Global Day of Prayer 2009

Prayer

Written by John Fulford Thursday, 14 May 2009 09:42

GLOBAL DAY OF PRAYER was held on Pentecost Sunday: 31st May 2009. We are thrilled that so many churches, towns and cities have participated in our nation in the past few years. Even more centres throughout New Zealand were expected to get involved this year in conducting united gatherings of Christians to pray earnestly and expectantly for the evangelisation of this nation and the world! For more information email John Fulford.

It all began in 2001 in a stadium in Cape Town, South Africa, where 45,000 Christians gathered to plead with God for the salvation of their nation and all of Africa. In 2002 the gatherings had spread to 8 cities of South Africa. In 2003, all the major cities of sub-Sahara Africa were included. In 2004, all of the 56 nations of Africa, from Cape to Cairo participated. In 2005, Africa invited all the world to join in, and we in New Zealand were among the many that responded, which included some 28 towns and cities through this nation. This year, of the 220 nations of the world, virtually ALL are committed to taking part in some way! This is indeed the biggest prayer meeting in the history of the world! And these gatherings continue to 2010!
I sincerely hope that you will want to be included - for your church or town or city, and I look forward eagerly to hearing from you and assisting and encouraging you in any way that I can.

Send us an email or phone me at 09-83 23 464 for resources and suggestions -- And be sure to email me YOUR news on what you are doing in your area -- Thanks!
Yours for Christ for all -
John Fulford, VISION Network of NZ
"Prayer for Evangelism" Co-ordinator

PS Be sure to check out the coverage and resources on the international website: www.globaldayofprayer.com and especially the “Prayer for the World”. Let me know if you would like a nice one-page version of that Prayer for the World, and I can readily email it to you to copy for your gathering. And I can now also email you an excellent, easy to use (just click), Power Point version of that Prayer! Just ask!
PPS You can get lots of ideas also from the information and reports here on previous Global Day of Prayer gatherings in a variety of areas around NZ.
See: Global Day of Prayer 2008, and GDOP ’07 NZ COVERAGE REPORTS.

GDOP Events in NZ - 2009

Here now are reports on events and activities for a number of areas from around the country, plus a contact person you can phone for additional information.

WHANGAREI - For Sunday, 31st, the Ministers, Association are planning the gathering in the ASB lounge of the Kensington Stadium from 2pm-4.30pm. There will be more ministers there and different other churches who haven't been before so that's exciting! We're all looking forward to being together again. How exciting to be a part of a global gathering!
Contact: Lyndsay & Bernie van der Hulst, 09-459-4575

WHANGAPARAOA - Gateway Church Hibiscus Coast welcome all to their special focus on the Global Day of Prayer at 6pm. We will praise the Lord for what He is doing in New Zealand and around the world and intercede with Him for all His work to come to fruition in our time and for more Christians to have a burden for prayer and to do all they can in action as well as prayer to see change come in our desperately needy nation with all its pain because of alienation from our loving heavenly Father. The church is at 76 Red Beach Rd, Red Beach.
Contact: Simonne Dyer, 09-828-4167,027-212-8322

AUCKLAND - Global Day of Prayer Gathering with Different Ethnic Churches at Shiloh Centre, 201 Bucklands Road, Mangere East including Worship, Corporate prayer, Cultural performances, etc. 1st Service: 3pm - 5pm. Dinner: 5pm - 6pm = (shared dinner with different ethnic foods). 2nd Service 6pm - 8pm. An exciting challenge! And a delicious experience!
Contact: John Fulford: 09-83 23 464.

AUCKLAND - GDOP Gathering with Manukau Ministers Network at Alfriston College: 550 Porchester Road. Manurewa: 3-6pm. Varieties of churches and 10 pastors leading the prayers.
Contact: Pastor Lui Ponifasio, 262 2754, 021 278 0152

AUCKLAND - West Auckland Combined Churches Event at Hosanna World Harvest Church, 28 Rimu Street, New Lynn - commencing at 6:00pm. Share in united Worship, Prayers - including in the International Prayer for the World - Scriptures, Items and other presentations - focused on: Reaching our City and Nation and World for JESUS!!
Contact: Sam Tuaoi, 027-224-042

