Prayer Room Reflections

Last night, Mikey and another young guy here named Ryan Emery led a special time of worship and meditation to end our weekend of prayer. It was a worshipful, sweet time to be together as a community in the presence of the One who saved us all. I have been so excited to write you all and share what a success the prayer room was.

Our leader here, Jeremy Price, shared that the Lord had been speaking to his heart about prayer for the community and that when I came to him saying that I felt led to facilitate a creative prayer room, it excited him with how much that was in line with that vision from God. It was really humbling to hear that because it was proof that this prayer room had nothing to do with me or my ideas and everything to do with God and His plans for this community.

Here is what SUCCESS looked like this weekend: -believers were refreshed after coming out of the room, having spent time quietly before God -there is new and renewed excitement about prayer
-ideas about prayer and about how to interact with our God were stretched and grown! -believers were moved to pray for each other and to pray boldly for the work being done here -the Body of Christ (here in SA and people all across the states, from Connecticut to Hawaii) came together as ONE to worship for a whole weekend!
-some of the volunteers and youth from the communities we serve came to join in prayer

Even though we had an intruder late Saturday night and had to shut the room down from 1am-5am for security reasons, God gave me a real peace that it wasn't necessarily about praying every moment from Friday to Sunday, but was about some bigger and more important things.

AND NOW...for pictures :)

Finding a good location is sometimes hard. We were able to use the office area here on base. Here's what it looked like before-hand. I went shopping almost all day Thursday to gather some needed supplies and laid it all out on the table to survey my tools :).

With the help of a few others on base, we were able to transform it in a few short hours to a quiet space with lots of ambiance!

Creativity bloomed! It was really cool to see people's creative expression offered to the Lord as prayer. Even going through the room and reading or seeing what others had done was very worshipful and encouraging.

Taking down everything was very hard, but I am pleased to say that I believe the Lord used it to have lasting impact on His community of believers here at University Village. Thank you for your prayers that were behind this event. I hope you are as encouraged in reading this report as I am in giving it!

Blessings,
Laura