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The Leadership Team for the College of Prayer International have announced a 5-year vision for the ministry. This vision was birthed out of a 4 day online prayer gathering for the Leadership Team that took place in May. The 5 points of this 5-year vision include:
The Leadership Team of the College of Prayer International has announced a new ministry initiative targeted towards Christian families called "HOPE - Houses of Prayer Everywhere." HOPE is dedicated to helping lead families to a life-giving, hope-filled relationship of intimacy with Christ through prayer. Our desire is to provide families with tools to build a house of prayer in their homes and ultimately anywhere God gives them influence. We provide video, audio, and print resources as well as live events (both online and onsite).
Just as Jesus said, "My house will be a house of prayer..." (Luke 11:46) our vision is for every Christian home on earth to become an intentional house of prayer. That is, a consistent gathering of praying Christians who encounter the manifest presence of Christ. Anywhere. Anytime. Anyone. We all thrive when we consistently encounter Christ in meaningful prayer and worship. Join with us as we make a declaration that our families will be marked with the necessity and urgency of building a Christ-encountering house of prayer, beginning with our own families. God's people are re-awakening to the life-giving, hope-filled, Christ-encountering house of prayer. Just as Jesus woke His disciples up to the significance of the house of prayer during His earthly ministry, He is again waking up His disciples throughout the earth to build HOPE. For more information please visit www.housesofprayer.info. These are challenging days for all of us. The College of Prayer International has had to postpone all of our travel and Modules we had scheduled for the U.S. and around the world. In light of these circumstances, we see God covering the world with a wave of prayer. We are not sitting by watching this happen, we are jumping into the flow!
Please visit the special web page we have designed with excellent resources available to provide hope in this crisis. In addition, we invite you to join us every morning at 9 AM EST for Revival Now, a time of activation through the Word of God and prayer. Please reach out to us if there are any specific ways we can be praying for you at this time. The following report is from Rev. Jimbo Hull who helps coordinate the College of Prayer in Uruguay. In March we have seen Kingdom advancement across Uruguay. The week before everything shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic, leaders and members from six churches gathered in Tranqueras for the beginning of the third year of the College of Prayer in Uruguay. Our friends Jon Mitchell and Hiram Sostre came and facilitated the weekend Module and were greatly used by God. There was never so much anticipation going into the weekend. The week before the Module, we received many messages of people telling us of their excitement about what was coming. Their previous engagements had whet their appetite, and they didn't know exactly what was coming, but they knew Jesus' presence would be manifested. God met His people in deep and powerful ways during those two days. One impactful moment was a breakthrough lament. Nationwide, Uruguayans experience deep depression and discouragement, high suicide and divorce rates, shattered families, and deep emotional wounds, often with no place to honestly grieve. Timbrel and I recognized the lament immediately and discerned it as the group began to release their tears. It was gurgling out of people's souls as they wept for their country. It was beautiful, and as people processed, they were able to give their laments to God. There were high moments of worship, anointed teaching, deep repentance, and the people left empowered to reach a lost world through what is becoming a revived church.
The following report is from Rev. Fred Hartley, IV, Church Relations Director for the College of Prayer International.
