They met in a different location each month, including city hall, the rescue mission, the county jail , high schools, the school district office, the International Trade Center, and Fresno Pacific College. Today more than 6,000 evangelical Christians are involved in Fresno's inner-city ministries. Through Christ's redemption, human stewardship over the earth is being restored. And through prayer, we as his redeemed people reassert our God-given dominion over the world, ruling and reigning with Christ. Through believing prayer, we open the door for God's intervention in our troubled world, and open ourselves up to become part of God's answer to that world of need.
Prayer leads to spiritual transformation.
But more than that, we work for the spiritual transformation of these communities. We know that apart from a change in people's hearts, there will be no outward change. Unless people move toward the kingdom of God and become citizens of that kingdom, espousing its values, we will see little change in their outward lives. So evangelism is extremely important. And prayer must go hand in hand with sharing the good news.