Big Announcement: One Prayer
Craig has a burning vision to unite churches together. Today I’m very excited because it’s turned into an amazing concept that I believe will impact the Church in a big way.
Craig has put together a video to talk about it. Please watch it.
For more information, visit this webpage or email Lance Young with questions.
If you are interested in submitting a teaching video for others to use, watch this short instructional video message from Craig.
We’ll be providing extensive details on this next week, but I wanted to give you guys the heads up.
We have a long and growing list of churches and teachers that have already committed to take part in this series which we’ll share soon. We’ll also let you know how you can involve your church.
Much more soon!
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This is a really, really big deal! Thanks for your kingdom mindedness……
I am looking forward to seeing what God is going to do through “One Prayer,” as His Church unites!
I cannot wait for this! I get goose bumps thinking about what could happen when we unite under ONE name…
Thank you for always putting Jesus ahead of Lifechurch.tv!
WOW! This is off the hook. This will have an amazing impact!
Very cool.
Hi Bobby/Craig
I am not sure that we will participate (as we are in Australia and not all American speakers relate well to Aussies).
But can I just say this is awesome. Thank you so much for modelling generosity and a kingdom mindset better than any other church I have heard of.
Your blog and leadership have such a tremendous impact on all of us.
I’m really excited about the heart that an idea like this embodies. I can’t wait to see how many churches and leaders get involved!
What a brilliant idea. Thank you for the courage to allow us to be blessed by God like this.
I’m in.
That is an unbelievably great idea! Love it.
I/we would love to participate, but that timing won’t work for us. I wonder if there is a way to do the series (same premise) later in the summer or if the messages will tie in to the date, etc.
Otherwise… keep us posted if you every do something like this again… we’d be in!
Ben
Bobby, this is phenomenal! I love how LC leads out in so many creative ways for the Kingdom.
I look forward to this…
Mark, We’ll have some Australian churches join us. You could take their teaching.
Steve, I’m pumped your church will be a part! That’s awesome!
Awesome idea!
Awesome stuff guys. Really love the concept of the Church of Jesus unifying together and pulling such amazing resources and teaching together. Looking forward to seeing this pan out.
This is really exciting - what a great way to invigorate churches during the summertime! It will be fascinating to watch this all come together.
Mark,
You’ll also be able to contribute a message if you’d like or persuade some other pastors in australia to do the same.
I was just in London and there are several pastor there who are interested in participating. I believe that we will be able to have a diverse set of global voices to choose from.
I’m in Rwanda right now and just yesterday witnessed 700 churches working together in a huge stadium event. What God does when we start being “The Church” instead of individual churches is amazing. I’m so looking forward to continue to work with all of you.
Ben,
I missed your comment. Stay tuned for more info…I think we will have some options to address your situation.
I’m in … where do we get connected?
FreedbyJC,
Just stay tuned to swerve. The team is working on a site that will give more details and also have a way for you to sign-up. We’ll announce when we launch the site here on swerve.
Another way for the church to come together as one body. This is wonderful and it’s how we should be unified as the church in our world!
June is going to be absolutely amazing! I think this is the greatest idea ever!!
I just passed this on, I hope we do this! Thank you guys for an awesome idea
What a great idea. Unity. Very cool.
this is great guys…i love it…i will definitely be forwarding this idea to my pastor…mike.
I think this is a great idea… I noticed he didn’t mention my name though…
Seriously though, great idea!
Big Announcement: One Prayer at LifeChurch.tv : swerve…
What a great idea for uniting churches and resources together! I can’t wait to watch this happen….
Sweet! I hope all the messages will be made available in a video iPod format, as well, not just DVD, since that’s where I watch pretty much everything now.
This is awesome! Will you be making material available so we can communicate professionally and effectively to other churches in my community to get them involved? This is exactly what we need here.
Jim,
We will have a website up where you can point people that will have all of the information for churches. I’m not sure if the team is planning anything that is printed at this point.
Tim,
You guys watch the message at your church on video ipods?..that’s great
We have not nailed down all of the formats yet, but that will be talked about on the site.
FreedbyJC, I am pumped your church will be a part!