AUCKLAND - Royal Oak Baptist Church, Cnr Symonds & Erson Streets, off Royal Oak roundabout. Every year between Ascension Day and Pentecost Day we hold a 24/7 prayer vigil. This year our intended focus is "our God is a consuming fire" (Heb 12:29). He ascended to Heaven to prepare us to fight His good fight in the world by sending his Holy Spirit. Let us answer that call and know that God is "the fire in the cloud" so that all people will see it (Ex 40:38). We plan to start the vigil with an Ascension Day informal service on Friday 22 May at 7:30pm. A special prayer space (venue) is being proposed so that people can come and go at any time of the day or night in one-hour slots. It would be an interactive space where people can meet God "face to face" and commune with Him in their own way, either through music, silence, drawing, writing, DVD, sand, water, etc. The vigil will conclude with a Pentecost service on Sunday morning 31 May @ 10:00am - at the same time New Zealand will be the first country to set off the Global Day of Prayer. You are very welcome to join our prayer roster.
Contact: Tina Toschi, 09 624 3357.

TE PUKE - In Te Puke we are doing something different re GDOP. We are doing a 24/7 prayer for Te Puke , this nation and the World, but because the GDOP falls on Queen's B/D weekend the young leaders who are doing much of the work for this prayer event felt to do it the week before the GDOP and get more young people involved. So starting on Sunday 17th there will be continuous prayer around the clock for a week and it will finish with a grand finale combined churches prayer meeting on the Sunday 24th for the nations of the world. I have chosen to take Psalm 23 and with help from people from all churches will visually present this in an interactive prayer display to fill the whole of the Mosaic Church here in Te Puke. There will be an entire room dedicated to Global Prayer needs and facts too. Different churches are responsible for one day of the week's prayer roster to ensure that someone will be at the church every hour of the 7 days of prayer. It will be awesome!
Contact: Lesley Schwass, 07-573-6421

ROTORUA - We have agreed with our pastors to mobilise other believers in the city for prayer. We have 33 churches in the city and only 10 of these are in the pastors association, but we are putting up a pack for all the churches in the city regarding GDOP and aiming for 10 churches to cover the 10days of prayer in hourly slots, and involve the other churches too. We are really praying [through small women's prayer group which meet every wed.] to get through to as many as we can, and the Lord is already opening doors so we give him the glory! - believing God for a mighty move! Our church will participate too with an international day where different nationalities will pray in their languages as we translate in English - about 7 languages will be used so this is so exciting!
Contact: Anerdy Kalizinje, 07-345-5677

GISBORNE - Sunday 7th June will be Gisborne's day of special focus for GDOP! Mangapapa Church - on Ormond Rd at Atkinson St - are inviting all others to gather with them at 7pm to pray together for this city and for this nation and for the world!
Contact: Peter or Julia Martin, 06-867-6575

NAPIER - GDOP COMBINED CHURCHES SUNDAY EVENING SERVICE -
Pastors of the Napier Ministers Network have come together to organise an evening to celebrate Global Day of Prayer. Many Churches in Napier are actively taking part in the programme, Sunday 31st May at 7pm at Napier Baptist Church on Riverbend Rd. The structure of the evening will be based around the acronym: ACTS (to honour Acts 1:8 and Pentecost Sunday and GDOP)
Adoration - (To honour God for who He is)
Confession - (To bring ourselves in humility before a Holy and forgiving God)
Thanksgiving -(Thank God for what He has done)
Supplication -(Ask our Awesome God to move on our behalf in mercy & grace)
They will include the "Prayer for the World" - and also the Lord's Prayer in as many languages as possible (spoken all at the same time). There will also be the GDOP Powerpoint playing at some stage.
Contact: Dearhn Whale: 06-844-7097

TAUMARUNUI - 7th of June is when we are holding a combined service for the Global day of prayer in Taumarunui. Participating churches are: Apostolic, Adventist, Anglican, Baptist, Catholic and St Paul's co-op parish. The service is being held at the Cosmopolitan Club in Taumarunui. The format: Each church will take 5 mins to pray into the prayer topics as outlined by GDOP.
Contact: Bob Sinclair, 07-895-8122

TE PAHU - (Raglan/Hamilton Area) - The Van As family have been participating in GDOP since 2007. We are doing GDOP as a family of 5. God put it on our hearts to pray for the Te Pahu area, as Christians here are few and far between! Our community need God in their lives, and we've been praying for a breakthrough in hardened hearts. We are following the 10days of prayer, followed by GDOP & then continue on to 90 days of blessing. Since the children are being homeschooled, it is easy for us to spend an hour each morning dedicated to GDOP. Blessings from Te Pahu.
Contact: Altus & Leatitia van As, 07-825-9710

