WHEN YOU CROSS CULTURES - World Evangelical Alliance

122 WHEN YOU CROSS CULTURES
Here is a proposed schedule:
MORNING: 1 hour - Devotional and Briefing
1 hour - Prayer in groups of 4
1 hour - Prayer in pairs
LIGHT LUNCH OR FAST
AFTERNOON: 2 hours - Time Alone for Reflection
1 hour - Prayer in groups of 3 or 4
EVENING MEAL
EVENING: 1 1 2
hours - Group Sharing and
Prayer Together
Prayer may also focus on the following issues and trends.
• Almost 3 billion people (of the world’s total population of 6.7 billion) can
only be reached by new cross-cultural efforts.
• Pray for a new force of bi-vocational labourers to relocate in these areas,
that they will be credible and authentic witnesses through their vocations
and quality of life.
• There is a resurgence of religious fundamentalism. Pray for those who
faithfully incarnate the Gospel in these lands.
• Secularisation and nominalism have sapped the spiritual life of many
countries. Pray for Christians to put on the whole armour of God that they
may be spiritually strengthened and renewed daily to be salt and light
influencing society.
• Pray that God’s Spirit will initiate a movement of both qualified labourers
and senders. There are challenges of ministry to “oral learners” (those who
are partially or totally illiterate). Two thirds of all people in the world cannot
or do not learn through literate means. Pray also for holistic ministries
to the poor, the marginalized, and those who are victims of injustice.
• Thank God for movements which bring about cooperation and a unified
purpose in the Church to fulfil the Great Commission. Pray for increasing
collaborating efforts in advancing the Gospel of Jesus and His Kingdom.
• Pray that our Sovereign God will be glorified among the nations, for
Satan to be bound, that Christ’s victory on the cross will break the enemy’s
hold on cultures and peoples. Pray for those in authority that Christians
may live peaceful and holy lives and people will be saved.