GC 2011: It Starts With Prayer

28. Jul, 2010 Categories: Resources by Jason Archer 3 Comments

Greetings in the name of Jesus — our crucified, risen and coming Lord! What an awesome privilege and responsibility to participate in our Lord’s plan to renew and recreate all things! What strategic opportunities loom on our horizon as we celebrate our founding 150 years ago (beginning on August 23, 2010), focus our vision, and play our part in the next chapters of His story.We write to call you to do what God’s people always do at strategic and defining moments in their history, which is His Story. That is, they seek and surrender to their God, and do so particularly through prayer and fasting.Therefore, we call the Free Methodist Church in the U.S. to fast and pray on the 23rd day of each month, beginning this Sunday, May 23, 2010, Pentecost Sunday, and continuing until the 23rd day of June 2011, in anticipation of and preparation for our 2011 General Conference gathering.

On each 23rd day let us seek God’s wisdom and power to clarify his calling for our church and our part in that calling:

* to embrace the good news of Jesus in its entirety, and experience its transforming
fullness deeply;
* to discern how best to collaborate and partner together to be agents of blessing and wholeness for the whole world and all people;
* to position ourselves for God to use wherever and however;
* to organize ourselves at every level — national, global, regional and congregational —
so that nothing hinders our mission.

Each month let us seek the Lord and expect leading and empowering.

In pursuit of His best for all,

David Kendall
For the Board of Bishops