Larry, Does that mean you’re in?
i cannot wait to see what god does through this!
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Everybody down here at New Life Church is excited to be a part of this. We just talked about in staff meeting and can’t wait to get rolling.
This is awesome! I cannot wait to see how God is going to answer our prayers! Thank you, Craig, for your leadership!
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Thanks Bobby
Actually, as some of us were praying about it this morning, we’ve decided to re-work our Preaching Calendar to make it possible to be a part of this in June.
Sometimes you simply hear the right idea and you need to get on board… this was one of those times. Thanks for your leadership and vision!
So count us at St. Paul’s Collegiate Church (Storrs, CT) in!
Ben
Neil, Welcome to New Life! Tell your staff we are excited to partner with them!
Jim, Thanks for praying with us!
Ben, Can’t wait to see what God does through St. Paul’s Collegiate Church!
Craig, I am so excited about this opportunity. Count us in. We had plans but NOW they are changed. I have always dreamed of churches from ALL over the world pulling together.
Chris
This is INCREDIBLE. I am stoked when I see the body of Christ uniting like this. You LifeChurch guys model the Kingdom mindset so well.
I’ve done a little of this before, where I worked with other pastors to create a teaching series for all our churches and share resources, doing the series simultaneously but you have taken it a step further by having the pastors share their vid teachings with your congregations. I love it!
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Chris,
Glad you will be join us. It’s going to be great.
Terrace, Thanks so much!
Chris, Thanks for changing your plans to be a part! I believe the time will be powerful!
We here at Northway in NY are so excited to be a part of this. Thanks for leading the way!
For the church as a whole? That is easy. For God to do what he said he would do for those shepherds who misguide their flocks.
I have goose bumps thinking about the impact that this can have!!!
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Holy Smoke…this is incredible…Churches from all over the world will get involved in this.
We will clear our shedule!
You have two churches in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada on board, Church at the Falls and Mountain Park Church. I have also talked to a couple other guys in the next city over from us. Hopefully we will get several churches together and make a big impact both locally and globally.
Brandon, Awesome. Welcome to the churches in Niagara Falls and Ontario! Praise God!
This is just incredible! We are really pumped about the possibilities of this. Our staff will begin praying with you…We are in BIGTIME here in Moncks Corner, SC
what a priviledge to even be associated with LC and the vision
Count me! I am humbled by the Power of God at work!!!!
Craig Dale - Galt UMC
This is an awesome idea! I’m excited to hear how God uses it
Cal, Thrilled to have radical believers from Moncks Corner partnering with all the churches! Welcome!
Craig, Great to have the UMC jumping in! (That’s my roots!) Praise God for you!
Will also re-work the yearly…We’re in!
We have a new campus in CHINA. Will get them working on this as well and launch it there at our new campus and see if there would be any contributions on their end for teachings.
Kingdom Building, Hell-Smashing…Here we go!
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UNBELIEVABLE! This is amazing. I will do what I can to promote this incredible opportunity to unite together for the cause of Christ!
This idea sounds like one of those extremely annoying alien attempts at effectiveness. It just might work. I’ll be paying close attention. (grin)
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We at LifeChurch.tv are so excited about what God will do with this idea. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard from church goers and many of my friends that are not follows of Christ say “If you church people could just get together on something. Then maybe you can make a difference”. This is our time. What could God do?
I’ll be working with Craig on the video production of his message. We have a team of graphic artist working on art. Our team is so jazzed about this idea. We promise a professional product. We look forward in working with other churches across the world. But most of all answer the question… What if?
I pray that you will join us.
We are stoked about this in South Florida. I will do my best to get my friends to jump in.
this is awesome! God is going to move through this!
Jesse, Thanks for helping get the word out!
Charles, Wow… a new campus in China! Very powerful. Thanks for joining forces!
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I love this idea. What if one idea could unify the church? This might be it. This might be the butterfly that flaps it’s wings on the other side of the world.
Thanks Craig, Bobby, and all the LC crew for this. I’ve dreamed about what John 17 would look like when it’s lived out. I love it and you can definitely count us in.
