ELIM PRAYS . . .

Global Day of Prayer 2007 celebrations were fantastic, half billion people around the world joined in united prayer for the nations and for God's Glory to be shown - things have shifted!

Look forward to hearing testimonies about how it all went, and encourage Elim churches to get on board next year! Blessings! 

Mike Knott
Coordinator
prayer@elim.org.nz

 

Christchurch North Elim
We participated in the Global Day of Prayer for the first time. It was simply fantastic. We have a great prayer and intercessors team run by one of our Elders, June Harwood, and June put the day together, had prayer points, music and a 7 hour roster with people coming in to the church on an hourly basis. The church was open from 9:30am to 4:30pm and we had a number of people involved in prayer as well as one or two others to answer queries and to point people to the prayer suggestions posted around the auditorium. The presence of God was mighty in the church for the whole of this time and has really encouraged us to be involved in this event again next year.

Thank you for your encouragement to be involved in this event for without it we probably would have just written it off as simply something else to do. It has been very positive for us as a church and even has us thinking of doing it again in the near future with special focus on our local community.

Thanks once again
Stewart McLellan

Elim International Church – Wellington
On Sunday 27th May with the help of some great guys from TVNZ, a trailer tie down and our trusty gaffer tape we mixed a microwave dish to the church roof and bounced a sound and video feed from Elim to Mt Kaukau, to Avalon, to Auckland to…Jerusalem! At 2.30pm we enjoyed the privilege of connecting live with GOD TV’s Jerusalem studio and launching the live 24hr televised coverage of this years Global Day of Prayer.

Christians in 214 nations watched as we began the day with the NZ national anthem and a bunch of fervent and anointed prayers for our nation and our world. We joined live feeds from Hong Kong, India, England and the USA. Nations agreed as the combined churches of Wellington brought a unique Kiwi flavour to the days beginning.

Our coverage was repeated at regular intervals during the day with the host making many comments of the heartfelt prayer of NZ that had really impacted them.

When I reflect on how we managed to pull it all together I can think only of my mate Ric Knott’s song…”I believe in miracles”…and I do.

NZ and Elim were in the centre of their call that day…from the nations in the Capitol to the Nations of the World. Let’s keep up the prayer, we don’t have to be on International TV to have real effect on our world…but it sure makes it fun!

A huge cheer should go up to the Coach for his unswerving commitment and vision to prayer and GDOP and to the AV team who really “raised the bar”.

Peace
The Sarge