Prayer, Retreat and Learning Center
It's another busy day at Emerald Hills today! Pray for strong backs for the crew who is uncovering carpet, padding, and display items in the Freedom Barn this morning and loading it all into a rental truck to deliver to the Kentucky Convention Center to set up Team Expansion's six space booth at the North American Christian Convention.
Praise God for the WONDERFUL banquet and ooncert at Emerald Hills last night. Thank Him for the approximately 100 people who attended, including 30 adult missionaries and30 MKs who are attending Homecoming, a four-day event for furloughing Team Expansion workers with the purpose of renewing, refreshing, relaxing, recasting, and rediscovering. God was praised and glorified during the concert, prayer and praise time, food and fellowship. May praise to God forever resound from Emerald Hills.
Continue reading “2009-06-28: Resounding Praises.”
Team Expansion workers who are attending Homecoming (a four-day event for missonaries on home service) will be gathering, Lord willing, at Emerald Hills tonight for a banquet and a concert. Pray that the missionaries who attend will feel like they are coming home. Ask God for a relaxed and enjoyable evening for each of them.
Continue reading “2009-06-27: Homecoming Banquet and Concert.”
Praise God for the Freedom Barn which serves as housing for short-term work groups and for storage for equipment and materials for Team Expanson. The Flip-Flop girls from Missouri used the barn to sleep last night when they arrived to help with Team Expansion's Homecoming.
Pray for those who are in the planning and fund-raising stages of hopefully framing walls within the barn to provided bunkhouse style housing. Right now, short-term guests sleep on air mattresses on the floor.
Pray for the staff at International Services to be diligent in prayer and intercession for the nations, for harvest workers, for new projects and partnerships, and for the organization to be used for God's glory. Ask God to protect the hours between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. so that each staff member can be totally devoted and engaged in the concert of prayer at Emerald Hills today.
Pray that the staff at International Services will be protected from fatigue, pressing deadlines, distractions, or anything else that might deter them from keeping their date with God on the designated day (June 25) for prayer and fasting at Emerald Hills.
Ask God to prepare the hearts of Internaqtional Services staff so that we might be ready to participate fully in the concert of prayer and Day of Prayer and Fasting at Emerald Hills on Thursday.
Continue reading “2009-06-23: Day of Prayer and Fasting.”
Thanks for praying for a good weekend at Emerald Hills, for good weather, and for Tara as she lead the group that was retreating. Praise God as you read the message she got this morning:
Hey Team,
Just wanted to pass on this short segment from an email I received this morning from the leader of the group in Indianapolis that was here over the weekend. As I said this morning…Lord willing some of these high school kids might someday do more long term work with us!
Tara,
I do not know what format you might use to report in staff meeting how
Team Expansion's first "official" ropes course weekend went, but it might be
worthwhile to relay to them that we had several of our kids ask if we
could stay another night!
Ask God that Emerald Hills might be the perfect place to adore our God, the Father of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Continue reading “2009-06-21: Adore the Father.”
Praise God for making Emerald Hills such a wonderful place to pray, retreat, and learn. Thank Him for the short-term missions group who is making use of the facilities today to retreat before their trip to Poland. Pray for good weather so that all of the outdoor team-building exercises can be completed. Ask God to protect each member of the group and to give wisdom to Tara, who is heading up about 4 hours of these team-building activities.
Continue reading “2009-06-20: Retreat.”