Mike’s Sea2sea Blog

Ok, I’m smitten.

There’s a movement of praying and community-serving activists that are tied together by the vision and values of what they call the 24-7 Prayer movement. My reaction initially is “Thank you, God!”  While I am still trying to acquire the book “Red Moon Rising” for more details on their origins, I recommend you check out the following things as part of your own devotional journey. (Spend a week with revolutionaries in prayer!)

Their website: http://www.24-7prayer.com, where you can see some of the creative videos they’ve used to tell their story. (Video art – good for passing on their themes; doesn’t answer many questions about what they are doing!) Basically, the short form is that a group of Christians in England, mostly young, decided to try and pray 24-7 for one month, and 10 years later, it’s branched out to prayer and mission groups all over the world (especially Europe). The strategy is simply to have rooms where someone is always praying, and taking shifts. It seems it has not become all about mystical experience, but leads to mission in neighborhoods around them, as well as cross cultural leaps of faith.

Did you know about the “Order of the Mustard Seed”? How about Count Zinzendorf and the Moravians?

Their (the 24-7 community) admiration of the Moravians is described in an interview (that starts slow, but gets better and better) Greig gave while visiting and preaching at Asbury Seminary (Sept. 13, 2007): http://www.asburyseminary.edu/chapel/bonus-features/?&order=year:DESC. A.B. Simpson was a fan of the Moravians as well.

More on what this is doing to my heart and mind later. Right now, I’m just grateful. It’s like those missionary biographies, full of faith and the Holy Spirit, except it’s in the post-Christian West — and that gives me hope!