I hope you noticed the announcement about a 24-hour prayer vigil to be held October 15 and 16. Our capital campaign for the final phase of our construction has been the initial reason for this prayer time. But as we planned this vigil, we realized that our prayers need to be for the whole life of the church and for all the particular needs of our lives and of our world. My hope is that this will become an annual event for us every fall as we begin our program year. And I hope you will not only fill out your prayer requests but also sign up to join us for any one of those hours of prayer.
Prayer is the engine of the church's life and ministry.
I remember Bob Munger telling how he wanted his church to be a praying church. He urged them to pray time and again and it always seemed to produce little. Then he learned that if he held up the mission of the church, the people knew they had to pray and they became more of a praying church. The Christian life is missional by nature and when we see the challenge of mission, we will be driven to pray. That is when God adds the bass and the treble to our melody in such a way that we produce a mesmerizing song of witness to the world.