Prayer for Europe

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Throughout this week, 24-7 are calling us to pray for this pivotal time for Europe. Through a series of video blogs 24-7 Prayer activists like Pete Greig and Andy Freeman will be releasing daily video Podcasts asking us to pray for key issues facing the European continent.

The next few weeks are pivotal for Europe. As the results of the European election are announced, as millions listen to President Obama’s speech in Cairo and as Christians pray at the British Houses of Parliament, the 24-7 movement aims to drench these events and others like them in prayer.

Will you join in the prayer?

Pete Greig starts off the week with his thoughts on the seismic shifts shaking Europe at this time.

Piccies of the Mid West

IMG_4933.jpgWell, there’s not enough time right now to give you an update on all the happenings at the 24-7 Prayer International Council and Communities Meetings in the US, but there is time for a quick post with some piccies!

I can’t be bothered with all that Facebook tagging malarky, so heres a link to the pictures I took in the States in my own gallery.  Enjoy…

Mine’s a ribeye!

Rib-eye-steak.gifI’m currently sat in the ‘board room’ of a coffee shop in downtown Kansas City, as Andy Freeman is taking the International 24-7 Board through his Communities/Boiler Rooms report.  We had a great day yesterday, with lots of agreement about the way forward in all the areas we discussed.  Exciting times are ahead!

We went out for dinner last night in a wonderful steak house, and the food and accompanying jazz were both great.  The highlight of the evening however was the impact that God made on the proceedings.  As we sat and enjoyed our meal Adam Cox, the leader  of Kansas City Boiler Room, had a recurring prophetic vision for one of the people on our table.  It was totally cool to be around!  As he spoke out what he had been given, it was wonderful to see the Holy Spirit at work.  I love that this stuff was all happening in the middle of a restaurant!

Back to today, and I’m about to deliver my report on finances to the board, the trustees and the International Leadership Team.  We have some hard decisions to make about the future as we need to make some cuts in what we’re doing over the next few months.  We do have some promising developments in funding, but we need to live in the tension between our current resources and our future potential – please pray for us as we go through this decision process.

In all of this I keep being reminded that God has never let us down yet on funding.  I’m so thankful for His faithfulness. To Him be the glory!

Big Conversations in the US!

kansas-city.jpgI currently have the privilege of being in the States with the rest of the 24-7 Prayer International Team.  We’re in Kansas city, and over the next couple of days we have some pretty crucial meetings about the future of the movement.  We’re looking at such weighty topics as the movement’s calling to the (re-)evangelisation of Europe, what it means to be the 24-7 network and what that means for how we structure ourselves, how we bring justice into everything we do, and plans for our 10th anniversary gatherings.

Please would you pray for us as we meet. There’s obviously quite a lot of pressure to get through the agenda, but there’s also a real desire for us to have healthy relationships too – there’s no point in just blasting on ahead with things without hearing each other’s heart and processing any disagreements on the way ahead.

Thanks for your prayers.  I’ll try and post some updates over the next couple of days.

Blessings!

Prayer TIme!

24-7-globe.gifWell, it looks like we’re a go for our next 24-7 prayer week in Reading, in the first week of February.

I so missed not being able to be in the prayer room as much as I would have liked last time, that this time around I’m going to organise my diary around the prayer week rather than visa versa!

If you’re in the neighbourhood, please do pop in and have an amazing encounter with God.  Details are on our prayer community webpage.

Latest Supporter Newsletter

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Life at 24-7 Prayer was particularly busy last year, as you can see in the latest edition of my supporters newsletter. If you’d like to read a little of what I get up to, be encouraged by what God is doing, and perhaps even join me in praying for my work with 24-7, please do download the pdf via the link.

If you’d like to go onto my list of supporters to make sure you get these hot off the press in future, please just send me a message by filling in the form here.  Thanks!

A little bit more business

Welcome-to-Ashtonstables.jpgI’ve been delving into the complexities of trying to improve Google page rankings on a few of the websites I look after today, including my own.  It’s amazing how much things can improve with just a few tweaks and changes.

So hopefully in the next week, Property Facets, Patricia Lovett and my own Ashtonstables Web Solutions websites will be right up there in the heady heights of Google page rankings!

24-7 Shorts: Prayer as Justice

If you watched the first Short, I hope you enjoyed my dance moves – and if you didn’t I bet you’re intrigued now  😉

This second short contains slightly less messing around, and a lot more of the wonderful love of Jesus being lived out in the most challenging of places.

From a bunch of fools in London, to the amazing Kelly Greene, in Boystown Mexico: