First and foremost, it involves intimate and direct connection between Christians in the United States and elsewhere. Bank accounts cannot be reconciled without comparing the records side by side. People cannot be reconciled while facing away from each other. This prayer cycle is now included in the Whole People of God curriculum materials, and is growing in use in US churches. Each week, during our prayer time in Sunday worship, a sentence or two is given about the church in the country or countries listed.
Mutual prayer has power beyond rationality.
Our world is shrinking in the face of technological growth. The internet has proven that sovereign national boundaries are becoming less important and more meaningless as barriers to communication and information. Exchange and partnership . By bringing people together in whatever encounters are possible. But, I sense that the Presbytery's greater need is the conversion of the Christians in the US to a true sense of solidarity, mutuality, and reconciliation.