INGLEWOOD - The churches of Inglewood, in Taranaki, will be praying in their own church services in the morning of Sunday 31st May. Then from 2pm to 4pm they will be praying together as Combined Churches at Lifegate Church, 27 Cutfield Street, Inglewood. All welcome!
Contact: Carolyn Biesiek: 06-756-8483

WANGANUI - Wanganui Christians are called to the following Prayer Meetings through the Month of May: Weekly on Sundays at 7pm in 4 different churches. The focus of these Prayer meetings will be Prayer for our City. These will climax with Sunday 31st May, Pentecost Sunday, Global Day of Prayer - Celebration Service - Wanganui City College Hall, Ingestre Street. In addition, Daily (except Sundays) at noon for the 10 days leading to Pentecost - from Thurs 21st to Sat 30th May - Lunch Time Prayer at Christ Church's Upper Lounge: 234 Wicksteed Street (left end of the carpark), 12.00 - 1.00 pm, using prayer resources provided by those organising the International Global Day of Prayer on 31st May.
Contact: Pam Benseman, 06-343-8609

WELLINGTON - Multi-ethnic gathering for combined churches at 2.00pm at the Elim International Church, 22 Tennyson Street, Wellington.
Contact: Pastor Mike Knott, 04-385-9634.

KARORI (Wellington) - At Karori Baptist Church we are having just one morning service that will involve our church community in reading the prayers aloud collectively throughout the service with Scripture and songs. There will be no sermon/talk, but an opportunity for the church family to speak out Scripture, prayers, and words of knowledge. The congregation will be seated in small groups to enable prayer to flow intimately on the theme of GDOP. At the end, we will release 3 small hot air balloons into the air with prayer requests written on them by secondary school aged children.
Contact: Nicky Wederell, 027-439-2239

UPPER HUTT - The churches of Upper Hutt are gathering at Lane Park, Lane Street, Upper Hutt 7pm Sunday 31 May. - Wide variety of involvement with many cultural presentations - music, worship and dance. - We are hoping for a live scype-link with Norway during the evening.
Contact: Caroline Timms, 04-972-7317

LOWER HUTT - Hope Centre have had special prayer in our Onething Prayer Centre for the 10 days before GDOP. For the 7 days: Sunday to Sunday, we have had 24/7 prayer going in the Prayer Centre. We will be joining in the worldwide prayer in both of our services on Sunday.
Contact: Pastor Seth Fawcet, 04-566-1319

REEFTON - Four local churches are combining for 24-hour Global Day of Prayer at St Stephens Anglican Church on Sunday 31 May by having prayer participants for each of the hours from midnight Saturday 30th to midnight Sunday 31st. The idea is to join with others in New Zealand and around the world to pray for our world, our country, our area and our town. We will have various prayer ideas, Bible readings, and suggestions available on a table in the foyer, to help those who need some guidance as to what to do. Some music DVDs will be available at the front of the church for those who want to use music as part of their time of prayer. The St Stephen's Church Service at 10am that Sunday will also be part of that focus on the Global Day of Prayer.
Contact: Anglican Vicar John Stringer, 03-732-8571

RANGIORA - North Canterbury churches intercessors and prayer warriors are meeting at 2:30pm at Gateway New Life Church; and in the evening a combined churches interactive prayer evening - including the youth - will be gathering at 7:00pm in the Rangiora Baptist Church, East Belt, Rangiora. There will be places to pray as individuals or groups, for the variety of issues relevant to the spiritual needs of our day. We would like as many churches as possible to participate.
Contact: Bryan Chivers, 03-313-7791

CHRISTCHURCH - Everyone is invited to a combined GDOP Gathering at Living Waters Christian Centre, 20 Tankerville Road, Hoon Hay, Christchurch at 6.30pm. Contact: Sally Cowie, Church Office, 03 338 4868

OAMARU - As last year, we're taking part in our small way - but with an increasing sense that we're a tiny part of something far bigger than we could imagine! We're encouraging the local churches to pray as led from 21 May to 28th, then as a Combined Church to use the Prayer Room 24/2, available 29 - 30 May. On Pentecost Sunday we're having 7am prayer at the Oamaru Lookout, and at 7pm meeting as Combined Church at Elim this year. We're hoping to have the many nations of Oamaru participate here. We're still planning the 90 Days of Blessing... Good things take time to mature!
Contact: John Gregory, 03-437-2297