I´m organizing a 24-7 prayer camp at the Mount of Oaks...
we don´t have a room to pray , but we will have a nice place in one of our little forests...
Anne, Oona, Whitney, Lopes, Silvia and Joel are some of those who have been helping to make the forest a nice cozy place for us to meet God around the clock for one week...
It will happen from the 22 to the 29th, this month...well, next week...from wednesday to wednesday...
we'll have a shelter for corporate times of singing and praying and we'll have some discussion groups under some trees about prayer...
I know it's a bit last minute, but I haven't been having much time to organize things, and it doesn't take much to prepare a place to pray, especially if we have a forest already ...
we just need to provide a shelter in case it rains and to have some art material to encourage creativity...
People will come prepared to camp and seek God...I would like to serve the village in different ways, like visiting some old people at the day centre or at their homes... we might make a party for the young people in the "Club", but we'll see how things go, after asking what their needs are.
If you have availability, come!
If you don´t, join us in prayer !
I feel we'll not be too many, but it's just a first step to dedicate this place to prayer and connecting with The Divine... that's what I felt God was saying when we were about to buy this land... I'm not totally sure of what God meant by that, but I do feel God desires to meet people here...and God wants to lead people here to pray ... It´s always hard work to try to discern what is God´s "voice" and what is ours, but when it comes from different directions and passes the test of time, we get assured that it was God´s idea... That´s how I see it.
That´s why it is so risky when people read the Bible as if it´s "God´s inerrant word"... Sacred text are nothing but humans trying to discern what God is trying to say at a given time, to a given generation...
- Teach us God ! Wake up this generation to pray and listen to You Great Spirit !
7 comments:
Ok my deras ,
cool to see that so many things are going on there.
You shall be blessed.. and do not forget the tea
greetings too anne "die straffe Frau" :)
danica
Hey Baba
thinking of you and praying for you ...
Debora
Hey Baba! I arrived safely into Lisbon yesterday with no troubles :-)
Thanks again for the time I was there and for walking me to the train station!
I already miss you guys and the land :-( Wish I could've stayed longer....Oh well, next time.
Say hi to Anne and the girls for me.
Love,
Whitney
Thinking of you all as you pray. How cool it will be to have a prayer week in the forest! Do you have lanterns for the night?
we don't have lanterns...we ll use safety candles..be praying that no kind of accident happen...
Barbara,
You are amazing!! Your life show us Jesus. I think more and more things will happen with you and through your life. bless you :) Lu
ba, i love you sooo much. i think you know that. i dont read this blog enough, but when i do I feel the love and handprint of the father all over it, all over the land, and all over you! i cannot wait to see you, counting the days, today its only 30 days! yum yum!
its raining as always, but im sunny inside.
emx
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