Praise Report 11/11/11

We are so excited to see how God has been answering prayer over the last several months! Thank you for praying. May God receive all the praise and Glory! As Jesus wrote, “Ask and you will receive and your joy will be complete”(John 16:24)

Each of these praise items are specific things that have been on our prayer list over the past several months that 30 local churches have been using along with 100hrs per week at LOWPC.

Men’s Prayer Focus Sept/Oct.

• Band of Brothers continues to grow, with 200+ men each Tuesday night from 40 different churches. They have started holding resolution ceremonies with the pattern established in the Courageous Movie on Friday nights. with 36 men/families signed up so far. The Courageous movie has been a huge success and is still in the theatres weeks after it was scheduled to leave town! I shared at several men’s breakfast’s that were well attended, and there are 4 new weekly men’s prayer groups in the county that have started. 50 men gathered for the men’s prayer bootcamp at LOWPC with Dennis Fuqua, which helped to strengthen the Friday morning time at LOWPC.

Unity Amongst Pastors

• Sept. 11, 2011 Solemn Assembly, 300 in attendance, 60 churches 20 pastors
• 9 pastors have been gathering monthly to eat and pray together. 50 senior pastors gathered to eat and pray together on Wednesday, Nov. 9th! 20-30 youth pastors have been meeting at the prayer center once a month to eat and pray together! 22 of them were at the last one asking God for a glorious Christ-awakening among the youth of Whatcom county! 12 pastors gathered for a 4hr prayer vigil at LOWPC Oct. 1st! God is on the move!
• We did a survey of the all the churches that are currently in operation in Whatcom County and we now have 180! In 2006 when we started ORT, we had 105! That is 75 new churches in 6 years!

Youth Awakening

• Several of our young adult pastors have launched a meeting Wednesdays called ‘Ekklesia’ at the base of Western’s campus with 300 in attendance and 40-50 salvations in the first several weeks! Glory! They are hoping to begin 30 missional discipleship groups! 500-600 kids gather on Friday nights with CCF, and most of them are also in core groups as well! We have been praying in our churches and at the LOWPC on Saturday nights every week for 3 years for Western and a youth awakening! “Come Lord Jesus and be exalted at Western!”

Human Trafficking

• We have been praying for God to expose, deliver and bring awareness to this massive global issue of human trafficking and the sex trade. This has been a key prayer thread on our Wednesday night justice prayer time! International Justice Mission(IJM) shared at Bellingham CTK this fall with 3500 people helping to mobilize believers. We hosted 200 believers at Hope in Christ showing the film Nefarious. Tuesday the following week we hosted this film up at Western’s campus with 400 students, many of them were non-Christians and we shared the gospel at the end of the presentation! Shared Hope International then did a training in Bellingham with many of our law enforcement and key leaders in the community! A few months ago, a couple was convicted for trafficking in Whatcom County!

Education Sphere

• We have been praying for good news clubs(CEF) to begin in the Bellingham area and they have just been granted permission and favor to launch!
• Western Christian Faculty hosted Carol Swain, a Spirit-filled professor who trained several professors and pastors at their annual luncheon on issues of religious freedom in America!

Health-Care

• Jeremy our health-team leader has been granted permission to pray in the name of Jesus on the microphone on Tuesday and Fridays. The entire hospital hears these prayers, all 300 plus rooms, cafeteria, lobbies, etc! St. Joseph’s hospital is one the top 3 employers in Whatcom County for jobs.

Lighthouse Mission/Drop In Center/Homeless Ministry

• Shannon, one of our intercessory missionaries and the director of the drop-in center in Bellingham reports incredible movement of God’s activity amongst the homeless. We hosted a pancake breakfast with many of the homeless in our community. Also one of the homeless men who was beaten close to death a few weeks ago, woke up from his coma after being on life support! Glory!

Strategic Missions

• Many of you remember, and participated in prayer, in the Mega City evangelistic campaign that occurred in Kathmandu, Nepal last December-January. The manager of this movement since that time reports a total of over 700,000 hits have been registered on the campaign's website, 30-40 calls per day are still coming in to the campaign's call center, and 68,000 "Power to Change" booklets have been distributed to date! God continues to be at work!