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Please pray for security for Emerald Hills. An intruder has abused the property on at least a couple of occasions. As a result, we’re having to construct a fence around Emerald Hills. (It’s even a culturally-relevant Kentucky horse fence .) Today the gate is scheduled to be put in place.  Pray for safety as volunteers complete work on the fence and install the gate.  Pray that the fence and gate will restore security and peace to the property. At the same time, please pray for security for our 291 workers worldwide. Ask God to guard them in all 36 nations where they’re serving.
Continue reading “2006-02-13: Pray for Security for Emerald Hills/Missionaries”

There are lots of projects yet to be completed at Emerald Hills!  Funds are needed for all of them.  Pray that churches, groups, and individuals will take responsibility for funding specific projects.
Continue reading “2006-02-12: Pray for funds for specific projects”

Volunteers are the workforce at Emerald Hills!  Thank God for men like Bob, Kurtis, and Rusty who come out every Tuesday from South Louisville and Southern Baptist Seminary to give of their time and talents to the work at hand.  Thank God for Board Members like Dwayne who include physical labor in their services for Emerald Hills.  Thank God for the young, energetic MobSquad who put zest into their labors.  Thank God for the International Services people like Julie, Emily, and Bob who tear themselves away from the office (or give of their days off) to assist in the tasks waiting to be done.  Thank God for churches like Fern Creek and Indian Creek who send out their members in forces to work on the vision.  Thank God for Aaron who keeps all these volunteers organized.
Continue reading “2006-02-11: Thank God for all kinds of volunteers.”

This morning, seven trainees (Greg, Heather, Russell, Shannon, Cerena, Chris, and Matt) are wrapping up their training through Candidate Lab.  Their last session, scheduled at eleven this morning, is called "What Now?"  What a question!  Only God knows the full answer to that one.

Pray for these seven young people as they leave the Hopewell Road office today.  Pray for wisdom, guidance, continued preparation, prayer support, financial support, vision, stamina, strength, endurance, protection, and faithfulness.

Pray for future trainees as well. Pray for an optimal site in which to train them — a place where there is room for learning, praying, storytelling, and worship. Pray for the completion of the World Harvest Center at Emerald Hills.

Continue reading “2006-02-10: Pray for Trainees”

"Dearest Father,

You are the Lord of the Harvest and the Lord of the Harvest workers! 

Which reminds me. . . As  long as these seven beautiful missionary candidates are engaged in training (and, yes, they are at it again today!) at the International Services office, there is no way I can forget to lift up their preparations for their fields of service.  There is also no way I can forget about the many more candidates that You are raising up to reached the unreached.  Halleleujah! 

That brings me back to the request that has been lifted up to You for several days now — the World Harvest Center.  Father, I just see these Candidate Labs getting bigger and bigger and bigger.  There is an urgency for the Gospel to be preached in the farthest parts of the world.  People are responding to this task. I think, dear God, that we are going to need alot more space for training in the very, very, very near future.  In fact, we could use that space RIGHT NOW!

So again, Father, I am asking You to provide the funds, the volunteers, the wisdom, the guidance, and everything else that is needed to get this center built.

In the Name of Jesus

Amen."

 

 

Continue reading “2006-02-09: Lift up the World Harvest Center again and again and again and again…….”

"Lord God Almighty,

You are Holy, Holy, Holy!!!  You are Totally Amazing.  You are Wonderful.  You are the Master, our Master, our Lord and Master.  You are the Great Teacher and the Great Physician, the Great Shepherd and the Bishop and Shepherd of our souls. All glory belongs to You.

Yesterday was so impacting, so powerful.  Thank You for allowing me to be a part of Candidate Lab.  Thank You for allowing me to sit with seven missionary candidates and discuss with them prayer team development as part of their training before they depart for their mission fields.  Thank You for Heather, Greg, Matt, Chris, Cerena, Russell, and Shannon.  Prepare them for the fields to which they are headed, and prepare the fields for their coming.

This is what the World Harvest Center is about — training missionaries so that they can reach the unreached.  I know, Father, that You are raising up more workers like these seven.  Please raise up an adequate, even an optimal, place to train them as well. Build the World Harvest Center through Your people.

In the Name of Jesus,

Amen." 

 

 

Continue reading “2006-02-08: Pray again for the World Harvest Center!”

Seeing eight missionary candidates gathered yesterday in the International Services office to engage in vital training for their work in various fields was a reminder of what an asset the World Harvest Center at Emerald Hills will be in the area of education.  Team Expansion is currently training candidates in a very small space!  The candidate labs are growing larger and larger all the time.  Pray that ground for the World Harvest Center might be broken soon.  Pray for the center’s completion by the end of this year.  God can do amazing things!!
Continue reading “2006-02-07: Pray for the World Harvest Center.”

Pray that Brigada Today, a weekly e-mail journal for missions networking, will continue to impact the world for the cause of the Great Commission.  Brigada is another entity that will be housed in the World Harvest Center at Emerald Hills.  Continue to petition God for all that is needed to see this center completed.
Continue reading “2006-02-06: Pray for the impact of Brigada.”

"Thank You, God, for CrossRoads Missions and the vital work they are doing for your Kingdom and for humanity.  Thank You for the tremendous work they have done in recent months with relief efforts for hurricane victims.  Thank You for their partnership with Team Expansion.  Father, it is good to share our office space with them at International Services.  We are looking forward to sharing space with them at Emerald Hills as well.  Thank You for providing funds through them to complete the recent projects at the Freedom Barn — the tool crib and the commercial storage area.  Bless the continuing partnership between Team Expansion and CrossRoads Missions for Your glory.

In the Name of Jesus,

Amen."

Continue reading “2006-02-06: Thank God for CrossRoads Missions.”

"Dear Father,

Today Candidate Lab is being conducted at the International Services office on Hopewell Road.  Eight new missionary candidates are gathering in our already jam-packed office spaces to be trained in areas that are vital to their work.  At least it’s going to be cozy!  But it also makes us think about those 61 acres of land at Emerald Hills dedicated to the purposes of training and educating workers for the Harvest.  We look forward to the day when Candidate Lab can be conducted in an optimal setting like the one being planned at Emerald Hills.  We just ask, Father, that You will provide the funds, the volunteers, the stamina, the perseverance, and whatever else it takes to make the dream of the World Harvest Center a reality.

In the Name of Jesus,

Amen."

Continue reading “2006-02-06: Pray for a training center at Emerald Hills.”