Wow… can’t wait to see what God is up to. Craig and Bobby, I’m grateful for your leadership!!
This is very exciting. I am pumped to be a part and can’t wait to see what God is going to do.
It’s great to see all you embrace the vision…
For all of you that are “in”…be sure to stay tuned to swerve. The team is working on a website for this series and you’ll want to get all of the details and sign-up on that site when it comes out.
Wow! What a humbling, and incredibly Kingdom minded venture. Craig thanks for your amazingly thoughtful use of your influence. We will be honored to be a part of such a life changing effort and so we at http://www.churchatthewell.org will participate in this epochal event.
Johnathan, Glad you are in! Awesome!
John, Thanks for your desire to participate!
Joseph, Welcome to your whole crew at Church at the Well!
craig/bobby - we are totally in love with this idea here at healing place church - can’t wait to see it all come together. like anne jackson put it, i can’t wait to see what God does through this.
one prayer. great premise. and the thing that’s so cool is that not only do we get to pray that one prayer, we get to know that God will answer, and unlike genie wishes, we don’t run out of prayers we get to pray.
God is so cool for giving y’all this amazing idea to partner like this with so many other churches and communicators in the body of Christ. thanks for sticking your necks out like this. we’re all in.
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Amazing! I am a new young lead pastor in an area where the churches are isolated from one another. There is so much division here. This is so refreshing. This is how the kingdom should function!
wha hoooo - count me in on the behind the scences prayer team! We NEED unity - it’s ALL about HIM!!!!
Criag
We are thrilled, just wanted to throw out some encouragement to you and your staff. How exciting to be ONE under ONE name. To truly unite as ONE for ONE purpose. I know this is just the start, can’t wait to see how God expands it after this!!!! Man I love how HE thinks
Christi
I am so blessed to be part of the ministry at LC. Thanks for your inspiration, vision and most importantly, brutal honesty. I am touched each week by the messages God provides - it’s like HE’s speaking directly to me every Sunday. I cannot wait for this message series - what an AMAZING concept! Getting together with other believers will open a whole world of possibilities. I hope members are allowed to view the messages from other churches as well. I have passed this along to friends in hopes their church family will also get involved. You guys are fulfilling HIS vision; THANK YOU for listening and having the courage to take that leap of faith over and over again! GOD is good!
This is a phenomenal idea - perhaps the greatest opportunity in our lives (so far) to see churches around the world unite as one. I am truly excited to see God work in incredible ways through this series!
Craig, this is great and I am so glad for unity in the churches. Thanks for making us your reason for being a warrior. We love you and your family and are thankful for you all.
Love,
Melisa Appiah
Man, incredible stuff! I’m in on the prayer for all who need it, so please let me know where I can help.
The Prayer of jesus being fullfilled in our day, how cool is that? It’s only a start, but I’m at a loss for words to decribe how I love this and want to do all I can to promote and be a part. The world will know Jesus was and is here if we continue what you start with this. I pray for God’s grace to reach farther than anything we do or say, through all this.
This is why I love lifechurch.tv
wow. sounds amazing.
This idea only happens because all of you are so willing to work together. It’s not a LifeChurch.tv thing…it’s a Kingdom thing.
So…we say thank you.
our church is over 80 years old and we are at a place where we are basically hitting the reset button. This series reminds me of when Joshua prayed in the old testament to make the sun and moon stand still. We are calling our church to pray powerful prayers. To let God do the super and we do the natural. “PRAY”
ERIC / worship leader Hamptons Alliance Church
Totally meant to let you guys know, count me in to be behind this project praying until HE says it is done. I just love it LMK
Habb.2:2 and Heb.11:1 -Love the vision! AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!
Mind boggling ;P
This is going to be so amazing, way to go!
God Bless ‘_^
This is really super. I’m in and will be asking our lead pastor and other pastors in upstate New York to participate also. I’m part of Catalyst Church (http://www.catalyst-church.com), a brand new Covenant Church plant in Syracuse.
I’m praying for you guys to plant a campus here in Liverpool, NY. Let me know when you’re ready.
This is a great idea!
Will you have any Spanish sermons as far as you know?