This last month we have launched two new College of Prayer Hub Campuses in the northeast and northwest of India. These Campuses will serve to mentor, train, and equip pastors and church leaders who will launch and lead their own Campuses in their regions. The first training was held in the state of Gujarat. This is also home to one of the largest unreached people groups on earth, the Gujarati, numbering almost 45 million people. There were 85 pastors with us. Several came worn out from ministry. During our time together in the presence of God, we could see their burdens lift and the love of Christ filled their hearts. One pastor, who was there with his family reported on the last day that our time together saved his ministry. The power of forgiveness lesson brought freedom of bitterness he held against many people. We started high and kept going higher over our three days together. The second training was in Bihar, which is a state in the northeast of India. This area is known for being a place of heavy persecution towards Christians. We had roughly 100 who participated in our training. Many of them told us stories of how they have endured persecution. This training started slow, many pastors traveled through the night to attend, so they were tired. We sought Christ together and breakthrough came with the lesson on Receiving the Father’s Love. There was one woman who shared that she was healed of terrible migraines. For the first day and a half she struggled, but following one of the teachings, Christ set her free and she was healed. There were many who testified to being renewed and transformed by Christ during our time together. We finished this training with a significant time of prayer asking Christ for the nations. God is moving in India. Even despite the opposition to the gospel, Christ is building His church, a praying church. We learned from our National Director of India that there are now 18,000 Campuses of the College of Prayer, and we are now training roughly 600,000 church leaders. Each of the pastors and leaders we trained are anticipating launching their own Campuses in the next 3-6 months. To God be the glory! The following report was submitted by Rev. Willy Muyabwa, Regional Director for Central and East Africa.
In partnership with Pastor Dale Rintelman in Bukavu, then with Pastor Joel Kangas and his team in Kinshasa and Lubumbashi, God has rapidly extended His Kingdom through the College of Prayer International. We have successfully launched new Hub Campuses in Bukavu, DRC (July 11-13), Kinshasa, DRC (August 7-9), and in Lubumbashi, DRC (August 12-14). We trained and equipped 116 leaders in Bukavu, 260 leaders in Kinshasa and 160 leaders in Lubumbashi. Both the attendance and the results were beyond our expectations! In all those places, I was amazed to see how God connected my heart to the hearts of the College of Prayer leaders from America as we were ministering in His Presence. Only God can do that and make such a great impact! Church leaders throughout DRC signed the Upper Room Manifesto and filled the Pioneer Proposal to plant new College of Prayer Campuses. In Bukavu, leaders committed themselves to plant 118 Campuses this year and 319 Campuses in the next five years. In Kinshasa, leaders committed themselves to plant 186 Campuses this year and 301 Campuses in the next five years. In Lubumbashi, leaders committed themselves to plant 82 Campuses this year and 223 Campuses in the next five years. So far, I have received good news of 17 new Campuses planted recently as the result of our training and mentorship! The following report is from Rev. Jimbo Hull who helped lead a recent Module at the College of Prayer Campus in Tranqueras, Uruguay.
It’s hard for me to put into words what we experienced this weekend as our hearts were knitted closer to God’s heart and to the hearts of the 140 who gathered in Tranqueras, Uruguay. There were pastors, church leaders, and families from 5 churches present. We arrived Friday evening and we started the second Module of Year 2, "Lord, As Families, Teach Us to Pray!" Friday evening, after soaking the environment in praise and worship, Pastor Antenor who arrived Thursday from Peru, Timbrel (my wife), and I all tag-teamed in the teaching and times of facilitating ministering to the Lord and allowing Him to minister to all of us. Timbrel felt the heart cry of the room, like a bubble trying to get to the surface, which was expressing the deep hunger that was deep inside each person. She called forward those who were hungry for God, and asked them to declare their hunger to Him. People started pouring out their hearts to God and deep prayers of hunger and desperation flowed along with many tears. We continued and taught through some of the lessons and saw God bring breakthrough in many lives. It was a beautiful evening, but yet I felt there was more, like we were missing something. As I wrestled with the Lord Friday evening afterwards, I heard His sweet voice say, “They’re crying out in hunger, give them the Bread of Life.” I remembered that all prayer starts with receiving the love of God and recognizing that the relationship we have with God through Christ is a relationship of Father and son. God wanted to love on His kids and satisfy their hunger. Saturday morning I was so full of anticipation as I knew something powerful was about to take place. We again worshipped and soaked the environment with praise. I called everyone who had clamored their hunger to come and receive the Bread of Life and something beautiful began to take place. It’s hard to describe, but the best I can describe it is that God began pouring His love over us heavily. Everyone in the room soaked in the love of the Father for over an hour. We did nothing else in that hour as God mightily loved on His kids. Everyone in the room was changed. Wow - talk about changing the way the rest of the day went. Every teaching, every worship song, every time of ministering to the Lord and allowing Him to minister to us was so full of trust and confidence. We knew we had our Father’s love and acceptance and we let Him do whatever He wanted to do in us as we went through the rest of the day. Many found freedom and hope and we dedicated ourselves to the hard work of building upper rooms of prayer in our homes. Everyone present was marked by this weekend and we all know it. What happened Saturday morning was life-changing. We ended that special time by pouring out oil as an offering of praise and declaring what God did as Holy to the Lord! I was so thankful for Pastor Antenor. His tender heart and his gift of teaching was used mightily by our God. Seeing God connect the hearts of these two countries (Peru and Uruguay) was powerful. He left this morning, as he put it, more blessed than anyone else who was there. Thank you for praying. Thank you for holding the ropes for your brothers and sisters in Uruguay. The Kingdom is advancing! The best is yet to come as families begin building upper rooms of prayer in their homes. Pray for us as the enemy is about to lose even more ground. The following report is from Rev. Fred Hartley, IV, Church Relations Director for the College of Prayer International.
