1. Welcome to PRAY 10 / 11 / 12
November 10th 2012
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2. A changing world, a growing
Church, a developing response.
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3. Prayer for the World
• Some good news:
An unprecedented harvest of new believers
An astonishing shift of Christianity’s centre
of gravity
The strength and growth of the Church in
lands where persecution has occurred or
continues!
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4. Prayer for the World
• Social trends to watch:
1. Globalisation of politics and economics
2. International terrorism remains and
continues to shape travel, trade, diplomacy
and domestic policy in many countries.
3. The power of international crime empires
4. Human trafficking is more common than
the trafficking of drugs and firearms in 2012.
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5. Prayer for the world
• Demographic trends to watch:
1. Rapid growth of the human population
and rising life expectancy in many
countries.
2. Urbanisation
3. International migration
4. The treatment of women
5. Language extinction
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General announcementsOverview the dayExpectations?Introduce time of worship
Explain that these three phrases make up the three focus points for the whole day.
Use companion notes and scanned copy of page 6 – 10 of the latest Operation World prayer book…we will make these into prayer requests the week before but they give a good overview of the way God is moving in the world. See memory stick or email.You could add a few “good news” or praise pointers about the way God has moved the work of the Bible translation movement forward too. We will work on specific prayer points early in the week preceding Pray 10 /11 /12.
Prayer pointers to follow
Around the world many people are worried or down right depressed about a whole lot of things. From pensions and the economy in the West to education poverty and desertification in the Developing World.