Last week at our Network Training we looked at a list of all of the cities in Orange County. We each adopted one or two cities to pray for.
In David Garrison’s book Church Planting Movements he talks about 10 Universal Elements to church planting. The first element is prayer:
Prayer has been fundamental to every Church Planting Movement we have observed. Prayer typically provides the first pillar in a strategy coordinator’s master plan for reaching his or her people group. However, it is the vitality of prayer in the missionary’s personal life that leads to its imitation in the life of the new church and its leaders. By revealing from the beginning the source of his power in prayer, the missionary effectively gives away the greatest resource he brings to the assignment. This sharing of the power source is critical to the transfer of vision and momentum from the missionary to the new local Christian leadership.
Church planting movements are happening all over the world. Thousands of people are coming to Christ every week in third-world countries.
Can a church planting movement happen here in North America? How about in the OC? Orange County has 3.1 million people. Many of them are lost. Pray for revival.