We do everything in both languages and if not we will still join in.
Keep up the work for Him!
Exciting! Can’t wait!
Mathias, I am praying that some Spanish speaking pastors will pre-produce messages for broader use. Maybe you all can help!
Theultrarev, thanks for joining in!
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Our family will start praying now. This is such an exciting idea.
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This is great. I can’t wait to how God works in peoples lives. Craig has been a great blessing to me with his desire for the Lord and wanting to share his love and passion for the Lord.
Ps. Craig & Bobby,
What a great win for the Kingdom. We pray this is just the beginning as the Body of Christ comes together to reach the hurting with the love of Jesus Christ. This will be better then the food we ate together in Baton Rouge!!
Craig & Bobby,
I think this is amazing - hundreds of churches unified and in prayer over four weeks. One word - WOW!
I would also be interested in knowing if you have any plans to connect church youth groups together in a similar way. I think the potential for some life-changing moments among our students could be extraordinary as well.
I think this will help us see the power of video in a way never before attempted. May God bless everyone who participates! Rockin!
Marc,
It’s hard to top the food in Baton Rouge…although I did find the best Indian food I’ve ever had in Rwanda.
Joshua,
We don’t have any plans for this concept with youth (that I am aware of), but God often uses experiences like these to shape our ministry further…so who knows.
We are so pumped about all of you joining in!
I just talked to Kerry Shook from Church of the Woodlands in Houston. They will be participating and Kerry will be making his teaching available!
this is so kool
Criag and Bobby
Thanks for the inspiration and just wanted to share how this has inspired our family.
My girls and I have been talking about ONE prayer and how churches all over the world are going to unite and pray and fast together. (Which I just know is only the beginning) So I posed the question to them, what can we do here in our own community to be ONE with other followers of Christ and make a difference in our community? This from an 9yr old: what if we (being you mom)(LOL) contacted different churches, life groups, small groups, flock groups, women’s groups and we partnered with them to reach out to the poor in our community. (At this point she has my total attention) She said it doesn’t matter who did it with us, and we could offer to get it there so that busy people wouldn’t have to mess with it. I love how she thinks!!!! There is a Presbyterian night shelter in downtown Ft. Worth Texas that a friend told us about. Hence the movement begins. They came up with a name: ONEreason. (All kids must name what they are doing it gives them a sense of ownership) ONEreason because there is ONEreason we all do what we do: Jesus. Think about it: we (being all of us) can accomplish and make a bigger impact together than we can divided. In fact it was quoted to me that together we can conquer and make a big difference and divided we fall. (Not sure who said it because it came paraphrased from a 7 yr old but it rang a bell. Thanks for the outside of the church walls thinking, God can not be contained. The girls said tell anna’s dad thanks for the ideal!!!
We at Shore Fellowship Church are in. We look forward to rockin it in the Northeast. Thanks for your passion and vision.
Ok Christi - that is awesome! What a way to lead your children! Our family is joining yours from OKC!
Braggs, Very cool. Your family is awesome!
Tim, Please express my love and gratitude to everyone at Shore Fellowship. We are blessed to stand together with you!
We are in! Praise God for a united Church of Jesus Christ. Go big or go home! Looking forward to June and what God is gonna do!
Wow! Fantastic stuff. Thank you for such vision for the kingdom. We are in!
Wow! This is such a wonderful call for unity where so many ministries will have an opportunity to partner on a kingdom level to affect the world as one body. I am so moved by this that as a new church plant with a vision to also unify the body of Christ as revealed in Ephesians 4, that we are moving up our preview services schedule to participate. Revolution Church Sacramento is a very small gathering with a big vision. We have been granted use of a large facility with a huge screen to share this vision with our community. We will have services in the afternoon and invite pastors throughout the city to gather and discuss the one prayer theme on a local level so that we can model this theme in our community and come together to prayerfully support the global community. Praise God for all he is doing through Craig & Bobby and the rest of the world that will commit to being unified for Christ! I can’t express in words my excitement about how this is going to glorify the Lord!
Dave, That is incredible! I pray God blesses your big vision for Revolution Church!
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