(Features) Life Stories
19th June, 2009
24-7 activists just convened in the ancient Bible-land of Macedonia where East meets West, Europe becomes Asia, and Catholics, Orthodox and Muslims nervously jostle for power. Scott Bowers, who sold everything and moved to the capital Skopje with his wife and young children, describes the wonderful ways in which the Lord renewed and deepened important relationships.
18th May, 2009
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines.
2nd April, 2009
David opened his book and read the following; “If
Christians are going to nurture common life among members of
intentional community, they must become self-aware enough to know who
they are, what they are about, and why they are about it.”
This short quote, and the questions it posed (who are we? what are we
about? why are we about it?), probably shaped our conversations in
The Liberty Bell last Monday evening.
16th March, 2009
“We really enjoyed praying!” Writes Trina from Brazil. “Our church is tiny so it was pretty incredible that we managed to fill all 24 hours but people were wonderful.
12th March, 2009
God is doing amazing things in an island province of the Philippines! A recent email from Arthur Peter, a missionary from the Netherlands, told of the call to prayer God is stirring in the heart of his community. He shared about the recent shift in focus for the approximately 20 home groups that comprise their church network called Touching The Nations:
"[We are] a newly started mission organization whose heart is to see churches and people pray.
11th March, 2009
Each week 24-7 receives encouraging emails from around the world from people learning to pray by praying. This week the below email jumped out at us and we just had to share it.
5th March, 2009
There is something about sharing the gospel with others on a consistent basis that is waking me up! After five weeks in five states spreading the 24-7 Campus America vision on 13 university campuses across the USA, I am convinced that we were born to bear the message of God’s reconciliation.
“In Christ, God is reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their sin against them, and entrusting to us the ministry of reconciliation.
21st February, 2009
“We've had an amazing week encountering God.” Writes Arnida Bodinaku from Tirana, Albania.
14th January, 2009
It read more like a text message than a prayer, but Derrick’s sincerity
spoke for itself when he scrawled out a plea to the God of the Universe
in a Virginia prayer room journal. “Yo wut it do God? I was shown
Romans 11 and began to read about the grafting and pruning of branches.
13th January, 2009
A meditation on faith, written in a 24-7 Prayer Room in Guildford, England by Pete Greig, which explores many of our core values and the life-affirming theology at the heart of 24-7 prayer..
12th January, 2009
At the 24-7 International Gathering last year we spent a few minutes praying for our Muslim friends as we were coming into the closing of Ramadan. I specifically mentioned asking that Jesus would show up in dreams and visions to those who were seeking God during that time.
7th January, 2009
Best. Job.
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