YWAM’s largest-ever event
Last week Youth with a Mission hosted its largest event ever in its fifty-year history, in Kansas City. YWAM joined with International Houses of Prayer (IHOP), and they shared and encouraged each other, exploring what God is doing in nine spheres of society (family, economics, government, religion, education, media, and arts, entertainment, and sports). They also discussed subjects crucial to missions and prayer. IHOP’s 24/7 prayer room is divided into twelve worship-based prayer meetings a day, each lasting two hours.
Ground Zero message of forgiveness
As the US marked the 15th anniversary of 9/11 last Sunday, a YouTube video was released of a Bible recovered at Ground Zero after the terrorist attacks. The Bible had a particular message to convey. Joel Meyerowitz spent nine months at Ground Zero taking photos in the aftermath of 9/11. A firefighter working there gave him pages from a Bible welded to a piece of steel. Meyerowitz marvelled that the Bible was preserved intact, and even more that it was turned to a passage from Matthew 5:38-39 (KJV) which says, ‘Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: but I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.’ Meyerowitz said, ‘Of all the pages in the Bible that it could be opened at, that was remarkable.’
Trumpet Call
Ian Cole writes, ‘You will agree that we are living in a time when extraordinary things are happening at local, national and international levels on a daily basis. The same can be said for the Global Church worldwide. Day by day we are receiving reports of extraordinary moves of God, often in the most desperately needy places on earth. On 15 October, at Trumpet Call - National Day of Prayer - we are joining with church, prayer and mission partners to pray and declare that 2016/17 is going to see the beginnings of extraordinary moves of God across our nations. We shall worship, pray and declare that in villages, towns and cities, as we live in unity and speak out the Good News of Jesus, He will come in His wonderful grace and mercy and transform lives, heal broken hearts and bodies, restore families and bring freedom for the oppressed. In other words an extraordinary break-out of God’s Kingdom where we live! We look forward to seeing you on the day.’
Reuniting refugee children with families
Following Lord Roberts’ recent question to the Government about ‘what plans they have to speed up the reuniting of refugee children in the camps of Calais and Dunkirk with their families in the United Kingdom’, the Archbishop of Canterbury commented:‘The question has been extremely specifically put, about children who have families in this country; this is not about all unaccompanied children.’ He also said, ‘We are still having continual reports of delays for really quite young children who are not being brought across. Does the Minister not agree that where children - particularly young ones - have families in this country, there is no reason why they should not be brought across within the day?’
