might says the LORD! Join us in praying with this posture and this spirit.
b. Ask God for harvest hands for the 20-minute Communities of Portland. Specifically, pray for our #SendPortlandOR cities these SPOTLIGHT communities and pray for new churches to be gathered and scattered.
c. Be the answer to the PRAYER - "Now go....."
1. Commit to be one of THE OTHER 70 DISCIPLES who will come and prayer walk an under-reached neighborhood for an under-reached people group in the Portland/Vancouver Metro area in 2012/2013? Contact me: nwbaptistwes@gmail.com or call/text 360-624-6290 to learn more. Use this link to begin learning about 20-minute neighborhoods in Portland. You will see the top walkable 20-minute communities on the left of the web link! Where will you be the answer?
2. Find a partner to come and serve a neighborhood and prayer walk the streets. Serve as an ADVOCATE for a neighborhood by telling others about the opportunities in 20-minute communities throughout Portland/Vancouver. Consider moving into the neighborhood as an URBAN MISSIONARY, intentionally living out Christ mission in the 20-minute community.
3. In pairs (as URBAN MISSIONARIES), commit to make disciples in an area being considered for a new church start. If we make disciples, God will grow His church.
a. Pray for a person of peace.
b. Pray to be invited into the person of peace's home
c. Host this person of peace in your home for a meal
d. Pray for opportunities to bless this person and others by serving them.
e. Pray for God to give you listening ears and words seasoned with GRACE and Good News.
f. Share your stories with others in the church and with the Lord of the Harvest.
g. Pray for Jesus to give you and your partner:
1). Safe passage.
2). Protection from the Enemy.
3). Thankfulness for God's authority over you and your partner.
4). Opportunity to serve His Agenda as Harvest Hands.
h. Start leading these persons of peace spiritually and in the way of Jesus.
i. Celebrate often as God's story breaks into their story and Celebrate as a community!
2. BE THE NEIGHBOR (Luke 11:25ff) in YOUR Neighborhood/Community and by JOINING a TEAM who will sow the gospel in order to see a new church started!
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Here are some other ways you can be involved:
***OUR CURRENT MOBILIZATION INITIATIVE***
10:02
Luke 10:2 says this, "He (Jesus) gave them (the other 70 disciples, in pairs) this charge: 'What a huge harvest! And how few the harvest hands. So on your knees; ask the God of the Harvest to send harvest hands. On your way....'" (Msg). HCSB states: "He told them: 'The harvest is abundant, but the workers are few. Therefore, pray to the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest. Now go....'"This is what we are asking and who we are looking for:
1. Daily at 10:02 a.m. and/or 10:02 p.m. PRAY! Pray to the Lord of the Harvest for the Portland/Vancouver Metro area. Pray Luke 10:2 and Luke 10:2-24
a. On your knees..... Our posture before God - humility. It will not be by OUR might, or OUR power BUT by HIS power and HIS might says the LORD! Join us in praying with this posture and this spirit.
b. Ask God for harvest hands for the 20-minute Communities of Portland. Specifically, pray for our #SendPortlandOR cities these SPOTLIGHT communities and pray for new churches to be gathered and scattered.
c. Be the answer to the PRAYER - "Now go....."
1. Commit to be one of THE OTHER 70 DISCIPLES who will come and prayer walk an under-reached neighborhood for an under-reached people group in the Portland/Vancouver Metro area in 2012/2013? Contact me: nwbaptistwes@gmail.com or call/text 360-624-6290 to learn more. Use this link to begin learning about 20-minute neighborhoods in Portland. You will see the top walkable 20-minute communities on the left of the web link! Where will you be the answer?
2. Find a partner to come and serve a neighborhood and prayer walk the streets. Serve as an ADVOCATE for a neighborhood by telling others about the opportunities in 20-minute communities throughout Portland/Vancouver. Consider moving into the neighborhood as an URBAN MISSIONARY, intentionally living out Christ mission in the 20-minute community.
3. In pairs (as URBAN MISSIONARIES), commit to make disciples in an area being considered for a new church start. If we make disciples, God will grow His church.
a. Pray for a person of peace.
b. Pray to be invited into the person of peace's home
c. Host this person of peace in your home for a meal
d. Pray for opportunities to bless this person and others by serving them.
e. Pray for God to give you listening ears and words seasoned with GRACE and Good News.
f. Share your stories with others in the church and with the Lord of the Harvest.
g. Pray for Jesus to give you and your partner:
1). Safe passage.
2). Protection from the Enemy.
3). Thankfulness for God's authority over you and your partner.
4). Opportunity to serve His Agenda as Harvest Hands.
h. Start leading these persons of peace spiritually and in the way of Jesus.
i. Celebrate often as God's story breaks into their story and Celebrate as a community!
2. BE THE NEIGHBOR (Luke 11:25ff) in YOUR Neighborhood/Community and by JOINING a TEAM who will sow the gospel in order to see a new church started!
Like us on Facebook to learn more:
Here are some other ways you can be involved:
- Become an ADVOCATE for a specific 20-minute community in Portland.
- Bring a team and Prayer walk a 20-minute community.
- Send a person or team to live in one of our many 20-minute communities. Support them for an extended period of time.
- Come on a VISION or ENCOUNTER trip and begin to see the possibilities of how you could be involved.
- Participate in the summer URBAN Immersion Project (Portland Parachute Project)
- Join us for an EPOCH Urban adventure. Monthly topical discussions and field experiences on the URBAN context and an extended TWO YEAR COHORT adventure!
- Pray to the Lord of the Harvest to send laborers to these 20-minute communities.
- Financially give to the Cooperative Program through your local church to fund church planting initiatives in Portland OR and other under-reached areas of the United States and World.
- Tell us how you want to be involved by filling-in-the-blank: ____________________________
