Author: bbyrd

Praise God for bringing participants to Jonathan Training, which is currently happening on the campus of Team Expansion. Pray for those participants learning how to make disciples who will make disciples and thereby see church planting and disciple making movements abound.

Give thanks for facilitators and coaches in Jonathan Training who invest in the lives of participants, who model the fruitful practices in making disciples not only in class but also in their own lives. Ask God to pour out His Spirit upon them and fill them up as they give themselves in teaching simple disciple making principles.

Another session of Jonathan Training is taking place January 29-February 2 at Emerald Hill, Team Expansion’s Prayer, Training, and Retreat Center.. Praise God for this fruitful church planting training aimed at multiplying disciples who make disciples and equipping them to plant simple churches that plant churches. Thank God for the Christians who participate and for their strong faith and courage to immediately put into practice what they learn.

Another session of Jonathan Training is taking place January 29-February 2 at Emerald Hill, Team Expansion’s Prayer, Training, and Retreat Center.. Praise God for this fruitful church planting training aimed at multiplying disciples who make disciples and equipping them to plant simple churches that plant churches. Thank God for the Christians who participate and for their strong faith and courage to immediately put into practice what they learn.

One of Team Expansion’s key result areas is to train and coach in fruitful practices for life and ministry. Pray that every Team Expansion worker will be not only a hearer of God’s Word but also a doer, practicing Jesus’ teachings, no longer quenching the Holy Spirit. Ask God to cause action in opportunity and readiness that involves praising and worshiping God with a pure heart.

John Wesley penned this covenant prayer with God. “I am no longer my own but Yours. Put me to what you will, rank me with whom you will; put me to doing, put me to suffering; let me be employed for You, or laid aside for You, exalted for You, or brought low for You; let me be full, let me be empty, let me have all things, let me have nothing: I freely and wholeheartedly yield all things to your pleasure and disposal. And now, glorious and blessed God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, You are mine and I am Yours. So be it.” Join Team Expansion in praising God as Covenant keeper and that we may turn over to Him everything in 2018.

Give thanks to the Father for the promise and hope of this New Year and the expectancy and faith it brings. Pray that translation projects are furthered, that social media propels seekers toward a relationship with Jesus and His church, that Bible apps are developed and implemented to draw people to God and His Word, and that many new harvest workers are thrust into His harvest fields bringing hope and peace to those who have not heard Christ’s message before.

Give thanks to God for His goodness and mercy this past year – far beyond what we have deserved. Pray that we never forget His goodness and mercy. Instead may this lead us to repentance and to a new commitment to make JESUS the foundation and center of our lives this new year.

Making disciples is much more serious than just making church members, and it is what God has called us to do. Pray that churches would equip, train and send out disciples as Jesus did.
Pray that new partnering churches would emerge and for cohesion to mobilize mission force.

Praise God for the amazing impact that Team Expansion and her partners have had in 2017! Ask God to direct us as we seek to further His Kingdom in 2018. Pray for divine appointments to connect with new partners to be more effective in making disciples of all nations.