This past June I traveled to Kenya to assist Rev. Willy Muyabwa (Regional Director for Central & East Africa) in the launch of a College of Prayer Hub Campus in Eldoret, Kenya. Two pastors from Kenya, Matthew and Joel, attended our annual iGNITE Conference in Atlanta last February and left with a vision to bring the College of Prayer to their nation. They gathered key influential pastors throughout Kenya for the launch. We were expecting 65 pastors to attend and we had well over 100. There were pastors representing every county in Kenya. In addition, three pastors from Uganda came and another pastor traveled two days by bus from Tanzania. God moved in our time together, transforming the hearts of pastors, taking them deeper in their prayer lives and empowering them to go back and launch Regional and Local Church Campuses in their towns. The Pioneer Proposals indicate that there will be 133 Campuses launched this next year, by the grace of God. I was able to teach four lessons and facilitate several prayer times. I am receiving emails from pastors who were in attendance with reports of all that Christ did, and is continuing to do, in their lives. These are exciting days for Kenya and I’m humbled and thankful to be a part of it. The following report is from Rev. Fred Hartley, III after his recent trip to Senegal. Images are altered to protect identities.
Last week I had the privilege of serving alongside Pastor Gabriel S., our Regional Director for West & North Africa. I was part of a small team that included Bill Hyer and Suno Justus, and we were there to serve North African believers. We helped Pastor Gabriel facilitate a two day College of Prayer Module at his Regional Campus, teaching our Year 2 curriculum “Lord, as Families, Teach us to Pray.” Immediately following that, we helped Pastor Gabriel facilitate 2 days of establishing his Hub Campus (which mentors College of Prayer Campus leaders). God came at both gatherings. Allow me to share a few short stories. 1. One man who had come to Christ from another religious background a year ago, had been rejected by his wife and son. The man continued to love his wife and son, remain loyal to them, and send the majority of his limited income to help with their support. After much prayer, his wife responded to the love of Christ as demonstrated through her husband. After the first night of our meeting, she repented, asked his forgiveness, and professed faith in Jesus. Praise the Lord! 2. The foundational teaching of our Year 2 curriculum challenged the cultural standards and led the group in repentance. Husbands repented of treating their wives as less-than-human, and women seemed to blossom like flowers before our eyes. It was transformational and historic. 3. Perhaps the highlight of the entire trip were reports that were shared from virtually every country represented. Over the past 2 years, we have trained most of these same leaders to go home and establish upper rooms of prayer where they would receive the manifest presence of Christ and minister to His presence. Virtually every leader gave dramatic reports that since they began their upper room, God has radically changed the spiritual atmosphere in their region. Now, there are people coming to faith in Christ from the dominant religion in virtually every country and every region within the country where upper rooms have been built. 4. Many shared painful experiences of being persecuted for their faith. At the same time, they shared dramatic miracles of God’s intervention.
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