Acts 29 Fellowship of the Christian and Missionary Alliance

Prayer Requests:

• For people to experience God’s love as they are served by the upcoming mobile medical/dental clinics and feeding program at the Resource Fair this weekend at Chandler Park in Detroit’s eastside, and for sufficient volunteers to fill all needed slots.
• For the Lord’s leading in how the vision and movement of EACH (Everyone A Chance to Hear) will be carried forward after the 40-day campaign ends.
• That the Lord will do miraculous signs and wonders in the name of Jesus throughout Metro Detroit as His people boldly share the Gospel
• For inter-denominational fellowship, service, and unity in Jesus to continue developing through the community networks and upcoming Community Happenings

On April 4 Janell’s mom, Norma Carmon, suffered a heart attack and on Thursday, April 21 she entered into eternity with Jesus. Though the physical loss is great, there is a peace in knowing she is with Jesus (and Jim). Please pray for all the sisters & their families as they continue to mourn the loss of both Jim and Norma Carmon (Jim passed away in December).

Petition the Lord for provision of daily needs at Acts 29 and the ability to pay operational costs and salaries.

Sharon is praising God for feeling better, though she would like to be able to stop using so much medication. Please ask God to heal Sharon completely!

Praise God for the faithful hearts and servant hands of the Spring Arbor Mission team. Thanks to them we have a repaired roof and livable dorms for mission teams coming later in 2011. This team also made a huge impression on the community for giving their time to serve the Lord during their Spring Break

Pray for Johnny Bowls suffering from breathing problems. Johnny’s wife Linda attends worship at Acts 29.

Pray for the ECCLESIA School of Missions on Tuesday nights, that we will all become equipped as disciple-makers.

Please pray for the Bible quizzers as they learn John 18-21 and prepare for the end of the year competitions. They have a difficult time maintaining motivation to finish the year. Pray they will learn endurance and that they will ‘quiz for the glory of God.

Pray for the Easter outreach of Acts 29 to be Spirit appointed and blessed.

Give thanks to God that Deborah Norton is in the process of healing and was able to come to worship the Lord with us this week.

Please pray with us as we seek God for the coming week:

-Pray for teamwork and love to grow in our Bible quizzers

-Pray for the Hamtramck City Council and City Leaders, that they would have wisdom for the city’s financial crisis.

-Pray for Deborah Norton for healing that she would feel loved and that she would be able to come home. -Praise God for Deborah’s arrival at home and her continued recovery.

-Pray for the Mission teams coming in February; Grove City Alliance, PA Trinity Church, Gibsonburg Ohio. -Thanks to Grove City for a wonderful weekend.

-Pray for the needs of our seniors, especially in winter when heating bills are high.

-Please pray for the Housey Outreach Class Party on the 14th as we enjoy the company of the children and hope to build fruitful relationships with them. -Thank God for the success of the Outreach part. We had a wonderful time with the kids.

-Please pray for this weekend’s quiz meet. – Thank you for your prayers we had a wonderful weekend and had some of our best scores of the season!

-Please pray for Sharon Buttry’s physical healing.

-Please pray that Jesus would display his power and truth by healing one of the men’s ESL students who was two tumors on his neck. We prayed for him in Jesus name that he would be healed and we believe that God wants to use this as an opportunity to glorify Jesus as a testimony to our Muslim friends.

Thank you for the investment of your prayers and hopes!

Every 16th of the month Acts 29 Fellowship gathers to spend the day in prayer and worship. This month our prayers focused on a heart cry to see an awakening and revival inside our city. We long to witness the transformation of our own fellowship and the world around us through divine visitation. We long to experience the life-changing manifestation of God’s presence in a new way.

Our prayers moved through four principles that came out of the 1949 Lewis Awakening experienced in the British Isles. The supernatural sweeping of thousands of people and whole communities into saving grace was a sovereign act of God. His instrument was 26 year old Duncan Campbell. Our prayer is that we could be such an instrument for God and experience the presence of God in such a way that our city is miraculously changed by its encounter with a living and holy God.

As we prayed through these principles God led us to scripture and brought us to places of conviction and places of faith in the Holy Spirit.

1.) Rightly Related to God

When we are in a right relationship with God, we will be in a right relationship with each other.

2.) Conviction that God would keep His covenant engagements.

What are God’s covenant engagements for our time? God has called us here with a promise that we can claim and has given us a vision that we know He will fulfill.

3.) Be Prepared for God to work in His own way.

It’s so easy to create formatting and a DNA that limits God’s arrival. We should be prepared to be “hands free” in the sovereign act of the Lord.

4.) There must be a manifestation of God, demonstrating the reality of the Divine in operation.

There must be a separation of our efforts and God’s work. Ask God for a Mount Carmel experience where His power is demonstrated to all and we can challenge our city to let the God who answers by fire be God.

The presence of God was manifest as we moved from confession of places of hardheartedness between ourselves and others and ourselves and God to a place of faith and worship. Please pray with us as we hunger for the Holy Spirit to bring a real reviving and awakening in our city. We are desperate to see God bring a deep heart knowledge of His presence to the people of Hamtramck, drawing them in even as the Holy Spirit convicts of sin and righteousness and judgment. Please pray with us as we humble ourselves and ask that God would come down and heal our land.

“Show me a people on their faces before God – gripped in the unction of prayer and I show you a people ready for

revival.”

Nothing but a Holy Spirit revival will meet the desperate need of the hour

Duncan Campbell, 26-year old leader of the Hebrides revival

“Show me a people on their faces before God – gripped in the unction of prayer and I show you a people ready for revival.”

“Nothing but a Holy Spirit revival will meet the desperate need of the hour.”

-Duncan Campbell, 26-year old leader of the Hebrides revival