Cambodia: Pray Big, Pray Bold – A New Type of Prayer Meeting

WHERE
It will be held the first Saturday of each month. If you are able to join next Saturday March 6th from 9am to 11am at Rexdale Alliance Church Room 103

WHO SHOULD ATTEND
This prayer meeting is open to anyone from any church. We are inviting anyone who has been to Cambodia, has an interest in Cambodia, hoping to go one day either short term or long term or who God has just put a burden to learn more and pray about the country and its people.

OBJECTIVES
My pastor once said ‘the world does not need broader people, it needs deeper people!’
To that end, our purpose is to:

1. To fuel the passion or burden God has put in peoples hearts for Cambodia by providing an opportunity for them to gain greater insights into some of the challenges that missionaries face because of the cultural dynamics and history of the country. As such, people will be encouraged to read some of the books on Cambodia and share their insights (ie: Tears of My Soul by Reaksa Himm, Killing Fields, Living Fields by Don Cormack)

2. Praying for various missionaries serving in Cambodia, ministries as well as partner agencies of the Ratanak Foundation

3. To build foundation and to give greater depth to that ‘burden’ that has been deposited in our hearts. In essence it is like a ‘training class’ that we trust will fuel interest in Cambodia, raise up prayer warriors and mobilizers on the home side, prepare people for future short term trips or long term involvement in Cambodia, raise up leaders who eventually would be leading future short term teams

4. To empower individuals to step out of their comfort zones and pursue all that Christ has for them as they seek to be part of God’s World Christian Team!

Here is an excerpt from Lisa Cheong’s newsletter… to give you a glimpse of the birth of this praying ministry for Cambodia’s issues on human trafficking.
The VISION
This past December, our senior pastor Sunder Krishnan preached a message at Urbana called Pray Big, Pray Bold! (here’s a link to the message: http://vimeo.com/8467883 ) I was inspired by a particular testimony he gave of a persecuted pastor in Vietnam that he had been praying for for years. This past summer, he discovered his prayers being answered when he heard that pastor was released and many of the prayers that he had been praying over the years were exactly what had happened to this man while he was in prison. With that in mind, I was sitting in church on January 2nd when I felt the Lord speak the following words to me: ‘why not pray big and pray bold for Cambodia and see what I will do.’ And so Marty Prasad, a fellow team member from our Rexdale Alliance Cambodia team of last summer and I have felt led to begin monthly prayer meetings.

THE LEADERSHIP TEAM
These monthly prayer meetings will be facilitated by 5 different people who are chairing the meetings on a rotational basis. The team consist of: Charlene Pollock, Jan Henderson, Ruby Sawh, Marty Prasad, and myself.